`Ball lightning could soon lose its status as a mystery, now that a team in Brazil has cooked up a simple recipe for making similar eerie orbs of light in the lab, even getting them to bounce around for several seconds. [..]
A more down-to-earth theory, proposed by John Abrahamson and James Dinniss at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand, is that ball lightning forms when lightning strikes soil, turning any silica in the soil into pure silicon vapour. As the vapour cools, the silicon condenses into a floating aerosol bound into a ball by charges that gather on its surface, and it glows with the heat of silicon recombining with oxygen.’
There’s also a ball lightning video.
They didn’t even seem to be going particularly fast.
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‘This is hilarious. This amateur boxer cant figure out how to get in and out of the ring. Kinda funny how he finally enters but his exit is hilarious.’
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What happens when you strip down to underpants and a t-shirt then run past lots of people shooting paintballs at you?
Pain, is the answer. :)
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‘A 48-year-old man says Portland firefighters forced him to the floor and kicked him after he argued with them in the lobby of his apartment building early Thursday — an allegation backed up by surveillance tapes.
The tapes, recorded from cameras mounted in the lobby of the Fairfield Apartments, show that resident Terry DeGeorge didn’t appear to touch the firefighters before they forced him to the floor. While he was being held down by two firefighters and a paramedic, another firefighter kicked him three times, the video shows. A security guard restrained him with handcuffs.’
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This is quite an interesting old advertisement for a car dealer, somewhere around Baltimore by the sounds of things.
Don’t forget to bring your wife. :)
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These people have a unique way of making a club soda.
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Help! I’ve fallen and I can’t get up.
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So, you have a vagina but want to piss standing up? No problem. :)
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I’m fairly sure this is a repost, but this clip is slightly longer than the original I’ve got somewhere.
I just love his grin at the end. :)
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Just driving around the subways, why not? :)
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This is footage from something called the 19th Cannabis Cup.
A joint as big as your arm. That’s what you need. Crazy hippies. :)
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Apparently you can squeeze some out of elephant shit.
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The cop who said that Pauly Shore getting punched in the face was a setup was right. Here’s some footage taken before the punch where Pauly discusses the scene with the audience and the guy who threw the punch.
You can see the original video here: Pauly Shore gets punched in the face.
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‘Tommy the Cat had many a story to tell, but it was a rare occasion such as this that he did.’
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Cows weigh quite a bit. Heh..
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This is one of those candid camera type shows. In this case, they’ve tricked some girl into thinking she has a stalker, then locked her in a garage with a naked man and filmed the whole thing.
At one point the narrator uses the phrase “She may be scarred for life, but only mentally”.. [shrug] :)
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This is a recording of a phone call between someone trapped in the World Trade Center and a 911 operator. The building actually collapses during the phone call.
Well, at the end of the phone call, actually. [shrug]
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This is a pretty cool video. These crows are smarter than some people I know. :)
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As seen through the eyes of a PCP addict.
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I always thought they used cap guns to start races and things. Apparently, in the Dakar Rally they use real bullets and aren’t too concerned about ricochet.
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I went to sleep in class once. My teacher was nice enough not to disturb me, and I woke up halfway through lunch time in an empty room. :)
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‘This is a clip from ‘Troop of One Hundred’, taken from a Japanese comedy/prank show, where a 100 people chase after random strangers and you see their reactions. Totally harmless but their reactions are priceless.’
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I don’t entirely understand what they were hoping to achieve. But, they achieved something. [shrug] :)
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This might be a repost, but it’s funny. :)
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‘Oh candy pants, lets climb the ladder of romance.. [..]
You’re such a honey dripper, I would forget all about your zipper..
Girl you smell so sweet, I wouldn’t even give you a chance to take off your pants..’
And he’s a minister of sobriety too.
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This boy has some sorta magical bionic joints, or something. [shrug]
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