A family have literally flashed their cash by covering their car in more than 38,000 pennies. It all started When Larry and Theresa Thompson saw an advert for a 1949 Cadillac Series 62 back in 1999, they decided it couldn’t hurt to take a look.
Category: Around The World
Creative, Humorous, Bizarre & Interesting News & Stories of Our World.
Harvest Mouse Takes Daytime Nap Into Hanging Apple
An adorable harvest mouse looking for a place to sleep finds a bed in a hanging half-eaten apple. Photographer Dean Mason who runs the harvest mice, snapped the inventive mouse nearby Wimborne. Dean said, “I began photographing the harvest mouse as he climbed up the branch toward the apple. He then ate some of the… Continue reading Harvest Mouse Takes Daytime Nap Into Hanging Apple
La Chiva Voladora – An Interesting Cable Car Ride
Tourists ride a cable car in the form a of a Chiva, a bus used to serve rural routes, in Pitalito, Colombia. The ride called “La Chiva Voladora” costs about $0.70 and you zip along about 800 meters from one side of a hill to another.
Cleaning The Dead – When Death Doesn’t Mean Goodbye
For the Torajan people of Indonesia, death is part of a spiritual journey: families keep the mummified remains of their deceased relatives in their homes for years – and traditionally invite them to join for lunch on a daily basis – before they are eventually buried. Even them, they are regularly exhumed to be cleaned… Continue reading Cleaning The Dead – When Death Doesn’t Mean Goodbye
View From Above
The aerial view shows three uprooted trees at a road near Hildesheim, Germany. Seven people died Thursday as high winds knocked over trees and caused widespread travel chaos in northern Germany.