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70-Foot Sandcastle

“We’re going to need a bigger bucket and spade.”

Man Smokes 115,000th Joint

“When you think of the world’s most prolific pot smokers, certain names come to mind: Snoop, Cheech and Chong, Willie Nelson. How about Irvin Rosenfeld? The 56-year-old Fort Lauderdale stockbroker will put his name among the greats when he sets a world record tomorrow for weed consumption while lighting up his 115,000th joint. The best part is that it’s all legal… Rosenfeld suffers from a rare bone disorder called multiple congenital cartilaginous exostoses, which causes severe pain, alleviated by a healthy dose of ganja. He’s been getting 300 joints every 25 days for the past 27 years, and said he smokes between 10 and 12 per day. “The first thing I do every morning is smoke two joints as I watch my business shows,” Rosenfeld said. “Then another on my drive to work.” Rosenfeld said he’s never gotten high on the sticky icky, and he’s allowed to smoke while operating heavy machinery.” w/ photo

Rocketman Flies Over Castle

“Eric Scott, aka ‘The Rocketman’, sets a new world record… like a f’ing man!”

Gorilla Loves Kitty

“Koko the gorilla and All Ball the kitten were best of buddies, until All Ball got run over on a logging road.”

Half-A-Man’s Recovery Stuns Surgeons

“A Chinese man, who had half of his body amputated after being run over by a truck, has amazed surgeons with his recovery. Peng Shuilin, 37, spent nearly two years in hospital in Shenzhen, southern China, undergoing a series of operations to re-route nearly every major organ or system inside his body. Now Peng – who opened his own cut-price supermarket called the Half Man-Half Price Store – has survived so well he’s being used as a role model for other amputees. At just 2ft 7ins tall, he gets around in a wheelchair and gives lectures on recovering from disability.” w/ photo

Man Lives Underwater For 10 Days

“Talk about wrinkly hands.”

Giant Iceberg That Went AWOL

“Australia is known for sunny beaches, surfers, and blistering Outback heat. So scientists were a bit taken aback when they spotted this giant iceberg floating near an island Down Under. Australian Antarctic Division researchers were working on Macquarie Island when they first saw the iceberg last Thursday about about five miles off the island. It is rare to see an iceberg floating so far north of Antarctica, researchers said. Macquarie Island is about halfway between Antarctica and Australia, some 930 miles from Tasmania. The iceberg is about 160ft (50m) high and 1,640ft (500m) long. It is probably part of one of several larger icebergs that broke off Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf between 2000 and 2002, said Neal Young a glaciologist with AAD. Several icebergs have been drifting slowly northward with the ocean current toward the island over the past year, but it is uncommon for them to move so far into warmer northern waters, he said. The scientists believe the iceberg will break up and melt rapidly as it continues its journey north.” w/ photos

Heron Eats Fish Whole

“There can rarely have been a case of such bad timing. One moment this unlucky fish was swimming happily around in a lake in South Dakota. The next it had made an extraordinarily ill-judged leap into the air, perhaps hoping to catch a passing fly, straight in the mouth of a hungry heron. The pike, one of the heavyweights of the fish world, stood no chance against such a fearsome opponent.” w/ photos

Large Rock Slide Caught On Camera

“Workers with heavy equipment had cleared all but a few boulders from a rockslide that blocked U.S. Highway 64, near Ocoee, Tenn., this morning when, with a tremble and a roar, another huge slide spilled across the road and into the Ocoee River gorge.”

Mean Seal

“As any professional photographer will tell you, it can often be hard to get your subject to crack a smile. However, there was no such problem for Amos Nachoum when he encountered this 12ft leopard seal. As he bravely edged his camera close to the fearsome predator’s face, it obligingly opened its jaws and showed off a fine set of 2in razor-sharp teeth. An experienced photographer of underwater wildlife, Nachoum spotted the seal as it hunted penguin near Pleneau-Island in Antarctica’s Southern Ocean.” w/ photos