Three inflatable bouncy houses got caught up in some heavy wind and took flight with kids inside. It happened over the weekend in Oceanside, NY at a soccer club tournament. Parents were seen trying to keep the house bounce houses down, but they would just get flattened. 13 of the kids were injured and two parents who thought they could defy wind gusts were also hurt.
A post over at Geekosystem details the end of the cassette tape deck in cars. The Lexus SC430 is the last vehicle to come with a factory tape deck! What a sad but long overdue end to the cassette tape in cars. My father has the CD/Tape hybrid in his bitchin’ red Pontiac Grand Am. Some of my friends still have the tape deck but most don’t even use tapes! Whaaat? My first car, a 1986 Cutless Supreme (white) had a sweet tape deck that I used to play Nirvana, Green Day and Toadies tapes. Actually, now that I really think about it, that tape deck sucked and broke! I had to have someone install a CD player for me, but still played the tapes at home.
It’s embarrassing when a town can’t remember where they buried a 35 year old time capsule. Kimberly, Wisconsin officials had to move a 1985 time capsule in 1997 and cannot recall where it ended up. So when the town’s 100th anniversary came up this year, there was no time capsule celebration.
If you want to confuse your young kids, eat some of these edible crayons in front of them. From Luxirare, these crayons contain some of the following ingredients:
Ted Williams (not the dead baseball player) has the best radio voice but drugs and alcohol ruined his life and now he’s homeless in Ohio, begging for change to get by. But since some Redditors got on the case (wow Reddit is down as of this posting), Teddy-boy might find that his luck will change for the better. Over $1,000 has been raised for Ted and he’s already scheduled to appear on a Morning Zoo radio interview with Dave & Jimmy.
The Redditors have done well. Check out Ted’s website under construction.
Here is how to not install a ceiling fan. What part is supposed to rotate again?
(via blame it on the voices)
Choices has a photo post of some bad architecture blunders.
Warner Brothers still hosts the website for Space Jam, the 1996 basketball film featuring Michael Jordan and Bugs Bunny. I wonder if they keep it live for nostalgic reasons or just because no one has gotten around to taking it down?
Found this video on Tumblr but it’s also on Buzzfeed. Apparently, New York City city workers had to tow away a front-loader in the 2010 blizzard in Brooklyn Heights, crushing a Ford Explorer in the process. Continually crushing the car. Again and again. Not stopping to worry about the car in any form at all.
If anyone has a link to local news coverage of this, please post a link in the comments. I’d like to know more about it and the YouTube description leaves some unanswered questions.
What would happen if you delegated the holiday decorating to the IT department? You know, the people who fix your computers after you always break them? Would they do a good job? Would it be festive? Thanks to diamondjo on reddit, we now know. Using scenes from Super Marios Bros. 1, South Park, and Pacman, this IT department had some decorating fun.