A German man decided he needed to bring out the heavy artillery to thaw his frozen car. So he tucked a heater under the hood and went back inside the house to stay warm. The resulting explosion and fire totaled the car and scorched the siding on the house.
A 76-year-old German man trying to thaw out his car incinerated it instead when he decided to speed things up by putting a blow heater under the hood.
Now, we really are not sure what, exactly, a “blow heater” is. Is it a salamander heater (kerosene fired with forced air (the sound closely resembles a jet taking off) or an electric heat gun, sort of like a blow dryer, but with a serious attitude? Or just a forced air electric heater? We simply don’t know.
Heck, it could have been a goat for all we know:
Side note: We here at Blue Crab Boulevard plan on using rubber gloves to handle all currency in the future. We simply cannot be sure where it comes from.
The artist’s name is Kseniya Simonova. This is a brilliant talent working in an unusual medium.
UPDATE: The Telegraph narrates. This was a winning appearance on Ukraine’s Got Talent. (You really do not need the narration to understand this piece. The sheer artistry tells the story. The context may help understand what is happening, however.)
Art, Video | Gaius September 20, 2009 | Comments Off
As the Cold War bomber shot towards the air show crowd, retired RAF pilot Bob Prothero knew he had to act… and fast.
The 75-ton Victor was only meant to have slowly taxied down the runway and stop for a photoshoot, but his amateur co-pilot had accidentally slammed on the throttle, sending it 150ft up into the sky.
Now it was veering, putting it on a collision course with the crowd and a nearby housing estate if they tried to land.
But Mr Prothero, 70, who last flew a Victor in the 1980s and whose flying licence has long expired, wrestled with the plane’s controls to steer it away from potential disaster.
He landed on one wheel and in a cloud of dust, but without a scratch – on grass at the end of the runway.
Hailed a hero after an inquiry into the near disaster he said it was ‘the most terrifying nine seconds of my life’.
Too damn much politics, too damn much ObamaCare, to damn much about the clueless machinations of Obama and his pals. Time to lighten it up a bit. (You know its time when I violate the Crabitat policies three time in one sentence.) How about a wedding dance?
Go over and look at the video The Daily Bayonet has posted. Catchy little tune and probably one of the best get-even tactics I have seen recently. You’ll have to see the video to make sense of the rest of this post, incidentally. From TDB’s post:
He was on Canada’s national news as the You Tube hits approached 500,000 and says that United have been calling him.
I bet they have.
Being a guitar player myself, I know one thing: Airlines have a long track record of busting guitars. I happen to know a player who tours relentlessly and he has invested in very, very expensive travel cases for his guitars – and still will not bring any of his irreplaceable vintage guitars anywhere via any airline. Ever.
Frankly, if I were running marketing at this company, I would get one of my cases to Dave Carroll right now. Gratis. Just for letting the company use the artist’s name on their website (consider that a free business tip, folks.)
If I were United Airlines, I’d settle with this guy today.
If you ever have to ship a guitar – via airline or any other method, these are some packing tips from someone who has been in the business for a while.
UPDATE: National Public Radio covered this story on their All Things Considered afternoon program today. They report that United has asked to use Carroll’s video as a training tool for their employees. Pretty smart PR move, especially given their inept handling of the situation to date.
That’s a Bullwinkle Breaking & Entering. We’ve reported previously on the sad ruin of Bullwinkle’s life after the show ended. The drinking, the assaults on French tourists and so much more. But now, Bullwinkle has well and truly turned to a live of crime. He’s now burglarizing houses.
The saddest thing is that a 1,000 pound moose is simply not credible as a sneak thief.
The saga of the Ivory Billed Fraud continues! Both myself and my esteemed Adjunct Blogger, Rich Horton have regularly trashed, belittled and made fun of the continuing nonsensical waste of precious Federal wildlife funds chasing the extinct Ivory Billed Woodpecker. However, this has not deterred the gleeful waste of those Federal dollars one iota. And so, today, the announcement of yet another expedition into Arkansas to hunt the bird that died off around the end of the Second World War.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Last year, Allan Mueller thinks he saw the elusive ivory-billed woodpecker. The wildlife biologist wants to make sure of it this winter.
Mueller plans to head back into the swamps of eastern Arkansas with a scaled-back search team consisting of 26 volunteers and three expert field biologists.
Searchers will begin their work in the Big Woods on Saturday. The campaign will run through the bird’s nesting season in March and April when the ivory-bill is most active, Mueller said.
Although three previous searches involved more volunteers, more scientists and more time in the woods, Mueller feels confident he and his team will get results.
“We’re going to find a big black and white woodpecker,” he says flatly.
We here at Blue Crab Boulevard have a solution for those folks who are going to volunteer to be disappointed yet again. Hours, days and weeks tromping through swamps will get old. The sheer drudgery of wading through swamps in search of a long dead bird will wear thin. So we have shortened the search for all of you. Yes, we have located video of that elusive, black and white woodpecker!
You can thank us later. But thanks for all your hard work burning up Federal money that could have been used on living species.
Animals, Humor, Video | Gaius January 30, 2010 | 
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