There is great excitement in Cape Town after the discovery of a ship found buried in a pit on the construction site at the No. 1 Silo at the V&A Waterfront. Read more about the excavation process, and see a video of the process, after the jump.
Here’s some frightening footage that’s spent the month going viral on the interwebs. Pilots will tell you that the most statistically dangerous time during a flight is during take-off or landing, and now you can see why. Watch some goosebump inducing plane landings after the jump.
As you know, yesterday the world lost a pretty decent dictator. Understandably Kim Jong-il’s nation has been struck down with grief, bordering on mass hysteria. Check out insane footage of North Koreans grieving as if their lives depend on it – after the jump.
Wild at Heart is a British TV show being shot in South Africa. One of its stars is Lucy, a nine year old pregnant giraffe. This week she fell into a swimming pool on set – forcing rescue workers to demolish it in order to free her. Video after the jump.
It seems we aren’t the only ones who had some action in parliament yesterday. South Korea’s ruling party has ratified a controversial free trade deal with the United States. But just before they did that an opposition MP set off and threw a teargas device at the speaker, briefly clearing the chamber.
Things got heated down in Cape Town with the Municipal Strike today! As you’ll see from this video, a fires were even lit in Adderley Street. You’ll also see a gentleman missing several front teeth saying “die Kaap is kwai!” to the camera, whilst a protester gets tackled by several policemen in the background.
Last week, an American firefighter, Shannon Stone, attempted a crowd baseball catch, lost his footing and fell 6m. He later died from his injuries. On the very same day of his funeral another fan fell at a game in exactly the same way. But this story had a better ending as he was caught by fellow spectators just in time, and survived.
I think a lot of us forget that homeless people are actual people with talents just like the rest of us – sometimes it’s just hidden under some rags and dirt. Take this urban camper for instance: if you were to walk past him, chances are you would not even notice him. But click on this video and you’ll hear something you won’t soon forget.
“My nipples were so cold they started talking to me.” I don’t know where to begin. There is simply too much awesome in these videos for me to add anything else. That would spoil it. Ladies and gentlemen, please allow me to make your day, nay, your weekend, by checking out Jean-Claude Van Damme in these beer commercials for Coors Light.
The girl pictured is actually a robot named Showa Hanako 2. She was originally developed as a tool for dentists looking to practice new procedures, but is now able to recognise voice commands, turn her head and open her mouth real wide! Before your mind ends up in the gutter, see the video as to why she’s designed like that.
A video has surfaced of a shiny disc-like object flying over London. And, as you can imagine, the first explanations around it obviously involve aliens, because, you know, that makes total sense. See if you can figure out what this UFO is – the way it keeps popping up for a clear camera shot makes me suspicious.
This unusual occurrence happened during the Promosport Championship race at Magny-Cours. Two guys fall off their bikes, the motorcycles lock wheel bars and then spin impressively for nearly a minute. Watch as the hapless riders comically try to grab onto the handlebars while both machines continue to pirouette on the ground. Bonus points if you can guess what the one rider keeps shouting.
Footage of a bunny born without ears has emerged from just outside the exclusion zone, near Japan’s crippled Fukushima plant. Thanks to help of local media and Japan’s online community, the inhabitants of this area now fear the possibility of one day bearing kids with no ears.
A stray collie named Star has managed to survive despite being bound and shot in the head 40 times before being buried alive. She managed to wriggle her way to the surface of the shallow grave she’d been left in to die. It is near impossible not to judge the kind of “people” responsible for this, but at least the story has a good ending.
There is a certain type of man that will always be destined to stand out of the crowd. The kind of guy that will pretty much OWN everything he does – whether he is the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, or a bag packer in a shop like my man right here in this video. He is most certainly living the holiday.
Some people will just always be cool. Take this guy for example – when it comes to making an exit, he’s pretty much nailed it. I love how he manages to hold his beer steady, climb THROUGH the car window one leg at a time without failing, and then drive off nonchalantly into the distance. Now that’s a real boss – respect!
Look, I’m a cynic, but this is a must-see. Not content with simply getting down on one knee and asking his girlfriend to marry him, this legend of a man made a movie trailer without her knowledge. He then got her brother to take her to the movies, set up a hidden camera to capture her reaction and then, ag, just watch the video, okay?
Sometimes there just isn’t anything more important in life than to watch videos like this. Yes it is cute, but more importantly it is the realisation afterward that hits hardest. If a cat and a dolphin can connect on such an intense level why can’t a black and a white human? Or a Palestinian and an Israeli. Take your pick, but hopefully you get my point?
The term “fracking” has been thrown around quite a lot recently. But do we really understand what implications this could have on our lives, or are the majority of us laughing because “fracking” sounds very similar to “fucking”? If you fall in the latter group, you need to see this video. It gives you all you need to know in under three minutes.
This video is weird. And rather disturbing. But I promise you’ll want to forward this to every friend you know who who klaps gym boet. This group of massive and ripped guys have made a video telling the world how much they love effing tea. NSFW, but then again, you are probably not at work with all these public holidays.
Two Russian men found the slender, badly damaged corpse of what they claim to be an alien in Siberia. Footage of the men making the find was uploaded to the net three days ago, and has since been viewed nearly five million times. Cue the inevitable back and forth between denialists and enthusiasts.
This Sri Lankan girl got hit so hard by a moving train that she did a pretty impressive double spin. If this was ice skating, she’d have scored at least a 7,9. But instead of being thankful that she was only knocked unconscious for a couple of minutes, all she seems concerned about is finding her missing shoe.
Vaclav Klaus is the president of the Czech Republic. He also seems to be a human magpie. See how he spots a shiny pen on his desk, and then sneakily pockets it. The brazen stylus heist, however, took place in full view of the media (with video cameras) during a ceremony to announce a trade agreement between his country and Chile.
Patting people down for a living must take a special kind of person. To see just how special, check out this video of a 6-year-old girl being searched EVERYWHERE for possible drugs. It is conducted by a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employee – the people responsible for the safety on board public modes of transport in the US. They clearly take their job very seriously.
The video you are about to see is about a girl who wanted a horse, but her parents said no and bought her a cow instead. So she simply trained the cow to behave like a horse. And that is what Luna the cow was destined to be. You go girl! Has anyone in South Africa attempted this yet?
Wanda Sykes is that comedian who looks like Macy Gray, say things like “oh, lawd!”, and has a voice that you’ll definitely have heard before. In this clip she explains why it was harder for her to be openly gay than to be black. As the Portuguese guy who loaded it up says in brackets, this clip is truly legendado!
A dog not only managed to survivor the Japanese tsunami, but also for three weeks thereafter out on the ocean. He did this by floating on top of a pile of rubble with a roof on top. Don’t cry yet – first watch the video inside.
I’ve only just noticed this, but Richard Simmons could very well have been Pauly Shore’s dad. This fierce fitness queen is part of a slew of video goodness on the Air New Zealand YouTube Channel – starring in his very own fabulous “Fit To Fly” series. They also throw in Snoop Dogg and some body-painted stewardesses.
We’ve been deceived! By somebody on the internet! My god, but I feel so used. It turns out that Craig Rowin, that guy who put up three separate videos asking millionaires for money and then apparently getting it was totally lying to us. It was all a big ol’ ‘look at me I’m a comedian’ hoax.
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