Ryan McGeeney spent six months in Afghanistan as a Marine, and thought that working at the Standard-Examiner as a newspaper photographer would be safer work. Well, there are no guarantees in life. He was speared through the leg by an errant javelin while working at a high school state track meet, but was fortunate enough [...]

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This picture is from a bizarre incident near Dallas, Texas, when a plane landed on top of another plane. Both of the pilots seemed to think the other would give way, one plane was trying to take off and one plane was trying to land. The planes collided on the runway, with the landing plane [...]

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You’d think the title is a joke, but apparently the future is here, and it’s sweet! Yves Rossy, a former pilot, has spent the last five years making and refining a personal jetpack with 10ft rigid wings and four Germanbuilt model aircraft engines. More pictures and video after the jump. After being dropped from a [...]

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Now this is a priceless picture. From the caption: In Houston, a Texan protesting amnesty for illegal immigrants argues that anyone who can’t master English doesn’t deserve to live in America. We really enjoy the fact that the protester underlined the erroneous word on the sign. It’s like they wanted to emphasize the irony! [SFGate]

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Now that is sweet! This foosball game is best played with 22 people.

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The Garfield High School girls’ softball team was heading home on a chartered bus after a sad 10-0 loss to Lake Washington High. Unfortunately for the girls, the “highlight” of the trip was on the ride back. The driver of the Journey Lines bus hit the top of an overpass, shearing off the entire roof [...]

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The ready-to-eat hard boiled eggs even come in cage free or organic varieties for the more animal or health concious among us. Our main problem with the bag is the fact that it states that it contains “9-10 eggs”. Now, we can see the difficulty in say, counting the number of M&Ms in a bag, [...]

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“The Giants of the North” standing tall for the camera, well expect one of them. The British Sun has photographs of “The Giants of the North,” probably the world’s first all-little people soccer team, located in Brazil. The games they play have attracted huge crowds, as they travel on their team bus throughout the country [...]

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