Steven Adams stories, Page 8
Cable snaps seconds before Florida slingshot ride launches
An amusement park ride turned out to be more frightening than expected for a pair of Florida tourists. The ride operator was preparing to launch two men on a slingshot-style ride Saturday night at Cobra Adventure Park in Panama City Beach when one of the cables breaks, reported FOX-13. An...
Mattresses gone with the wind when gusts hit outdoor movie eventVideo
“Gone With the Wind” would have been an appropriate selection for this outdoor movie event. It had the appearance of a choreographed performance when a flock of untethered air mattresses danced across a field. The inflatable beds were intended for moviegoers in Denver, Colorado, on Saturday night but the plot...
Your avocado dreams have come true
If you often find yourself disappointed in the amount of usable avocado that remains once you remove the pit, this larger variety might be the answer. Miami Fruits is a fruit stand in Florida that stocks unusual species and ships them to adventurous foodies everywhere. One of their Instagram posts...
Man sells ‘funky, old’ Nike shoes for $50,000Video
There’s a new hotel in Oregon that’s proud to have an old pair of shoes sitting in the lobby. A Nike-themed property in Eugene paid a Sacramento, Calif., man $50,000 for his rare sneakers last month, reports Fox40. Dave Russell was 25 years old when he was vying for a...
Does Cinnamon Coke take the autumn spice thing too far?
Brits are already familiar with this autumn-spiced cola. Now Americans can try this adulteration of their beloved Coke. Coca-Cola Cinnamon is hitting U.S. shelves Sept. 13, reports ABC News, while CNET is saying the 30th. The Zero Sugar version made a splash in Britain last year and was apparently successful...
Fairy tale castle is back on the market for $1.5M
This fairy tale castle doesn’t come with a prince but it does include a singer from “The Voice.” Andrew Sevener, a finalist from “The Voice,” will be performing a free concert on the grounds of an iconic castle home in Kuna, Idaho. View this post on Instagram I’m getting married...
Thieves try to sell stolen comic book collection at victim’s own comic shop
A St. Louis, Missouri, comic book enthusiast was heartbroken when his entire collection was stolen. Luckily for him, the suspects selected his comic store to try unloading the rare books. Martin Casas got the bad news last week. His personal collection of 3,000 comic books had been swiped when thieves...
Karma catches up with ketchup swiper; now Heinz is helping the thief
A condiment thief was so overcome with guilt that she returned two new bottles to the scene of the crime. Someone tried to shake off some bad luck by buying two fresh bottles of ketchup at Walmart and leaving them outside a Perkins Restaurant & Bakery in Lacey Township, New...
You can buy an extinct volcano in England for $60,000
You don’t have to be a James Bond villain to own a volcano. There’s patch of woods sitting atop an ancient volcanic outcrop in England that just might suit your needs. It’ll cost you about $60,000 to join the global ranks of volcano owners. The property is part of the...
Florida man drove golf cart through Walmart, hit shoppers, deputies sayVideo
A man terrorized shoppers by driving his golf cart into a Walmart and crashing into a cash register, according to police. Michael Dale Hudson, 56, is accused of ignoring Hillsborough County Sheriff’s deputies’ orders to stop as he drove through the front doors and raced toward the checkout area, hitting...
Cause of boy’s roller coaster death ‘undetermined,’ parents sue
Experts have no idea why a boy died on an Indiana roller coaster in June but his parents are suing the amusement park. Brayden Cooper-Douglas, 12, from Lafayette, Indiana, was riding the Hoosier Hurricane at Indiana Beach in White County when he died on June 27, reports the Journal &...
Massive tarantula migration to start this month in ColoradoVideo
Why do thousands of tarantulas cross the road? To get to the side where their mates live. The annual spider migration is about to commence in southeast Colorado and Highway 109 south of La Junta is a good place to watch, according to the town’s tourism team. Large populations of...
Florida woman says lightning caused toilet to explode
A toilet shattered into hundreds of pieces when lightning struck a septic tank outside a Florida home. Marylou Ward told WINK-TV that Sunday’s blast was the loudest sound she has ever heard. “It used to be our toilet,” Ward told the news station. “We have nothing now.” “We come in...
Dashcam captures plane landing in busy streetVideo
A Washington State Patrol officer happened to capture video of an airplane landing on a busy street. Trooper Clint Thompson was on patrol Thursday morning when the plane approached in view of his dashcam. The camera continued recording as the officer turned the car around pulled up behind the plane...
Video: Shark sinks teeth into charter captain aboard boat in Outer BanksVideo
A charter boat captain was helping an angler land a blacktip shark on the deck when the fish bit into his leg and wouldn’t let go. Rick Caton’s group was having great luck with Spanish mackerel and bluefish on Tuesday when they headed toward a school of blacktip and sharpnose...
Swimply lets you rent strangers’ swimming pools by the hour
Your neighbor’s pool can look mighty tempting on a hot summer day. Now, there’s a chance you can book a couple of hours of time in their swimming hole. Swimply is a swimming pool rental network that allows owners to make a few bucks by letting strangers take a dip...
Man named ‘Murder’ with ‘murder’ tattooed on his neck pleads guilty to murder
A Florida man has apparently lived up to his “Murder” nickname. Courtney Lawrence, 30, with the moniker “Murder” tattooed across his neck, pleaded guilty to murder charges in connection to a 2016 home invasion and shootout that left a fellow suspect dead, reports the Miami Herald. Lawrence was one of...
Driver exits sunroof of moving car to flee from Philadelphia crashVideo
A man climbed through the sunroof to flee the still-moving car he had apparently just slammed into another car. The driver of a red Cadillac on Friday didn’t wait for his crashed car to come to a stop before climbing out the sun roof, grabbing something through the window, fixing...
Greased watermelons to replace piglets in California fair event
The decades-long tradition of children chasing piglets at the Sonoma County Fair is coming to an end. The the 83-year-old county fair’s Farmers Day in Santa Rosa, Calif., will no longer feature the pig scramble, an event featuring scores of kids ages 5 to 10 chasing freshly weaned piglets, reports...
Goose freed from pizza driver’s car grille
One lucky goose got a second chance after becoming wedged in a car’s front grille. A Canada goose in Burlington, Vermont, may have thought it was cooked on Saturday when a Toyota slammed into it but it is expected to make a full recovery, reports WCAX-TV. “I saw a goose...
Store worker’s body found behind cooler 10 years later
The body found behind a supermarket cooler in January has been identified as a man who went missing 10 years ago. Larry Ely Murillo-Moncada of Council Bluffs was 25 years old when he left his parents’ home in 2009, reports the Des Moines Register. The missing person case went unsolved...
‘Got the Spider!’ joke on demolished house goes viral
A spray-painted joke on a demolished house is putting Renner, South Dakota, on the map. Jeff Hopkins, 51, and his girlfriend, Dawn Cronk, 49, decided to have a little fun with their extra house they had just torn down, reports the Argus Leader. The couple agreed that “Got the Spider!”...
Eddie Murphy, Netflix reported close to $70M deal for standup comeback
Eddie Murphy is preparing a return to the stand-up comedy stage and the paycheck is looking pretty sweet. The comedian dropped out of the comedy scene years ago but is now talking with Netflix about an undisclosed number of comedy special, reports TMZ. The deal may be worth around $70...
Trump campaign selling plastic straws as alternative to ‘liberal paper straws’
You can now show your support for the president and how you feel about environmental policy while also slurping a cold beverage. Donald Trump’s reelection campaign is offering plastic Trump-branded drinking straws as an alternative to “liberal paper straws” that “don’t work.” They are described as BPA-free, reusable, recyclable and...
Deepfake videos pose a threat, but ‘dumbfakes’ may be worse
Sophisticated phony videos called deepfakes have attracted plenty of attention as a possible threat to election integrity. But a bigger problem for the 2020 U.S. presidential contest may be “dumbfakes” — simpler and more easily unmasked bogus videos that are easy and often cheap to produce. Unlike deepfakes, which require...
