The Secret Of The Ooze

Just in time for blockbuster season, a flashback to an old Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film... apparently, ooze creeped from the cracks of a Nanjing street, as-of-yet unexplained, only to disappear back:



Am I ever glad our environmental policies are so strict we can rule out human behaviour as a cause of all of this. I'm particularly fond of MSN's hypothesis:

No one knows what the substance was, but the official explanation says it was a material used to soften soil for a nearby subway construction, and was as harmless as soap bubbles. Many people are skeptical, preferring to blame China's corner-cutting efforts to save money. Whatever it was, it soon seeped back into the cracks, raising two even more important questions: Where did it go, and what is it planning?

Ass-Loads Of Animals

Among all the things one can think of sticking up their ass, a live animal should, technically, be far down the list. And I'm not just talking about gerbils, either - a man in China encountered problems after sticking a live eel in there.

Further proof that there are idiots everywhere, and that the probabilities of stumbling upon a random act of unthinkable stupidity increase exponentially when population growth and speed of information in the digital age collide.