From YahooNews:
Lawn chair pilot flies with 105 balloons
BEND, Ore. - Last weekend, Kent Couch settled down in his lawn chair with some snacks — and a parachute. Attached to his lawn chair were 105 large helium balloons.
Destination: Idaho.
With instruments to measure his altitude and speed, a global positioning system device in his pocket, and about […]

 
I stumbled upon this today, the pictures are pretty amazing so I thought I would share.  No this machine is not a model from some new Star Wars movie, these pictures are of a real $100 million dollar, 45,000 ton trenching machine being used on an open air coal mine in Europe.   These pictures are of its […]

From YahooNews: 
Angry shopkeeper uses forklift on car
MAHOPAC, N.Y. - A shopkeeper got so angry about the way a man had parked his car that he climbed into a forklift, placed the fork under the car and lifted it off the ground, police said Wednesday.
Wasek Safrah, 51, of Ossining, also punched out both the offending car […]

From The Washington Times: 
Lawn mowers injure 9,400 under age 20
An average of 9,400 children and teens are treated in U.S. hospital emergency departments annually for lawn-mower injuries, a U.S. study finds.
Researchers at the Center for Injury Research and Policy in the Columbus Children’s Research Institute at Columbus Children’s Hospital also find that 25 percent of […]

I just posted a few new articles on Goofyblogs Train and Railroad Museum.   The Museum is still small, but my brother and I are slowly but surely getting more content on there.
If you’re a train nerd, check it out here, or click on the link at the bottom of the Goofyblog Banner.

From ABC NEWS: 
Piece of Navy Jet Washes Up in Ireland
Piece of Navy Jet That Crashed Off Florida Washes Ashore in Ireland
NORFOLK, Va. May 9, 2006 (AP)— A tail section from a U.S. Navy fighter jet that crashed 3 1/2 years ago off Key West, Fla., has turned up 4,900 miles away on a beach in […]

From YahooNews: 
China Claims World’s Largest Ferris Wheel
BEIJING - China is reaching for the stars with the opening of what it says is the world’s tallest Ferris wheel in the country’s south.
The 525 foot high Star of Nanchang opened this week in a riverside park in Jiangxi province, the official Xinhua News Agency said Tuesday.
The wheel […]

 
From NEWSDAY.COM: 
Boys Start Steamroller, Damage School
BELGRADE, Serbia-Montenegro — A group of school boys allegedly started steamroller Tuesday, which ran out of control and smashed into a school in central Serbia, a Serbian news agency reported.
No one was injured in the accident in Gornji Milanovac, 50 miles south of Belgrade, but the school was seriously damaged by […]

 
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From The Register: 
F-22 Raptor swallows pilot
Trapped for five hours in $134m beast
By Lester Haines
A hapless US Air Force pilot had to be physically cut free from the cockpit of his F-22A Raptor when the canopy resolutely refused to open, Flight International reports.
The mini-drama unfolded on 10 April at the […]

 
From MSNBC.COM:
Mars rovers are in good shape for winter
Spirit settles down in refuge; Opportunity rolls toward huge crater
By Leonard David
Those long-lived NASA Mars rovers — Spirit and Opportunity — remain in fairly good shape, with one robot in survival mode as Martian winter arrives while its twin snakes its way across a taxing terrain […]

 
From NEWSDAY.COM:
2 Kids Hurt in Money Drop at Mich. Game
COMSTOCK PARK, Mich. — Two children were injured in a scramble to grab cash being dropped from a helicopter as part of a promotion after a minor league baseball game.
About $1,000 in cash was dropped Saturday from the helicopter over Fifth Third Ballpark’s outfield as children […]

I came across this cool Motorcycle From Intellegent Energy, the ENV Motorbike runs completley off Hydrogen.
Their Custom Fuel Cells power 1k-watt of energy to an electric motor.  The top speed is only 50 MPH, which I suppose is fine as a city street bike.  The  range is about 100 miles on a single tank of hydrogen, which can […]

 
From Networkworld.COM:
Startup called Webaroo touts ‘Web on a hard drive’
Search the Web from your laptop or handheld — without an Internet connection of any kind?
 
This seeming impossibility is what a Bellevue, Wash.-based startup called Webaroo has set out to realize — they call it “search unplugged” — and even company president Brad Husick concedes that […]

 
From CNN.COM:
Officer: ‘Miracle’ that everyone survived
Plane size, position of fuel may have helped
DOVER, Delaware (AP) — A huge military cargo plane faltered after takeoff and belly-landed short of the Dover Air Force Base runway Monday, breaking apart and drenching some of the 17 people aboard with fuel but causing no fire or life-threatening injuries.
(more here)
Didn’t […]