Random Elderly Woman In Drum Store Proceeds To Rock The Fuck Out

To paraphrase the Palm d'Or-winning film Shrek, old people are like onions — they have a specific smell, they add necessary flavor and you never know what's under each layer. This woman, reportedly a grandma, walked into the Coalition Drum Shop in La Crosse, Wisconsin, played rock drums like a member of Mötley Crüe…
Victory Against Hygiene Achieved At 150th Gettysburg Re-Enactment
One not-so-fun fact about the 150th reenactment of the Civil War battle at Gettysburg: The whole not being able to shower for three days thing. Perhaps this contributes to the long-held notion that reenacting was a boys' club — some women insist is still an issue, as many groups don't allow women to play soldiers or…
You've Got to See This to Believe It: Cat Plays Shell Game, Wins Every Time
This is freaky as hell! What's with Kido the cat? He's amazing! And to think he was abandoned by two different families before being adopted by the person who brought him YouTube fame and fortune. Maybe his previous owners lost their houses to him in a game of poker, and that's why he to relocate?
Toddler Miraculously Survives Getting a Pencil Lodged in Her Brain
Two-year-old Wren Bowell has some crazy luck. The girl, who is from England, had the misfortune to trip and land so that a pencil she was carrying jammed into her eye socket and went through her skull. Yeowch! But it turned out luck was on her side after all, because while the pencil penetrated nearly four centimeters…
Two-Year-Old Has Giant Tumor Removed That Weighs More Than He Does
A two-year-old boy in Mexico is much lighter on his feet these days after doctors removed a human-sized tumor from his side. During a 10 hour surgery, doctors in Mexico City were able to completely remove the 33-pound tumor (seen above). The boy, who's from the northern state of Durango, weighs only 26 pounds. The…
Zookeeper Saves Tiny Monkey By Licking Its Butt Until It Poops. Seriously.
Earlier this week a zookeeper at Wuhan Zoo in China named Zhang Bangsheng put his tongue to work in a most unpleasant way to help a small monkey in need. The monkey, a Francois' langur, is just three months old and is a very rare specimen. Thus, he's worth going the extra mile for. (Not that all monkeys aren't worth…
Watch a Girl Go From Infant to Tween in Under Three Minutes
Frans Hofmeester filmed his daughter Lotte once a week from the time she was born until she was 12 years old. He then edited down the massive amount of video into this short clip, which lets you see Lotte grow up right before your very eyes. What's especially cool is that In many of the shots she's talking, and even…
Man Uses Google Earth to Find His Long Lost Mother
As annoying as Google may sometimes be—yes, I mentioned my dog snoring in an email, but that does not mean all of the ads I see for the next three years should assume I have sleep apnea!—there are many things it's given us that are extremely cool. One of those things is Google Earth, which is awesome in its own right…
Your Morning Swoon: Mayor Cory Booker Races Into Burning Building to Save Woman's Life
Let it be known that hero du jour Ryan Gosling is officially on notice. He's just been upstaged in the superhero department in a major way: Last night, Newark's awesome Mayor Cory Booker ran into a burning house and saved the life of a woman trapped inside! MEGASWOON. But wait until you hear the details. It's like…
Brave 80-Year-Old Woman Lands Plane After Her Pilot Husband Dies at the Controls
When it comes to worst nightmares, there are so many options that it can be hard to decide what's the actual worst case scenario. But this experience ranks right up there: An 80-year-old woman was a passenger in the small twin-engine plane her husband was flying near their home in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. Suddenly her…
Girl Genius: Meet the Amazing 6-Year-Old Who's Headed to National Spelling Bee
What were you doing when you were six? Learning to spell words like "train" and "family"? Well, can you spell "underachiever"? You can if you're Lori Anne Madison, a six-year-old from Woodbridge, Virginia who is on her way to the Scripps-Howard National Spelling Bee. Madison, who is believed to be the youngest…
Guy Who Sings 'Someone Like You' in the Subway Pulls a Man Off the Tracks and Saves His Life
Remember the guy who sang such a beautiful rendition of Adele's "Someone Like You" in the New York City subway? Well, now we've got word that he not only sings beautifully, he's also a genuine hero. One of our readers reports that she was in the 86th Street station about 10:30 this morning when the singing man—whom…
Woman Adopts Cat That Turns Out to Be a Real Life-Saver
Usually when someone adopts a pet, we say the animal got lucky, but in the case of one Wisconsin woman, it's the other way around. The cat she adopted ended up saving her life the very first night she brought him home. It all began when Amy Jung took her son Ethan to the Door County Humane society a few weeks ago just…
Amazing Little Girl Can Give Better Directions Than Any GPS
So many of us have become completely dependent on our phones and GPS systems for guidance, that we'd be hard pressed to give someone directions to the nearest corner if asked. Well, not this little genius. She's got the route to her house down pat—and it's not an easy path to travel. I wish there was a way to have…
