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Woman Super Glued To Toilet Seat Inside Kentucky Walmart

Why I line the seat with toilet paper first. Then again, I would avoid a bathroom at Walmart at all costs anyway.

Woman Super Glued To Toilet Seat Inside Kentucky Walmart
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Random News you might have missed

Al Pacino and Christopher Walken

PHOTOGRAPH BY AKM-GSI / Barcroft Media

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  • How they deal with jaywalkers in South Africa. Watch.
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  • Funny prank called “No-Not-You-ing” is a good watch if you have a minute.
  • Fans of Spotify should be excited. At the Advertising Age Digital conference this week, the CEO said Spotify will be available in cars at some point in the near future.
  • Jennifer Love Hewitt without makeup.
  • In China, Even the Dead Get Married [story]

The Great Boston Molasses Flood

Today in strangeness – The Great Boston Molasses Flood happened on January 15th, 1919. A large tank burst and 2.3 million gallons of molasses barreled out in a 30 ft. wave leaving 21 dead and 150 injured. Witnesses stated that as it collapsed, there was a loud rumbling sound, like a machine gun as the rivets shot out of the tank, and that the ground shook as if a train were passing by. Holy nightmare.

Some residents claim that on a hot summer day the area still smells of molasses.

Considering the phrase “slow as molasses,” how could these people not outrun the seeping spill?

molasses spill

Panorama of the Molasses Disaster site. Source: Globe Newspaper Co.

Damage to the Boston Elevated Railway due to the flood

Damage to the Boston Elevated Railway due to the flood

Related:
Books: Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919, by Stephen Puleo.
More books about the flood.

Strange news link dump

Diet Coke habit
Man has a bad Diet Coke habit. He drinks 42 Ltrs of it per week. 
Dead man in mortuary impregnates woman
The 30 Best Taco-Related Crimes Ever 
Man Standing Next to His Own Tombstone Shot Dead
Bastards. Dish Network adding DVR recording 
Body_Farm
California body farm to market premium top soil