Madame Tussauds in Berlin unveiled its latest attraction on Tuesday - a posturing Donald Trump figure striking a picture of German Chancellor Angela Merkel on a punchball.
Two elderly German men proved that you're never too old to rock.
The pair escaped from their nursing home so they could attend the Wacken Open Air festival, the world's largest heavy metal music festival. According to a report from , the pair managed to sneak out of their home undetected, but staff soon found that the pair were missing and contacted police.
They were later found "disoriented and dazed" on the grounds of the music festival at 3 a.m. The nursing home arranged a ride home for the men.
"They obviously liked the metal festival," police spokeswoman Merle Neufeld told German public broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk.
The story of the elderly men who escaped to the Wacken Open Air festival garnered quite a bit of attention, with stories in news outlets across the globe and praise from heavy metal fans for their dedication.
Twitter often makes strange bedfellows and this morning it brought together rapper Soulja Boy and Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani with humorous results. Early in the morning, Giuliani tweeted one word, "you," and hours later, Soulja Boy responded.
says that Soulja Boy responded as if he were finishing a sentence, and posted "Crank That Soulja Boy," referring to his song. HL says that the song is thought to have a sexual connotation:
"Crank That Soulja Boy," the rapper's hilarious response read, referring to his song of the same name. The lyrics have been known to indicate some kind of sexual act either with a partner or through self-pleasure so it seems like Soulja was implying the American politician was up late/early and having some fun so he decided to give him some encouragement!"
Ghost Adventures host, Zak Bagans, recently purchased the ultimate paranormal talking piece at an auction. reported that the Travel Channel star shelled out $2,000 to purchase a painting of deceased cult leader and mass murderer, Charles Manson. The painting is a portrait of the much-circulated and replicated shot police snapped of a wild-eyed Charles Manson.
The painting is the morbid creation of , whose preferred medium is human blood. Almighty's creepy pieces have sparked the interest of collectors, other artists and like-minded individuals such as Zak Bagans who collect his uniquely dark pieces. Ryan Almighty used his own blood to paint the portrait, and he topped it off by using the criminal's ashes to fill in the eyes.
A teen robbed a 9-year-old boy's lemonade stand at gunpoint in Monroe, North Carolina, according to authorities. So far, the suspect is still on the loose.
According to a report from the , an armed teen pushed a gun into the child's stomach at the child's lemonade stand, which was located near the St. John's Forest development roundabout just off of Weddington Road. The crime occurred around 3 p.m. Saturday. The perpetrator demanded the lemonade stand's money, and the left after the incident.
In a truly creepy and horrendous incident emerging from India, eight men are absconding after allegations that they gang-raped a pregnant goat to death, reports .
India is infamous for sexual violence against women, with the last few years marking spikes in incidents of rapes across the northern part of the country, but this is a massively disgusting incident even by the country's abysmally low standards.
According to the report, the owner of the goat, Aslu, filed a report about an incident which took place on July 26. Early in the morning, some men tried to molest his pregnant goat in the courtyard of his house, at which point he confronted them. Some of the men were thrashed by local villagers for acting like lunatics.
The man that walked into a convenience store with a live alligator tucked under his arm in Jacksonville, Florida, for a beer run was either very silly, very drunk, or an alligator whisperer. The big lizard's mouth had been taped shut, but it seems that it couldn't have been easy to wrestle the gator and get the tape around its snout to prepare it for its odd journey.
posted the video of the bizarre beer run, and it shows the man going into the convenience store with the hapless gator, holding it with his right hand. The alligator appeared to be about four feet long. The man reportedly walked up to the counter and asked, "Ya'll aint out of beer are you?"
We all joke about wanting to ride a unicorn over a rainbow, but five women in Minnesota got stuck while riding their rainbow unicorn over the weeds.
While having a girl's day out on a Chisago County lake, their unicorn float got caught on some weeds in the water. Despite having paddles, they were effectively stuck. The raft's large size and the weeds' thickness made it impossible to move, but the women decided to wait for help before clambering into the muddy water.
This left them stranded until two Minnesota police officers spotted them. Police initially pulled over to ask the group for a photo, but the women were happier to see them than they were to see the rainbow unicorn. They waved the deputies over to ask for help, and the photo-op quickly turned into a rescue mission.
A 46-year-old homeless man with no arms was arrested in Miami Beach, Florida, for stabbing another man with a pair of scissors using his feet, police said on Wednesday.
A judge in Hawaii has decided that the tenants who rented a home in Upper Nuuanu and then allegedly held naked parties in it can be evicted by the property's landlords.
The decision, which came after a month of hearings, was made official on Thursday, August 2, based on lease violations, multiple disturbances, and because they were allegedly running an advertised business, iPartyNaked, out of the home, which they dubbed Freedom House.
According to , neighbors had complained about various activities that supposedly took place at the home, including Naked Taco Tuesday, naked yoga, strange screams, and sounds, and a mysterious car fire.
Retired military chaplain David Brown, who lives next door to the nudists, told the website that he had filed numerous police complaints about the tenants. However, after one particular call and the subsequent visit to the residence by the authorities, the people in the house just kept partying.
A man who reportedly crashed his car into a house after a high-speed chase with police had a rather unusual excuse when he was asked why he allegedly went through all that trouble — he urgently needed to poop.
According to a report from Yakima, Washington-based , Yakima police first spotted the suspect, 32-year-old Marlowe Olney, on Thursday as he drove past a stop sign and continued speeding when they attempted to pull him over. Police reports suggest that Olney's car crashed through a fence and into an abandoned house, after which he tried to escape on foot.
Once he was arrested, Olney reportedly claimed that he was speeding because he needed to poop, adding that he wasn't able to pull over because his car didn't have any brakes.
More than 100 goats burst into a neighborhood in Boise, Idaho, on Friday, startling residents and captivating spectators on social media as they feasted on lawns, flower bushes and tree leaves.
The Korea Football Association (KFA) has decided not to pursue charges against people who threw eggs at the national team after they arrived home from the World Cup, police said on Tuesday.
There's pranking your boss, and there's drawing giant penises in the sky with airplane exhaust. Recently, five peeved pilots decided to do the latter in an attempt to annoy their boss. The NYPD pilots used a $4 million spy plane to draw the aerial mural, and their message was quickly received.
The obscene route was picked up on NYPD flight-tracking software, and once supervisors realized what shape they were making, a report was made to the NYPD brass. The demonstration was in response to a feud the pilots had with Inspector James Coan. As the head of the Aviation Unit, Coan had a large say in what they pilots did. According to the , the argument began when pilots were ordered to fly at low altitudes in a single-engine Cessna.
Despite the plane being paid for by federal funding, pilots disagreed with the mission. They told Coan that it was not safe to fly over open water in the plane.
On a hot summery Thursday in London, Santa Claus turned up 144 days early wearing a studded leather jacket to open the new Christmas shop at department store Selfridges.
Authorities in Australia have caught a saltwater crocodile measuring almost 5 meters (16.4 ft), one of the biggest on record, to stop it from reaching a populated area, the Department of Tourism said on Tuesday.
Russian couple Yekaterina and Dmitry Vasilyev enjoyed a perfect wedding celebration on Sunday as they briefly halted their nuptials to watch the hosts defy the odds by beating Spain in a penalty shootout to reach the World Cup quarter-finals.
Australians by the dozen are demanding portraits of Britain's Queen Elizabeth, after a news item drew attention to an obscure rule entitling them to such articles from local politicians.
Mystery of 'extremely loud explosion' which stunned Merseyside residents
