Eating Eggs Will Kill You

Dhaou Fatnassi, 20-Year-Old Tunisian, Dies After Eating 28 Raw Eggs As A Dare

20-year-old Tunisian man Dhaou Fatnassi died after completing a dare to eat 28 raw eggs, French-language radio station Shems FM reported.

According to News.com.au, Fatnassi's friends had promised to give him "an undisclosed sum of money" if he swallowed all 28 of the raw eggs whole. (One assumes that did not include the shells, but you can never be sure.) After doing so, Fatnassi reportedly started to feel pains in his stomach. He headed toward the Hopital les Aghlabides in Kairouan, Tunisia, to receive medical attention, but died in transit.

Over the years, many have surely wondered whether the famous egg-eating scene in "Cool Hand Luke" was replicable in real life, and whether it was really possible to eat 50 eggs and live to tell the tale, as Paul Newman's character did. (Though his eggs were hard-boiled, not raw.) But Fatnassi's grim end shows that some feats are meant to stay fictional. Let's hope his example wards off any future daredevils in the egg-eating arena.

Street Dogs vs Police

Chilean street dogs protesters' best friends

Santiago, Chile — They don't have demands, but they're loyal to the cause and are always on the front lines of the fight. They run with protesters, lap up shots from water cannons, bark at police in riot gear and sometimes even bite officers.

Stray dogs are truly man's best friend for thousands of students and workers who demonstrate and clash with police nearly every day to press demands for education improvements, redistribution of Chile's wealth and environmental protections. As the protests become fixtures in this modernizing capital, normally unnoticed street dogs have become stars, with the Facebook fan pages and fawning media coverage to prove it.

"Blacky," a mutt adopted by young protesters, has become the most visible mascot, with rival fan pages totaling more than 7,000 subscribers or "likes."

"Dogs are super-loyal. They stand with the people, and I think they support the students," said Catalina Echenique, 17, who is planning to study psychiatry.

Free-roaming dogs number in the millions in Chile in a situation the nation's humane society has called alarming. Dog owners rarely spay or neuter their pets and commonly leave them outside when they go to work in the morning. Many roam the streets all day.

Dogs lurk around the presidential palace, take naps in parks and always seem in search of a bite to eat or the next protest.

While strays are feared in countries such as India, where tens of millions of street dogs have a reputation for biting people and spreading rabies, Chileans often feed and take care of strays.

"Dogs go to the protests because of a pack instinct. They play with the water jets, they're happy and don't know what's going on," said police officer Eduardo Basaez.

Find Love In Traffic Jams

Russia: Drivers Find Love In Traffic Jams

Traffic in Russia's capital ranks among the very worst in the world.

According to an IBM poll, it is in the top five worst traffic cities with average delays of 2.5 hours - but the endless queues can have a silver lining.

Traffic jams have become as synonymous with Moscow as Red Square and fur hats. Rush hours bleed into round the clock jams with weary Muscovites resigned to the inevitable stuttered creep home.

The unsuitably named Garden Ring is the vast concrete orbital that circumvents the city. The choked artery frequently becomes as frozen as the temperatures. Volume of traffic is the big issue: Moscow has six times the number of cars it did in 1991. Key roads are regularly closed to allow the motorcades of top officials to pass.

Some 40% of people say they have been stuck for more than three hours. But for a growing number of frustrated drivers that is not idle time. Tablets, laptops and other devices are becoming part of the car furniture.

Hundreds of thousands of Russians rely on the search engine Yandex to warn of traffic hotspots and perhaps even more importantly provide some fellow feeling among the unmoving masses.

Drivers swap moans of never changing lights and pesky police - not the most romantic of exchanges but for Tatyana and Mickhail Sanadze it did the trick.

Tatyana said: "I asked in the chat room the best route to a park - avoiding traffic.  And someone replied to my plea and it was my future husband, who brilliantly explained how to get to our destination. This is how we met!"

Sitting in the passenger seat, iPad in hand, her husband Mikhail added: "Moscow traffic played a big role in our destiny.

"Inconvenience for everyone became a lucky lottery ticket for us.  I think if the traffic wasn't as bad, we wouldn't have met each other."

It may fuel the odd romance but traffic is not doing much for Moscow's economy, costing it billions of pounds each year.

Most couriers can only offer a minimum three hour or next day delivery service but one company has seen an opportunity.

Quikfrog promises that by two legs, two wheels or four, it will deliver in less than an hour, meaning the couriers themselves have one of the most challenging jobs in the Russian capital, dodging queues and weaving in and out of clogged lanes.

Co-founder Alexander Bortenev said: "The negative situation with traffic is not only stifling business, it stifles society and affects people's attitudes. It eats up 1.5 % of Russia's GDP.

"I went to Germany recently where they lose 62 billion euros to traffic. Knowing Moscow, we could easily double or triple that sum."

The chaos frequently extends outside Moscow. Some reports claimed a recent queue to St Petersburg stretched for 120 miles with drivers waiting in freezing conditions for two days.

With three more months of winter to go, drivers across Russia can only brace themselves for what feels like the inevitable.

Speeding with Legs Out Window

Is this driver putting his feet up? Motorist caught on camera 'speeding with legs out window' on Australian motorway

A rogue P-plater has been photographed hurtling down a Melbourne freeway with both legs outside the driver's window. He has now come forward to police

The provisional driver was caught on the Eastern Freeway, Melbourne, appearing to drive with his legs out of the window
    It believed police have now 'made contact' with the man after they appealed for him to come forward
    But some have questioned whether it is 'physically possible' for the legs to belong to the driver

Australian police have ‘made contact’ with a young motorist who appeared to be driving along a Melbourne motorway with his legs hanging out of the window.

Police had pleaded with him to come forward after pictures emerged on the internet.

It appeared to show the driver speeding down the Eastern Freeway with his legs protruding from the side window while the vehicle hurtles along in cruise control.

‘I couldn’t believe what I was seeing,’ said the motorist who took the picture, identifying himself only as Stewart.

‘I thought “If his right foot’s outside the window, how is he accelerating?” Then I saw both feet out of the window and I thought “Bloody hell”.’

The driver, he said, was travelling over the speed limit with a number of other people in the car.

'He looked very young,’ said Stewart. ‘This guy’s a risk to my safety. I don’t want to share the road with people like that.’

However, the photograph has now provoked a debate about if they are really the driver’s legs.

One man has even put the controversy to the test by getting into his own car in his garage and trying to emulate the driver’s position. His verdict: impossible, unless the driver is a contortionist.
The driver appeared to be 'travelling over the speed limit with a number of other people in the car'. But there has been some question over whether it is physically possible for the driver to be in that position

The driver appeared to be 'travelling over the speed limit with a number of other people in the car'. But there has been some question over whether it is physically possible for the driver to be in that position

Others joining in the online controversy have turned on the motorist who snapped the picture, saying he appears to have broken the law himself.

First, they said, he would have had to have been speeding to keep up with the other car.

Then he should not have been using his phone to snap the picture while driving.

Police Inspector Bernie Rankin from the Major Collision Investigation Unit said that if they were the man’s legs protruding from the vehicle the incident was no joke.

‘This young man…his behaviour without any further examination is conduct endangering life. That’s a very serious criminal charge,’ he said.

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