Friday, December 13, 2013
Located near the regional center of Rivne, Ukraine, is a small town called Klevan. As of 2001, its population was 7,470. One of Klevan’s main attractions is an overgrown section of railway that visitors can walk across known as the Tunnel of Love or Green Mile Tunnel.
According to Atlas Obscura, the railroad track is approximately 7km from the city center and stretches about 3km (1.86 miles). The private railway is used to transport wood to a nearby fibreboard factory so a train does run on these tracks up to three times daily. As you can imagine, the tracks are highly photogenic year-round.
Monday, November 18, 2013
Maine Coon is a breed of domestic cat. Its actual origin is unknown but they look quite wild and they’re usually pretty big. The biggest specimens weigh up to 11.3kg. But Rupert here is not just pretty big. He’s huge. He’s a “mega monster cat”, according to experts. Heck, this thing can probably kill you if he decided to.
Rupert is now 9kg, which is less than his biggest cronies. But he’s only two years old. By three he will be much bigger, say the vets, growing to the point in which he would be at least 14kg.
For comparison, male bobcats can get up to 14kg too. The Canada lynx goes up to 10.8kg, while the Iberian can reach 12.7. Only a male of the Eurasian lynx would be bigger than Rupert, at 18-27kg.
Still, Rupert will be 14kg of muscle, teeth, and claws. A domestic cat who looks pretty much like a real lynx. I’m not sure if I would feel safe around one.
You can only fight the urge to sleep for so long… and these 27 poor souls know it. Sometimes it happens in a car, sometimes at work, but whenever sleep comes a callin’ you just can’t resist. Unfortunately, most of these people ended up passing out around their awful friends, so the results are hilarious.
Just because Pinterest projects involve simple ingredients like toothpicks, watercolors, socks and cookie dough… it does NOT mean that you won’t fail hilariously every time you attempt one of these. Meticulously sewing together all of your socks and then dying them alternate colors doesn’t look fun or easy. Because it isn’t.
Sunday, November 17, 2013
- Melissa Bachman presents a series called Winchester Deadly Passion about hunting
- The 'hardcore huntress' posted a picture of herself with a lion she killed on Twitter
- The reaction was immediate condemnation
- A petition to prevent her from returning to South Africa, where she shot the lion, has been signed more than 13,000 times
TV presenter Melissa Bachman raised ire when she posted a photo of a mature male lion she allegedly shot and killed on Twitter and Facebook.
Within hours of the post, an online petition by Cape Town resident Elan Burman asking the South African government to ban Bachman from ever returning to the country was launched.
The picture depicts Bachman crouching over the carcass of a male lion with its eyes closed, paws either side of its head, as she holds her gun and smiles toothily.
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| Uproar: Bachman was forced to make her social media accounts private after sparking a furor with this photo of herself with a lion she shot dead |
The post provoked a furious response from many Twitter users, who called her 'disgusting' and 'vile.'
At the time of writing, Burman's petition had 18,891 signatures.
'She is an absolute contradiction to the culture of conservation this country prides itself on,' wrote Burman.
VIDEO Self-styled hunter kills a gator and shows off the kill (video censored)
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| Not welcome: Many in South Africa are seeking to prevent Bachman from returning to their shores, and more than 13,000 have signed this petition |
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| Earning stripes: Bachman poses with her gun over the corpse of a zebra |
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| Outrage: Bachman's hunting exploits have earned her some very vocal critics who were quick to denounce her for killing a lion today |
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| Deadly passion: The 'Trophy Room' section of Bachman's website has 65 photographs of her posing with different dead animals |
Signatory Richard Robinson wrote, 'You didn't kill a lion, you stood behind a machine and pulled a little trigger, you pathetic, sad excuse of a human.'
The African lion is considered a vulnerable species. Numbers are rapidly declining due to loss of habitat and conflict with humans.
However, hunting lions is legal in several countries, including South Africa where Bachman bagged her big male.
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| Spot the typo: Ricky Gervais joined the many Twitter users who condemned Bachman |
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| Hardcore huntress: Bachman says she has been hunting since she was a small child |
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| Thrill kill: Detractors say Bachman is a 'heartless trophy hunter' |
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| Big game: Bachman works as writer, producer and star of the series Winchester Deadly Passion |
Bachman's social media pages and website reveal an array of huge beasts that have died after coming in contact with her. The 'Trophy Room' section of her website features a grinning Bachman with dead deer, antelope, alligators, turkeys and hogs.
This latest furor is not the first time Bachman has run afoul of anti-hunting groups.
Last year, she was slated to appear on the National Geographic Channel's Ultimate Survivor Alaska but was dropped after a Change.org petition that called Bachman a 'contracted trophy killer' was signed more than 13,000 times in less than 24 hours.
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| Twitter tirade: Bachman has disabled her Twitter account since the posting went viral |
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| On the fly: No game is too small for Bachman to take aim at |
Minnesota-based Bachman, whose blog includes posts such as 'Why every girl should try bowhunting' and 'Stupid hunting regulations I just can't stand,' is the host of a television series called Winchester Deadly Passion.
In each episode, she travels to a locale and hunts its native animals with a variety of weapons including her beloved bow and arrow.
Lourens Mostert, a manager at the Maroi conservancy where Bachman shot the lion said the hunt was legal.
'If it isn't right to hunt these lions, why does out government legally give us permission?' he told the Daily Telegraph.
'This is not the only lion that has been hunted in South Africa this year.'
Saturday, November 16, 2013
WE'RE a nation of animal lovers but none of us has quite as many as retired secretary Marlene who shares her house with her 40 cats.The cat enthusiast is surrounded day and night by the 40 felines who follow her around her home.
They are groomed and bathed every day, a procedure which can see Marlene up until the early hours of the morning as she prepares them for shows.
The unusal pet owner spends around £200 a week on the felines' food and although she received funds following her mother's death to feed the cats, she admis the money is running out.
Marlene's mother died nine years ago leaving her 14 pedigree Persians to add to her own 26 cats.
She said: "The cats never upset me, I like people but sometimes they can be aggravating. I have closed myself down to the only pleasure which is being with the animals I'm surrounded by."
Her best friend Coleen admitted that she had named Marlene 'her eccentric friend.'
Coleen added: "Her life is her cats. I couldn't imagine Marlene without her cats. I couldn't cope with 40 but she does."
Marlene's story is one of many exposed by recent Channel 5 programme Pet Horders.
Another pet horder came in the form of Deb and her family who share their Yorkshire home with a brood of chickens.
Her passion for poultry started when she passed a farm snd was overwhelmed by the shrieking of chickens being kept in terrible conditions.
She crammed 60 birds into her car and headed home.
Since then, Deb has sold the business that she used to run and now nurses and cares for them all on a full-time basis. Deb plans to rescue and care for more abused animals, no matter what species.
They are known to produce up to 500 litres of methane every day. But this bovine seemed to go one further by appearing to light up an entire field in the French countryside.
However, the flames which seem to be bursting out of the animal’s behind are an optical illusion...the blaze is at a farm some distance behind it.
The extraordinary image was captured by amateur photographer Bertrand Kulik as he passed through a field in Issy l’Eveque, Burgundy.
A Reddit user by the name of DrZa1us explored the abandoned Kings Park Psychiatric Center in the state of New York. It has been abandoned for almost a decade. After the patients left, what remained was terrible memories and haunted rooms.
These will give you chills.
These will give you chills.
The Kings Park Psychiatric Center is known by Kings Park locals simply as “The Psych Center.”
It operated from 1885 until 1996.
The state of New York closed the facility.
The state released its few remaining patients or transferred them to the still-operational Pilgrim Psychiatric Center.
As patient populations grew throughout the early part of the 20th century, the hospital itself continued to grow, and by the late 1930s the state began to build upward instead of outward.
Who knows what happened in these halls.
Kudos to those who are brave enough to enter this hellish building. I know I wouldn’t.
When wedding photographer Jason Lee‘s mother fell ill with cancer, he wanted to take his daughters to see her. Unfortunately, he was unable to do so because of sheer distance. But, being a creative and loving son, he found another way to show his mother her grandchildren. He began taking adorable photos with his little girls Kristin and Kayla and posting them on his blog so his mom could see. The results are absolutely heartwarming.
18 year-old Cheng Changjiang was relaxing after exams and posing for pictures at a rural spot in Xinyang, at Henan province in central China, when tragedy struck.
What happened next would affect Cheng so seriously and so permanently, but that didn’t stop him from putting his life on the line to save children in trouble.
Cheng Changjiang was so happy when he posed for this picture…. but he would be dead only minutes later.
After the picture was taken, he noticed three little children fell into the water and were drowning. He couldn’t swim, but the teen jumped into the water to save the kids anyway.
He heard the screams and didn’t even wait to go into the water after them.
As the teenager was rescuing the last child, a man rushed to his aid. After handing the 11 year-old girl over, Cheng Changjiang sank underwater.
When bystanders were able to pull him from the water, it was too late. “When we pulled him from the water he was dead, there was no chance to save his life.”
It was typical for Cheng to put others ahead of himself, even if it meant putting his own life on the line. We think more people need to know what he did for those children. Please share this article.
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