life-Size Hulk Statue Made of Discarded Nuts and Bolts
Ban Hun lek is a Thai scrap metal art company that makes amazing pop culture sculptures from discarded auto parts. One of their best works is this Incredible Hulk statue made almost entirely out of rusty old nuts and bolts.
According to the brand’s website, Ban Hun lek is a family-run business, specialising in hand-made scrap metal art that’s created piece-by-piece from used auto parts that have no value: “Bolts, nuts, screws, spark plugs, and other used auto parts have been re-created by our skillful welders with just a normal electric welding technique”.
They start off with an idea or a concept, and then collect all the scrap metal raw material they need for the project. Then, they weld the parts together into their design. Once the sculpture is ready, they clean it and coat it with the appropriate agent to protect it from rusting in the future. The finished sculpture is packed and stocked to be shipped to customers.
(Odditycentral)
Woman finds leech in nose after Asia trip
Daniela liverani, of Edinburgh, Scotland, came home from a trip to Vietnam with an unpleasant souvenir up her nose. The 24-year-old backpacker suffered frequent nosebleeds after a motorcycle accident, and assumed that a dark protrusion sticking out of her nostril was congealed blood.
“When I was in the shower, he would come right out as far as my bottom lip and I could see him sticking out the bottom of my nose,” liverani told The Daily Mail. “So when that happened, I jumped out of the shower to look really closely in the mirror and I saw ridges on him. That’s when I realised he was an animal.” liverani rushed to the hospital, where doctors spent half an hour pulling a three-inch leech out of her nose.
(UPI)
Thousands of brown recluse spiders take over home
Exterminators are fumigating a Missouri home to eliminate the estimated 6,000 venomous brown recluse spiders that drove away the previous owners. The 2,400-square-foot Weldon Spring home, which was foreclosed and is now owned by Fanny Mae, was covered by a tent by McCarthy Pest Control and filled with 200 pounds of sulfuryl fluoride gas to eliminate the arachnids. The house was abandoned two years ago by Brian and Susan Trost, who purchased the home for $450,000 in 2007. The couple said the spider problem was not disclosed by the previous owners, but they started noticing the arachnids the day of their move.
The Trosts filed a lawsuit against the previous residents, Tina and David Gault, and an expert testified there were an estimated 4,500 to 6,000 spiders in the home as of 2011. The Trosts said they were forced to abandon the home in 2012 when repeated attempts to get rid of the spiders failed. They won a $472,110 settlement in the lawsuit, but said they have yet to receive any money.
Missouri Department of Conservation experts said brown recluse spiders are venomous, but it is difficult for them to pierce human skin. Their bites have been known to cause pain and infection, but death is unlikely.
(UPI)
Wife-carrying competition brings Finnish whimsy to Maine
Men with their wives slung over their shoulders bounded over log hurdles and charged through a muddy pit on a mountainside in Maine at the North American Wife Carrying Championship. The annual event, now in its 15th year, held at the base of a grassy ski mountain at the Sunday River resort in Maine had all the trappings of a serious competition. There were fit competitors in numbered bibs, a precision clock and a winners podium, but from the moment the announcer declared “saddle up!” as signal for the couples, it was clear this competition was as whimsical as they come. “The people in Finland put together this event because they felt there should be at least one news story in the year that makes people laugh,” said competitor John lund.
The competition began there in the 1990s and was inspired loosely by the legend of a 19th century outlaw who tested the mettle of his gang of robbers by having them run an obstacle course with a woman on their backs.
The 278-yard course in the shape of a horseshoe presented a grueling challenge to competitors, who ran up and down a steep slope, surmounted log hurdles and charged through a pit filled knee-high with muddy water.
(Reuters)