MINNEAPOLIS -- A new twist on the idea of concealable weapons, the credit card-sized shotgun, is shown at Koscielski's Guns and Ammo, the only gun shop in Minneapolis. It's a two-shot weapon machined from a block of metal the height and width of a standard credit card, and about a half-inch thick. Each barrel fires seven standard steel BBs. It will retail for $100. Mark Koscielski, owner of Koscielski's Guns and Ammo, and Patrick Teel, who makes the guns in suburban Blaine, gave The Associated Press a preview Tuesday night ahead of a news conference scheduled for Wednesday. They said the guns are meant to be used only for close-range self-defense and wouldn't be effective as offensive weapons. SYDNEY, Australia -- Swinburne University of Technology's center for micro-photonics have constructed a model of the Sydney Opera House, see photo above, that is about half the diameter of a human hair. It is more than a million times smaller than the real Sydney structure. The model was built from a hybrid material of glass and polymer by firing intense laser light into the matter in a liquid state to create what to the human eye appears as an almost imperceptible dot, but under an electron microscope it contains the detail and the beauty of the iconic Sydney harbour side structure.
TEL AVIV, Israel -- Natasha, a 5-year-old black macaque walks at the Safari Park near Tel Aviv. The young monkey began recently walking exclusively on her hind legs after a stomach ailment nearly killed her, zookeepers said. CHAU THANH, KIEN GIANG Vietnam -- Tran Van Hay, 67, from Chau Thanh district of Vietnam poses for a photo showing his over 20-feet long hair that hasn't been cut for 31 years. ROANOKE, Va. -- A 300-pound, male, black bear walks through the halls of Carilion Franklin Memorial Hospital around 9:10 p.m. People in the background have not seen the bear at the time of this picture. Officers planned to sedate the bear, but they were worried what might happen if the bear got loose in the hospital. So an officer shot and killed the bear. Photo taken by a hospital surveillance camera. 300lbs of ham on a bed, "art". TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Police on motorscooters attempt to pull over an ostrich who escaped from a children's petting zoo. The ostrich eluded capture. ATLANTA -- An Atlanta firefighter leans from a parking deck with a BMW protruding over the street below in downtown Atlanta. A valet trying to park a sports utility vehicle accidentally hit the parked BMW, sending the unoccupied car halfway off a deck and dangling over the street and a parked SUV below. No injuries were reported. The SUV and the front end of the BMW were intertwined in the collision. WINNEMUCCA, Nev. -- A horse looks out a window of the trailer its being hauled in after a Dodge Neon collided with it. The accident occurred after high winds blew dust from a freshly plowed field across the roadway severely limiting visibility. Worlds largest sandwish according to guinness.
ILULLISSAT, Greenland -- The finished product of Chilean-born Danish artist Marco Evaristti's "Ice Cube Project" is seen in Ilullissat, Greenland. Evaristti used 3,000 liters (780 gallons) of dye used to highlight meat diluted with sea water, three fire hoses, two icebreakers and a 20-man crew to spray the chunk of ice for his artwork. ALEXANDRIA, Ind. -- Rick Barker, left, an arborist, uses an incremental borer to retrieve a core sample from Michael Carmichael's giant ball of paint. Carmichael, right, is having the core sample sent to the Guiness Book of World Records in London, UK to have his creation officially recognized as the largest ball of paint in the world. Carmichael began the project by painting a regulation size baseball in 1977 to arrive at the current 111-inch in circumference ball after 18,000 coats of paint. WASHINGTON -- Image released by the FBI of the the letter containing ricin sent last year to the White House that threatened to turn Washington into a "ghost town" if new trucking safety regulations went into effect. SYDNEY, Australia -- A man attacked by a shark while snorkeling had to swim back to shore, walk to his car, and then drive to a surf club for help -- with the shark still attached to his leg. MOUNTAIN HOME, Idaho -- Seen in a photo released Friday, Jan. 30, 2004 by the U.S. Air Force, Capt. Christopher Stricklin ejects from the USAF Thunderbirds number six aircraft less than a second before it impacted the ground at an air show at Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho in September 2003. Stricklin, who was not injured, ejected after both guiding the jet away from the crowd of more than 60,000 people and ensuring he couldn't save the aircraft. Nobody was injured in the crash. VATICAN CITY -- Pope John Paul II presides over a performance of break- dancers from a cultural organization of Poland, during a special audience at the Vatican in this image from television. Some ugly monkeys in japan sitting in a hot spring. An ice covered building, on fire. Several feet of snow at the base of the building. EVANSVILLE, Ind. -- Fear of mad cow disease hasn't kept customers from eating the deep-fried cow brain sandwiches at the Hilltop Inn in Evansville, Ind. The delicacy is traced back to a time when southern Indiana newcomers from Germany and Holland wasted little. Some families have their own recipes passed down over the generations.
600lb ex-sumo wrestler and his fiance. #3 in the cats fur, owner thinks it's a sign from dale earnhardt from beyond the grave. Aww, animal love. Captive white tiger gives birth to 6 (5 pictured) white baby tigers. 49.21 foot long, 985lb python. Crap, another giraffe on the course. (South Africa) Mmm, 125 year old fruitcake. Peanut butter discovered in coffee can by really ugly woman. "Rawr!"
interesting pics and now i know not to order the local delicacy if i ever visit evansville, ind. uzzled:
This was in my home town. They never published why the guy was hanging by his foot under the Route 18 bridge on the East Brunswick, New Brunswick border. He supposedly was hanging there over 8 hours before someone spotted him. Very strange.
I'll vote the Batman photo too. What is interesting is this caped crusaders cause. He was protesting against the English government's view's on a father's visitation with their children. Not pictured was Robin (no kidding!) who was captured before making it up the wall. Must have been tangled up with the Riddler. :grin:
