Strange and unusual

[Guile]

Bathers play chess while relaxing in Szechenyi Bath during a winter morning in Budapest February 12, 2010.
REUTERS/Laszlo Balogh

Wang Haiting, a 22-year-old stuntman, bends spears by pressing them against his throat during a performance at the Lianhuachi Temple Fair in Beijing on the second day of the Chinese New Year February 15, 2010. REUTERS/Christina Hu

Models present creations from the Unique 2010 Autumn/Winter collection during London Fashion Week, February 20, 2010.
REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett


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[Guile]

A performer inserts a live snake through his nose and mouth during a performance at the Ditan Temple Fair celebrating
the Chinese Lunar New Year in Beijing February 18, 2010. REUTERS/Christina Hu

Tita, a cat belonging to resident Ruben Gaviria, breastfeeds a squirrel as her kitten plays with it at Gaviria's house in Envigado near Medellin February 16, 2010. Gaviria rescued the squirrel after it was found injured in a park. REUTERS/Albeiro Lopera

A Thai-Chinese devotee pierces a bicycle through his mouth during a festival in Yala province February 22, 2010.
REUTERS/Surapan Boonthanom


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[Guile]

A visitor takes a video of a sculpture featuring an Oscar statue made from lemons and oranges during the 77th lemon festival in Menton, southern France, February 12, 2010. Some 145 metric tons of lemons and oranges are used to make displays during the festival, which is themed "Menton does its cinema", and runs from February 12 through March 3. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard

A reveller takes part in the traditional Rose Monday carnival parade in the western German city of Duesseldorf February 15, 2010. The Rose Monday parades in Cologne, Mainz and Duesseldorf are the highlight of the German street carnival season. REUTERS/Ina Fassbender

A man climbs up a smooth wooden column to win a contest during a celebration for Maslenitsa, or Pancake Week, outside Moscow February 14, 2010. Millions of Russians celebrate Maslenitsa to mark the end of winter, which the Orthodox Church has said is a week of feasting before Lent.
REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin


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[Guile]

A combination picture shows Li Kui, a stuntman, swallowing a sword during a performance at the Lianhuachi Temple Fair in Beijing on the
second day of the Chinese New Year February 15, 2010. REUTERS/Christina Hu

Yang Guanghe, a 37-year-old stuntman, pulls a tricycle loaded with five people with his lower eyelids during a performance at the Lianhuachi Temple Fair in Beijing on the second day of the Chinese New Year February 15, 2010. REUTERS/Christina Hu

A folk artist on stilt yawns as she waits to perform at a temple fair to celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year in Beijing February 15, 2010.
REUTERS/Jason Lee


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[Guile]

Visitors sit on a rickshaw pulled by a self-made robot invented by farmer Wu Yulu at the Ditan Temple Fair held in Beijing on the first day of the Chinese New Year February 14, 2010. This robot is the latest and largest development of hobby inventor Wu, who started to build robots in 1986, made of wire, metal, screws and nails found in rubbish sites. REUTERS/China Daily

A team slides down the course on their sleigh decorated as a deer during the 22st Hornschlittenrennen sleigh race in the eastern Swiss Alpine village of Alt St. Johann February 20, 2010. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann

A lynx crosses the finish area during the first training run for the men's Downhill race of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics in Whistler,
British Columbia, February 10, 2010. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger


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[Guile]

Balbir Singh Mirza, a participant performs a stunt where a tractor was driven over him during the Kila Raipur sports festival on the outskirts of Ludhiana in the northern Indian state of Punjab February 20, 2010. The festival, also known as the 'Rural Olympics', is held annually in the northern city and the competition attracts athletes from all over India. REUTERS/Munish Sharma

A carnival reveller dressed as a "Peliqueiro" runs through a street in Spain's northwestern village of Laza February 16, 2010. "Peliqueiros" or ancient tax collectors, pursued villagers through the streets during their tax collection, ringing cowbells and hitting villagers with their sticks.
REUTERS/Miguel Vidal

A serviceman holds a desk by his teeth at a military show during the celebration of Defender of the Fatherland Day in Russia's far eastern city
of Vladivostok February 23, 2010. REUTERS/Yuri Maltsev


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[Guile]

Mexican singer Anahi performs during the 51st International Song Festival in Vina del Mar city, about 75 miles (121 Km) northwest of Santiago,
February 23, 2010. REUTERS/Eliseo Fernandez

Vancouver resident Mark Heartwell gestures while parking his modified VW Beetle downtown as the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics
continues February 19, 2010. REUTERS/Chris Helgren

"Ants," a work by Colombian artist Rafael Gomez Barros, covers the National Congress in Bogota February 16, 2010. Barros said the ants symbolize the people displaced by the continuing armed conflict in Colombia. REUTERS/John Vizcaino

A man walks past an artwork entitled "Practicas Para La Desaparicion" by Bernardi Roig of Spain at ARCOmadrid, an international contemporary art fair,
in Madrid February 17, 2010. REUTERS/Juan Medina


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[Teo Kok Eng]

Nice! Thanks for the photos

 

[Received_by_Kings]

Mexican singer Anahi performs during the 51st International Song Festival in Vina del Mar city, about 75 miles (121 Km) northwest of Santiago,
February 23, 2010. REUTERS/Eliseo Fernandez

See, even singers in developing countries have to double as stunt performers. Multitasking is a must in the new economy age.

 

[Balls2U]

 

[KuanTi01]

This indecent exposure is a form of ministerial statement! Inspiring!

 

[Medusa]

Laborers hold their colleague to install underground electric cables on a roadside at Noida in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh August 27, 2010.

A man shows pig testicles before cooking them during the annual "World Testicle Cooking Championship" in Serbian village of Ozrem August 28, 2010. This is the seventh time that the World Testicle Cooking Championship in Ozrem is taking place and the organisers are expecting it to attract more international tourists. The dishes are made from the testicles of animals including bulls, pigs and goats.

Men wearing medieval warrior costumes perform a sword fight during an international festival called "Bylinas of ancient Kiev IX-XI centuries" in the village of Kopachev, some 65 km (40 miles) southeast of Kiev August 28, 2010. Participants staged a performance which reconstructed battles, traditions and handicrafts widespread among Slavic people in Kievan Russia in the 9th-11th centuries.


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[Medusa]

Khagendra Thapa Magar from Nepal (L) poses for photographers with Londoner "Tiny Iron" in central London September 9, 2010. 17 year old Khagendra is the smallest known person on earth at 22 inches (56 cm), whilst "Tiny Iron" has biceps measuring 24 inches (61 cm) in circumference, giving him the title of 'Biggest Biceps in Britain'.

Fourteen-year-old Elisany Silva, who measures 2.06 meters (6'9") tall, plays with her sisters and a friend on Ajuruteua beach in Braganca in the Brazilian Amazon state of Para August 29, 2010. Elisany, one of the world's tallest teens who was forced to quit school because she became too big to ride the bus, now dreams of becoming a famous fashion model.

A woman leads a horse, painted in the colors of a zebra to symbolize a zebra crossing, as part of a road safety campaign in Moscow September 3, 2010.
The city traffic police held the campaign to bring attention to drivers the problem of safety on roads during the school year, local media reported.
The board on the horse reads, "Attention! Children go to school".


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[Medusa]

A man stands in front of his fattened sacrificial pig as part of the Hakka Yimin Festival in Hsinchu August 29, 2010. During the festival, believers worship ancestors who fought for the government against rebels during ancient times to protect their homeland. After their deaths, locals started sacrificing pigs as offerings during the annual Hungry Ghost festival to commemorate their bravery. The sacrifice preludes with a competition for the fattest pig in town and the family that offers the fattest pig is believed to receive a great blessing.

A traditionally dressed man wearing a "Gamsbart" hat decoration is seen at the "Gamsjagatage" Festival, or chamois hunters' days, at the alpine village of Bad Goisern in Upper Austria province August 29, 2010. Depending on its size, the hat decoration is made from the back hairs of up to ten chamoises.

A woman smokes a joint during a rally for the legalization of marijuana in Mexico City September 5, 2010. About 200 people attended the rally,
which was part of the Cannafest event, to urge that marijuana be legalised so that it can be used for recreational purposes.


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[Watchman]

 

[Medusa]

Nine-week-old Florine de Groot rests on top of a leaf of the Victoria Amazonica at the Rotterdam Blijdorp Zoo September 1, 2010. Children could be photographed on top of the leaf, under the condition that they do not weigh more than 15 kg (33 lbs). The Victoria Amazonica blossoms over two nights producing flowers that are white on the first night, which then turn pinkish-red by the second night.
Its leaf could have a diameter of up to two-and-a-half meters.

A participant lands in the water as he fails to cross a 13m-long (43 ft) pool of water and foam on an inflated item at the foot of a slope at the Bobrovy Log Ski Resort near the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, where holidaymakers gathered to mark the end of the Siberian summer, August 28, 2010.

An actress dressed as a zombie nun frightens a dog while waiting at Atxuri station in Bilbao September 2, 2010 before travelling by tram to the Palacio Euskalduna to promote the musical "Forever, King of Pop", a homage to U.S. music legend Michael Jackson.


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[Watchman]

A man stands in front of his fattened sacrificial pig as part of the Hakka Yimin Festival in Hsinchu August 29, 2010. During the festival, believers worship ancestors who fought for the government against rebels during ancient times to protect their homeland. After their deaths, locals started sacrificing pigs as offerings during the annual Hungry Ghost festival to commemorate their bravery. The sacrifice preludes with a competition for the fattest pig in town and the family that offers the fattest pig is believed to receive a great blessing.

Why are there rebels ? Because life is too explotive .

 

[Medusa]

Riders urinate during during the sixth stage of the Tour of Spain "La Vuelta" cycling race between Caravaca de la Cruz and Murcia September 2, 2010.

Iranian skier Mahdi Solghani grass skis due to a lack of snow in the mountains of Iran during practice at Dizin Ski resort, 70 km (43 miles)
northeast of Tehran August 26, 2010. Iranian authorities first allowed women to ski professionally in 2005.

French dancer Philippe Priasso performs his work "Transports Exceptionnels" while hanging under the bucket of an earthmover in front of the Sydney Harbour Bridge September 9, 2010. Priasso will perform his "Duet for dancer and earthmover" over four days in the Sydney Opera House forecourt.

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[/ASIA\]

A man performs Mallakhamb (gymnast's pole) during a practice session at a playground in Mumbai September 13, 2010. Mallakhamb is a combination of traditional Indian gymnastics and martial arts and it can be traced back to the 12th century. For centuries, the sport has been dormant but is now regaining popularity in the country. This old sport helps one to be more agile, improves mind and body coordination as well as overall fitness. The group will perform during the opening and closing ceremonies at the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, according to their coach.

Lady Gaga, wearing an outfit made of meat, poses in the photo room after winning eight awards at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles, California September 12, 2010.

A photographer puts a python on a sunbather for a snapshot on a beach outside Russia's Black Sea city of Sochi September 23, 2010. Photographing with exotic animals such as snakes, parrots, monkeys and alligators is popular among holiday-makers at the Black Sea coast of Russia.


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Participants compete in the traditional game "Snatching the Lamb", also known as Diaoyang in Chinese, during the seventh Xinjiang Ethnic Minorities Traditional Games in Hami, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region September 15, 2010. Snatching the Lamb, which is a popular game among the Kazaks, requires five to eight horsemen riding their horses and trying to grab a headless lamb carcass with one hand. The winning team is the first to bring the lamb to a designated place.

Fernando Jesus Canchari, 41, dressed as a friar, jumps from a 13-meter high cliff, the "Jump of the Friar", along Herradura Beach in Lima, September 9, 2010. The jump was to evoke a local legend that two hundred years ago, a friar leapt into the sea from the same rock to commit suicide over his love of a woman.

A participant rides in a self-made flying craft during the annual Red Bull Flugtag (Flight Day) event in Bucharest, Romania, September 19, 2010. Teams compete to build a craft capable of flying the furthest without the use of an engine.


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