Blog Posts by Jordan Chittley

  • Fighter jet buzzes cars on Russian highway

    While parts of Toronto may have felt like a war zone the past couple days because of the Canadian International Air Show at the CNE, none of the planes flew this close to the ground.

    A couple was driving along an open stretch of road in southern Russia when they noticed a speck in the distance.

    That speck got close in a hurry and turned out to be a Sukhoi SU-24 fighter jet buzzing the highway and soaring just metres above the roof of their car.

    According to the Telegraph, some have questioned the authenticity of the video, but others say the planes are known for performing such stunts during training exercises.

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    The Sukhoi SU-24 is a supersonic Russian jet fighter developed in the 1960s.

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    If it seems like a lot of crazy videos shot from dashboard cameras come out of Russia, it's because they are fairly common and used to settle insurance disputes.

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  • World’s shortest man, woman meet for first time

    Chandra Bahadur Dangi met Jyoti Amge to promote the last edition of the Guinness World Records book

    The world's shortest man and the world's shortest woman have met for the first time ever.

    Guinness World Records brought them together as part of the sneak preview for the 57th edition of the book.

    Chandra Bahadur Dangi, 72, is the world's shortest man at 54.6 centimetres
    and Jyoti Amge, 18, is the world's shortest living woman. She towers over Dangi at 62.8 centimetres. To give context, they placed the classic Guinness World Records book — which is 30 centimetres tall — in between them.

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    "The atmosphere was magic and you could see everyone was smiling," said Guinness World Records adjudicator Marco Frigatti in the video.

    Amge, from Nagpur in India, has a form of dwarfism called Achondroplasia and she won't grow any taller than she is today. All of her clothes, jewelry, plates, cutlery and even her bed are custom

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  • Must-see videos of the week – August 31

    From a scary cougar walking into a B.C. woman's house to an adorable koala climbing into a canoe, we've seen some great videos this week. Here are some of our favourites:

    1. B.C. woman describes cougar attack

    Angie Prime was in her living room in Trail, B.C. when a cougar walked right in through an open door and attacked her. She held her legs up and tried to keep the animal back for a short time and that's when her boarder collie, aptly named Vicious, came to the rescue. Vicious chased the cougar out of the house. A cougar also attacked a 7-year-old boy in B.C. earlier this month. While there are on average two cougar attacks in B.C. a year, luckily few are fatal.

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    2. Boy forced to wear embarrassing sign as punishment

    It may be a while before one 13-year-old in South Carolina smokes marijuana again. After his mother caught him, she forced him to walk around a busy intersection wearing a sign

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  • B.C. student plays dead to survive grizzly bear attack

    Julia Stafford and a coworker curled in the fetal position and it may have saved their lives

    There are some differing opinions on how to survive a bear attack, but for one University of British Columbia student playing dead may have saved her life.

    Julia Stafford, 20, was collecting rock samples with a co-worker for a Canadian mining company just northeast of Anchorage in Alaska when they spotted a grizzly bear in a foggy ravine.

    Stafford, who is from Seattle, told the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner the bear walked out of the fog and they realized she had two cubs with her.

    "The bear started walking toward us, then running toward us, then jumped on us," Stafford said in King5 video. "Then he kind of pushed us over and then he bit me by the hand and dragged me 20 feet down the rocks."

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    She said they tried to walk away from it, but stopped once they realized the bear was following them and tried to get out the bear spray,

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  • Husband buys billboard to help wife get a job

    Brandon Stuart wanted to help so he spent $700 on the Toledo sign and is hoping it will lead to offers

    Holly Stuard's husband has purchased a billboard to help his wife's job search (ToledoNewsNow.com)

    Unemployment in Ohio sits at more than seven per cent and one man is taking a bit of an unconventional approach to helping his wife find a job.

    Holly Stuart lost her job at the University of Toledo due to budget cuts a year ago and hasn't been able to land anything since. So her husband Brandon decided to help out and purchased a billboard to advertise her services.

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    "I know she's trying extremely hard, no one prepares like she does," Brandon told Toledo News Now. "It's difficult to watch so I feel like this probably the best I could come up with to help her out."

    It reads "Please Hire My Wife" in big letters and lists her Yahoo! email address, her education, experience and a photo.

    "Over the last five or six months, she's had a few opportunities come along that we thought looked really positive and unfortunately

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  • Man almost dies when mailing himself to girlfriend

    Hu Seng hoped to pop out of the box and surprise her, but when she opened it he was passed out

    One man's romantic gesture almost killed him when he ended up trapped in an airtight box for much longer than he should have been.

    Hu Seng, from China, wanted to surprise his girlfriend with a present, so he decided to mail her himself. The Daily Mail reports he hopped into a box, curled into the fetal position and made a friend tape the box closed and send it via courier to his girlfriend, Li Wang. He was hoping when the box arrived at her office he would jump out of it and surprise her. But that's not quite what happened.

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    The couriers mixed up the address and instead of the delivery taking 20 minutes it ended up taking about three hours. Seng had very little air and by the time it arrived at Wang's office, Seng was unable to jump out and surprise her because he had passed out. He had to be revived by paramedics. He

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  • Missing Iceland tourist joins search party for herself

    A tourist in Iceland was reported missing, but the search was called off when people realized she was a part of the search group.

    Iceland Review reports, the woman was a part of a group travelling by bus. When the bus stopped Saturday afternoon near Iceland's Eldgja canyon in the southern highlands, the woman got off to freshen up and change her clothes. But when she got back on the bus, the other passengers didn't recognize her so they reported her missing.

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    They also incorrectly counted the number of passengers. The description of the woman must not have been that accurate because she didn't even recognize it. Not thinking it was her, she joined the search. About 50 people searched the terrain on foot and with vehicles until the early hours of the morning.

    A Coast Guard helicopter was even ready to join the search, but foggy conditions prevented that from happening. The search was called off around 3 a.m. when

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  • CN Tower lights actually show slivers of images

    The images include a trillium and Mounties on their horses

    Torontonians have spent the last five years looking at the colourful CN Tower, but it isn't simply random colours beaming from those elevator shafts.

    In addition to turning the Tower different colours to commemorate fallen political figures or special days such Canada Day, the 252 LED lights sometimes show slivers of images.

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    And thanks to compositor Avi Salem, we can now see these images are of a group of Mounties and their horses or a trillium or Canadian flags.

    "Since [each image pans] across the elevator shaft revealing a sliver of itself, all I had to do was do the opposite," he reads an email sent to Torontoist. "Using compositing software, I created a slit scan affect on the elevator shaft, and then overlaid it on the original footage."

    CN Tower operations manager Tom Mellon explained to the Toronto Star that each image is panned over about 10

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  • Prince Harry getting a lot of salutes for naked photos

    Facebook group encourages people to support the prince by saluting in a nearly naked pose

    Prince Harry may have taken a lot of flak for showing his royal jewels, but a lot of people also have his back - not in the same way that woman in Las Vegas had his though.

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    Former British Army soldier Jordan Wylie started the Facebook group "Support Prince Harry with a Naked Salute" one day after the prince was snapped in Sin City.

    "This group was started after a few serving and ex military lads started posting naked salutes to each other in support of Prince Harry," reads the website Salute4Harry. It's currently the fastest growing Facebook group page.

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    Tens of thousands of people have joined the group with many posting photos on themselves mostly naked and saluting as the page suggests doing.

    "Please cover your crown jewels, tag yourself in your photo as proof of your support to the nations

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  • Botched restoration of Spanish Jesus painting becomes tourist attraction

    Cecilia Gimenez's restoration of "Ecce Homo" is attracting a lot of people to the church who want to see the ruined painting

    Elias Garcia Martinez's 19-century painting "Ecce Homo" may not have been worth much before it was restored, but it has now turned into a tourist attraction. It's all because an eager churchgoer decided to restore the flaking fresco herself and made Jesus look like an ape man.

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    Cecilia Gimenez, who is in her 80s, denies touching up the painting in secret and told the BBC that the priest told her to do it. No matter who was in charge, the painting, which had hung on the church walls for more than 120 years in Spain, went from looking like Jesus to a half man, half monkey creation drawn in crayon by a child.

    This painting is now attracting far more attention than the original ever did. NBC News reports hundreds of people have flocked to the small town to see the painting. So many people are

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