Blog Posts by Jordana Divon

There are women who like bad boys and then there’s Edith Casas.

The 22-year-old Argentinean woman just celebrated this Valentine’s Day by marrying the man currently serving a 13-year prison sentence for murdering her twin sister.

And how’s this for a honeymoon? After the civil ceremony, which took place in Pico Truncado, Argentina, police escorted the groom straight back to his jail cell, while angry crowds had gathered outside the courthouse to pelt the newlyweds with eggs and stones.

As the Independent reports, 28-year-old Víctor Cingolani was convicted of participating in the 2010 shooting death of Johana Casas. The 19-year-old model was found with two gunshot wounds to the head, her body dumped in a nearby clearing.

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Marcos Diaz, a man with whom Casas had been sharing a house at the time, is set to stand trial for his role in the killing later this year.

Cingolani maintains his innocence, though the court found

How much do people love having giant snowballs thrown at them by random strangers?

That is a question filmmakers and prank-making duo Dennis Roady and Roman Atwood set out to discover when they inflated a bunch of snowball-looking white balloons and unleashed them upon hordes of unsuspecting people just going about their business (and by business, that means talking on one's mobile phone in 90 per cent of all cases).

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Most folks appeared to take the gag in good humour, except for the dude at 0:55, whose facial expression is worth the entire price of admission.

Also not impressed: The police officer who tried to shut that whole thing down by suggesting people might confuse a popping balloon with a gunshot.

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OK, so they’re not quite at the rank of monkey butlers (yet), but the two adorable primates who serve beer and hot towels to patrons at Japan’s Kayabuki restaurant seem like they could handle any great Remains of the Day-style household with those quick, agile steps and nimble shoulder-climbing techniques.

Except for the human masks Yat-chan and Fuku-chan wear when they enter the dining room. Now those are creepy. But owner Kaoru Otsuka insists there is no monkey exploitation going on at his Utsunomiya sake house.

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In fact, Oddity Central notes that local authorities have even certified the pair to wait tables for two hours each day. Yat-chan, a 16-year-old monkey and the older primate of the pair, started the trend one day by aping the behaviour of his human.

“Yat-chan first learned by just watching me working in the restaurant,” Otsuka said. “It all started when one day I gave him a hot towel out of curiosity and he

She’s been called the greatest female hockey player in the world, but Canada women’s national ice hockey team captain Hayley Wickenheiser says she wouldn’t be shattering records and scooping up Olympic medals if it weren’t for the community hockey coaches who mentored her in her youth. Now as part of the Kraft Hockey Goes On program, the 34-year-old hopes to honour the volunteers who give so much of themselves to our budding superstars.

Yahoo! Canada News: You’ve joined an initiative that’s looking to reward community hockey programs across the country. Is there someone in particular who influenced you when you were a young player?

Wickenheiser: Ken Billington was one of my first coaches and one of the first people in my life outside of my parents who really believed in me, not just as a hockey player but being a girl who was playing on all-boys teams. He went out of his way to mentor me and coach me. I think he recognized that I had talent at a young age. To this day, when I

They say you should never go into business with your relatives, but what about going into business as one of your relatives

Robert Suchan has made a small fortune by selling Tupperware… as his Aunt Barbara.

The 6’5” Long Island man dons a giant beehive wig, a face full of spackle, and one of his signature 1970s print dresses to shill plastic kitchen wares at up to 20 parties per week.

With sales at the $250,000-per-year mark and designation as the company’s top salesperson in North America, the 43-year-old appears to have discovered that elusive winning formula between art and commerce.

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“Tupperware kind of had a reputation that people really didn’t want to go to the parties,” he told 1010 WINS. “They thought they were boring; they were going to be conjured into buying things, and I thought, you know, if she just turned

While many of us on the east coast spent Friday hyperventilating over Nemo, the poor people of Santo Antonio da Platina had to deal with a virtual rainstorm of spiders last week.

A YouTube video, filmed by 20-year-old Erick Reis, shows a veritable wall of arachnids hanging down from a series of telephone poles in the southern Brazilian town.

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"I was shooting an engagement party for some friends of mine and I saw the spiders when I was leaving, now in the late afternoon," Reis told Brazilian news portal G1 Globo.com (via Gawker).

The web designer was so shaken up by the spider party in front of him that he initially forgot his camera in the rain.

“I’ve never seen anything like it before,” he added.

Marta Fischer, biologist with a specialization in spiders from the Pontifícia Catholic University of Paraná, told Globo that the spiders shown in the video are of the Anelosimus eximius variety, a genus known for its

Here’s a potential new category for India’s Rural Olympics: Extreme Mountain Unicycling.

Because riding a unicycle isn’t challenging enough, Oddity Central reports on the growing number of people who seem to enjoy pedaling atop one giant wheel along rugged mountain terrain.

It’s actually more specific than that. Extreme mountain unicyclers make a point to climb dangerous peaks just so they can try to “slide and bunny-hop” all the way down without crashing and rolling or free-falling into the nearest bottomless pit. This is the stuff of which mothers’ nightmares are made.

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This idea of a fun pastime came out of the American West Coast, where, back in the early 1990s, some enterprising pioneers with zero concept of mortal danger started taking an apparatus associated with clowns and, by introducing a mountain, turned it into an apparatus associated with very brave souls.

“People like the novelty of it,”

Q: What do you get when you cross a seasoned Olympic athlete with Chuck Norris and hit the copy-paste function?

A: The 4,000 participants in this year’s Kila Raipur Sports Festival, otherwise known as India’s Rural Olympics.

Each February for the past 77 years, contestants have flocked to the Ludhiana district of eastern Punjab to see which among them can carry the most bricks with his teeth or balance the heftiest farm plow on his mouth.

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Yes, you read that correctly. These events are certainly not for the meek – or anyone with a functional pain threshold for that matter.

Other popular games include getting run over by a tractor, an octogenarian marathon and the most extreme bull-cart race you’ve ever witnessed. And we haven’t even gotten to the guy who can pull that same tractor with his bicuspids.

While these contests may read to us like discarded scenes from the Saw movie franchise, there’s an important historical and