Baskin-Robbins also holds the record for most ice cream cones prepared in a minute and the world's largest ice cream scoop pyramid.There might be tense talks about the nuclear program taking place in Iran this week, according to Reuters, but behind the scenes, there's another struggle ensuing — it's the battle for the world's largest carton of ice cream.

The station PressTV showed on Monday the enormous tub built by the company Choopan Dairy, which the organizers claim weighed in at 5 tonnes, despite an error in the text copy of the story, which says "5,000 tons." Now that would be a lot of ice cream.

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The mass of ice cream cost Choopan Dairy $30,000 to make, according to the Associated Press. It measured 1.6 metres by two metres.

The company claims it broke the world record set in 2005 by Baskin-Robbins, with a cup of ice cream weighing slightly more than 4 tonnes. However, no representatives from Guinness World Records have confirmed the claim and the website still shows Baskin-Robbins as the record holder.

Let's hope all that sweet ice

Remember year-end pop music mashups? I realize more than three months have passed since anyone has posted a new one and considering today’s attention span this may require a bit of memory jogging.

So for the goldfish among us: mashups are essentially long music tracks comprised of a bunch of different songs that have been seamlessly melded together into one composition. This feat is often achieved by putting the vocal of one song over the instrumental track of another. When done with skill, mashups can be downright glorious. Well, to everyone but copyright litigation teams. Then they’re glorious for a different reason.

One of the best examples of a year-end mashup comes from Vancouver’s own Daniel Kim, who virtuosically strung together more than 50 of the most popular songs of 2012 and even produced an accompanying music video.

But while this mashup format works brilliantly with certain artistic genres, a pair of Dutch artists has stretched the boundary of what people actually want to

It was probably already a bad day for a man in Urbana, Illinois on Tuesday when he prepared to appear in court on charges of driving under the influence of alcohol, according to a local report from the News-Gazette.

But there's always room for things to get worse.

When 28-year-old Boblue Dagbe stepped into his car to drive himself to the courthouse, he broke another law, according to the story. And when he pulled into the parking spot reserved Judge Heidi Ladd, his bad day was more or less sealed.

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Dagbe's license had been suspended, meaning he shouldn't have been driving at all, much less to a court house — where he pleaded guilty, by the way.

And when the judge called security to find out who had taken her parking spot, an officer became suspicious about the man who had driven the purple Honda, in no small part because he was standing in court at the time, on a recent DUI charge.

It doesn't take a law degree to see

Business at a B.C. hydroponics company is smokin' thanks to the legalization of marijuana possession in Washington state and Colorado.Licensed medical pot dealers in Colorado might be wishing they lived in a state where their trade was still illegal right now, because it might be less complicated to avoid the police than to file their taxes.

Medical marijuana has been legal for more than a decade in the state, according to the Department of Public Health and Environment. In Nov. 2012, the state voted in a referendum to legalize limited recreational marijuana use.

Even so, medical dispensaries are facing a familiar headache this month — a headache known as income tax.

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The woes of drug dealers continue, according to National Public Radio, because of a mess of tax code that's hazier than the cloud of smoke their customers produce.

The law can leave sellers paying exorbitant taxes on their sales without being able to claim the same deductions as other businesses, the story says.

The public broadcaster reports that income tax on pot sales can reach up to 70 per

Forget planking, the newest hobby among Saudi Arabians appears to be driving on highways while balancing a car on two wheels.

YouTube videos have been appearing that show cars tilted onto two wheels, speeding down roads with passengers standing on the car or hanging out of windows.

New York Daily News reports the videos emerged from Saudi Arabia, where stunts from action films have prompted this terrifying trend.

There's no need to tell you this is dangerous.

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A video uploaded in February shows a passenger changing all four tires of a car while it speeds down a road on two wheels. The passenger leans out the open door to replace the tires by hand. The car is tilted so far sideways the viewer can see its entire underside.

However, commenters on YouTube point out the video was somehow altered, because at the 1:15 mark, a truck appears to disappear from the background.

An earlier video, posted in 2011, shows several people

“Come on, there’s a good criminal! Good boy! Now sit. On the ground. In these handcuffs.”

In a scene ripped straight out of Police Academy 7: Michael Winslow is the Only Reason Anyone Still Watches These Movies, a group of New Haven, Conn. officers scared two suspects into surrendering by barking like dogs.

WFSB 3 Connecticut reports that the police resorted to this canine chicanery after Kwame Wells-Jordan and Norman Boone, suspected of car theft, fled during a standoff.

The suspects led officers on a chase throughout the city before police got a tipoff that two masked men had been spotted entering a multi-family housing unit with a vacant first floor.

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During negotiations, police threatened to release the hounds if the men refused to exit the premises. Only one minor complication: the K9 unit wasn’t available.

But someone clearly trained them well. Forced to use their wits, a chorus of officers began barking

A dog trainer's video showcasing one of his student's rather human talents, including skateboarding, is making the pooch famous online.

In a video lasting only one minute and 9 seconds, Jumpy the dog does a whole range of stunts, from long-range leaps to impressive balancing acts.

Omar von Muller from the dog training company Miami Off-Leash posted the video, according to the name on the YouTube account.

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The website advertises training for badly behaved dogs.

"We will transform your uncontrollable dog into a dog that you can live with!" it says. I recommend amending that last clause to say they'll transform your dog into a pet fit for the circus.

The video has been viewed more than 60,000 times since it was uploaded on March 28, with many commenters expressing amazement at the dog's range of tricks.

Jumpy's talents extend to weaving through pylons on two legs, wake boarding, back flips, even skateboarding over ramps.

"Yes, but

A video of a pipeline rupture in the town of Mayflower, Arkansas, shows crude oil glugging through a residential street, flooding nearby yards.

Homes have been evacuated in the area where ExxonMobil's Pegasus pipeline burst on Friday, spilling crude from Alberta's oil sands into a few driveways and onto streets, according to CNN.

In a video taken by a resident, the camera follows a stream of oil flowing down the road as the narrator says it's running to a drain at the end of the street.

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From afar, the dark liquid looks like it could be water, but as the camera turns toward a driveway it becomes clear the substance is thick oil, gurgling onto the pavement.

"The smell is unbelievable," the narrator says.

However, he says the oil hasn't affected his own house, which is on the other side of the street from where most of the oil has spilled.

ExxonMobil's update on cleanup efforts says this is