The annual cheese rolling race is another silly British tradition, brought to you by the same people that gave us Monty Python. Start at the top of a super-steep hill, roll a Double Gloucester cheese wheel down, and race after it.
Competitors hurl themselves down a steep slope after a 7-pound wheel of double Gloucester cheese in the annual event in Cooper’s Hill, England.
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A luxury Ferrari Scaglietti has burned in Moscow just minutes after being taken from a car dealership, the city police reported.
The incident took place Tuesday, on Rublevskoe highway, Moscow’s most prestigious district.
Eyewitnesses say the car was traveling on a road when black smoke began pouring out from under the motor hood. In just a few moments, the pride of the Italian carmakers was burned to ashes.
The Ferrari’s driver got off with nothing more than a fright. She explained later that she had bought the car half an hour before the accident and couldn’t even finish her first trip.
The reasons behind the fire are still being investigated. The police didn’t come up with any official version. However, according to some reports, wiring failure is blamed. The car was produced in 2006 and has already had three owners. The last owner acquired it in a trade-in.
”Anything could happen during these three years including rats gnawing the wires through,” the car dealership representative told the Russian Kommersant newspaper.
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Two Russian bankers’ sons were involved in a major car accident in downtown Moscow on Saturday when their Ferrari sports car hit three parked cars. The driver of the car escaped uninjured however the passenger suffered major injuries.
The incident took place at 8pm Moscow time when the driver of the speeding Ferrari lost control of the vehicle and smashed into a parked Landrover, which then crashed into a BMW and a Honda parked nearby, Russian media reports.
The driver of the 2006 grey Ferrari and the passenger, both aged 20, were the sons of top managers of a Moscow bank, a Moscow law enforcement official said. The father of one of the boys quickly arrived at the scene of the accident in his Mazeratti.
While the Ferrari’s passenger was badly injured, the driver came out of the accident without a scratch. A rescue worker attributed this to the modern airbag of the vehicle:
”We realized we were dealing with a supercar when our hydraulic release mechanism failed to tear the door off – we had to cut the metal piece by piece to get to the injured man who was then taken to hospital,” the rescuer said.
He added that it was the first Ferrari accident in Moscow that had required rescue assistance. The Ferrari involved in the accident has a price tag of around $460,000 in Moscow car showrooms.
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This Christmas, don’t go with that ho-hum, run-of-the-tree-farm tree your family always gets year after year. Try something new and unusual…. Like these strange Christmas trees, for instance:
Upside Down Christmas Tree
The upside of this upside-down 7-foot pre-lit Christmas tree is that you’ll have more room for presents underneath! This strange tree was originally designed for specialty stores to display ornaments while using as little floor space as possible. It’s $600 and is currently sold out at Hammacher Schlemmer.
Mountain Dew Christmas Tree
It’s probably too late for you to start doing this one: the awesome Mountain Dew Christmas Tree. It took about 3 months of soda drinking (approximately 400 cans of Mountain Dew) and 4 days of building.
Grolsch Beer Christmas Tree
Mountain Dew? Weaklings… Try Grolsch beer instead
Knitted Christmas Tree
If you’re into knitting and crafts, why not knit yourself a Christmas tree? Like this big one done by about 1,000 knitters at Eden Project.
The Students Tree
Don’t want to bother with shedding pine needles or the hassle of putting together an artificial Christmas tree? You can make one out of books and magazines like this Shelf Tree by Frank Visser of IJM instead.
World’s Most Expensive Christmas Tree
Last year, Singapore jeweler Soo Kee Jewellery created this Christmas tree with 21,798 diamonds totaling 913 carats and 3,762 crystal beads. The tree looked like (and was actually worth) a million bucks!
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