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Mariano Rivera Demonstrates How to Make a Cardboard Baseball Glove [VIDEO]
All-time save leader Mariano Rivera has made close to $150 million playing baseball. But as a kid growing up in Panama, the Yankee legend had so little money that buying a baseball glove was out of the question.
In the video below, Rivera demonstrates how he used to make his childhood mitts out of cardboard. He says they did make it easier to catch a fast moving baseball, but adds that anyone who can afford a leather glove should definitely go that route.
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Worst Beer Thieves Ever Take Best Mugshots Ever
Instead of just getting fake IDs like the rest of us, three 19-year-olds from Covina, CA devised a plot to steal two 30-packs of Tecate beer from a local grocery.
According to police, Nicholas Kalscheuer and Nicholas Fiumetto each tried to walk out of the store with a case of the suds. However, a store employee noticed what they were doing and followed the duo, causing Kalscheuer to drop the beer before being detained by store security.
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Acrobat Climbs 15 Stairs on His Head [VIDEO]
Appearing on the TV show ‘Guinness World Records Japan,’ Chinese acrobat Sun Xi Zhong set the world record for Most Stairs Climbed on the Head by scaling an incredible 15 steps using only his noggin.
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Man Climbs to Top of Skyscraper Without Safety Gear [VIDEO]
The latest craziness from our friends in Russia comes courtesy of this fellow, who climbed to the top of one of Stalin’s skyscrapers in Moscow without the use of any safety gear.
He did bring along a helmet cam, so you can experience his stunt from the safety of your desk chair.
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Borders Employees Diss Customers in Hilarious Farewell Note
Borders bookstores will shut their doors forever at the end of this month, and in a final kiss-off to those who patronized the once-popular chain, employees at one of Borders’ franchises hung in their display window a bitter note which listed all the things customers had done to piss them off over the years.
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Armless Man Breaks Archery World Record [VIDEO]
Matt Stutzman seems an unlikely archery champion. Not only because he just picked up the sport a mere two years ago, but because Stutzman was born without arms. Despite the odds, he recently broke the world record for longest archery shot, hitting a target 230 yards away.
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Billionaire Punches Another Billionaire on Russian TV [VIDEO]
When fists fly on American television, usually it’s a ‘Jersey Shore‘ cast member or a ‘Jerry Springer’ guest that’s involved.
In further proof that things are different in Russia, two of that nation’s best-known citizens, billionaire media mogul Alexander Lebedev and billionaire property developer Sergei Polonsky were involved in a televised fistfight during a discussion of the current worldwide financial crisis.
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Foo Fighters Counterprotest Westboro Baptist Church With Live Performance [VIDEO]
The Westboro Baptist Church, which is notorious for picketing the the funerals of U.S. military personnel and blaming the servicemen’s deaths on the United States’ acceptance of homosexuality, got a taste of its own medicine on Friday when the Foo Fighters staged a counter protest of the church’s picketing of the band’s show that night in Kansas City.
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The 100 Greatest ‘Shut Ups’ in Movies [NSFW VIDEO]
“Shut up” isn’t just the favorite comment of elementary school kids. The phrase also has a proud movie history, which has been documented by the same folks who put together the 50 trippiest drug hallucination moments in film.
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William Shatner Disses ‘Star Wars’ [VIDEO]
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Man in SpongeBob SquarePants Suit Fights With Women, Gets Detained by Police [VIDEO]
A man dressed as the popular kids’ show character SpongeBob SquarePants was detained by police yesterday in Los Angeles after an altercation between him and two women got violent.
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Play Super Mario Bros. in a Cardboard Box [VIDEO]
The Super Mario Bros. have made hundreds of appearances in different video games since the characters were introduced in 1985, but this one is probably the most unique.
It’s an electronic board game version of the Nintendo classic, the player maneuvers Mario analog-style, using a conveyor belt device built inside of a cardboard box.