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- Argentine Widow Sleeps in Late Husband’s Mausoleum to Keep Him Company
- Takeaway Restaurant Offers Dirty Dishes Alongside the Food for Authenticity
- Motorcycle Enthusiast Builds His Dream Chopper Out of Wood. And It Runs!
| Argentine Widow Sleeps in Late Husband’s Mausoleum to Keep Him Company Posted: 15 Jun 2012 08:36 AM PDT
Some people have strange ways of honoring their loved ones who have passed a way. Take Adriana Villarreal, an Argentine widow who sleeps in her late husband’s small mausoleum to keep him company, because she loves him so much. 43-year-old Adriana Villarreal, from Buenos Aires, recently made headlines in the Argentinian media after she confessed spending a few nights a year in her dead husband’s mausoleum. According to Gustavo Braganza, a police commissioner from the town of Dos de Mayo, his colleagues went to investigate what was going on in the San Lazaro cemetery, after reports of someone living there and playing loud music. When they knocked on the tomb door, Villarreal greeted them in her pijamas, and they could actually see she had been living next to a coffin and an embalmed body.
Photo: San Vincente Informa As it turns out, the woman’s husband, Sergio Yede, 28, committed suicide 2 years ago, while she was working in far away Mexico. The reasons why he took his own life are unknown, but Adriana says he was a good man, and she loved him very much. The woman told police she visits Dos de Mayo three times a year, and stays three or four nights, to be with Sergio. "When you love someone, you do all sorts of things," she explained. "My husband deserved it and still does." Although they both lived in Buenos Aires, she moved his remains to his home town, because that’s what he would have wished. And she built the mausoleum with the money he had saved to build a house, to fulfill his biggest wish.
Photo: Misiones Cuatro When police checked out the tomb she had been living in for a few days, they discovered she had renovated it, and brought in a bed, a radio, a computer with Internet connection and even a small cooker. Asked if she was afraid of sleeping in the cemetery next to an embalmed corpse, the 43-year-old said it’s the living we should all be afraid of. Although she also visits her husband’s parents whenever she comes to town and has lunch with them, she prefers to spend her nights by her husband’s side, to keep him company. As strange as it might seem, this is not the weirdest display of love after death. Back in 2009, we reported on Le Van, a Vietnamese man who practically wrapped his dead wife’s bones in gypsum and slept with her for five years. In 2011, local news revealed he was still sleeping with her… Misiones Online via Inquirer News Argentine Widow Sleeps in Late Husband’s Mausoleum to Keep Him Company was originally posted at OddityCentral.com |
| Takeaway Restaurant Offers Dirty Dishes Alongside the Food for Authenticity Posted: 15 Jun 2012 06:47 AM PDT
UK-based restaurant Housebites decided to help people who can’t cook but want to impress their guests by offering them the dirty dishes alongside the food, so they can be more convincing. Not everyone likes to cook, but lost of people love to pretend they can cook, so British takeaway restaurant Housebites, decided to give them a hand by launching the “pretend you can cook” service. According to the official press release, this “ allows customers to pretend they have slaved away at a hot stove more convincingly by delivering dirty pans alongside the food. Cooked by a professional chef and delivered to your door, Housebites main courses cost on average between £10($16) and £12($19), and now for an additional £5($8), customers can request the pans used to cook them for added authenticity. Collection of the pans is then arranged as easily as the original delivery slot.”
Apparently, Housebites came up with the idea for the service after receiving tweets, Facebook comments and emails from people who asked for dirty dishes along with the ordered meals, for added authenticity. To make the offer even more attractive, the popular restaurant plans on giving a £2.50 refund to those willing to wash the dishes before returning them.
Simon Prockter, founder and CEO of Housebites, said "Housebites has been a social business since its inception, and customer feedback on social networks continues to drive innovation. The nature of Housebites meals is that they are cooked at home, so I guess it makes sense that people want to impress their partners or friends by pretending they cooked the meal themselves. It's harmless fun, so we thought we'd see if we could help them out with some added authenticity." Yeah, it’s pretty harmless until you end up marrying someone for their cooking skills and find out you’re going to have to pay for a cook meal for the rest of your life. Then it stops being funny. via HuffPost Takeaway Restaurant Offers Dirty Dishes Alongside the Food for Authenticity was originally posted at OddityCentral.com |
| Motorcycle Enthusiast Builds His Dream Chopper Out of Wood. And It Runs! Posted: 15 Jun 2012 05:55 AM PDT
Istvan Puskas, a motorcycle enthusiast from Hungary took the term “chopper” litterally and actually spent the last two years chopping his dream ride from black locust wood. In the past, we’ve featured a few other unique wooden vehicles, like the bicycles of Slawomir Weremkowicz, or the VW Betle built by Momir Bojic, and even the popsicle stick bike made by Sun Chao, but this is the first functional chopper we’ve ever seen. Istvan Puskas has spent the last two years building a -one-of-a-kind chopper almost entirely out of weather-resistant black locust wood. It’s not clear whether the agricultural machine expert from Tiszaros, 161 kilometers east of Budapest, couldn’t afford to buy himself an ordinary chopper, or if he just wanted to create something that would stand out weherever he went, but his wooden masterpiece certainly got a lot of attention when it was recently unveiled.
Photo: DPA Wood isn’t the only unusual material used to create this special chopper. Instead of chromed steel, the handlebars and exhaust pipes are made from cow’s horns, and the amateur bike-maker used deer antlers as decorations. But what’s most surprising about Istvan Puskas’s chopper is that it actually works. He used the engine of a small Fiat built in Poland under license from the Italian car maker, fueled with petrol from a small wooden barrel that serves as a gas tank. But considering, the chopper doesn’t look like it has any suspensions, I don’t think it’s the right vehicle for long outings. Still, the level of craftsmanship that went into the build is nothing short of impressive.
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