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Meet the Time Traveler Running for U.S. President

Posted: 26 Apr 2016 04:07 AM PDT

Adding to the madness of the 2016 US presidential election is American lawyer Andrew Basiago. He claims to have traveled through time nearly all his life, and is pretty sure that he's going to become "either president or vice president" between 2016 and 2028. Polling data is obviously of little use to this guy.

German Town Installs Ground Traffic Lights for People Looking at Their Smartphones

Posted: 26 Apr 2016 01:09 AM PDT

While zombies thankfully still remain a figment of our imagination, ‘smombies’ – people walking while staring at their smartphones – are very real and a growing cause for concern. Fed up of having to constantly alert both locals an tourists to pay more attention to their surroundings to avoid serious accidents, authorities in a small German town have come up with a more proactive solution – embedding traffic lights in the pavement to make them visible to people constantly looking down at their phones.

The seemingly ridiculous safety measure was put in place after two pedestrians in the town of Augsburg were recently hit by quiet electric street trains as they crossed the street without looking up from their phones. They both escaped with only slight injuries, but a 15-year-old girl engrossed in her smartphone on a street in nearby Munich wasn't so lucky. She was hit by a tram and dragged along for several feet before she died. So authorities in Augsburg decided to act, installing ground level traffic lights at two tram stops last Tuesday. The lights flash red every time a tram is approaching, or when the regular traffic light turns red.

This Guy Is on Track to Make $100,000 a Year Decorating Bananas

Posted: 26 Apr 2016 12:20 AM PDT

We think 'Bananas Gone Wild' beats

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