Archive for the ‘true’
This compilation video show two large explosions resulting from industrial accidents in the USA.
You can read more about the 1988 PEPCON fire and explosion here and here. PEPCON are the people who manufacture the fuel for NASA’s space shuttle and it’s SRB’s (Solid Rocket Boosters). The SRB’s are those two big tanks strapped to the side of the space shuttle at launch and provide the shuttle with 83% of it’s total thrust, before being jettisoned into the ocean for later recovery and re-use. You can see the magnitude of the explosions by the way the ground rumbles, just like those videos you see when they are conducting underground nuclear tests. I love the sound made by the approaching shockwave.
Published July 29th, 2007
This-Is-True Weekly Weird News #4
Here’s your weekly THIS IS TRUE video update of weird-but-true news stories.
- Homeless Getting Early Holiday
- Smoking Ban Targets Homeless
- Disabled Man Gets Wheeeeelie Fast Ride
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Published July 7th, 2007
This-Is-True Weekly Weird News #3
Here’s your weekly THIS IS TRUE video update of weird-but-true news stories.
- Teacher Uses eBay To Make $$$
- Teacher "Busted" By Phone Pics
- Bank Robber Forgets Brain Medicine
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Published July 7th, 2007
A Possible Problematic Street Name
On the surface this appears to be a regular crime story reporting on a regular suburban Friday stabbing that’s becoming so commonplace in our society today that you might wonder WHY it even rates a mention here on the pages of WD. Well click the picture and read the article until you find the reason. clue: the name of the street where the accused was arrested.
Imagine trying to order pizza living on this street. Or placing credit-card orders over the phone. Or giving the cabbie your address at 3.15am after a big night out.
Note also the name of the photographer. If he lived on this street just imagine the kind of trouble HE would have trying to taken seriously when giving out his name and address.
UPDATE: Click HERE to view the actual street in all it’s glory.
Published June 26th, 2007
This-Is-True Weekly Weird News Update
Here’s your weekly THIS IS TRUE video update of weird-but-true news stories.
- Priests need ET’s help with 10 Commandments.
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Published June 19th, 2007
Countries Who Still Do NOT Use Metric System
The link below explains an
awful lot about the state of the world.
Click HERE to see the fahrenheit loving luddites…
Published June 17th, 2007
Your Weekly This-Is-True Video Newsletter
We bring you today the first in what will be an ongoing series of weekly video newsletters courtesy of the crew from This-Is-True. Those of us who read the newsletter know it simply as "True" and you can subscribe to the free weekly email newsletter yourself here at the This-Is-True homepage. WD has been a reader for many years, recently upgrading to the paid version.
"This is True is a weekly syndicated newspaper column by Colorado humorist Randy Cassingham. True reports on bizarre-but-true news items from legitimate newspapers from around the world (never "tabloids"). Each story ends with commentary by Randy — a tagline which is humorous, ironic or opinionated. An online pioneer, True has been publishing on-line weekly since June 1994."
The video below, which we will bring to you each week at WD, is the sit back and relax, video version of the free email newsletter.
If you like what you see, you should consider also subscribing to the sites sister publication, The True-Stella-Awards newsletter. Published less frequently than the regular True, it is compelling reading that documents outrageous real life legal cases that really do make you ask "What the HECK is going on in today’s world". The name originates from the 1992 real life legal case, that became urban-legend, of 79 year old Stella Liebeck who spilled a McDonald’s coffee into her lap, then sued McDonald’s for the burns it caused, and was awarded US$2.9 million by a jury. Read the REAL facts of the case here…

