The perfect home for aspiring dictators, now for sale


The fortress home

Aspiring dictators call up your agents cause your perfect home has just come onto the market in the Pacific Northwest and for only $595,000! For that price you get a lovely and conspicuous 3 bedroom / 1.5 bath 1900 square foot suburban home that hides what could be one of the creepiest / coolest things I’ve seen in awhile. The previous owners have built-in a four (4) story underground dungeon, fully furnished and completely stocked to act as both a bomb/nucleur shelter or as a normal extension of the home. The fortress is 4 levels deep (45 feet down, below sea-level), adding an extra 1600 square feet of living area and hundreds more square feet of passages and secret rooms. The walls are 3 feet thick 5-bag concrete (20% denser than normal concrete) and give the owner 5 “known” ways of reaching the dungeon, through false doorways, secret passages and drop chutes. The dungeon is also fully furnished and has a completely functional air-circulation system, a giant diesel-powered generator, a 4-pump system to keep the dungeon dry in case of flooding, a 1-ton blast door and a 3-ton motorized door that seals you in from the outside world. My mind, it is a blown.

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August 14th in Bizarre, Interesting, Internet | | 5 comments
Coke and Pepsi must reveal their recipes or risk being banned in India


Soda Vs. India

To be filed in the “when hell freezes over” category, India’s highest court last week demanded that Coca-Cola, along with PepsiCo, supply details of it’s chemical composition and ingredients, after a study there claimed they both contained high levels of pesticides. According to the report, the amount of pesticide residue contained within the soda has grown more than 25 times the amount found 3 years ago in a similar study performed by Indian researchers. The two companies are regular targets for politicians in India, who regard western food products as a threat to Indian heritage and aren’t too happy with the two companies’ relative monopoly of the Indian soft-drink market. It’s highly doubtful that either company will reveal their recipes, so really all anyone can do is sit-back and see if Indian officials are able to actually pass a law banning the sale of the two largest soda-brands on the planet (or see how thick the envelopes full of cash handed to them will be). According to some reports from Coca-Cola, the only two people in the world with access to the bank vault containing Coke’s secret recipe aren’t even allowed to travel on the same aircraft together. The last time a report like this surfaced, schools banned cola sales and Coke’s sales dropped by 11% in the subsequent financial quarter.

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August 11th in Bizarre, Interesting, News, Soda | | 2 comments
An unfortunate hoax – Dog Island


Dog Island!

A brilliant idea turned into a sub-par hoax, don’t go planning a trip to Florida with fluffles just yet. The idea behind Dog Island is that abused, homeless and abandoned dogs of all shapes and sizes have a wide-open, natural habitat free for them to roam around and enjoy the life of a dog. The island has a full-time staff, running an immunization center, an injury/trauma center, and much more. Natural prey are released onto the island as a main source of food, with supplemental foodstuffs being available for the more passive canines. The idea was brilliant (in my honest opinion), this coming from someone who wants to open his own dog farm in Montana, but unfortunately, the doggy island paradise is not to be. Several years ago, Snopes AKA the internet detective agency, ruled Dog Island to be a hoax. They also confirmed that land prices on the REAL Dog Island off the coast of Florida are insanely high.

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August 11th in Bizarre, Dogs, Fake, Snopes | | 4 comments