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The daredevil holds a special place in our culture. They put their lives on the line for our entertainment, and we want to see them fail as much as we want them to succeed. A Russian stuntman did the former with a car and, by some crazy happenstance, did not die.

TMZ reported on what they’re calling a “Car stunt gone wrong,” and boy, is that one way to put it. The stuntman’s name is Evgeny Chebotarev, and in the video, we see him speeding up a ramp in a Russian SUV called a Lada Niva.

He wanted to fly the car from one roof to the other. He didn’t make it. He didn’t even get close to making it. The ramp was not even kind of enough runway to pick up the speed he needed. How did anyone let him do this?

The car’s windshield hit the edge of the building before it went tumbling down seven-ish stories and exploded on the ground. The fall was violent. It’s very hard to watch.

It doesn’t look like a survivable fall. Crazily, Chebotarev crawls out of the wreckage like a baby calf being born to the cheers of his friends, who moments earlier thought he was gone forever.

He didn’t get off unscathed, though. He hurt his leg a little. He didn’t break it, but it did get bloody. Chebotarev, by the way, is no stranger to insane stunts. He does backflips of ladders in the middle of the street, jumps over moving cars from moving cars, and honestly, he’s kind of the man.

Hopefully, he’ll be doing these crazy stunts well into old age.

The human disruptor! One of the most entertaining type of videos on TikTok, besides cats, of course. Whether they’re getting flights grounded, or fighting with fast food workers, or in this case refusing to move from theater seats, these selfish main characters have no regard for others and couldn’t care less. Fun to hate watch, though.

Let’s set the scene. It’s a movie theater like any other with assigned seats. Normally, you pick your seat, you go to your seat, and you watch the movie. If someone’s in your seat, you kindly ask them to leave, and they do.

In this particular instance, none of that happened. The video starts with the man screaming, “why do you have to have mine?”

“It’s not yours,” the exasperated employee says.

“Leave me alone!” The very annoying man with long blond hair says.

“I pay my money I have a right,” the manchild says.

“To sit in your seat,” the employee answers.

Then the genius says, “how can you tell it’s not my seat?”

Perhaps sensing that this man will respond to logic, the employee points out that “your ticket has your seat number on it.”

It’s pretty hard to argue with that kind of logic, but boy does he try.

“Whatever,” the manchild says. Whatever!

Employee tries to reason but the man says, “I’m going to be an a**hole” because you’re being one.” “I’m not,” the employee answers. By the way, this employee should get a raise. How do we make that happen?

Eventually backup arrives in the form of a manager. Now they’re both pleading with this adult brat to simply move to his assigned seat.

Oh, and he’s holding everyone up. They stopped the movie and everything.

“So if I move over one seat, everything will be solved?” He says.

In a very calm voice, the manager tries to explain that he’s disrupting everyone else. Does he care? He does not. It doesn’t matter what anyone else is going through. His happiness is the only thing that matters. Why are there so many people like this?

When he finally lets her talk, she tries to explain again that he’s ruining everyone’s time.

“We’re gonna ask you to leave. We’ll get you a refund, though,” she continues, with the calmness of a nun.

He stands his ground. “I don’t know, I might want to be taken out in handcuffs now.” CALL THIS MAN’S BLUFF. But also I get the manager’s position. Everyone’s trying to keep the situation under control, except for the manbaby, of course.

This is unfortunately the landscape of the modern theater experience post-Covid. As CNET pointed out, movie theaters enjoyed a monopoly for a long time, simply because there was no where else to go to see movies.

Now, there’s so much competition from everywhere else that for the first time in a long time they have to work to keep people coming in. Which means they have to be nice to customers.

Director Christopher Nolan pleaded with people right after theaters closed in 2020 to return to them:

“When this crisis passes, the need for collective human engagement, the need to live and love and laugh and cry together, will be more powerful than ever.”

While he’s enjoying success with Oppenheimer right now, that attitude of “you can’t tell me what to do” left over from the pandemic is spilling into other facets of life, and this video is the perfect example of that.

Back to the video of the child stuck in a very annoying man’s body. There’s a cherry on top of this sh*t sundae, by the way. After the manager offers a refund, he has the best (worst) response:

“I want more than a refund.” Wow. The entitlement. This is why people hate Americans. He wants more than a refund for forcing everyone to listen to him yell at a service worker instead of watching the movie they paid for.

What does he say next? “Can I get a drink?” Unbelievable. She says, “we’ll take care of you.” Then he goes, “fine, and I’m never coming back.” Like that’s some kind of threat. Like they’re blessed with his presence.

Maybe the best part is when we stands up and we get to see this basement dweller. He’s the human embodiment of the m’lady movement.

“Bye everyone,” he says while he slides his leather jacket on over his t shirt and red sweatpants. “Enjoy your movie.”

It’s practically the perfect situation. You can get really drunk, not have to pay for it, and not get arrested by any authorities. This is exactly what happened to some very lucky volunteers in Missouri, and they chronicled the whole thing in one very hilarious TikTok.

Everything started when the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office offered free booze to the public to participate in a hands-on field sobriety training program called a “wet lab.”

The sheriff’s office put a message on Facebook that said:

“The Sheriff’s Office is looking for alcohol drinkers Tuesday-Thursday this week, and we are buying! Seriously, we buy, you drink, and we provide your transportation home (not jail). The catch? After you drink, officers will be testing you on standardized field sobriety tests. Upon completion of your field sobriety tests, you will then submit a breath sample to determine your level of intoxication. Location: 400 First Street in Hillsboro. Time: Noon-4:00 P.M.”

Here’s how it works: You meet up with other fine upstanding public servants in a room where you drink and socialize for “1-2 hours.” Then the cops come in and you have to do “a series of field sobriety tests.”

To further incentivize the public, the sheriff’s office assured the public that “While we will not be providing Pappy Van Winkle, we promise not to serve you cheap wine or rail liquor. We appreciate our volunteers more than that.”

This is a pretty fun story on its own, but what really makes this thing sing is the video. A user named sydalexandra posted a video where two people are in the backseat of a car.

“Hey guys, come with me to get [messed] up at the police station on the state’s dime.” Suck it, government!

We watch them walking up to the police station, and then in a conference looking room taking shots with other volunteers. Next they’re drinking doubles and playing drinking games. I miss college.

Then, more shots! The only place with more shots in that building is the shooting range. Of course, you have to shotgun a beer on the veranda of the sheriff’s office building.

The young woman in the video hits a .146 on the breathalyzer. Impressive! In Missouri, you’re legally intoxicated at .08. The other guy hits an almost as impressive .138.

The sheriff’s office also gave them pizza. Is this the most chill sheriff’s office in the country? Sure seems like it.

The last thing we see is our intrepid public servants hammered out of their minds in the backseat on the way home.

“Every single cop would have arrested me,” she said. “Me too,” the man said. Do all sheriff’s offices need drinkers? Because what a beautiful thing.

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UFOs, UAPS, and space invaders; artificial intelligence, mutating mosquitos, and worldwide conspiracies — 2023 could go down as the wackiest year in human history. Oh, and the Loch Ness Monster might be real. Like, REALLY real. Are you surprised?

With a recent expedition that quickly became the largest search for Scotland’s Loch Ness Monster in the last 50 years, scientific researchers from around the world got together this past weekend to try and finally track down the legendary Scottish creature known aptly as “Nessie.”

Utilizing drones with thermal scanners, boats, infrared cameras, and underwater hydrophones — the folks involved in this monster hunt certainly weren’t messing around, and the results are finally in… They found it.

Just kidding. Although project leader Alan McKenna and his colleagues mentioned hearing “strange noises” in an interview with DW News, along with a slew of tips and videos, no conclusive evidence was found to support the existence of one of the world’s most sought-after mythical beasts. Yet.

Due to the massive influx of information from the search, those involved think it will be quite a while before we get any information, and all we Loch Ness lovers can do now is cross our tin-foiled fingers. Until then, let’s take a look at the history of the Loch Ness Monster outright and how this aquatic legend was born in the first place.

Origins of the Loch Ness Monster

Loch Ness is a large freshwater lake located in the Scottish Highlands and serves as the United Kingdom’s largest lake (by volume) on record. The term “loch” is the Irish, Scottish Gaelic, and Scots word for lake or sea inlet and continues to be an iconic part of the culture’s ongoing vernacular.

Stories of a monster inhabiting the body of water can be traced back as far as 565 AD, and since then, there have been nearly 1,100 recorded sightings of the monster itself. Officially, with some conservative estimates predicting that many more go unreported each year.

A local legend until 1934, Nessie gained worldwide acclaim when a London physician snapped a photo of the supposed creature while enjoying time near the water. The image, which has come to be known as the “The Surgeon’s Photo,” has since been debunked — but has continued to serve as an emblem for the mythos surrounding the hypothetical creature.

There’s no hiding it. We all want to believe. Finding out that some sort of ancient underwater dinosaur has been hiding in Loch Ness for centuries wouldn’t just be a mind-melter. It would redefine our collective conceptions of nature altogether. Cool, right?

Still, we’re going to need a lot more than strange noises to confirm the existence of something as divisive as the Loch Ness monster. Just because the search has ended without evidence doesn’t mean there isn’t any out there. Happy hunting!

It’s every parent’s worst nightmare. A young child who doesn’t know any better walks off. He doesn’t just get lost, he walks right into a lake and starts to drown. What if no one sees him? An unimaginable tragedy captured on TikTok. This almost happened if not for the heroic, instinctive thinking of a mom who happened to be passing by.

The whole incident was caught on a security camera, and then the woman gave a little debriefing, soaking wet, about what just happened. Let’s start with the initial video.

We see a little dude just trotting around his yard before he goes behind a house. Text on the video says “So this [happened] yesterday in my backyard. I didn’t know until I looked on the camera after I heard the lady scream ‘HE’S IN THE WATER.’”

The camera switches to the backyard and the little guy is now sprinting toward something. He runs full speed to the edge of the water, pauses for a split second and then jumps right in like it was a solid surface.

He slips right in and immediately starts to drown. It is not fun to watch. He moves away from the edge and more in the middle. He flails around. OK, enough of that. Now to the heroics.

Next scene: The sound kicks on and we see two women. One of them screams the thing and starts sprinting, no hesitation. The other one is older and can’t move that fast. The now soaked woman pulls the drowning kid from the water. Next scene, kid is in his grandmother’s arms and smiling. No harm, no foul.

That could be the end of it, but the heroic woman, still soaking, records a debrief video.

She’s breathless and very wet. “I literally just threw myself into one of the lakes near my house to save a four-year-old boy who just like walked out of his house randomly, and he’s autistic, and he just walked and kept walking.”

Apparently the grandparent asked, “have you seen him?”

She starts to show off her wet clothes and takes off a boot full of water. “I didn’t even think,” she said. “I’m not even a swimmer.” You can tell the emotion of the moment is starting to sink in.

“I was so scared, but I think I save a little kid’s life today.” You indeed did, heroic swimmer. You indeed did.