The tightest parallel parking measured 26 cm (10.24 in) and was achieved by Ronny Wechselberger a.k.a. “Ronny C-Rock” (Germany) on the set of Guinness World Records – Wir holen den Rekord nach Deutschland in Berlin, Germany on 2 April 2011.
There is a new app called free fall high score that challenges you to throw your iPhone off the highest place you can find for a high score! Screw it, why wait for an app? Just go throw your iPhone off a building right now!
A new game for the iPhone challenges you to not only drop your phone, but to do so off of as tall a structure as you can find. It’s called Free Fall High Score, and it is undoubtedly the riskiest mobile game that we’ve seen.
The drought in Texas has gotten so severe municipal water managers have turned to a once untenable idea: recycling sewage water.
“When you talk about toilet-to-(water) tank it makes a lot of people nervous and grossed out,” says Terri Telchik, who works in the city manager’s office in Big Spring, Texas.
Less than 0.1 inches of rain has fallen on West Texas for months. Normally, the region gets more than 7 inches of rain this time of year. This week’s Department of Agriculture Drought Monitor map shows 75 percent of Texas is in “exceptional” drought stages.
Water for the town’s 27,000 residents comes through the Colorado River Municipal Water District, which has broken ground on a plant to capture treated wastewater for recycling.
Here’s one to file away under weird. Three little ladies in Midway, Georgia were enjoying their summer day selling lemonade when local police drove by and told them to close up shop. You’d think fresh outdoor air and the opportunity to bide summer’s lazy days away from video games in a hyper air conditioned room was criminal…Or was it?
That city law requires a business and food permits ($50 a day), even if the stand was at the home of one of the girls….Health issues were also a concern, Morningstar said. “We were not aware of how the lemonade was made, who made the lemonade, of what the lemonade was made with, so we acted accordingly by city ordinance,” he said.
