YouTube: Skydiver blacks out at 9,000ft
Here’s a handy health tip. If you’re going to be ill, try not to do it while skydiving from 12,000ft. In a YouTube video viewed more than 12m times, Christopher Jones, 22, has a seizure at 9,000ft. He was unconscious for 30 seconds but was saved when his instructor, Sheldon McFarlane, 40, caught up with him and released the student’s parachute. “Possibly the scariest moment of my life,” says Jones, with commendable understatement. McFarlane says modestly that looking after students is all part of the job. Watch the whole thing at tinyurl.com/ChuteDrama
YouTube: Sausages are a dog’s best friend
In honour of Crufts, here’s how not to compete in a dog show. This YouTube footage of a show in Finland was first posted in November but has now been viewed 14.6m times. As you’ll see on tinyurl.com/DogShowFail, the first two competitors race easily through a tempting obstacle course of food and toys. A golden retriever then starts well but . . . ooh, a tennis ball . . . wait, there’s a bowl of food . . . and isn’t that another bowl of . . . Wow! A cuddly toy . . . And sausages! Somebody left sausages!
Look at it this way: there were no prizes for the retriever, but who got to eat the sausages?
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Buzzfeed: That’s an ice new hairdo
Let’s say you live in Canada. It’s -30C outside. What do you do? In the town of Whitehorse, Yukon, the folks at the local hot spring decided to hold a frozen hair contest. Here are the rules. You plunge into the spring — temperature 40C — and when you emerge, your hair instantly freezes. The craziest hairdo wins the prize. As you’ll see at tinyurl.com/HairFreezing, frozen hair wasn’t outdoor and rugged enough for some of the contestants — so they rolled in the snow as well. In those sweltering -30C temperatures. Who says Canada’s dull?