This week, it’s life, but not as we know it, on Crazy Talk…
More than a game
With even the most advanced game technology now used on the Apple iPhone/iPad and Google Android, Red Bull BC One, the foremost b-boy competition out there, have got in on the act with a brand-new game, and the seemingly bizarre photo below is actually one of the seven breakdancers in question having his motions mapped for the animation! Read more about the game and where you can get hold of it on our BC One game page.
Red Bull Photofiles
This is snow joke, madam
With snow as far south as the Canary Islands and Spain, many countries in Europe are struggling to cope with the unusually early and severe cold snap. The emergency services are always a full-stretch in such situations, which is what makes someone calling them to report the theft of a snowman particularly idiotic. But that’s what happened in Kent, UK, when a woman called 999, the UK emergency-only hotline, because her snowman had gone missing, along with his eyes made from coins and spoons for arms. "I haven't been out to check on him for five hours, but I went outside for a fag [cigarette] and he's gone," complained the woman, presumably while the phone line was blocked to people who’d fallen over on ice and were freezing to death. “We have spoken to her and advised her what is a 999 call, and this clearly was not,” commented the local police chief, before adding that anyone seen flashing two pound coins and couple of spoons around should be jolly well ashamed of themselves (probably).
Alien 5?
Exciting news from the bacterial world this week as it’s been discovered by NASA scientists that there are lifeforms in a toxic Canadian lake that have disproved the long-held belief that all lifeforms are made up of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, sulphur and phosphorous. The new ones, known as GFAJ-1, contain highly poisonous arsenic at a cellular level but no phosphorous. What does this mean for us? Well, it means that if we’re not alone in the universe, other lifeforms elsewhere could be made up of any number of different elements. Like silicon, perhaps. Like in Alien… best stop there. We won’t be swimming in that lake anytime soon anyway.
Express Monorail
Robot wars
We might not be under threat from Aliens quite yet, but a kind of Terminator-style premonition seems to have gripped a section of the US security community in Denver, Colorado. Rush-hour traffic was brough to a standstill in the city and a large cordon thrown around an 8in (20cm) toy robot that someone had inexplicably concreted into the base of a road bridge. Despite trying to communicate with the toy through an interpreter (a bomb squad robot), the cops were left with no option but to expensively waste the would-be Christmas present all over the highway. But did they find any evidence of foul play? In fact, they discovered “a whole lot of nothing” according to a police spokesman.
Barbershop of horrors
When their security services aren’t wildly overreacting to perceived threats, the Americans like a drivethrough – takeaways and cinema trips where you don’t leave the car have been a fixture in the US for decades – but one Alaskan seemingly decided to try to get a haircut without getting out of the Jeep, at least according to this video. The amazing thing was that Han Song, the barber whose shop was totalled despite no one being hurt, stopped only momentarily before continuing the haircut he was halfway through – now, that’s customer service. But presumably the Jeep driver had to wait their turn like everyone else.
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