Canada is known to be a friendly nation, filled with people who have perfect manners and are always polite. There are few things they don’t take lightly.
“There are some things that you just don’t do to Canadians: You don’t water down our beer, you don’t tell us we can’t put maple syrup on our pancakes and you don’t mess with Mac the Moose,” explains mayor of the city of Moose Jaw, Fraser Tolmie.
And do you know what Norway did? Yup, you guessed it, they messed with Mac the Moose.
According to the , Mac, who is located in the city of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, has been the tallest sculpture of a moose in the world for the past three decades, standing 32-feet tall. That is until just recently, when Norway unveiled a nearly 33-foot tall moose statue of their own named Storelgen.

As the government remains shut down over the president’s demands for a border wall and the Congressional Democrats’ refusal to go along with them, one politician in Arizona’s state legislature has a novel proposal for funding border security.
Rep. Gail Griffin, a Republican in Arizona’s state House, has introduced legislation, called HB 2444.to force users of pornography to fund border security.
How will it work? Per the, the legislation would require distributors of electronic devices to install blocking software on all Internet-accessible devices. Owners of the devices could then pay $20 in order to remove the software.
Similar schemes have been proposed in other states, although not in relation to building a wall.

The Vatican's Swiss Guard, the colorfully dressed mini-army that helps protect the pope, will have cooler heads now they have swapped their ancient metal helmets for ones made by 3-D printers.

With just nine weeks to go until Britain is due to leave the European Union, a company is selling worried Britons a survival kit to help them prepare for the worst. 

As many will know, it’s never a good idea to underestimate the power of sleep. Whether you’re an overworked college student or an exhausted parent, logging a few solid hours of sleep can do wonders, especially if you’ve been deprived of sleep as of late.
Unfortunately, for some, falling asleep naturally is not always an easy task, and many rely on alternative means in order to get enough sleep to make it through the next day. While counting sheep or falling in front of the television might work for some, others resort to pharmaceuticals to get the job done. For one Reddit user, things escalated quickly after taking a few pills.
As reported by the , an unidentified man took to Reddit to recount a rather bizarre proposal. The man in question was having trouble sleeping one night and decided to take four 10 mg Ambien. As the New York Post mentions, this is four times the recommended dosage.

Lately, it seems that we are hearing about all kinds of weird things being pumped into someone’s body. In fact, just this week, the brought readers the story about the bizarre case of a man who pumped semen into his back multiple times in an attempt to cure his back pain. The unorthodox method didn’t work, of course, and the man only wound up with a severe abscess for his trouble. Meanwhile, doctors in Vietnam encountered a male patient with severe alcohol poisoning and decided to take an unconventional approach of their own.
They pumped his stomach with the equivalent of 15 cans of beer, and the remedy actually saved the man’s life.

Steve-O made a startling admission during a recent interview on In Depth with Graham Bensinger. The actor/stunt performer best known for his role on Jackass revealed that he once did cocaine that was laced with HIV-positive blood, during one of the lowest points in his addiction to drugs.
The blood was his drug dealer’s and he was an intravenous drug user who would inadvertently leave blood on his products. Steve-O, whose real name is Stephen Gilchrist Glover, recalls that one day he went over to his dealer’s house and found him unresponsive. Steve-O decided to help himself to the cocaine he had left out in the open even though he could see that there was blood on it.

Dogs, cats and birds were blessed at a church in Madrid on Thursday on the feast day of St. Anthony, the patron saint of animals, with many of the owners making an annual pilgrimage for their pets.

To paraphrase the iconic Snickers commercial, it seems like some aren’t really themselves when they’re hungry.
As reported by , a mother of three in the United Kingdom made a call to the police, after a local Domino’s Pizza failed to deliver the pizza that she had ordered. In her call to law enforcement, she accused the restaurant of letting her kids “go hungry.”
The mother, Clair (whose last name was not published), explained that she had placed an order for £37 of pizza, which roughly equates to $47.50. She planned to feed her and her family, but after an hour of placing the order, her pizza had yet to arrive. Before long, a Domino’s employee reached out to her by phone.
The employee explained that, unfortunately, the pizza oven at their location had broken down. Unable to fulfill Clair’s order, the employee promised that her money would be refunded — a process that can take up to 24 hours, if not more.

Afghan singer Abdul Salam Maftoon's striking resemblance to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has turned him into an unlikely celebrity in the war-torn country since his debut on a talent show.

A Texas woman was banned for life from a local Walmart. Her crime? Police said she was riding around the store’s parking lot in a motorized cart for hours while drinking wine out of a Pringles can.
The bizarre incident took place this week in the town of Wichita Falls, where police got a call at 9 a.m. that there was a suspicious woman in the parking lot. As the reported, the caller said the woman had been in the parking lot since at least 6:30 a.m., apparently riding aimlessly.
Police arrived to find that the woman had fled the scene, and later found her in a nearby restaurant. The woman was informed that she was banned from returning to the Walmart location.
The bizarre circumstances attracted some national attention, with many sharing the story on social media and some even praising the woman for living her life on her own terms — strange as they may be.

It took Smash customer Qiu Siyu just a few sharp blows with a baseball bat to wreck what looked like an old car radio, after which two friends battered telephones, audio speakers, rice cookers and even a mannequin.

Seventeen-year-old cousins Jake and Kyle Bumstead were presented with a rotary phone and then were playfully challenged to figure out how to use it in less than four minutes.
Jake’s dad Kevin Bumstead of Chicago, Illinois, decided he would record the kids and the video has since gone viral. The video has been viewed on Bumstead’s Facebook page more than 16 million times.
“My money was on them not figuring it out,” Bumstead told .
Bumstead explained that he had watched a similar video on YouTube and decided to try it with his own family.
“I thought it would be funny to see how my kids and their cousins handled this challenge at Christmas. So I divided them up by age group (24, 22, 22) (19 & 19) these 2 (17 & 17) and (14 and 12) and gave them the phone number and 4 minutes to dial the phone, he explained. “These two were the most entertaining and they took the longest and sort of figured it out.”

A teenager’s corpse has been snatched from her grave in China for a disturbingly dark reason.
reports that the authorities suspect her body was dug up to be used in a ‘ghost marriage’ also know as ‘minghun’ or ‘spirit marriage’
There’s bizarre, there’s deranged, there’s frothing at the mouth, bug-eyed lunacy, and then there’s the practice of digging up corpses and marrying them, also know as ghost marriages — something which is apparently on the rise in China.
Grabbing a trusty pick and shovel and setting out to dig up your decaying bride to be from the cold unyielding earth is not something even the master of the macabre, Edgar Allen Poe, would have considered to be the done thing.
Yet in medieval China it was all the rage to marry a woman who was cold, rigid, riddled with worms, and softly decaying.

A former LSU football player lost his leg last month after a dog shot him while they were hunting, reported. The accident took place in late December, near Eagle Lake in Mississippi.
Matt Branch, who played on LSU’s football team from 2009 to 2011, suffering the injury while on a hunting outing December 28, along with a group of friends who made the trip annually. According to the account provided by a friend of Branch’s, the dog was a Labrador retriever named Tito, a member of the hunting party.
The group of hunters were loading their weapons on the bed of a truck, when the dog walked over, stepped on the safety of Branch’s shotgun and pulled the trigger. The shot struck Branch through the bed of the truck.

Wesley Dasher Scott is making national headline news today after claiming the three syringes found hidden in his rectum were not his. Scott was arrested on a warrant stemming from a drug charge in Clearwater, Florida.
While his arrest is just one of many throughout the day across the nation, it was the excuse he offered that stood out among the masses. Scott found himself arrested in the early hours of Friday morning.
The 40-year-old was first searched out in a field where he was taken into custody. He was asked by a deputy at that time if he had anything hidden on his body. He was then transported to the Pinellas County Jail on a drug charge and booked.
According to , a deputy said Scott was given the chance to come clean. The deputy also said Scott was fully aware of the consequences if he was caught hiding contraband.

No five second rule, here.
shares that, this past Sunday, a massive 18-wheeler truck crashed on Alabama 35 near the Georgia line. It just so happens that the truck in question was carrying chicken tenders, tenders which subsequently spilled onto the highway. Some motorists decided to stop their vehicles to pick up some of the fallen chicken tenders, causing somewhat of a traffic jam.
Believe it or not, this prompted the Cherokee County Emergency Management Agency to post a public service announcement on their Facebook page — telling passing motorists to quit stopping their vehicles in order to gather boxes of chicken tenders for their own dinners.
“The Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office is asking that no one try to stop to get the chicken tenders that were spilled from the 18 wheeler accident last night on Highway 35. You’re creating a traffic hazard! It’s a crime to impede the flow of traffic.”

Hayden Cross will go down in history as the first man to give birth in the UK, but the new dad is keen to stress to other men that they should think long and hard before becoming pregnant.
reports that Hayden, who was born Paige, decided to put his gender transition process on hold after falling pregnant with a sperm donor he found on Facebook.
Hayden had been taking male hormones prior to an operation which would remove his breasts and ovaries. The 21-year-old decided to pause his gender transition journey, which was NHS funded and costs an average of $40000, in order to give birth.
Hayden made the difficult decision after the NHS refused to freeze his eggs.
His pregnancy was a success and last year the proud dad gave birth to a beautiful baby girl he named Trinity-Leigh.

While popular streaming platform Twitch is most commonly associated with video games — and by extension, Fortnite— there are a handful of streamers who provide other reasons to watch, such as those who showcase their extremely over-the-top personalities, or streamers who opt to wear revealing clothing in order to titillate their fanbase.
Last week, a streamer caught the attention of Twitch staff members, which ended with a temporary ban to his account, as reported by .
Joseph “Mango” Marquez, widely considered to be one of the best competitive Super Smash Bros. Melee players around, found himself on an unplanned — and unpaid — vacation this week after reportedly drinking too much while streaming this past Sunday.
Marquez took to Twitter to share the news, a screenshot of his correspondence from Twitch, which informed him why his channel was being taken down. His account had been hit with a week-long suspension after he passed out while on stream.

Perhaps because of her left-leaning political views or her young age, but newly-sworn in Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has garnered a lot of criticism from various media outlets. Aside from a recent attempt to discredit her reputation with an unearthed video of her dancing, an alleged nude picture of the congresswoman has been making the rounds. Thankfully, some crafty and detail-oriented Reddit users came to the forefront to defend Cortez.
As reported by , an image of a woman in a bathtub surfaced on Reddit’s r/Drama subreddit. The photo, which showcases a woman’s feet and legs, is fairly tame, though if you were to zoom in on the reflection from the faucet, you would find an image of the woman’s breasts. On this particular Reddit thread, some were claiming the image was sourced from Ocasio-Cortez’s Instagram account.