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It's hard to deny the infectious whimsy this video inspires. A few pranksters, most likely on a whim, decided to take a stroll in their K car through the inside of a department store.

Well, it's finally happened -- someone died after gorging themselves in an eating contest. But here's the kicker: The 32-year-old man in question passed away after scarfing down dozens of roaches and worms. Ick! Why couldn't it have been something tasty like hot dogs or buffalo wings?

The inmates are definitely running this asylum.

Numbers and charts are usually boring things reserved for sales meetings and discussions about market influence and other corporate blah blah blah. But, today? Today the numbers and charts show that here in America, we are blessed with the cheapest beer on the planet. Cue the patriotic background music.

Sometimes we just want to crack open an ice cold can of Coke. There’s little-to-no-effort involved in getting such refreshing and delicious happiness, right? But over in Korea, they’re making soda seekers dance for their bubbly beverages.

Fed up with all the class and grace of a regular beauty pageant? Do you wish all beauty pageants would just trim the pretense and get down to just, you know, judging the contestants by the shape and plumpitude of their lower back sides?

The United Nations deals with some pretty serious business, especially in a world climate as dangerous as this one, but even so, this august body of world representatives can get pranked now and again. It just so happens that two very audacious Canadian radio talk show hosts managed to pull a fast one on U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Our comedic brethren up north called into the U.N. this we

When the perils of roughing up the old walrus finally take their grimacing toll, leaving you with nothing but the eyes of a desperate man staring down at a quivering fistful of carpal boner, perhaps its time to consider a hands free pecker-jacker.

If you mess with the bull, you get the horns, but if you mess with a cub, you get the Mama Bear. That's just what happened in Florida this week, when a mother was arrested after attacking the teen who bullied her son.

Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com When Howard Cooper sold his Ann Arbor, Michigan car dealership earlier this year he made sure employee retention was part of the deal. In these tough economic times, that alone would make him a hero to Howard Cooper Import Center's 89 workers. But the 83-year-old took things to a whole other level of generosity last week.