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Video broadcast on Japan’s TV NHK of yesterday’s FedEx plane crash at Narita Airport, Tokyo, Japan:

Sadly, the two pilots were both killed; fortunately, nobody else was killed or injured. [Source: YouTube, via Gizmodo]

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Nah, on second thought, better take the bus. C’mon Japan, WTF? Hentai as a form of city planning, or just trying to “cute up” old Godzilla’s image? For those of you who are (even more) confused, Wikipedia can bring you up to speed: “Hentai is a Japanese word that, in the West, is used when referring to…

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This bicyclist has a spectacular fall in Xiamen City, China, after his bike hit a pot-hole submerged in rainwater:

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The Global Incident Map, “A Global Display of Terrorism And Other Suspicious Events”:

To actually read what’s going on in each of these incidents will cost you $99/year for a subscription. But at least there are free options to view US hazmat, forest fire and Amber Alert incidents.

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Fortunately, many people walked away from this one. Nine were killed and fifty injured out of 127 passengers and seven crew members as the Turkish Airlines 737 broke into three sections upon crash landing in a field next to Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport [CNN]:

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From a Reuters story, Woman kills husband with folding couch. He was a drunken lout, you see. Oh, and they’re Russian, but you knew that already, no?

For your bemusement, here’s the highly abbreviated version of the story…

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