Members from Westboro baptist church attempt to protest a memorial service for a Continental Flight 3407 crash victim. They are surrounded by counterdemonstrators wearing white plastic angel wings, blocking their signs from view.
Small video of the incident is worth a view, it is quite impressive how they just surrounded them and got them to leave without even confronting them. picked by theclansman 1 year ago

The Canadian Plastic Industry Association (likely feeling reduced sales due to the popularity of reusable cloth bags) says that reusable bags are a public health risk. picked by bornbad 10 months ago

The survey of 1,000 women aged 18 to 50 unearthed a number of bizarre ideas about family planning.
One in five detailed bizarre methods of contraception including eating garlic or using bread, plastic wrap or chicken skin as a barrier method. picked by kakana 7 months ago

For Guitar Hero fans who find that going Pete Townshend on a plastic toy guitar after a monster encore is a little anti-climactic, a company called Art Guitar is offering an alternative with a little more heft. picked by punthe 3 years ago

Who said robotic mowers have to be little plastic boxes?
I don't have the back story on this thing, but it's pretty freaking hysterical. Definitely worth a look! picked by murfanda 1 year ago

Just one month after undergoing a penis enlargement surgery, a patient of a Moscow plastic surgery clinic has asked the doctors to restore the original size of his penis. picked by kakana 11 months ago

Jenny Lee Burton is the 21st century’s answer to Barbie. She is beautiful, blonde and is slowly becoming 100% plastic. picked by iamamaniac 8 months ago

He wanted a couple of credit cards. He got a couple of thousand. Manhattan accountant Frank Van Buren found himself flooded with plastic in recent weeks, as the ExxonMobil cards kept on coming. picked by AutumnLotus 3 years ago

A German study of commercially-available bottled water found contamination by chemicals that mimic natural sex hormones. When the researchers raised snails in the water, they bred with extreme rapidity — a warning sign that the chemicals were active. Contamination levels were twice as high in brands packaged in plastic instead of glass, suggesting that plastic was the culprit. picked by cactushair 12 months ago

Designer ecofriendly reusable grocery bags fetching big $$$. picked by suebe 3 years ago

The plastic tube Sandy Hawkins hands me looks more like a toy horn than a medical device. Blowing into it, he tells me, will do wonders for my chest cold. picked by Bornbad 4 months ago

"A vacuum cleaner was also connected to the bag and it is believed Mr Kemp died after the machine had sucked all the air out of the bag. The inquest heard there were no suspicious circumstances..." picked by kissmenow 3 years ago

If you're stuck in traffic when Mother Nature calls, Japan's Kaneko Sangyo Co has developed the loo for you. The manufacturer of plastic car accessories drew back the curtain today on its new portable toilet for cars. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Police say one of the men placed a one gallon plastic baggie with human feces inside of it inside the oven and set the timer for ten minutes. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Toy horses are usually pink and plastic – and aimed at young girls. But this little pony is 100 per cent natural – and ready to make friends with anyone her size. Born ten days ago at a stud in the southern state of Victoria, Australia, the 15in miniature horse – which is yet to be named – has already formed a bond with Sam Leith, 12. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

BEHIND the cash register at Smoke Shop No. 2 in downtown San Francisco, Sam Azar swipes a customer’s credit card to ring up Turkish cigarettes. The store’s card reader fails to scan the card’s magnetic strip. Azar swipes again, and again. No luck. As customers begin to queue, he reaches beneath the counter for a black plastic bag. He wraps one layer of the plastic around the card... read full post picked by TraumaMamma 1 year ago

Plastic, plastic surgery. picked by Bornbad 3 years ago

The poisoning led to the introduction of tamperproof packaging that is now standard. Bottles of the pain reliever were triple-sealed and warnings against taking capsules from damaged packages prominently displayed. J&J also sealed the bottle caps to the neck with a tight, plastic band and stretched a tough foil membrane over the bottle's mouth. picked by dollyllama 1 year ago

Passages from the Old Testament are recreated with the famous colored plastic bricks! picked by smashbros 3 years ago

No, not that.

A collection of photos of toy U.S. presidents with interesting biographies of the real presidents' lives.

"One day in summer, I ran across a small wooden box at a flea market. It was filled with 2-inch tall plastic figurines of the American Presidents, from Washington to Nixon." picked by bluenutria 2 years ago