The 7 Worst Things Airline Pilots Have Done Mid-Flight. People with a fear of flying often cite the sense of helplessness as one of the most terrifying aspects of the phobia.
When you travel by air, you're entrusting your very existence to someone you've likely never met, nor know anything about, and that can be disconcerting. But of course, flying is the safest form of travel there is, thanks to endless safety measures and professional, competent flight crews. It is a little harder to share in that unshakable confidence if you're on a flight where ... #7. A Pilot Rants Over the Intercom About Sex With His Flight Attendants Getty In 2011, a Southwest Airlines pilot lamented to his copilot about how vagina-less his life had become.
Getty"My shrink told me I had mother issues, but that just gave me a boner. " His lack of sex, as he would go on to explain to dozens of listening strangers, was through no fault of his own, but rather that of Southwest Airlines. Via Momgrind.com"Oh yeah? "Eleven. "Oh I don't give a fuck. Getty"And the Mexicans. The 5 Most Badass Presidents of All-Time.
Checking Teddy Roosevelt's resume is like reading a How-To guide on ass-kicking manliness.
He was a cattle rancher, a deputy sheriff, an explorer, a police commissioner, the assistant Secretary of the Navy, the governor of New York, and a war hero. Out of all of his jobs, hobbies and passions, Roosevelt always had a special spot in his heart for unadulterated violence. In 1898, Roosevelt formed the first U.S. Volunteer Cavalry Regiment, known as the Rough Riders. Most people already know of the Rough Riders and their historic charge up San Juan Hill, but few know that, since their horses had to be left behind, the Riders made this charge entirely on foot. Teddy Roosevelt, a split second before spitting in the invisible face of death, and pimp slapping it with his tiny neck-hand.
And don't think that Roosevelt lost his obsession with violence when he became president, or he might just come back from the dead and murder you, (and how do you kill a Teddy Roosevelt that's already dead!?!). 6 People Who Defied Gravity (And Then Kicked It in the Nuts) Gravity sucks.
It's always keeping us down, preventing cars from hovering and cruelly denying people the God-given right to have Inception-like fights on the ceiling of hotel hallways. And yet, despite limitations, brave people throughout history have heroically told gravity to go straight to hell. And some of them even lived through it. #6. The 40-Minute Free Fall Getty We're pretty sure that Colonel William Rankin experienced something that no other member of the human species has experienced.
Rankin was flying along in his fighter jet in 1959, zipping over some storm clouds at about 50,000 feet. Getty"Clouds are nature's soggy pillows. 7 Deadly Things You Won't Believe Most People Survive. We have previously pointed out that fewer people die in shark attacks than are killed by cows.
But sharks are hardly the only danger the world loves to overhype. In fact, sometimes the things that seem deadliest aren't so much deadly as they are inconvenient. For example ... #7. You Have a 96 Percent Chance of Surviving a Plane Crash Photos.com You constantly hear about how safe air travel is, how rarely planes crash and how you're many times more likely to die in a car accident. 6 Real People With Mind-Blowing Mutant Superpowers. If the insane, explosive popularity if superhero movies is any indication, we are fascinated by people who are insanely better than us at any given thing.
Probably because, in real life, we're all such a bunch of incompetent boobs that we've been enslaved by blue paint, flashing lights and crying French babies. But it turns out, superpowers are real. And not just the secret ones that everyone has, or even the ones everyone thinks they have -- this Cracked Classic is about a group of people that, in a sane world, would already have multi-colored leather jumpsuits, delightfully mismatched personality traits and a skyscraper shaped like whatever they decide to call themselves. We've all dreamed of having superpowers at some point (today), but the majority of us have to accept the sobering reality that preternatural abilities simply aren't possible. For instance ... #6. As with most superpower discoveries, Xiangang found his by acting like a braying jackass. So What's Going on Here? 8 Humans Whose Eating Habits Would Make a Goat Puke. Lots of people have their own personal diet plans, and nutritionists don't always agree on which one is best.
Nutritionists do agree that everything on this list is a bad idea, but some outstanding individuals have managed to damn nature and logic enough to survive on some seemingly fatal meal regimens. And by that we mean ... #8. Henry Ford Ate Weeds from His Yard.