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Creative Food Manipulation "QUANTUM SHOT" #496link Pimp My Food!- For the sake of Art and Stomach. These wildly creative examples of artfully augmented food (that anybody can make, provided they got Michelangelo's sculpture skills and nearly limitless free time) can be then displayed in upscale New York art galleries (until they go bad) and bring their creators untold riches and client commissions. 10 Most Bizarre Cargo Spills Tons of Mackerel A truck full of fish overturned and dumped its load into Northern Ireland farmer, Gordon Flinn's, field in January 2012. The tons of mackerel were piled two feet deep in places. The driver of the truck was taken to the hospital, but was not seriously injured and was able to return to the scene.

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UFO sightings reveal more strange metal boxes along coastal beaches As of late afternoon Feb. 8, Bill Hanshumaker, a public marine specialist and (Ph.D) doctor of marine science at the Hatfield Marine Science Center in nearby Newport, told Huliq in an interview that, “I don’t know what they are.” In turn, Doctor Hanshumaker said he’s advised “surf monitoring” about these strange metal boxes that suddenly appeared along local beaches Feb. 6, and now seem to be multiplying like Star Trek “Tribbles.” The photograph that accompanies this report – taken during the afternoon of Feb. 8 near Bray’s Point -- of yet another strange metal box stuck in the surf up is one of a possible group of a dozen or more that have been sited up and down West Coast beaches. Meanwhile, the British government also photographed similar huge metal boxes on beaches in Sri Lanka in the late 1990’s and in early 2004 and 2005. UFO history filled with “mystery boxes”

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