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Isn’t it comforting to know that when you are about to become a bears breakfast your mate is standing there taking photos.

Thanks to my dad and his entire e-mail social network for passing this one along.

Thanks to Peggy for sending me this video of a stunt pulled off by Improv Everywhere, whose slogan is “we cause scenes”. The setup is that 207 people all walking through Grand Central Station in New York all freeze in place at the exact same second, and hold still for a full 5 minutes.

Most interestingly, it’s inspired people in 28 other cities in 13 countries to stage their own freeze mission. Thousands people worldwide in places like Romania, Poland, Italy, Germany, Sweden, and New Zealand have come together to make time stop for five short minutes. Below is a roundup of all of the videos of the various global freeze events.
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The video clip below is from a 1987 match in Czechoslovakia between Canada and Russia. It started off just like any other hockey fight, but soon escallated into a situation where all of the players on the ice were going at it.

As if that weren’t bad enough, both benches cleared and eventually every player on each side was fighting a player on the other team. Heck, even the two goalies were going at it with one another!
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