Alvin Straight Couldn’t Drive To See His Ailing Brother, So He Took A Road Trip On A Lawn Mower (Cool Weird Awesome 1269)
Today in 1994, the start of a very unusual road trip: Alvin Straight drove 240 miles by lawn mower.
When Two Frenchmen Apparently Fought A Duel In Hot Air Balloons (Cruel Weird Awful 4)
It's been called “the most ridiculous duel in history": two guys in France apparently decided to duel while they were flying hot air balloons.
Two Families Escaped East Germany In A Homemade Hot Air Balloon (Cool Weird Awesome 614)
Today in 1979, a story that sounds like it came straight out of a movie: two families in Communist East Germany escaped to the West by making and flying a hot air balloon.
In This Town, The Pay Phones Are Going To Ring At The Same Time, For Art (Cool Weird Awesome 500)
It's our 500th episode! We're celebrating with a visit to the Compass Festival in Leeds, which will feature an art installation that will ring many of the community's pay phones at exactly the same time.