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Foul tips are one of the perils of playing the catcher position in baseball, but one doesn’t usually associate fire hazard with that risk. In the video below, a foul ball off the bat of the Chicago White Sox’s A.J. Pierzynski hits the mask of Detroit Tigers’ catcher Alex Avila so hard that sparks fly.

It may sound like sacrilege to the many Twihards out there, but lots of people out there (ahem, like us) simply don’t get the devotion the ‘Twilight’ books and movies have inspired. To us, they’re just weird — comprising nothing more than one giant homage to a love-that-dare-not-speak-its-name until after marriage, and then insisting on having the baby when you get knocked up even though, oh yeah,

The Super Mario Bros. have made hundreds of appearances in different video games since the characters were introduced in 1985, but this one is probably the most unique. It’s an electronic board game version of the Nintendo classic, the player maneuvers Mario analog-style, using a conveyor belt device built inside of a cardboard box.

Setting: a backyard pool somewhere in suburbia. Crickets chirp, the air-conditioner hums, and a little boy standing by the pool chews on his goggles. After about 15 seconds of this tranquil scene, the camera finds a little girl, also poolside in a bathing suit. “I’m pooping,” the little girl matter-of-factly declares.

If you happened to be in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina recently, and were struck from the sky by chunks of partially digested food, it probably wasn’t a large bird with some sort of stomach ailment that did you in. No, instead you were likely the victim of a man named Jay, who doused the scenic landscape with puke four times during a hang gliding lesson.

In this latest edition of animals loose in stores, two baby deer found themselves inside a Publix supermarket in Suwanee, Georgia. The fawns tempted fate by wandering over toward the meat section, where they were scooped up by store employees. Unfortunately, the video ends before we learn if they were returned to their mother or fell prey to the butcher.

While juggling five basketballs would be quite difficult for the layman, it’s a trick any self-respecting clown should have in his arsenal. Juggling five basketball with your hands and feet, however, is an almost infinitely more difficult task, and one that acrobat Selyna Bogino is able to flawlessly pull off in the video below.

This commercial for Dole in Japan features a character called Banana Man, who has bananas for fingers, and also has his namesake fruit growing from out of his nose, ears and head.

Spirit the eagle, Auburn University’s mascot, took its traditional aerial tour around the bleachers of Jordan-Hare Stadium before the kickoff of Auburn’s football game against Mississippi State on Saturday. He was looking quite majestic in flight as the crowd of 85,000 cheered until … smack — Spirit crashed right into a glass-enclosed luxury box.

Before they become a symbolic of a terrible tragedy which befell America almost ten years ago, the World Trade Center Towers were a symbol of New York City and its largesse. To commemorate the tenth anniversary of September 11, editor Dan Meth has compiled a supercut of most of the Twin Towers’ best big screen cameos.

We’ve seen some pretty heartwarming homecoming scenes involving military personnel and their family over the years. Humans don’t have a monopoly on ecstatic welcomes, though — when this massive great dane named Emmitt Thunderpaws sees his master return home from deployment, he gives him a touching, slobbery embrace for the ages.

When four-year-old twin sisters Gracie and Ruby Weichman showed up at the ballpark on Monday night to watch their hometown Spokane Indians take on the visiting Yakima Bears, they had no idea that their father, Air Force Sargeant Chris Weichman, was planning a surprise homecoming during the game.