Think you’re getting pretty comfortable in your swim fins? No amount of waddling around on a pool deck will prepare you to set the world record for 100m hurdles while wearing swim fins. The latest records posted include some sufficiently mind-blowing times, and I was disappointed that there are no accompanying videos for these records!

Veronica Torr set the women’s swim fin 100m hurdle world record in a time of 19.278 seconds. Normally, she’s a national level hurdler in New Zealand, but apparently has a special talent for sprinting in fins. Compare that time to Veronica’s personal best in the 100m hurdle without fins (14.18 seconds) and it gives you some idea of just how fast she’s moving.

The men’s record for the same event was set by Christopher Irmscher of Germany in a time of 14.82 seconds.

My friend Mitch sent me a link to the Google Map for Bergen, Norway. On this particular street, the Google cameras picked up a duo of trident-wielding scuba divers that sat waiting to chase the van down the street. [Map embeded below].

Mitch said he found this on CollegeHumor.com, so I don’t have the direct link back to their post but I still wanted to give College Humor due credit. Update: Original link from CollegeHumor.com

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I must resort to internet speak to adequately describe this video: OMG ROFL!!1! This is one of the funniest (appropriate) videos I’ve seen in a long time. A woman, in what appears to be the Netherlands, attempts to walk in a huge aquatic hamster ball while wearing an orange hamster suit.

The woman is zipped into the hamster ball and then it is filled with air by attaching a leaf blower to a one-way valve on the side. There is also a thin safety line attached to the ball – to ensure they can reel her back in – because it’s very difficult to keep your balance while walking on water in a giant hamster ball. Watch the video below: