A link dump of interesting news stories from around the world this week!

Parachuting donkey terrifies children!

With a headline like that this story needs little else to justify being mentioned, but it also takes top prize for one of the best examples of a brilliant idea gone wrong. With bumper crowds at the Sea of Azol, what’s the best way to attract holidaymakers to your private beach? Strap a donkey into a parachute and pull it behind a speedboat of course!

That’s genius idea a group of Russian entrepreneurs came up with, and launched it into action.

No one thought of how the donkey would react though.

Attached to a parachute, the animal screamed in fear as it circled over holidaymakers who were sunbathing on a beach in the Cossack village of Golubitskaya.

“The donkey screamed and children cried,” regional police spokeswoman Larisa Tuchkova said.

World’s strongest beer served in dead animals

Just when you thought the Scots couldn’t think up a better way to destroy they precious livers then scotch, a local brewery has created the world’s strongest beer. Tipping the scales at a massive 55% alcohol to volume, it is ten times stronger than your average Aussie beer. So how to serve such a unique, and glorious thing? Inside a dead stuffed animal of course – seven stoats, four squirrels and one hare to be precise.

At $855 a bottle, one would have to assume that only the eccentric aristocracy and truly perverse would cough up the cash for one of twelve bottles that have been produced. The macabre dispaly of drinking from a dead stoat’s mouth should be a great conversation starter though.

Geeks lead anti anti-gay protest.

In a “fuck you!” to the freaks from the Westboro Baptist Church who were rallying outside Comic-Con, convention goers have held a counter-protest. Wielding clever signs, and amusing placards they were able to drown out the hate filled diatribe with their own calls for love:

“What do we want? Gay sex! When do we want it? Now!” cheered the nerds.

Part of me wants to make a joke here about the conventioneers being virgins and therefore it was just them begging for someone, anyone to sleep with them… but I’m part-nerd myself, and I don’t want to perpetuate the discrimination!

Human Interest Piece: Black parents give birth to white baby

Isn’t she cute?