While most people tend to view a dip in the hot tub as relaxing, a group of Swiss adventurers don’t feel that sitting in a jacuzzi is anywhere near hardcore enough. These thrill seekers have spent the last ten years “extreme hot tubbing” in exotic locations around the world, amassing a following of equally insane people who seem to enjoy watching people get naked and sit in a tub full of frothy water in completely non sexual situations in exotic and dangerous locations.

Pickpocketing might be a rarer crime these days, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t people out there willing to nab your stuff when you are at your most vulnerable. Thankfully, there some steps, from seasoned experts, that you can use to prevent yourself from becoming just another victim. Here are a few DIY tips that don’t require a criminal justice degree to prevent yourself from being the victim of pickpocketing.

Have you ever seen an opera stage shaped like a torso. Well, if not, then, you’ll probably be unnerved by the sight of this giant creature popping out of Lake Constance in Austria. This crazy thing is the most impressive opera set ever created. It was constructed specifically for an opera named after celebrated French poet André Chénier. And yes, it literally is an opera stage sitting in the middle of the famed Austrian lake.

It’s hard to know exactly how these strange stories get started or even manage to grow legs and move around on their own, but no corner of the universe is immune to their hard to believe stories about grim and gruesome facts of human life. It’s so widespread that even the paper filing, coffee running, memo reading world of paralegals have their own fair share of stories about greed, danger and death (paper cuts can be more dangerous than you think). And knowing that 99.99999 percent of urban legends are about as accurate as a Fox News report on one of President Obama’s “bitch ass slapping, BBQ finger licking UN press conference orgy,” either these things really happened or being a paralegal requires some artistic license to be just above mind-numbingly boring.

by Will Conley

"OK, one pack of You Fat Dead Loser and a Neck Hole 100s box. That'll be $22.50."

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced this month that starting in September all cigarette packs must feature graphic images of the negative health effects of smoking. The images must cover at least half the pack on both front and back.

They depict, among other nastiness, a sewn-up corpse, crying women and children, and the obligatory rotting lung and mouth shots — the go-to jerk-off material for temperance fetishists and zombie buffs. Here are all nine of the grisly new warning labels, courtesy of the FDA…