Weird Pastor Sprays Insecticide Into Congregants' Faces Because Jesus

A South African "pastor" says God told him to spray
insecticide into the faces of congregants to cure their ills. 

I'm sure Doom Super Multi Insect Killer is a fine product if you want to get rid of ants, wasps, flies, or whatever.  

However, Lethebo Rabalago says he's found a better use for Doom: He's the pastor of a South African church, and sprays it into his congregants' faces because he insists it cures their ailments, says CNN.

Plus, he said, God told him to use Doom Super Multi Insect Killer on his congregants, and are you really going to argue with God?

For the record, Tiger Brands, the makers of Doom Super Multi Insect Killer say spraying it into someone's face is a terrible idea.

Tiger Brands says it finds the pastor's insecticide use "alarming and extremely concerning." They note it is "unsafe to spray Doom Super Multi Insect Killer ....into people's faces. Anyone who gets sprayed should wash their faces and eyes immediately, and don't inhale the fumes.

However Rabalago and his followers say Doom Super Multi Insect Killer is a miracle brought to them by God's blessing.

According to CNN, Rabalago has posted photographs of him spraying congregants with Doom, and testimonials from said congregants like this: "I came here with a pain on my back and stomach. Now after the propet sprayed me with Doom I am healed. My nose was blocked since last week, but after the prophet sprayed me with Doom I feel coming out of my nose."

Sorry, congregant: You're so high on Doom Super Multi Insect Killer fumes that you no longer feel the pain in your back and stomach. Plus those fumes would probably clear hardened cement from your nose, never mind plugged up snot.

Take my advice: If your church uses Doom Super Multi Insect Killer on your fellow parishoners, instead of say, Communion wafers, it's time to find another church.

Would-Be Darwin Award Winners Burn Autumn Leaves

The most dangerous way to get rid of autum leaves

Do NOT try this at home

A couple of dumb people posted a video to Facebook of how they got rid of a long pile of fallen autumn leaves.

You shouldn't burn leaves anyway as it's illegal in most places. The smoke is unhealthy. It's also a bad idea to soak them in gasoline.

These morons did anyway:

Let's Fly A Drone Through Some Fireworks

Now that the Fourth of July weekend is over, we can review the fun we had with fireworks displays.

A drone's eye view of a fireworks display. Add caption

The best video I've seen wasn't shot during the recent Fourth of July weekend.

It was uploaded in May, and shows a drone's eye view of a fireworks display. Yep, they flew the thing right through the fireworks.

Not to be a killjoy, but the flight of the drone through the fireworks was probably dangerous and illegal, according to Forbes. 

The drone could have diverted parts of the fireworks into the crowd, or the drone could have been hit, and drone debris could have fallen on people on the ground.

I'm sure we'll see more dangerous, but fascinating videos taken from drones. I just hope nobody does something so stupid people really get hurt.

The drone, and the attached camera, somehow made it intact through the fireworks.  

Wild video, though. Watch:

Amazing Video As Drone Flies Into An Active Volcano Crater

I'm really getting sold on drones. Cameras attached to them can capture the most amazing things.

Magma and ash belch from the Yasur volcano.

The latest I found is a YouTube video uploaded in late January by Shaun O'Callahan.

It shows the view a camera on a drone had as it buzzed around inside the Yasur Volcano on Tanna Island in Vanuatu.

Yasur is one of the most active volcanos in the world, according to Volcano Discovery.

It's prone to frequent small to medium eruptions, not cataclysmic ones, so people do get fairly close to it.

Vanuatu is a collection of island way out in the South Pacific.

I found the music O'Callahan chose to accompany the video annoying, so turn the sound down (The video doesn't have the sound of the volcano.)

Still, this is one helluva fascinating video. It also made me extremely glad I wasn't there.

Here's the video:

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Safe? Bottle Rockets Launched Into Crowd To Give Them "Good Luck"

Everybody wishes each other well when the New Year hits.

People intentionally subject themselves to
a barrage of bottle rockets for "luck"
I wish them luck, too.  

In a Taiwanese city, they have an interesting way of showing it. During the Chinese New Year, they fire tons of bottle rockets into a willing crowd, because that is suppose to give them good luck through the rest of the year.

It's called the Beehive Festival in part because the fireworks, like angry bees, emerge from a big contraption that looks like a beehive.

I do notice most of the people in the crowd wear helmets, which is good. But I wonder if a high speed bottle rocket, fully lit blasting into your face is the luckiest way to start a new year.

But what do I know. Watch, and then you can decide:

Scary Hackers Get Scarier: SWATing Explained

Boy, people who maliciously get into computer systems, hack, whatever, are getting more and more viscious.

The latest new term to turn up in this weird underworld is SWATing, and that recently happened to a computer security journalist named Brian Krebs. 

Will these guys bust down your door, after being
pranked by jerks?

 That means you hack into his account, or get word to the FBI that the person you're targeting is illegally obtaining social security numbers and credit reports. Then the SWAT team arrives for raid to seize the target's computers, etc.

It's dangerous, of course. The authorities come with guns drawn, and if there's any misunderstanding between the person targeted for arrest and the SWAT team, things could get deadly fast.

In Krebs' case, the SWAT team arrived, he was cuffed, but fully cooperated, let the agents inside and explained. Plus, Krebs said he warned the FBI and other authorities beforehand that he was a target of these types of things. One of the agents in the raid remembered this report and realized Krebs was on the up and up.

Krebs said he'd been targeted in denial of service attacks on his web sites, and this SWATing thing, because he's been reporting on creepy web sites, mostly in Russia, that steal Social Security nunbers and credit reports, the very things the false tip to the FBI accused Krebs of doing.

There is a trend of much less sophisticated SWATing attacks in the country than what Krebs experienced. According to Dispatch magazine on line, a publication for 911 responders, people use computer technology to call 911 in distant cities to report things like a home invasion in progress.

Many of these SWATing incidents target unsuspecting homeowners who don't know the person who launched the dangerous prank. All of a sudden a SWAT team bursts in. Again, somebody is definitely going to get killed in one of these pranks.

Many times, this is caught in time, and there's no big SWAT response from police. Every once in awhile, some unsuspecting person ends up as the target of a major raid by gun wielding cops.

Not good.

As Dispatch magazine notes, it's really hard to catch the false calls as they happen:

".....There are investigative methods for identifying the origin of VoIP calls afterwards, although it takes a considerable amount of expertise, time and multi-agency assistance to accomplish. In fact, this seems to be the biggest hurdle in the investigation of these incidents--the anonymity of the caller, a lack of law enforcement contacts at VoIP providers, no phone numbers or e-mail addresses to report such incidents, and lack of resources within VoIP provider companies for investigating these incidents. The U.S. Attorney in the Texas prosecution praised the 40 agencies which cooperated to arrest their suspects--not an unusual number of agencies in these types of incidents."

Still, Dispatch notes there have been numerous arrests for these types of prank calls, like this guy. 

Many of the people initiating these false SWAT responses think they're being funny, it turns out. Wait until somebody gets killed. If that happens, can authorities bring murder charges against the "merry pranksters?"

Let's hope so.