12 PHOTOS from an odd, crazy world

Here's your weekly digest of photographs that prove that it's a mad, mad, mad, mad world out there!



Horse whisperer Martin Tata sits on his five-year-old horse "Primavera" as he performs a demonstration of "Indian taming" at the Polo Club Puesto Viejo ranch in Canuelas, northeast of Buenos Aires. Tata says the techniques that he uses to tame unbroken horses avoids unnecessary violence and helps build a more harmonious relationship between humans and the horses. Credit: Enrique Marcarian / Reuters

A worker carries chickens from a truck at a wholesale poultry market in Mumbai. Credit: Danish Siddiqui/Reuters

A girl dressed as "Nurse" poses before a so-called "Monster Casting" session for the Filmpark Babelsberg theme park in Potsdam. The theme park is casting people for an upcoming horror show. Credit: Hannibal/Reuters

A participant rides in a self-made vehicle without engine on a 400-metre-track during the first Red Bull Soapbox Race downhill event in Bucharest. Credit: Bogdan Cristel/Reuters

Li Zhiheng, an amateur athlete, holds up his hands as he rolls down a stairway during a morning exercise at a park in Xi'an, Shaanxi province. Li participated in many marathons and was enrolled in the Darkar Rally motorcycle race as a amateur rider in 2009. He claimed that rolling down the stairway helped him release stress. Credit: Reuters

A waitress poses while customers eat dinner inside iron cages at a jail-themed restaurant in the Chinese port city of Tianjin. The three-story restaurant consists of rooms resembling jail's cells made from iron caging and it attracts customers who wants to experience the atmosphere of the jail for fun. Credit: Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters

A model has her makeup and hair done backstage before the presentation of the Jonathan Saunders Spring/Summer 2015 collection during London Fashion Week. Credit: Suzanne Plunkett/Reuters

A security guard looks at his mobile phone next to a sculpture of a dragon character from a cartoon, at an entrance of a movie theme park of "How to Train Your Dragon" in Beijing. The red sign reads, "Do not enter". Credit: Jason Lee/Reuters

A man rides his bicycle as people walk on the "first mobile phone sidewalk in China", which was recently installed at a tourism area in Chongqing municipality. The mobile phone sidewalk in Chongqing was divided into two sides -- one was written with "Cellphones walk in this lane at your own risk" while the other with "No cellphones", as an attempt to reduce pedestrian incidents. Credit: China Daily/Reuters

A woman looks at participants as they pose next to a sculpture during the "ClownFest" International festival of clown art in Moscow. Credit: Maxim Zmeyev/Reuters

A person dressed as an astronaut walks past a man stopping traffic on a pedestrian crossing outside the Sydney Exhibition Centre where the science-fiction convention called 'Oz Comic-Con' was held. The two-day convention showcased 'pop culture', and includes appearances by actors from science-fiction movies and television shows. Credit: David Gray/Reuters

The "Unconditional Surrender" sculpture by artist Seward Johnson is seen along the waterfront in San Diego, California. Credit: Mike Blake/Reuters