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In PHOTOS: The WEIRD stuff that people do!

Last updated on: July 26, 2012 09:39 IST


Photographs: Reuters

A naked man salutes a police vehicle in the middle of a street in Hefei, Anhui province of China.

The man ran onto a busy street wearing only a pair of shorts, climbing onto cars and smashing windows with his bare fists. He was taken away to the hospital by policeman and doctors after smashing nearly 20 vehicles in half an hour. Police said there was no identification with the man, and he would go through psychiatric examination to determine whether he was mentally ill.

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The WEIRD stuff that people do!


Photographs: Juan Carlos Ulate/Reuters

A man wearing a Batman costume gestures towards a bull in an improvised bullring during the annual bullfight festival in Zapote, near San Jose

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Photographs: Petr Josek/Reuters

A combination picture shows a robot made from a London bus doing press-ups in Prague.

The bus, made by Czech artist David Cerny, does press-ups with the help of an engine powering a pair of robotic arms, and the motion is accompanied by a recording of sounds evoking tough physical effort. It will be parked outside the Czech Olympic headquarters in London for the duration of the 2012 Olympic Games

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Photographs: Ivan Alvarado/Reuters

A Chilean woman pushes her wheelchair through a Santiago downtown street

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Photographs: Mario Anzuoni/Reuters

A couple dressed up as zombies kisses during a zombie walk in the Gaslamp Quarter during the Comic Con International convention in San Diego, California

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Photographs: Reuters

A man poses for a photograph near a 3D painting at the 2012 Magic Art Special Exhibition in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province. The event will run till August 6 in Hangzhou

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Photographs: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters

A man looks at a model of a head of homo neanderthalensis during a visit to the Smithsonian Institution's National History Museum in Washington.

Based on decades of cutting-edge research by Smithsonian scientists, the exhibits in the David H Koch Hall of Human Origins tells the epic story of human evolution and how humans evolved over six million years in response to a changing world

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Photographs: Reuters

A motor tricycle loaded with recyclable plastic bottles drives along a street in Taiyuan, Shanxi province in China

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Photographs: Olivia Harris/Reuters

Competitors take part in bicycle jousting at the Chaps Olympiad at Bedford Square in central London

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Photographs: Daniel Becerril/Reuters

Yote, dressed as a wolf, waits for the metro on his way to the university in Monterrey, Mexico.

Yote is a member of 'Furros Nuevo Leon', whose members dress like wolves.

The group is part of the subculture known as furry fandom, furrydom or fur fandom, where members dress like anthropomorphic animal characters. The 'Furros Nuevo Leon' has approximately 71 members, most of whom are graphic designers or studying graphic arts and animation

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Photographs: Lee Jae-Won/Reuters

Tourists play in mud during the opening day of the Boryeong Mud Festival at Daecheon beach in Boryeong, about 190 km southwest of Seoul.

About 2 to 3 million domestic and international tourists visit the beach during the annual festival, according to the festival organisation

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