That’s Odd

Art Attack

A man wearing a wig and lipstick arrived in a wheelchair to the art gallery on Sunday and began throwing roses at the paintings. Disguised as an old lady, he then jumped out of the wheelchair and attempted to smash the glass protecting Leonardo da Vinci’s most famous piece of work.

Taking a piece of cake from his bag, he then smeared it across the surface of the Mona Lisa’s protective covering.

Museum officials eventually tackled the man and brought him out of the museum.

As he was being led away by security, the man said, “Think of the Earth, people are destroying the Earth. Think about it. Artists tell you: think of the Earth. That’s why I did this.”

This is not the first time the Mona Lisa was under attack. The 16th century Renaissance masterpiece was stolen by

In 2009, a Russian woman angry at not being able to get French citizenship threw an empty teacup at the painting, which slightly scratched the case.

All through it all, the mysterious woman behind the glass has maintained her enigmatic smirk. She’s probably thinking, “Who are all these crazy people?”

Whiskey Wowzer

It’s called “The Intrepid” and it’s not for the faint of heart – or the faint of wallet.

The world’s largest bottle of whiskey recently sold for around $1.4 million.

The bottle, standing 5 feet 11 inches, was given the Guinness World Record in September 2021. It contains 82.16 U.S. gallons, or 311 liters. That’s the equivalent of 444 standard bottles – enough for 5,287 whiskey sours made with 2 ounces of whiskey each.

The liquor is a 1989 Macallan single malt that spent 32 years maturing in oak casks at Macallan’s Scotland distillery before being bottled in 2021. It is pale gold and has a sweet taste with notes of apple.

The Intrepid project was created as a collaboration between Fah Mai, a Thailand-based investment company, and Rosewin Holdings, a London-based firm, which invest in whiskey and other spirits.

The project’s founder, Daniel Monk,

was inspired by his father’s “passion for adventure, exploration.” The label on the bottle features 11 explorers, including Ranulph Fiennes and Robin Knox-Johnston.

Despite the oversized price tag, this is not the most expensive container of whiskey ever sold. That honor goes to a 60-year old Macallan sold for $1.53 million in 2018.

We don’t want to know what they are doing with all that booze.

Old and Bold

She may be old but she’s not letting life fly by.

Ruth Larsson became the world’s oldest skydiver last week when she went skydiving on Sunday at the age of 103. She jumped out of the plane tandem at 2 p.m. and landed with a smile.

Lest you think that Ruth has been flying the skies for years, she took her first skydiving trip at the age of 101. She had begun thinking about exploring the skies when she was 90 and started paragliding, gliding and hot air ballooning.

A Guinness adjudicator was on hand to confirm that Larsson earned the record for oldest tandem parachute jump (female). The previous record holder, Kathryn Hodges, was 103 years and 129 days old when she jumped out of a plane in 2019.

They say that it was built to attract visitors. I, for one, will not be visiting.

A mountain resort in Vietnam recently opened a glass-bottom bridge that hovers over a gorge almost 500 feet high.

The Bach Long suspension bridge, which translates as “White Dragon,” is in Son La province, northwest of the capital, Hanoi, and bordering Laos. It is the third such bridge in the country.

Saturday’s opening ceremony included dragon dancing and ribbon cutting.

The reinforced glass used for the bridge has three layers, each 40mm thick, and can hold up to 450 people at a time, according to a statement from the facility’s owner.

The bridge is 290 meters long, with a 342-meter path on the cliffside.

“The engineering required to build that into the side of a cliff but maintain all the features of nature, the greenery, the rocks, it’s been an amazing project,” said Glen Pollard, a representative of Guinness World Record, who attended the opening ceremony.

It has been the longest glass bridge of its kind in the world.

“At first it makes you panic, but then if you walked over around 10 glass panels, that feeling is gone,” said Tran Xuan Tinh, 72, said after he walked across.

Whatever you do, don’t look down.

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