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PHOTOS: The weird, wacky world around us

September 08, 2015 08:14 IST
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10 photos that show we live in an odd, odd world!

Participants dressed like Minions descend a hill on a homemade cart during the 26th Roller Cart Festival in Medellin, Colombia. Photograph: Fredy Builes/Reuters

People take part in The Color Run in Brussels, Belgium. The Color Run is a five-kilometre, untimed race, held in cities worldwide, with the aim of promoting healthy living. Participants are doused from head to toe in different colours at each kilometre. Photograph: Yves Herman/Reuters

British comedian Rowan Atkinson, in character as ‘Mr Bean’, rides on a Mini car besides BuckinghamPalace in central London. He was promoting the television and film comedy character Mr Bean. Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters

Participants take part at the Zombie Walk Duesseldorf along the Rheinuferpromenade in Duesseldorf, Germany. A zombie walk is an organized public gathering of people who dress up in zombie costumes. Photograph: Sascha Steinbach/Getty Images

Bystanders look at a car that has partially fallen into a small sinkhole along a street in Beijing, China. According to local media, no one was injured during the incident. Photograph: Reuters

A Chinese future bride has her friends playing with her dress during a pre-wedding photoshoot in front of the Eiffel tower in Paris, France. Photograph: Philippe Wojazer/Reuters

Carolyn Finnegan, 21, wears glasses with peace signs in the colours of the US flag at the fourth annual Made in America Music Festival in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. According to organisers, attendance is expected to exceed 140,000 for the two-day festival which features more than 50 acts. Photograph: Mark Makela/Reuters

People dressed as characters from ‘Star Wars’ interact with their toy lightsabers as shoppers carry bags of purchases after toys went on sale at midnight in advance of the film ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ at Toys R Us in Times Square in the Manhattan borough of New York. Photograph: Carlo Allegri/Reuters

Jose, a reveller covered in grease, poses for a photo as he takes part in the annual Cascamorras festival in Baza, southern Spain. The festival was inspired by a dispute between the town of Baza and Guadix over the possession of an icon of the Virgin of Piedad. The Cascamorras refers to representatives from Guadix, who were sent to Baza to recover the statue. As the Cascamorras had to stay perfectly clean to gain possession of the statue, Baza residents attempt to make them as ‘dirty’ as possible. Photograph: Marcelo del Pozo/Reuters

A woman attempts to pull the neck off a dead goose while being repeatedly being plunged into the water during Antzar Eguna (Day Of The Goose) in the Basque fishing town of Lekeitio, near Bilbao, northern Spain. Geese are hung from a rope over the harbour as participants passing on a boat attempt to grab the animal and are then lifted up and plunged into the water until they pull off its neck or fall down into the water. Those who succeed in pulling the neck off get to keep the goose. Photograph: Vincent West/Reuters

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