#HTE

Our Favorite Stories from 2017, Part 1: Crazy Stuff That People Did

In 2017 the world’s wack-jobs continued to impress us with their creativity and outside-of-the-box thinking. Here are some of the nuttier things we’ve seen people do this year:

This Italian cyclist, fed up with being cut off, armed his bicycle with anti-personnel projectile fireworks and targeted an antagonist:

The world’s laziest graphic designer created this perfect poster:

Saturday Night Live released this hilarious Ryan Gosling sketch about a font-obsessed designer:

This designer built a hidden, moveable studio under a bridge:

At a spa in Germany there’s this fantastic treetop sauna complex:

John Economaki of Bridge City Toolworks invented this clever contraption that allows anyone to make their own chopsticks:

The late, great comedian Mitch Hedberg, as it turns out, had quite a few things to say about design:

These Australian nut-jobs set up Box Wars, which combine creativity, combat, cardboard and chaos:

This guy was masquerading as an architect, got busted and is off for prison:

And lastly, who knew you could get sued for having a house too similar to your neighbor’s?