Here are some of the strange and unusual images around the globe.
By IBT Staff Reporter 03/27/11 AT 3:17 AM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard Share on Pocket Here are some of the strange and unusual images around the globe. Nikolai Vasilev, 57, tests a new self-made water ski along the Yenisei River near Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. Vasilev, a teacher at Krasnoyarsk Aerospace College, made the foam skis to walk on the water surface using poles with umbrella-type tips to propel himself. Reuters A German customs officer holds a confiscated soccer ball used as a hiding spot to smuggle cigarettes to Germany at the Finance ministry in Berlin Reuters A naked cyclist takes part in the "World Naked Bike Ride" on Sao Paulo's Paulista Avenue. The event aims to defend the rights of cyclists to ride on the streets in safety, according to organizers Reuters Women in their underwear dance during a flash-mob named "beautiful naked" organized by French TV M6 in front the Notre Dame Cathedral near the Seine river in Paris Reuters World's shortest living man, Khagendra Thapa Magar, 67.08 centimetres (26.4 inches) tall, waits on his seat for Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda to arrive during the documentary "The Shadow of Mt. Everest", which is based on Magar's life story, in Kathmandu. Reuters A man takes a shower in public near the Monument of the Revolution in Mexico City. The city council set up two shower booths to teach people how to save water while taking a shower. Reuters A Libyan government soldier displays a tattoo of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi at Ajdabiyah March 16, 2011. Reuters © Copyright IBTimes 2024. All rights reserved.