This week’s weird news roundup brings us a spattering of interesting and cute animal stories: A movie star bear turned on his trainers and a little bear could ‘bearly’ keep his head up. In Florida, an alligator paid a visit to a Florida kitchen and in the canine world, a dog nursed motherless kittens while another one fell in love with a sheep.

We also saw some amazing people, including a man who is riding his bike backwards, another who was struck by lightning twice, and a 106-year-old pool shark.

One of the most popular stories of the week involved the hapless man trapped in an elevator for 41 hours (and if you ever wondered what cats do when trapped for 41 hours, take a look at this spoof).

Bethany, Yahoo! Video Team

Welcome, once again, to the off-kilter virtual curiosity shop I like to call Fringe Fridays, our nearly weekly look at animation and experimental web video. I’m excited to see the second episode of Freaky But True’s The Silent But Deadly Service has made its way to our port. There’s just something I like about the flat sitcom-like jokes in conjunction with the crew’s blasé acceptance of their strange underwater existence. And this episode ups both of those factors. If you haven’t seen episode one, you’ll want to click on the second video in the playlist and watch that one first.

Everything from these guys is pretty darn good, just check out the Diabolical Experiments series.

-Kent, Yahoo! Video Team

I had a great time at last night’s South Park Crawl. I’m glad I could meet so many people and talk up the wonders of our new features like our 16:9 player and our embeddable playlist. And speaking of that embeddable playlist, if you’re curious about the videos we were projecting on the wall, here’s that playlist:

Thanks to everyone who stopped by! Here’s a link to some flickr photos of the event.

-Kent, Yahoo! Video Team