There were reports last week of a man in New Zealand drank himself until he could no longer see. This wasn’t your typical college frat-boy, consuming too many tequila shots, blackout drunk. This man was in fact celebrating his parent’s 50 year anniversary with a glass of vodka.  Unfortunately the mixing of alcohol with his diabetes medicine  he took earlier that day caused him to lose his vision. After being taken to the hospital, doctors diagnosed the man with having suffered from menthol poisoning. The treatment for these cases would normally be ethanol, but the hospital had just run out. So, the doctor being resourceful, ran to the liquor store and purchased a bottle of Jack Daniels Whiskey. The whiskey was administered into the blind man’s IV and after five days of slowly dripping Jack Daniels into his daily fluids, the man regained his vision. It’s “a well established treatment,” says a medicine specialist. “If the patient’s awake they can just drink it.” Stuff reports that the man hasn’t had a single drink since: “I’ll be taking it easy,” he says. Here’s to another reason to never doubt the power of whiskey.

Unusual vending machines are nothing new to this world. The UK-based company, Let’s Pizza, has their pizza vending machines in London. Two Australian brands have vending machines that dispense different kinds of french fries, and vending machines in Singapore offer mashed potatoes with gravy. So how does the U.S.A. get into the mix? None other than Los Angeles felt it was time turn to jump into the odd vending machine game. In a mall in Burbank, CA, shoppers can now purchase fish eggs from the caviar vending machine. Yes that’s right, just your casual $500 per oz. caviar from the third floor vending machine to go along with your holiday shopping. Maybe you’ll find it comforting to know that the vending machine was custom made in Spain to appropriately hold a reported $50,000 worth of caviar.

Apparently, somebody in England has an odd taste for the deliciously macabre. Conjurer’s Kitchen, a British pastry store, received an usual order last month. The shop went ahead with the order, and produced these dead baby heads, made purely of white chocolate. While we all want to satisfy our sweet tooth, I think this time it may be to say, too far.

Looking to be a little more adventurous with the foods you eat? Then you may want some perfectly salted roasted scorpions. Boxes of these little guys are selling for $20 with 5 scorpions per box. Did we mention they are a great source of protein?