World Cup Shocker that Germany is Out

Shocked that Germany is out? Other countries celebrate.

World's Tallest Water Slide to Debut Next Year

With the link below, you can see the world's largest water slide- it's currently being built.

Those brave enough to try its vertical drop will hit speeds of up to 60mph.

The Verruckt, meaning insane in German, Meg-a-Blaster is being built at Schlitterbahn Waterpark in Kansas City.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/video-worlds-tallest-water-slide-2812446

Flintstone's Car Sent to Rock Quarry

A man's dream to have an exact replica of the Flintstone's car has been dashed.

On Odd News this week, Greg tells the tale of a German man who built the Flintstone's car, but can take it out on the Autobahn as German officials have ruled it unsafe.

The car is powered by a Volkswagon engine and look at the seat covers.

Hear Greg's entire report on the Flintmobile here:

http://news.yahoo.com/video/motorists-flintstones-car-banned-germany-195015768.html

In Germany, You Can Rate Your Priest Online

On the internet, you can rate your restaurant meal, your make-up, your mechanic and now in Germany your priest.

Hirtenbarometer (http://hirtenbarometer.de) or the "shepherds' barometer" is the first online platform where priests can be rated for their performance at church services, on projects for youths and the elderly, on their credibility and on how up to date they are.

"Pastoral work should be qualitative," Andreas Hahn, one of the founders said of the original idea behind the site, adding they hoped "to stimulate dialogue to improve pastoral work."

Launched in April, the site has been well received by users. "We are overwhelmed by our own success," Hahn said. With 25,000 parishes and some 8,000 priests registered so far and the option to add more, the site's reach is growing.

But while the site has proven a hit with users, reaction from the Roman Catholic church, which has been rocked by abuse allegations in the past year and witnessed a record number of parishioners leaving the church, has been more muted.

Neither the archbishopric in Berlin nor the German conference of bishops wanted to comment on the website.

The Vatican is usually mum or slow to make statements on issues like this.

The protestant church said that it found the rising interest in public feedback as embodied by the hirtenbarometer concept a "positive development," according to a recent press release.

How are the ratings made?  I'm not making this up. Ratings for priests on the site are represented by sheep, whose woolly coats range from white to black to visually express a priest's rating. The pope and other prominent German priests so far sport light to middle grey wool.