If you happen to have brothers, you'll know that they can be cruel, cruel creatures, but your crew have NOTHING on these two lads from the States who managed to convince their heavily-medicated sister that they were in the midst of a zombie apocalypse.

After painful surgery to have her wisdom teeth extracted, Millicent Phillips was being driven home by her older brother who, with the help of other family members, slowly put his elaborate plan into action.

Clearly out of her bin on medication, poor Millicent was forced to decide which pet should make the cut, which weapon should be used against those pesky zombies and which Spanish word would save her in the case of an apocalypse.

Commenting on their prank, Millicent's brother, Cabot, explained why her and his two brothers went for such an elaborate set-up, saying: "The typical wisdom teeth videos are funny but we wanted to do something a little different, and thought the zombie aspect might be a fun twist," 

"We just didn't anticipate how expressive she would be, and how many one-liners she'd produce — even when terrified and in a drug-induced state," he added.

Seriously, it doesn't get any better than this.

Unless you've been living under a rock for the past week, you'll know that RTÉ and Michaella McCollum came in for A LOT of criticism last Sunday when the first interview with the Tyrone-native aired on Irish television.

Imprisoned in Peru for drug trafficking offences more than two years ago, Michaella sat down to give her side of the story in an interview which was ultimately slammed by the wider public for its soft-soap approach.

Responding to the backlash, RTÉ's Republic of Telly did what they do best and turned the whole sorry situation into a laugh-out-loud comedy moment.

While you can see the whole interview in full on Republic of Telly, tonight at 9.55pm on RTÉ2, we suggest you give yourself a little taster with this gem!
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Let's face it, we're all on what seems like a never-ending search for that ONE beauty tip or cosmetic trick which will have us looking tip-top from dusk 'til dawn, but it isn't always easy.

Eager to offer her followers a cheap and easy hack for nailing that oh-so sought after contoured look, beauty blogger, Miriam Marroquinn, shared an idea which has divided her 60,000 online followers.

Uploading footage which showed her using Hershey's Cocoa as an alternative to standard powder, Miriam found herself the subject of backlash from YouTube and Instagram users who slammed the tip on hygiene grounds.

Accompanying the video with a post which read: "BEAUTY HACK! Fail or holy grail? How to contour your face with natural unsweetened Hershey cocoa", Miriam was called out on the footage and told by one YouTube user: "Stop teaching people to do crappy things to their face."

Echoing this, another member of the public wrote: "Awww…don't know if i can put that on my face.. it will feel weird but that's just me." while another blasted: "That's going to cause bacterial infections and breakouts. Stop using food products as make up. You're going to make a bunch of dimwitted girls sick."

Defending Miriam against the criticism, one Hershey convert wrote: "I guess a lot of people don't read the ingredients in makeup. I've purchased high end makeup that uses cocoa powder as an ingredient. If it's sugar free is not gonna attract bugs. These comments are ridiculous." (sic)

Our thoughts? Chocolate is for our bellies.
 

The thought of someone creeping around your home is the stuff of nightmares (and Wes Craven movies obvs), and yet there's something about this CCTV footage of a recent home invasion which has the internet in absolute stitches today.

Uploaded to Facebook by the Counties Manukau Police in New Zealand last night, the short clip shows an unidentified man creeping through a family home desperately attempting to conceal his identity with the help of a child's duvet.

Explaining the circumstances surrounding the bizarre footage, Manuka Police wrote: "Sergeant John Roberts of the Counties Manukau Police Tactical Crime Unit says the male has covered himself with a duvet and crawled around the house stealing a number of items including cash and jewellery."

While authorities obviously hoped the public would be of assistance in this case, it looks like social media users were more concerned with making hilarious pop culture references than performing their civic duty.

"Using the blanket to cover himself like its the invisible coat off Harry Potter, it worked though," wrote one while another joked: "I think it was the Ghost of Christmas Past."

We know we shouldn't laugh – and believe us, we tried not to – but that crab-walk finally got us.

We're going to be honest here, the teacup ride is about as hardcore as we get when we decide to kick up our heels and spend the day at an amusement park.

So, we're not quite sure how we feel about a brand new exhibit which is giving people in Shanghai the opportunity to experience death, cremation and re-birth for a cool $68.

Open to the general public from today, the Samadhi Death Simulator gives people who are fascinated by the process of death the chance to experience it without, you know, actually dying.

Commenting on the attraction which will see users brought through an oven where they are cremated before remerging through a 'womb' chute, its founder Ding Rui said: "When we do not fully understand and take in death, saying goodbye is really quite a complicated and difficult task."

Only dying to give people (See, what we did there?) the chance to experience the process without having to deal with the paperwork and whatnot, Ding said: "As one approaches the moment just before they they face death, they don't have to think about these problems constantly."

And if dying and being reborn wasn't enough for you, you, ya lucky thing, can even bring home 'your last words' as a souvenir.

We're OK, thanks.