This Week in WTF, August 1, 2014

– Whatever motivates you, I guess: Need an incentive to exercise? There are several devices on the market that will track your progress, but only one that delivers an electric shock when you miss a workout.

Do you like jogging, but wish it was a little more like a Saw movie and/or dystopian nightmare in which thigh gaps have become the global currency? Well, today in horrible ideas: A new wearable fitness tracker that actually zaps users with an electric shock if they stop exercising will be hitting the market later this year.

– Ew: A dead body was under the bed at a motel for five years. The motel had an interesting reason for not acting on around one thousand complaints regarding the room:

Customers and housekeepers complained about the smell frequently, but “it is not the policy of the company to make their housekeepers check under the beds”. [Emphasis added, because WTF?]

– That was unexpected: Construction workers discovered the remnants of a 60- to 70-foot-long wooden ship at the WTC site in New York City. Researchers have now dated the wood to around 1773 and matched it to wood found in Philadelphia’s Independence Hall. Insert Lost references here.

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