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What human behaviors and customs would leave Astro in a total quandry, perhaps banging his head against a wall from trying to understand why humans do so many crazy things.

Like the yearly Japanese festival where men ride huge logs down a muddy slope. You don't think Astro wouldn't be shaking his head going..."Humans are nuts."

I'd say the Pamplonada in San Miguel de Allende, Spain. You know the annual event in which men run in front of a few bulls?

Or almost anything I saw on those "Sports Disasters" TV show, in which people tries crazy things on skis, cars, bikes... That should be left to robots!

All those things leave me shaking my head thinking "Humans are nuts!"

On the same theme, there's a strange cheese-rolling festival in Gloucestershire. People chase big discs of cheese down a steel hill, regularly breaking arms and legs.

We used to have a similar thing in our city called The Birdman Rally, where people would wear flying gear or just dress up as birds and jump off the end of a jetty.

There was also one called The Milk Carton Regatta, where people would build boats out of milk cartons and race them. Some were simple canoes, but other people would build massive paddle steamers with moving parts. They stopped it because the rivers were too polluted.