C. S. Magor

C.S. Magor is the editor-in-chief and a reporter at large for We Interrupt and Uberreview. He currently resides in the Japanese countryside approximately two hours from Tokyo - where he has spent the better part of a decade testing his hypothesis that Japan is neither as quirky nor as interesting as others would have you believe.

  • Chinese cab driver’s stupidity leaves him stranded on stairs

    April 9, 2011
    Spare a thought for Chinese cab driver Xiao Cheng because it looks like he had quite a bad day – or night. His problems started, as they are given to do, with booze. Cheng wasn’t drinking but his passenger had been. Anyway, Cheng’s passenger explained where he wanted to...

  • Jobs scarier than yours #001: Cobra pit cleaner

    April 8, 2011
    On a scale of 1-10 I rate my bravery around level around a 6. I don’t care for roller coasters and I’m not going to take a bullet for a president or other person of merit – but I don’t flinch at earthquakes and handle extreme turbulence with ease....

  • Dog plucked from ocean after three weeks at sea

    April 2, 2011
    A dog that is believed to have spent three weeks at sea was rescued by the Japanese coastguard 1.1 miles from the coast of Kesennuma in north-eastern Japan. The dog, which was believed to have been swept out to see by the March 11 tsunami, had taken refuge on...

  • Police charge phony massage parlor inspector

    April 2, 2011
    A California man has been accused of pretending to be a massage parlor inspector in order to score himself a free massage and $200. Forty-seven-year-old Edward Justin LaPorte was charged with felony burglary and misdemeanor counts of impersonating a peace officer and firearm violations. It is alleged that the...

  • Arkansas gov takes aim at saggy-panted students

    April 2, 2011
    If you go to school in the state of Arkansas then it might be a good time to familiarize yourself with your state’s new dress code. Governor Mike Beebe signed a bill on Wednesday that bans students from wearing clothing that “exposes underwear, buttocks or the breast of a...

  • Up close and personal with Tokyo’s yellow rain [Japan Quake]

    March 31, 2011
    Apparently Tokyo’s yellow rain on Wednesday March 23rd got a few people worried because of a similar phenomenon that was observed after the Chernobyl meltdown. The Japanese government has said it’s pollen, tin foil hat types have said it is radioactive particles and that it is no coincidence that...

  • Accidentally ski into a mother bear’s lair… that’s a mauling

    March 29, 2011
    A 12-year-old Swedish boy was lucky to survive an encounter with a protective mother bear on his last ski trip in Funäsdalen, northern Sweden – when a wrong turn sent him into a bear’s lair, that was occupied by a mother and three cubs. The subsequent mauling only ended...

  • Britons play live-action rude-word Scrabble in supermarkets

    March 24, 2011
    It seems a movement is underway in the United Kingdom. A bunch of cheeky shoppers have taken to rearranging common items in supermarkets and department stores to create rude, offensive and funny words. The spices are obvious, but there are a few other examples where people have gotten creative...

  • Crazy Spanish paving confuses, sickens boozed up Brits

    March 24, 2011
    The Spanish resort town of Alicante has thrown a curve ball at boozy tourists in the form of some crazy paving that apparently plays tricks on both eyes and stomachs. From Metro: Set in rows of diamonds at 90 degrees to each other, the opposing slabs create an optical...