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.

  • Bulletproof vest stands up to gun-owner’s idiocy [self-test video]

    February 25, 2012
    Recently, in a trailer somewhere in the United States, a portly, bearded gentleman decided to put his bulletproof vest to the test. There are plenty of smarter ways he could have done this but no, he decided to wear said vest and shoot himself in the stomach with his...

  • Australian woman faces court for scamming Nigerian scammers

    February 25, 2012
    A 23-year-old woman faced the Brisbane District court last week for stealing more than $30,000. The victims, as it turns out, were not all that innocent – they were running an Internet car sales scam. Sarah Jane Cochrane-Ramsey was employed by a group of Nigerians to act as an...

  • Police break up tri-generational meth operation [allegedly]

    February 17, 2012
    The Dixie County (Florida) Sheriff’s Office announced the arrest of four members of a Florida family that they believe have been involved in the clandestine manufacture of methamphetamine. Major Scott Harden expressed his surprise when it came to light that they had arrested three generations of a single family:...

  • Guy tries to rob pub, patrons don’t care [video]

    February 17, 2012
    Things went horribly awry for a man armed with a pistol who tried to rob the T Halve Maatje pub in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Nobody in the pub, including the bar tender, cared enough about what was going on to hand over any money. The bar tender told him...

  • Young woman gets painful lesson on dangers of texting and walking [video]

    February 17, 2012
    First of all, let me point out that I have nothing but sympathy for the young woman involved in this painful-looking accident. The time that it takes for her to start to get up could indicate that she was really hurt. Hopefully she was left with a painful lesson,...

  • Banner Placement Fail

    January 22, 2012
    Posting a banner promoting your newspaper’s dream holiday contest above a shot of one of the worst cruise ship accidents in a long, long time is a really, really stupid idea. Hopefully the good folks working at the Belfast Telegraph have learned something from this experience. Thanks Shane!...

  • The best professional bowling fail you will see all week [video]

    January 9, 2012
    Caught on film: PBA bowler Josh Blanchard experiences the lowlight of his professional career. Blanchard made his approach, swung the ball and then, right at the crucial moment his fingers got stuck and he screwed up on the release – badly enough that it very nearly smashed into his...

  • Octogenarian jailed over fake breast exams

    December 28, 2011
    An 81-year-old South Florida man will spend 13 months of his twilight years behind bars for pretending to be a doctor and offering free breast exams. On Friday, Phillip Winikoff pleaded no contest to eight charges related to his bogus exams, which took place in a short-lived door-to-door groping...

  • TSA confiscates suspicious-looking cupcake

    December 28, 2011
    A woman has claimed that her cupcake was confiscated by a Transport Security Administration (TSA) officer at Las Vegas airport because he deemed its frosting to be a security risk. Rebecca Hains said that the cupcake in question was taken at McCarran International Airport on her way home. The...