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Sean Murphy of England is without a finger today thanks to his original home-crafted wart cure: The barrel of a 12-gauge shotgun. The wart on his left middle finger wouldn’t go away despite doctors and creams, so he did a little drinking, a little thinking, and settled on the...
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The Love Sex Company in China has created a device suited to the modern man, simulating all the conveniences of a female cohabitant without that pesky free will getting in the way: A 5-foot, 5-inch doll that can move, talk, recognize faces, and yes, be an active participant in...
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Allan James Waters arrived at his court date this Friday but could not be sentenced with any of the twelve felony counts to which he had plead guilty in April due to the fact that he appeared drunk in court. Waters was fired from his job as an Orange...
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Gabriel Radzikowski, a Polish immigrant in England, found himself strapped for cash when neighbor and bank director Sara Lilly tried but failed to get him approved for a loan. Rather than attempting more conventional ways of making ends meet, Radzikowski instead kidnapped Lilly’s Yorkshire Terrier and phoned her, posing...
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Last month, Fredric Baur, inventor of the original Pringles can, passed away at the age of 89. And following his last wishes, Baur was buried in the can he helped to invent. When he first began to consider the humble receptacle as a serious option for internment in the...
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Mark Wilkinson of Birmingham, evidently counting on the Monte Carlo fallacy (i.e., an unlikely event will be even more unlikely to occur in the same circumstances twice), dubbed his sixteen-foot cabin cruiser Titanic II. Whether he was being ironic (as the tiny boat could practically fit in my hatchback),...
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Back in the day, kids would save their money for months, or even years, to buy a new piece of technology. These days, it’s as easy as losing a spare kidney. Little Zheng, a 17-year-old Chinese boy, managed to trade one of his kidneys for an iPad 2 and...
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In a brilliantly poetic twist on the mortgage crisis, two Florida homeowners managed to foreclose upon – and nearly repossess the assets of – one Bank of America location in return for their own attempt to foreclose upon the couple’s home. The troubles for the Nyergers began when Bank...
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In one of the most bizarre (yet not quite tragic) failed wedding stories I’ve ever read, a man arrived uninvited to his sister’s wedding in San Antonio, Texas, armed with a wrench and some fighting words. The first victims of David James Sicotte’s rampage were the new mother-in-law and...
Sean Murphy of England is without a finger today thanks to his original home-crafted wart cure: The barrel of a 12-gauge shotgun. The wart on his left middle finger wouldn’t go away despite doctors and creams, so he did a little drinking, a little thinking, and settled on the...
The Love Sex Company in China has created a device suited to the modern man, simulating all the conveniences of a female cohabitant without that pesky free will getting in the way: A 5-foot, 5-inch doll that can move, talk, recognize faces, and yes, be an active participant in...
Allan James Waters arrived at his court date this Friday but could not be sentenced with any of the twelve felony counts to which he had plead guilty in April due to the fact that he appeared drunk in court. Waters was fired from his job as an Orange...
Gabriel Radzikowski, a Polish immigrant in England, found himself strapped for cash when neighbor and bank director Sara Lilly tried but failed to get him approved for a loan. Rather than attempting more conventional ways of making ends meet, Radzikowski instead kidnapped Lilly’s Yorkshire Terrier and phoned her, posing...
Last month, Fredric Baur, inventor of the original Pringles can, passed away at the age of 89. And following his last wishes, Baur was buried in the can he helped to invent. When he first began to consider the humble receptacle as a serious option for internment in the...
Mark Wilkinson of Birmingham, evidently counting on the Monte Carlo fallacy (i.e., an unlikely event will be even more unlikely to occur in the same circumstances twice), dubbed his sixteen-foot cabin cruiser Titanic II. Whether he was being ironic (as the tiny boat could practically fit in my hatchback),...
Back in the day, kids would save their money for months, or even years, to buy a new piece of technology. These days, it’s as easy as losing a spare kidney. Little Zheng, a 17-year-old Chinese boy, managed to trade one of his kidneys for an iPad 2 and...
In a brilliantly poetic twist on the mortgage crisis, two Florida homeowners managed to foreclose upon – and nearly repossess the assets of – one Bank of America location in return for their own attempt to foreclose upon the couple’s home. The troubles for the Nyergers began when Bank...
In one of the most bizarre (yet not quite tragic) failed wedding stories I’ve ever read, a man arrived uninvited to his sister’s wedding in San Antonio, Texas, armed with a wrench and some fighting words. The first victims of David James Sicotte’s rampage were the new mother-in-law and...