E. Thomas Drakes

  • parsons

    Wreck your company’s image like a boss: GoDaddy CEO slaughters elephant

    Web domain registry giant GoDaddy has suffered what can only be described as a public relations nightmare after CEO Bob Parsons published a video on his blog in which he shot and killed an elephant in Zimbabwe. Though the video goes to great lengths in explaining that elephants were...
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    That’s gotta hurt: Cop tased in his ‘bros’ by boss

    A simple disagreement between two officers in Arizona last year ended poorly for the subordinate, who found his testicles on the business end of a Taser gun. I don’t quite understand why anybody looking down the barrel of such a weapon would say “Are you going to use it? ...
  • hugo

    Filing taxes not so painful when winning lottery ticket is found

    It’s that time of the year again when Americans break out the W-2s and 1040-EZs.  For most, it’s an expensive inconvenience.  For Irving Przyborski in Chicago, it was his lucky day. Even luckier was the fact that the Illinois Lottery ticket was set to expire the following day, perhaps...
  • archer

    Side effects include raging homosexuality

    GlaxoSmithKline, one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical giants, has recently been accused of distributing medication for Parkinson’s disease with severe unlisted side effects, including “gay sex addiction.” For Didier Jambart, a 52-year-old married father, the first side effects included an abundance of energy.  But what followed was severe depression...
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    Today’s ‘bad parenting’ story brought to you by Botox

    Kerry Campbell of San Francisco isn’t ashamed to admit that she injects her eight-year-old daughter Britney with Botox and saline filler every three months.  In fact, she’s adamant that “more mothers should do it for their daughters.” Taking a slightly more proactive role in her daughter’s future than the...
  • rebecca black

    Police raid on man’s flat ends in confiscation of dangerous music

    Having loud neighbors is bad; having loud neighbors who constantly play louder music is worse.  But one British man set a precedent for poor manners and poorer taste when police were forced to break down the door of his flat and confiscate his small and overused CD collection. He...
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    SuperDad fights the bullies he helped raise

    In Australia, the father of a 17-year-old boy and a 15-year-old girl dragged both children into a police station, having caught them bullying a 13-year-old boy for wearing glasses.  Not only did he get his children booked; he sold their car and horse and plans to testify on behalf...
  • douglasjr

    Limp 911 prank leads to arrest, stiff sentence

    A South Florida man is facing jail time after a series of 911 prank calls were traced back to his ex-girlfriend’s home in Oakland Park. Matthew Wade Douglas Jr. thought he was being clever by making the calls from his cell phone, each characterized by increasingly absurd stories about...
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    Man discovers his girlfriend is a biter, timing inconvenient

    A British man’s livelihood – and manhood – was threatened in a bizarre attack by his girlfriend in Newcastle. Fortunately, Martin Douglas’ testicles were successfully reattached by surgeons, but his girlfriend has been arrested for grievous bodily harm after biting them off.  He called the local authorities after being...