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“Ghost-riding” which has gained popularity from East Bay rappers like E-40 and Mistah Fab is the practice of operating a motor vehicle from outside said motor vehicle. Beyond California, this is frequently called “Iowa Surfing” or “wicked retarded.” In any case, a man clearly on the cusp of a...
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Perhaps taking the concept of “passing the buck” a little too far, a pizzeria owner in Pennsylvania with mouse troubles decided to share the love – by planting bags of live mice in two competing pizza restaurants. Nikolas Galiatsatos now faces charges of animal cruelty, disorderly conduct and harassment...
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Some potentially damning evidence has come forth against the Florida Department of Transportation regarding a tollbooth policy permitting the detention of motorists paying with large bills. Our hero of the day, Joel Chandler, secretly taped his conversations with tollbooth attendants when attempting to pay a $1 fee with a...
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Jessica Davey, a care worker in Salisbury, England, found a tire boot attached to her Renault Clio and a fine for $180 attached to her windshield wiper by a parking inspector. Her parking permit was sitting on her dashboard, not hanging from the windshield as it was supposed to...
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Durezol and Durasal, two prescription drugs which come in bottles with droppers, were accidentally switched with one another at a NYC Walgreens. So far, no complaints have been raised by any customers who cleaned their warts with eye drops, but at least one man has reported putting wart remover...
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A man in Naperville, Illinois reported to police that he believed his online girlfriend of two and a half years had been kidnapped in London, and that he had wired her $200,000 to pay her ransom. After a brief investigation, the man was ‘in disbelief’ to discover that the...
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Today’s irony headline is brought to you by Debra Oberlin of Gainesville, Florida, former president of Mothers Against Drunk Driving’s Gainesville chapter. On the morning of February 18th, a patrolman noticed Oberlin swerving and crossing lanes; she failed a field sobriety test and was later breathalyzed at 0.239 BAC,...
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With the international media closely monitoring destabilizing governments in Egypt and Bahrain, I suppose it’s easy to forget that Somali pirates are still patrolling the Western Indian Ocean. Evidently the thought hadn’t occurred to Jean and Scott Adam, an American couple on a seven-year sailing expedition to circumnavigate the...
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In Philadelphia, Timothy Corbett beat a charge of robbery despite video surveillance and an eyewitness account thanks to tensile hair strength. During closing arguments, Corbett’s attorney pulled on Corbett’s hair to demonstrate that his stiff, straight hair hardly matched the consistency of the mussed locks seen in the 7-Eleven...