E. Thomas Drakes

  • gun store clerk

    When gun store heist goes wrong, robbers lose $40

    In what was a somewhat clever plan to take a Kansas gun store clerk by surprise, two men pretended to be purchasing ammunition but fell just ten dollars short.  When told this, one of the men pulled a gun. The 65-year-old store clerk, who was wearing a holstered gun...
  • FBI

    UserID fail: “Pervymcperv” vs. The FBI

    The Internet is a powerful tool for child pornographers to trade their wares.  In recent years, the FBI has been cracking down by placing undercover agents in chatrooms to catch child predators freely distributing illegal material.  As a result, many would-be child predators have become more cautious in an...
  • broken glass

    Glass? In your Big Mac? It’s more likely than you think

    Chicago resident Vjollca Lecaj ordered a spicy McChicken sandwich from McDonald’s in August of 2010.  What she found upon biting into the sandwich was mostly chicken and condiments, but also contained a significant quantity of broken glass. According to her lawsuit, Lecaj “sustained severe and permanent oral injuries as...
  • polar bears

    Blissfully ignorant parents sue Polar Bear Plunge

    Tracy Hottenstein, who died in Sea Isle, New Jersey in 2009 on the weekend of the Polar Bear Plunge is being avenged by her parents in typical first-world fashion through a lawsuit against nineteen separate defendants.  The kicker: Tracy did not participate in the Polar Bear Plunge. The annual...
  • chocolate milk

    I thought it was the chocolate milk; turns out, it was a baby

    Melbourne resident Jessica Fogg thought she was having trouble sleeping due to chocolate milk-related stomach pains.  Turns out, she was in labor. According to Fogg, who had recently moved to Melbourne with her boyfriend, she developed an insatiable appetite for Big M brand chocolate milk and thought she was...
  • dildo faced

    Best bud bludgeoned by flying phallus [w/”Bro hella” pic]

    An exotic dancer with a unique talent, eight men, and a twelve-centimeter dildo walked into a hotel room.  One man left bleeding. The sordid tale took place in Brisbane, Australia, where Jure Skumavc brought his soon-to-be-wed best friend, Peter Rolih, for a bachelor party.  The keynote speaker at this...
  • helicopter

    The most awesome waste of time ever on YouTube

    As a kid, I always wanted to do particularly dangerous things with otherwise harmless toys, like putting gasoline in waterballoons or attaching tacks to the end of NERF darts.  Clearly, I was thinking inside the box. David Windestål strapped a camera and a Roman candle to his RC helicopter,...
  • iceman

    China’s ‘Top Gun’ gaffe

    State-sponsored China Central Television recently ran a clip of the country’s newest J-10 fighter engaging in mock combat maneuvers.  Evidently at a loss for things to blow up, the clip features an air-to-air missile taking down enemy aircraft from the 1986 film Top Gun. Although China has not admitted...
  • sharon stone

    Obituary for French royal gets really nasty

    Normally, an obituary is an opportunity to reflect upon the finer points in a man or woman’s life.  At the The Telegraph, however, there’s never a bad time to make a few jokes. Perhaps Princesse Ghislaine de Polignac is known in France for more than adultery and dressing well;...