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Police allege that a 23-year-old Massachusetts man faked a brain injury to trick a nurse into changing his adult diaper. Police say that Eric Carrier’s in-home nurse, who had been recruited by way of Craigslist, became suspicious after Carrier exposed himself to her at changing time. It is alleged...
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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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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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It’s the stuff TV commercials are made of… but in this case the reality behind the reason is more heart wrenching and awesome than any ad company could come up with. Two days before 25-year-old Dana Levit was going to marry the love of her life for 10 years,...
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There is a phenomenon sweeping Australia, and indeed the globe at the moment called “planking” – maybe you’ve heard of it. People position their bodies in a rigid, prone position while their buddy takes a photo. They then post said photo on the Internet. For the most part it...
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Unfortunately our search for details on this interesting piece of playground equipment has come to nothing. It may very well be a hoax, but if it isn’t then someone, somewhere is definitely getting sued, fired or a combination of sued and fired....
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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...
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Yasuteru Yamada proposes that the elders take over the radioactive cleanup and his arguments are absolutely in-discussable. The 72 year old retiree is recruiting other elders based on the premise that, on average, they have at most 12-15 years left to live, and it would be difficult to catch,...
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...
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),...
It’s the stuff TV commercials are made of… but in this case the reality behind the reason is more heart wrenching and awesome than any ad company could come up with. Two days before 25-year-old Dana Levit was going to marry the love of her life for 10 years,...
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...