• Montreal, Quebec: Protest Town like Las Vegas is Sin City

    Last month, on April 20th to be exact, Montreal probably broke the world record for the most protests in one city, in one day. I say probably because Guinness does not keep that record on, er, record… At a certain point around 2PM, 200 people, were waiting outside a...
  • Monkey version of occupy Wall Street; Occupy Cucumber

    Just like humans, monkeys don’t like it when they’re being treated unfairly. Drawing a line between task and reward is one of the premises of being treated fairly, one of the prerequisites if you will. In the sense that if I work 8h/day (task) doing the same task as...
  • Machine vends live crabs in Chinese subway

    If you ever wanted to get crabs on a Chinese subway then today is your lucky day… as long as you live within striking distance of Nanjing – where a vending machine is now dispensing reasonably priced crustaceans. The crabs are priced according to size from USD 1.50 –...
  • If your grave marker reads like this then you failed in life

    All I know about Bernard P. Hopkins is that he lived to the ripe old age of 88 in the small town of Caldwell, Texas, his social security number and the fact that he would seem to have upset a few people before he shuffled off his mortal coil....
  • Colorado black bear plonks out of tree

    A black bear that climbed a tree at Colorado University was safely removed from the premises. Black bear being shot out of the tree After students discovered the dopey creature, local authorities undertook efforts to take the bear away. A mattress was put in place to cushion the fall...
  • Man steals woman’s ashes and threatens to snort them

    A man from Florida has been arrested for stealing the ashes of his former housemate’s sister. The man held joint ownership of the woman’s ashes and allegedly drove past her mother’s residence, screaming that he would snort them. The following day the man was arrested and held on a...
  • Canadian artist leaves predatory tracks in the snow

    A Canadian artist going by the name of Maskull Lasserre has an oddly amusing hobby. He walks around in the snow wearing boots that leave frightening tracks. The boots, which are of his own design, mimic the paw prints of large predatory animals, or when the mood strikes him,...
  • Starbucks to stop putting insects in their coffee

    The coffee-making giant Starbucks has announced that will no longer be using cochineal extract to produce a red tint in its beverages. The extract is created from crushing beetles and then processing the released juices. Starbucks has said that it will start to use a red dye extracted from...
  • Used underwear for sale in Japan

    Are you a newly married woman who’s husband is not doing their manly duty in the bedroom and you’re forced to do the deed yourself, wearing your panties? If this is you and you need money you might be able to sell your panties to Kanojo Toys for their...