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  • Photographer Uses Scotch Tape, Makes Unique Portraits

    Photographer Wes Naman’s has a unique take on the traditional portrait. Using tape to disfigure his subjects, he creates pieces that stick in your mind. It’s an idea Naman says he got when he put tape on himself while setting up lighting. All of the models are his friends...
  • Woman’s Ex-Boyfriend Charged With Breaking Into Her Home & Glueing Fridge Shut

    Up for the 2012 award for the stupidest get back at you for breaking my heart stunt is American man, Dennis Homberg. The 42-year old Pennsylvanian man is being accused by police of breaking into his ex-girlfriend’s home and super gluing her fridge shut. That’s not all this super...
  • New Species Of Dinosaur Named After US President

    America’s first African American president is being immortalized once again, this time in the shape of a small insect eating dinosaur, now named the Obamadon Gracilis. Researchers at Yale University decided to name the dinosaur with lots of teeth after the 44th President of the United States, Barrack Obama, because...
  • Flash Prank Makes High School Yearbook X Rated

    Students at Mother Theresa Secondary School in London, Ontario are getting more than smiling faces in their yearbook. Besides memories of student sports teams and dances is the picture of the student who flashed his wee wee and got away with it. While the photographer was taking a picture...
  • Monkey In Winter Jacket Surprises Christmas Shoppers

    Ahhhhh, the Christmas holiday season. Filled with Santas, elves, reindeer and monkeys? A very unusual sight at Christmas, even more so in Toronto, Canada. But that’s what shoppers at Ikea were greeted with – a monkey wearing a fancy winter jacket – running around the parking lot and in...
  • Chinese Newspaper Victim of Fake News Story, Prints It As Truth

    Satirical news site, The Onion, is grinning ear to ear these days, after another newspaper took one of their fake stories and printed it as truth. This time is was Chinese Communist government run paper, The People’s Daily. The Onion, known for it’s cutting edge satirical comedy, ran a...
  • Snuggery

    Professional Cuddler Makes People Happy One Snuggle At A Time

    Think snuggling always leads to sexual intercourse? It doesn’t if you’re paying “professional cuddler” Jackie Samuel $60 and hour for the up close and personal encounter. She’s an expert and “Cuddle Sutra” and master of 100 non-sexual forms of snuggling which Samuel says is extremely beneficial to our health:...
  • Don’t Go Cannonballing Into Frozen Pools This Winter [PSA Video]

    Cannonballing into an ice-covered pool might make for an awesome stunt if everything works out, but there is a lot more that can go wrong than can go right. For starters, the ice could break away in an uneven fashion, slice yourself open and watch as your vital fluids...
  • Crosswalk Vigilante Getting It Done in Pittsburgh

    Is it a bird? A plane? Wait, no… it’s The Crosswalk Vigilante. Tired of seeing dangerous intersection in his or her hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the unnamed doer of good has been painting crosswalks before city crews can get there all because the people asked. And the hero of...