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On Thanksgiving, there’s plenty of sites with historical significance, like Plymouth Rock. And then there’s places with zero historical significance but a name nonetheless, like Turkey, Texas. But evidently, PETA does not take lightly to towns named after delicious birds and has requested that, for Thanksgiving Day, Turkey change...
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In one of the more frivolous lawsuits I’ve heard about today, a woman from Edmonton claims that a stick of Stride chewing gum broke apart in her mouth and stuck to her dentures, resulting in depression during the process of pulling bits of gum out of said dentures. Based...
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If you’ve ever wanted to smell like a World War II general behind enemy lines in tight quarters with sweaty, dust-caked GIs surrounding you (and who wouldn’t?), then you’re in luck. Parfumologie has been buying up the rights on colognes catering to the spirit of the armed forces; having...
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Carnival organizers in a UK town saw the potential for disaster and banned a dangerous event in which participants would throw wet sponges at each other. Actually, the event was not dangerous – wet sponges are only one threat level up from wet towels – and the potential disaster...
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The British have become pioneers of clean energy solutions, mandating that 20% of their power grid be supplied through renewable resources by 2020. And the most prolific source of this energy is arguably the wind turbines now seen dotting the North Sea off England’s coast. But in spite producing...
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On March 3, 2008, 54-year-old Roger Kreutz was ordering coffee at Starbucks when 19-year-old thief Aaron Poisson snatched the tip jar and took off. Instead of fully evaluating the situation – for example, the odds that a senior citizen could chase down a teenager, or whether such a chase...
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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...
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Some people just don’t know when to quit, like Cathy Cruz Marrero, the 49-year-old woman who fell into a mall fountain while texting. Mall security cameras captured her from several angles striding nonchalantly straight into the fountain, then getting up and walking away as though nothing had happened. Upon...
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While the US government is scrambling to assemble a criminal case against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, David Pitchford is doing his part, claiming $150 million worth of damages in a lawsuit against WikiLeaks and its founder. The Florida resident, whose legal papers indicate a less-than-perfect grasp of English grammar...
On Thanksgiving, there’s plenty of sites with historical significance, like Plymouth Rock. And then there’s places with zero historical significance but a name nonetheless, like Turkey, Texas. But evidently, PETA does not take lightly to towns named after delicious birds and has requested that, for Thanksgiving Day, Turkey change...
In one of the more frivolous lawsuits I’ve heard about today, a woman from Edmonton claims that a stick of Stride chewing gum broke apart in her mouth and stuck to her dentures, resulting in depression during the process of pulling bits of gum out of said dentures. Based...
If you’ve ever wanted to smell like a World War II general behind enemy lines in tight quarters with sweaty, dust-caked GIs surrounding you (and who wouldn’t?), then you’re in luck. Parfumologie has been buying up the rights on colognes catering to the spirit of the armed forces; having...
Carnival organizers in a UK town saw the potential for disaster and banned a dangerous event in which participants would throw wet sponges at each other. Actually, the event was not dangerous – wet sponges are only one threat level up from wet towels – and the potential disaster...
The British have become pioneers of clean energy solutions, mandating that 20% of their power grid be supplied through renewable resources by 2020. And the most prolific source of this energy is arguably the wind turbines now seen dotting the North Sea off England’s coast. But in spite producing...
On March 3, 2008, 54-year-old Roger Kreutz was ordering coffee at Starbucks when 19-year-old thief Aaron Poisson snatched the tip jar and took off. Instead of fully evaluating the situation – for example, the odds that a senior citizen could chase down a teenager, or whether such a chase...
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...
Some people just don’t know when to quit, like Cathy Cruz Marrero, the 49-year-old woman who fell into a mall fountain while texting. Mall security cameras captured her from several angles striding nonchalantly straight into the fountain, then getting up and walking away as though nothing had happened. Upon...
While the US government is scrambling to assemble a criminal case against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, David Pitchford is doing his part, claiming $150 million worth of damages in a lawsuit against WikiLeaks and its founder. The Florida resident, whose legal papers indicate a less-than-perfect grasp of English grammar...