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  • Banner Placement Fail

    Posting a banner promoting your newspaper’s dream holiday contest above a shot of one of the worst cruise ship accidents in a long, long time is a really, really stupid idea. Hopefully the good folks working at the Belfast Telegraph have learned something from this experience. Thanks Shane!...
  • Woman offers sexual favors in exchange for chicken McNuggets

    A woman in the United States is up on misdemeanor solicitation charges for offering sexual favors to patrons at a McDonald’s Drive-Thru in exchange for some chicken McNuggets. Sources say 31-year old Khadijah Baseer, was going up to cars at a McDonald’s location in LosAngeles. She’d open the door...
  • LG viral ad uses CCTV video of crime to sell product, brilliant

    This is absolutely brilliant. Brilliant marketing and a very brilliant viral ad. Electronics company LG is using what appears to be a attempted robbery to promote one of it’s products. If I tell you which product it will truly ruin the surprise. Watch the video and see the bold...
  • The best professional bowling fail you will see all week [video]

    Caught on film: PBA bowler Josh Blanchard experiences the lowlight of his professional career. Blanchard made his approach, swung the ball and then, right at the crucial moment his fingers got stuck and he screwed up on the release – badly enough that it very nearly smashed into his...
  • Man wins Lamborghini, crashes it

    A truck driver who won a $360,000, 640-horsepower Lamborghini Murcielago Roadster in a convenience store contest crashed the vehicle within six hours of it coming into his possession. After winning the convertible in a contest run by Maverik convenience stores, 34-year-old David Dopp indicated that he intended to sell...
  • African bull frog crushes ants and thumb far more aggressively than bearded dragon [video]

    Bearded dragons are cool at playing iPhone games and everything, but African bull frogs are where it is at. As you can see from this brief video, the frog gives it an honest effort, kills a few ants and suffers humiliating defeat at the hands of a wasp. The...
  • bugatti

    Former owner of totaled Bugatti sued for insurance fraud

    Two years ago, auto dealer Andy House (not to be confused with Gregory House, M.D.) ran his $1.2 million Bugatti Veyron EB into a Galveston, TX lagoon, causing irreparable salt water damage to the engine.  The cause?  A seagull.  According to House, he veered off Interstate 45 when he...
  • scott

    Sex tapes, bongs and child porn: The Sad Tale of Christopher Thomas Scott

    Twenty-year-old Christopher Thomas Scott has been arrested in Pennsylvania on a broad spectrum of charges after an initial investigation related to a sex tape he posted on the Internet, featuring himself and a woman he briefly dated. The sordid begins with Scott dating a now-24-year-old unnamed woman.  He coerced...
  • philome cesar

    FAIL: When robbery suspect self-represents, self-incrimination ensues

    Philome Cesar, charged with twenty-five counts of armed robbery following a three-month all-you-can-rob buffet of Pennsylvania businesses, made the fateful decision to self-represent.  For the most part, Cesar’s defense has been effective, arguing that because the robber was wearing a fishnet mask, the real robber could only be identified...