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  • Real Madrid defender drops trophy under victory bus [video]

    Here is an example of how not to celebrate winning the Copa del Rey (King’s Cup). Real Madrid right back Sergio Ramos is front and center up the top of the Real Madrid double decker party bus when the trophy slips from his hands and drops to the street...
  • failsafe

    Disabilities recipient caught playing golf

    Chris Mowatt collected over $26,000 dollars from the British welfare system over the course of three and a half years; he claimed that a slipped disc in his back kept him from walking more than 25 yards at a time.  The best part: Mowatt suffered from no real disability....
  • Wanna Be Driver Attacks Examiner Who Didn’t Accept Her Bribe

    Try and try again. If then you don’t succeed – try a bribe. It’s the formula one British woman tried to insure she’d pass his drivers test. Jin Su has failed 5 times already and apparently couldn’t stand getting the big, red “F” again. Needless to say, it didn’t...
  • Fox News names nuclear reactor after Shibuya nightclub

    To the best of this author’s knowledge (and contrary to what Fox News reported earlier), there are no nuclear plants in Japan named “Shibuyaeggman”. There are actually no nightclubs here named that either, but there is a nightclub named “Eggman” and it is situated in Shibuya. To the research...
  • wishing well

    Charity fail: Wishing Well Foundation voted worst US charity for sixth year

    If you gave a dollar to the Wishing Well Foundation USA, you’ll be extremely displeased to know that only five cents went to treating terminally-ill children, while nearly twice that much went to the charity’s president. The non-profit watchdog Charity Navigator gave the Wishing Well Foundation from Metarie, Louisiana...
  • somali pirate

    Yachting fail: Somali pirates capture American crew

    With the international media closely monitoring destabilizing governments in Egypt and Bahrain, I suppose it’s easy to forget that Somali pirates are still patrolling the Western Indian Ocean. Evidently the thought hadn’t occurred to Jean and Scott Adam, an American couple on a seven-year sailing expedition to circumnavigate the...
  • gun store clerk

    When gun store heist goes wrong, robbers lose $40

    In what was a somewhat clever plan to take a Kansas gun store clerk by surprise, two men pretended to be purchasing ammunition but fell just ten dollars short.  When told this, one of the men pulled a gun. The 65-year-old store clerk, who was wearing a holstered gun...
  • william parminter

    FAIL: Man arrested for DUI moments after DUI court hearing

    Nebraska’s William Parminter was arrested on his fourth DUI offense and appeared in court this month to contest evidence; however, upon being spotted leaving the courtroom parking lot by his arresting officer, Parminter was pulled over yet again and blew a 0.238 percent, just shy of three times the...
  • cathy cruz marrero

    Woman falls into mall fountain while texting, now suing mall

    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...