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A 24-year old Saudi Arabian man, who’s been in jail for 10 years for causing the paralysis of another, is set to be surgically paralyzed as part of his court appointed punishment and it’s got some human rights groups up in arms. Amnesty International, based in London, is publicly...

This is Seth Horvitz of Washington D.C., proudly displaying the high caliber assault rifle that was shipped to him by mistake. Seth recently became the proud, temporary owner of a brand new Sig Sauer SIG716 semi-automatic carbine. Unfortunately for Seth, he had been planning on accepting delivery of a...

An Argentinian couple devastated by the apparent “stillborn” birth of their youngest child, saved the baby when they found she was actually alive in a tiny coffin in the morgue. Analia Bouter, the mother, said she wanted to see her baby since she hadn’t in the hospital. Heavily sedated...

A 23-year-old woman faced the Brisbane District court last week for stealing more than $30,000. The victims, as it turns out, were not all that innocent – they were running an Internet car sales scam. Sarah Jane Cochrane-Ramsey was employed by a group of Nigerians to act as an...

Lest you thought that the reviewers at Urology were born without a sense of humor (that much is still up for debate)… The screaming face that you see above you came from ultrasound images of the scrotum of a 45-year-old male (obvious and redundant statement (only males have scrota...

An inmate escaped from St. Louis city jail on Friday after fighting off no less than 12 correctional officers with a pair of nunchucks that he had pieced together from a sheet and parts of a chair. After bashing his way through the security personnel, 31-year-old Lorenzo Pollard is...

I can understand how the Canucks losing to the Bruins in the Stanley Cup finals might upset a lot of people – pride was hurt, the southerners and their deep pockets won – it was a bad day to be a Canucks fan… but how that translates into wanting...

Although a large part of this author really hopes that a bunch of people raised enough money to raise this billboard somewhere near Harold Camping’s Oakland headquarters – something tells me it is just a quick and easy Photoshop effort. For the record, the Gimp traces in the file...

In case you hadn’t heard, some crackpot preacher from Oakland has predicted that all good Christians are going to be whisked up to heaven at 6 p.m. local time. With my love of the fast life and my lack of religion I am apparently going to be subjected to...