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  • Hidden garage keeps up appearances, adds valuable parking space

    You live in an area where parking spaces are at a premium, have a Victorian style apartment building and don’t want to screw up its aesthetics by sticking a big ugly parking bay underneath it, what do you do? You could do what one building owner in San Francisco’s...
  • Old man and caretaker get medieval on home invader with a frying pan and a pitchfork

    The elderly gentleman that you see in this picture is 81-year-old Bobby Smith; the woman next to him is his 65-year-old caretaker Luvina. The pair of them recently made mincemeat of a man armed with a gun who entered their home and demanded money. Smith explained that the intruder...
  • Man kills in defense of Mike Tyson’s honor

    A Russian college teacher in Tyumen, Siberia killed a house guest when a discussion on the fighting abilities of Mike Tyson and Ukraine’s Klitschko brothers got ugly. Nikolai Makeyev was enjoying drinks with two friends when the argument started. According to the regional investigating committee: Makeyev said that Tyson...
  • Eleven-year-old racks up $1,700 Xbox Live bill, mom begs forgiveness

    I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that Brendan’s mom Dawn is probably not in the running for mother of the year. Dawn is complaining that her son managed to accrue around $1,700 in debt after she used her debit card to pay for a...
  • Superhero crime-fighter only human after all [Phoenix Jones]

    I must admit that I was a little intrigued when news first started to circulate about an amateur crime fighting movement involving people dressed as superheroes. But part of me knew that publicizing what they were doing would only serve to encourage greater acts of stupidity – and that...
  • Politician catches own assassin in family snapshot

    A Philippine politician gunned down in front of his family on New Year’s Eve caught his assassin in a family snapshot a few moments before he was shot. Reynaldo Dagsa’s final picture shows his family posing for the photograph in the foreground and his alleged killer aiming a pistol...
  • Teen punched for refusing to turn off cell phone on flight

    An elderly man was charged with misdemeanor battery for punching a teenager in the arm during a Southwest Airlines flight. The beef apparently arose when the teenager wouldn’t shut off his iPhone before the plane landed. Sixty-eight-year-old Russel Earl Miller is said to have become enraged on the Las...
  • Grandmother of seven saved by the wisdom of Bear Grylls

    An Australian woman escaped from a car that was being swept away by flood waters thanks to the sagely advice of television survivalist Bear Grylls. McLaren, a grandmother of seven, ran into trouble during a flash flood in Ipswich, Queensland after seeing a 4×4 successfully negotiate the flooded road:...
  • Wife bit off husband’s tongue in heat of passion

    A Wisconsin woman found herself charged with mayhem-domestic violence after things soured in her marital bed two nights ago. Karen Lueders, believed to be in her 50’s, is accused of biting off half of her 79-year-old husband’s tongue when he refused a request to “toss her salad” on the...