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A drug dealer in New Zealand who feared that a tsunami was about to strike was busted when he tried to move his moldy pot stash to higher ground. Police said that they spotted 57-year-old Richard Toihau Carlson driving with a broken tail light on the North Island after...

A Utah woman received 30 days of home detention after she blindfolded her husband and told him that she was going to give him a surprise… then hit him on the head with a hammer. Amy Teresa Ricks, 37, pleaded guilty to second-degree felony aggravated assault in February. The...

While going to law school might not be everybody’s cup of tea, I doubt there are too many people that are so scared of the prospect that they commit a crime to ensure that they are never allowed to enter one. However, it was precisely that fear that was...

British prisoners who have been clean for years are being reintroduced to narcotics before being set loose in a bid to increase their tolerance levels before they hit the streets. The controversial practice of preparing reformed heroin abusers for release with small doses of methadone aims to save lives....

While unquestionably grotesque, leeches tend to be rather benign creatures. They latch onto a host, gorge themselves on blood and fall off of their own accord – a little disgusting but nothing to worry about. Of course, there are leech species that have adapted to feed on mucous membranes...

Dover, New Hampshire: A teenager placed electrical clamps on his nipples on a dare in a bid to earn Mountain Dew every day for the rest of the school year. The shock that 18-year-old Kyle DuBois received after he attached the clamps to his nipples was enough to stop...

A suicidal man was left feeling so angry that he lost the will to kill himself after the priest at the suicide helpline that he called fell asleep. When the 44-year-old man called emergency services at 2am on Friday reporting to be feeling “psychologically unstable”, he call was forwarded...

Tigers are interesting critters: Siegfried and Roy demonstrated that they can never truly be tamed. The other thing about them is that they can jump really, really high. Both points make the decision to have the Jiangxi Elite Children Arts Troupe stage a tightrope walk over a Siberian tiger...

Warsaw, Poland: A Polish burglar developed a novel method for gaining access to the offices of couriers – he mailed himself inside. Once inside, he waited until night, climbed out, took what he wanted, then boxed himself back up again addressed to his home. The only problem with the...