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  • Helpline Priest’s Snoozing Dissuaded Suicidal Caller

    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...
  • Romanian Street Sign Warns of Stumbling Drunks

    Pecica, Romania: A Romanian town decided to take action over what was considered to be a “despairing” amount of accidents involving cars and drunken pedestrians by warning about them with street signs. The Daily Mail reports that the signs feature a crawling stick figure with a glass in hand...
  • O.J. Victory Suit Probably Not Smithsonian Material

    Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.: The Smithsonian Institution has said they are not likely to accept the suit that O.J. Simpson was wearing when he was acquitted over the murders of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson. While a judge had approved the donation from Simpson, who is behind bars...
  • Missionaries to Position Selves In “Godless” Darwin

    A family of North Carolinian evangelists is planning to set up a mission in Australia’s northern city of Darwin. The Gibbs family is heading to the “unreached city” on account of the high rates of drinking and sexually transmitted diseases. From the Gibb’s family site: As we continue to...
  • Man Carried 9.4 Miles By Strangers in NYC (Video)

    In his video, Man Carried 9.4 Miles by Strangers in NYC, Mark Malkoff attempts to disprove the myth that New Yorkers are unfriendly by getting strangers to carry him. He was kind enough to capture their efforts on video. Malkoff wrote: Here’s a new video entitled, “Man Carried 9.4...
  • Cranial Tribute Left At Tomb Of Slain Mexican Drug Lord

    A human head with a single red flower in one ear was found by the tomb of slain Mexican drug lord Arturo Beltran “El Barbas” Leyva on Sunday. Earth Times reports that the grisly discovery was made by an employee of the Jardines del Humaya cemetery in the city...
  • New Zealand Teen’s Sudden Intentional Exposure Brings Traffic To Crashing Halt

    A New Zealand teenager received a fine after an accident that resulted from flashing her breasts at passing motorists. The Register reports that Cherelle May Dudfield, 18, was struck by a distracted driver after she deliberately displayed her breasts in the middle of a road in Invercargill. In the...
  • Canadian Porn Study Shelved Due To Lack Of Non-viewers

    A University of Montreal researcher announced that he was forced to drastically alter a pornography study as he was not able to find any adult men who had never viewed erotic material. Professor Simon Louis Lajeunesse told the Sun: The objective of my work is to observe the impact...
  • Baby Boom In Chicago High School

    A Chicago high school has an ignoble claim to fame: close to one in seven of its female students is pregnant....