Sick, stranded whale to be put out of misery with explosives
Thu, 2/09/10 – 1:10 | One Comment

A whale that is stranded and sick is set to leave this world a bang… of explosives that is.
The Western Australia Department of Environment and Conservation have decided that the unusual step is necessary because …

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Delivery Room Brawl Leaves Mother and Baby in Critical Condition
Sunday, 29 Aug, 2010 – 20:31 | One Comment
Delivery Room Brawl Leaves Mother and Baby in Critical Condition

As if that didn’t sound horrifying enough, know this–the brawl was between the two doctors responsible for the mother-to-be and her unborn child.
The site of this terrible story is the Polyclinic Hospital in Messina, on …

SWAT called in when Colorado craft fair turns ugly
Tuesday, 24 Aug, 2010 – 4:31 | No Comment
SWAT called in when Colorado craft fair turns ugly

Police and SWAT teams were called into Fort Collins, Colorado to break up a group of approximately 400 rioters who had been attending a music and crafts festival.
It has been reported that police were called …

Russian man tried to stab his way out of jail prophecy
Saturday, 14 Aug, 2010 – 2:57 | One Comment
Russian man tried to stab his way out of jail prophecy

A Russian man was sentenced to 22 years in a maximum security prison after a fortune teller told him something that he didn’t want to hear.
On October 8 of last year Gennady Osipovich met a …

Fortune teller-inspired ‘torture’ session played out to Lady Gaga soundtrack
Wednesday, 4 Aug, 2010 – 4:59 | No Comment
Fortune teller-inspired ‘torture’ session played out to Lady Gaga soundtrack

A couple accused of tying up and torturing a teenage employee told a Darwin court that they did so because a Vietnamese fortune teller told them that she was stealing.
dos Santos, 18, described a family-like …

Comic-Con attendee “stabbed in face” by angry Potter fan [latest details]
Monday, 26 Jul, 2010 – 19:01 | 2 Comments
Comic-Con attendee “stabbed in face” by angry Potter fan [latest details]

Police have released further details relating to the Comic-Con stabbing incident that occurred on Saturday.
Apparently, the incident occurred when an argument of the proximity of the two attendees seats got out of hand.
The injured …

Comic-Con attendee “stabbed in face” by angry Potter fan
Monday, 26 Jul, 2010 – 3:04 | No Comment
Comic-Con attendee “stabbed in face” by angry Potter fan

A Comic-Con attendee was allegedly stabbed in the face with a pen by a Harry Potter fan.
Information on the incident remains sketchy, but according to MTV, the disagreement was over seating – or lack thereof. …

Acne-picking and other bizarre “causes of death” in Chinese prisons
Tuesday, 13 Jul, 2010 – 23:53 | No Comment
Acne-picking and other bizarre “causes of death” in Chinese prisons

While it might be argued that a person is “lucky” to be sent to prison in a country where some 68 crimes (including gold and silver smuggling) are punishable by death, beating the firing squad …

Boys aged 5, 7 hack fugitive to death with sickles
Tuesday, 29 Jun, 2010 – 21:27 | One Comment
Boys aged 5, 7 hack fugitive to death with sickles

When a pair of brothers approached police officers in Pilibhit district, India and told them that they had killed a hardened career criminal – they were met with disbelief, until they saw the boys’ blood-stained …

Gospel loving family beat soccer fan to death in channel battle
Thursday, 17 Jun, 2010 – 23:57 | No Comment
Gospel loving family beat soccer fan to death in channel battle

A South African soccer fan was beaten to death so that his family could watch a religious television program.
Anyone with siblings will know that battles over remote controls are serious business – they can even …

Television networks settle disagreement with Tasers
Tuesday, 15 Jun, 2010 – 2:21 | One Comment
Television networks settle disagreement with Tasers

A security specialist for an Australian television network was allegedly Tased by a security guard working for a rival network as the two groups attempted to cover a fan procession at the World Cup.
The disagreement …

Baptism party violence leaves two dead in Jersey
Monday, 14 Jun, 2010 – 23:45 | One Comment
Baptism party violence leaves two dead in Jersey

A verbal dispute attendees of a baptism party and another group outside a Mexican restaurant in New Jersey was resolved with knives.

Father issues suspected sender of dirty text a liberal dose of ultraviolence
Friday, 11 Jun, 2010 – 0:07 | One Comment
Father issues suspected sender of dirty text a liberal dose of ultraviolence

French Valley, California: A father is facing four felonies after a bizarre attack on a 23-year-old man that had sent his 17-year-old daughter an obscene photograph.
When an angry William Atwood Sr., 45, reported that a …

Poker Playing Preacher Shot For Cheating
Monday, 7 Jun, 2010 – 22:20 | One Comment
Poker Playing Preacher Shot For Cheating

Patricia Clark,a 51-year-old preacher, was known to play a mean hand of poker – unfortunately for her, one of her friends thought that she was augmenting her skills with some underhanded tactics. She might …

Saudi Woman Sends Religious Cop To Hospital
Tuesday, 18 May, 2010 – 20:34 | 2 Comments
Saudi Woman Sends Religious Cop To Hospital

When some possibly overzealous question from one of Saudi Arabia’s religious policemen from the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice apparently caused a young man to collapse, the woman that he …

Armed Robber Clobbered By Extremely Large, Somewhat Grumpy Gambler
Friday, 14 May, 2010 – 1:05 | One Comment
Armed Robber Clobbered By Extremely Large, Somewhat Grumpy Gambler

Azar Sulman lived to regret the day that he pulled a gun on a 114-kg Martin Richardson. Richardson, a 48-year-old father-of-six decided to take out his bad mood, the result of an unsuccessful day at …

Inmates May Have Settled Score For Beaten Grandma
Sunday, 9 May, 2010 – 21:41 | One Comment
Inmates May Have Settled Score For Beaten Grandma

On December 8, 2008 Sandy Vinge, now in her mid-70′s, was abducted from her home in La Mesa by two men posing as vacuum salesmen, robbed, beaten and stuffed in the back of a car.
Jeffrey …