violence

While the chainsaw has a somewhat fearsome reputation, thanks largely to movies like Scarface and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre events that transpired in Geelong, Australia last month suggest that it may be unfounded – and that a shovel might in fact, be a superior weapon. Luke Shields and Bradley...

Some people don’t deserve to be parents. A Florida man by the name of Steven Grady Fillingim was arrested and charged with child abuse after police responded to a neighbor’s complaint saying they were suspecting the teenage daughter in the house was being abused.  She was and according to...

Anonymous is at it again, calling for justice for the family of 17-year old Rahtaeh Parsons, Halifax, Nova Scotia, who committed suicide 18months after she was “allegedly” gang raped by four young men at a party. The assault was photographed, the picture distributed among her school and she was...

Stories like this make you really wonder WTF this world is coming to. Two 10-year old boys are being held on a $100,000 bond for a murder plot they intended to carry out. The targets were one of the duo’s ex-“girlfriend” and a number of other students whose names...

Police in Norfolk, England are a bit more than baffled after a 28-year old man was attacked by a pair of Oompa Loompas, the oranged faced, green haired characters from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, written by Ronald Dahl. Media outlets report the man was approached by the Oompa...

Halloween. The costumes. The candy. The drunken people getting into fights in restaurants after the clubs close. I mean, when else will you see a couple of girls take off their heels and forget about the just below the butt hem line and fully duke it out? Where else...

A 53-year-old Santa was arrested at Bordeaux’s Christmas market for threatening his employer, who was also his nephew, with an unloaded hunting rifle. The Sud Ouest claimed that the dispute had risen over unpaid hours and the angry Santa, feeling that he had been “swindled”. Market spokeswoman Florence Cambon...

Inflation irks us all. But for one American man the 50cent price range of his Beefy Crunch Burrito lead to a 3-hour standoff with police last Sunday. And yes, guns were fired. Richardo Jones, 37, ordered seven of the Taco Bell burritos at the Rigsby Road drive-thru in San...

Every popular uprising has a tipping point – the moment when festering resentment either reaches critical mass and topples an unpopular government or conversely, when the unpopular government reminds the rebellious masses why they are in charge. Egypt is rapidly approaching one of those two conclusions, which will it...