Jakadrien Turner was born in the United States. She is a United States Citizen. She speaks is African-American and speaks no Spanish. Yet when she was arrested last year in Houston for shoplifiting, six month after the 14 year old ran away from her home in Dallas, police decided she was a 22 year old…
In what might be a case of improvisational performance art gone very, very wrong, 36 year old Carmen Tisch of Colorado scratched, punched, dropped her pants and rubbed her bare buttocks on a $30 million Clyfford Still painting at the Clyfford Still museum in Denver. Tisch’s outburst caused $10,000 in damage to the painting, titled…
One young man is struggling to rebound after his awkward marriage proposal on the UCLA “mistletoe cam” was followed by a long pause and a fleeing bride-to-not-be. The man’s words: “I knew that I was going to do this since the first day that I met you, and I figured now was as good a…
In one of the more surreal customer service nightmares we’ve come across recently, Paypal ordered a disgruntled buyer to destroy a $2500 violinand provide evidence of said destruction in order to get their money back after they claimed it was a [caption id="" align="alignright" width="200" caption="Image via CrunchBase"][/caption] counterfeit. The seller, who was never given…
We’ve never gone paragliding, nor do we have any interest in doing so. But we’re pretty sure that the example in the clip below violates what we imagine to be rule #1 of paragliding: watch where you land! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk-BLDhaeBg Related articles How to Picnic While Paragliding (thedailymeal.com) Paraglider rescued after crashing into tree during take-off…
Workers at the San Francsico Zoo were surprised on Friday morning when they discovered breaches in a perimeter fence and in the meshing around the squirrel monkey habitat. They were worried when they discovered that Banana-Sam, a much-beloved monkey, was missing. A day later, on Saturday evening, a man walking through a park noticed movement…
Michael Anthony Fuller no longer feels like a million dollars. There’s a scene in Airplane 2 where Sonny Bono walks into a store and nonchalantly selects several items before sheepishly asking for “the second time bomb on the left”. We imagine that Mr. Fuller’s recent trip to Walmart was much like that. Mr Fuller selected…
As older brothers, we certainly don’t want to discourage fraternal obedience, but sometimes you’ve just got to say no to your older brother. For example, if he asks you to swallow an ounce of cocaine he’s hiding in his buttocks, you should refuse. Case in point: 20 year old Wayne Joshua Mitchell died last month…