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…
After 77 years of marriage, including a short separation a decade ago, a 99 year old Italian man, Antonio C, has finally found the excuse he’s been waiting for to divorce his wife. Recently, while going through some drawers, Antonio found letters his wife had written to a lover in the 1940s. Confronted with the…
One would think that educators running a special needs classroom would be seasoned at dealing with different behavioral issues. Recently, staff at Mercer County Intermediate School in Harrodsburg, Kentucky proved otherwise, placing 9 year old Christopher Baker inside a duffel bag after he misbehaved in class. Baker, a 4th grader with autism, ha apparently been…
Wilfredo Rodena has had a lot of quiet time to think. 22 years into a 25 year sentence for armed kidnapping he thinks he may have found a way to make “one houndred dollarys”. Rodena recently filed suit alleging his civil rights were violated by his defense attorney, “I don’t know my lawyer’s name”, who…