"A man was sentenced to five months in jail after he and a friend, acting on wounded pride, gunned down an ostrich that had kicked them as their female companions laughed, a newspaper reported Saturday."
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"When Jammie Thomas, a 30-year-old from Minnesota, downloaded Rhythm is Gonna Get You by Gloria Estefan on a free filesharing website, she couldn't have realised how prophetic the title was. This week, in the first case of music piracy to reach a federal jury, she was ordered to pay $9,250 for that song alone to... More
"Nebraska Democratic State Senator Ernie Chambers has decided to go straight to the top in an effort to stop natural disasters from befalling the world.
"Chambers has filed a lawsuit against God. The suit asks for a 'permanent injunction ordering Defendant to cease certain harmful activities and the making of... More
Meet Carlton Davis. The Minnesota man, 26, is facing felony charges for allegedly stealing a cell phone and purse from a woman he mugged on a St. Paul street early Saturday morning. According to police, after the woman turned over her belongings, Davis announced, "Now I'm going to suck your feet." Which he did,... More
"Not that they're worried or anything. But the White House evidently leaves little to chance when it comes to protests within eyesight of the president. As in, it doesn't want any.
"A White House manual that came to light recently gives presidential advance staffers extensive instructions in the art of... More
Embattled NFL quarterback Michael Vick, facing federal charges related to his alleged participation in dogfighting, has been hit with a "$63,000,000,000 billion dollar" lawsuit filed by a South Carolina inmate who alleges the Atlanta Falcons star stole his pit bulls and sold them on eBay to buy "missiles from... More
"The US has lost track of about 190,000 weapons issued to Iraqi security forces since the 2003 invasion, some of which will have ended up in the hands of insurgents, according to an official report published in Washington. Among the missing items are AK-47 rifles, pistols, body armour and helmets..."
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Rhain Davis signed with the Manchester United soccer club after video of his soccer skills was sent to United staff by his grandfather. The video then surfaced on YouTube, where it's been viewed over 800,000 times. Davis is only NINE years old.
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Don Frick is either a lucky man or one unlucky Bastard. He's been struck by lightning twice now and is still living to tell about the experience(s). 27 years to the day after he was struck by lightning while riding his tractor, Frick was again blasted as he took refuge from a storm in a nearby shed. He escaped with... More
Who knew?
Some of NASA's finest have been getting sauced up before launch. According to a report by the space agency, two astronauts were allowed to fly despite complaints by flight surgeons and colleagues that they were "too intoxicated." According to NASA's "Bottle-to-Throttle" rule, astronauts are not allowed... More
Andrew Feldmar, a well-known Vancouver psychotherapist, has been banned from the US for writing about his experience with LSD that occurred about 40 years ago. At 66 years old, Feldmar was viewed as a 'narcotics user' and is basically banned from the US now. Hooray for America.
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Celebrity drama isn't just for A-listers. We go a bit 'outside the box' on this one for some rare celebrity news, only because it's Andy Dick vs. Jon Lovitz in a D-list celebrity deathmatch.
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Someone is discretely sneaking around to business offices in Japan and leaving large sums of money inside rest rooms. Shitters! The cash comes with a note asking the person who finds it to use the money towards 'self-enlightenment.' Enlightenment comes from within. So does poo.
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The former head of China's food and drug agency was punished Tuesday after he was charged with approving fake medicine in exchange for bribes. Even in a country that reportedly executes 10-15,000 people a year, more than all other countries combined, his sentence seemed a bit severe.
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Here's why you should never sit on a drain that leads to a suction pump in a swimming pool, even if it's only a wading pool. If you're not eating, go to your kitchen, grab a BIG bowl of something, then click on the following link.
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Assassination plots, illegal break-ins, kidnapping, domestic surveillance. The new James Bond film? Bush administration hijinks? David Hasselhoff's weekend? Nope.
The CIA is releasing a 693-page dossier known as the "Family Jewels" that details "all" of the CIA's illegal operations from 1953 through 1973. The... More
Leave it to Canadians to create a William Shatner-inspired art gallery. "It's kind of about [Shatner] as the center of the universe," said artist and weirdo Katie Radke. Ughhhh.
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The European Space Agency wants you... to volunteer to go to Mars... but not really.
Scientists want to conduct a simulated mission to the red planet. You and five complete strangers will be packed into very tight living quarters for 520 days and pretend to be astronauts! Sounds fun, right? Pack that toothbrush,... More
Get ready to feel stupid. Andrew Hsu is like any other college student. Well, other than the fact he's 16; is graduating with not one, not two, but three degrees in neurobiology, biochemistry and chemistry from the University of Washington; has started his own foundation, the World Children's Organization, that... More
Yet another story of a white supremacist holed up in his fortified house with a load of weapons. Ed Brown is his name. Him and his wife were convicted in absentia of failing to pay over one-million dollars in taxes. Poster-boy of the Republican Party or paranoid racist? You decide.
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