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If you live in bear country, you should secure both your trash and your car. After all, it’s nothing unusual for a bear to break into your vehicle and eat the interior. That’s what seemingly happened to four men in California. While vacationing in Lake Arrowhead, all of their vehicles got ransacked by a supposed …
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Everybody has a kink, and that’s alright. You can be into sock puppet bondage or whatever as long as everybody involved is a consenting adult and you don’t bother anyone. It becomes a problem, though, if you can’t keep your kink to yourself — like this guy from Greece. A Greek court recently sentenced a …
Continue reading “Man Put on Probation After Neighbors Catch Him Sniffing Their Shoes”
South Carolina’s unique geography makes it a haven for wildlife. Roaming the state’s woods, you might see white-tailed deer, black bears, wild turkeys, bald eagles, monkeys… Wait, monkeys? Indeed, a bunch of rhesus macaques recently decided to add themselves to the list of wild animals found in South Carolina. Dozens of monkeys made a break …
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As every cat owner knows, the little furballs can be destructive. They might push glasses off the table, shred your couch, or relentlessly bully the dog. Or they might shatter your skull, snap your spine, and leave you screaming in a pool of your own blood. We’re not exaggerating, either. That’s exactly the nightmare scenario …
Continue reading “Man Breaks His Neck, Lies 14 Hours in His Own Blood — After Tripping on His Cat”
We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it many times more — if it’s not nailed, welded, and chained down, someone will steal it. It doesn’t matter how bizarre the thing is. Maple syrup, churches, and a Florida woman’s driveway have all been pilfered by enterprising thieves. We now have another mind-boggling heist to add …
Continue reading “Grate Cheese Heist: Conmen Steal Nearly 50,000 Pounds of Luxury Cheese”
The World Conker Championships just can’t catch a break. It seems some new controversy rattles the annual U.K. chestnut-smashing competition every year. In 2023, the year’s mushy chestnut harvest led to the contest’s organizers suggesting they bake the nuts to harden them. That sparked outrage, which relented only after the organizers announced they had found …
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All publicity is good publicity. We don’t know who said it originally, but whoever it was, they were correct. Goldfish is the latest brand to prove this anonymous marketing genius right. As a kid, you surely snacked on these cheesy crackers that don’t actually have anything to do with fish apart from their shape. Well, …
Continue reading “Goldfish Crackers Change Their Name to ‘Chilean Sea Bass’ — Except Not Really”
You can find plenty of things washed ashore if you go rummaging on a beach. You might find some pretty sea glass, old furniture, priceless whale puke, or severed human feet, for example. Or you might find an indescribable doughy mass of unknown origin. That’s what Canadian beachcombers in Newfoundland have been discovering in the …
Continue reading “Mystery ‘Dough’ Washing Up on Canadian Shores Stumps Beachgoers and Experts”
What’s the most horrible situation you can imagine? It may not be this specifically, but waking up as someone is cutting you open and removing your organs must rank pretty high on anybody’s list. That’s a fate that one Kentucky man narrowly avoided. After going into cardiac arrest, Anthony Thomas “TJ” Hoover was declared brain …
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If you preach something, you’d better practice it as well. Otherwise, you might end up making yourself look downright silly. Just like this German fire department. The Stadtallendotf Fire Department moved to its new fire station earlier this year. The multi-million-dollar building is a state-of-the-art facility with everything firefighting personnel could ever hope to need. …
Continue reading “Brand-New Fire Station Burns Down in Germany — Because It Had No Fire Alarms”