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Even among the rowdy crowd of rock stars, punk rockers are famed for outrageous stunts. Ever since the days of Sex Pistols, punks have built a (sometimes undeserved) reputation for irreverence, violence, and heavy substance consumption. We’re saying this because even against this backdrop, this punk singer’s actions are really low. Nashville, Tennessee-based hardcore punk …
Continue reading “Punk Band Fires Singer After He Dosed Bassist with Estrogen to Steal His Fiancée”
Ah, Hooters. The only place where you can go to get served so-so Buffalo wings by scantily-clad waitresses. Well, probably not. Still, the restaurant chain is an American icon. Perhaps it’s that iconic status that prompted a West Virginia neighborhood to bid farewell to their local Hooters in a solemn ceremony. The Hooters location in …
Continue reading “West Virginia Neighborhood Holds Candlelight Vigil for the State’s Last Hooters”
If you want a quiet pet, you should get an aquarium. Fish have no vocal cords and whatever other sounds they make are typically muffled by water. Some fish, though, can be surprisingly noisy, like the black drum fish that keep a Florida town awake by having obnoxiously loud fish sex. But they’ve got nothing …
Continue reading “Small but Loud: How a Tiny Fish Makes a Noise as Loud as a Gunshot”
Potholes — nobody likes them. Except maybe this one. For decades, a peculiar pothole has charmed passersby in a Chicago neighborhood. Although it does stand as a testament to the poor maintenance of Chicago streets, you can’t help but find the hole amusing. After all, it’s shaped like a squished rat. Although the unlucky rodent’s …
Continue reading “To Fill or Not to Fill: Neighborhood Battles Over the Chicago Rat Hole”
Usually, when things end up in people’s behinds, they try to act like they have no idea how it happened. Take, for example, the man who “slipped and fell” on a WWII-era artillery shell. The fellow from our story, however, had no qualms whatsoever about sticking stuff where the sun don’t shine. Police in Texas …
Continue reading “Texas Man in Kilt Arrested for Sticking Valuable Antiques Up His Butt”
It seems every company these days is trying to save costs by doing almost their entire customer service through an online AI-powered chatbot. Sometimes, it’s almost impossible to get in touch with an actual human being. Recently, however, Air Canada had a bit of a chatbot mishap that might make some companies reconsider using them. …
Continue reading “Air Canada Forced to Honor Refund Policy AI Chatbot Made Up”
The bad thing about airplanes is that once they’re in the air, you can’t get out. That means if there’s a person with a bad cough or a screaming baby on board, you’re stuck for the next few hours. Yet, both of those sound like delightful scenarios compared to someone spewing blood out of every …
Continue reading “Horror in the Air: Plane Passenger Bleeds ‘Liters of Blood’ and Dies Mid-Air”
There’s a global competition among criminals to find who can commit the most outlandish crime. There has to be, looking at the bizarre thefts that keep popping up all around the world. At the end of last year, we brought you the story of the Florida woman whose driveway was stolen. Then, just last week, …
Continue reading “The Great Cuban Chicken Heist: 30 Charged for Stealing 145 Tons of Poultry”
We just wrote a whole list of places that shouldn’t support life but still do. But if that wasn’t enough proof for you that life finds a way, here’s another (and even more bizarre) story. A North Carolina aquarium recently found out that a female stingray living in their tanks is pregnant. That’s usually happy …
Continue reading “Mate-less Aquarium Stingray Got Knocked Up by Either Sharks or Herself”
If it’s not nailed down, somebody will try and steal it. From gallons of bull semen to a home’s driveway, it seems enterprising criminals will pilfer anything, no matter how big. Yet, this latest case really pushes the limits of what’s feasible to steal. When we first learned about it, we figured there must be …
Continue reading “Thieves Steal Alabama Radio Station’s 200-foot-tall Transmitter Tower”