While at a Goodwill in Austin Texas, Laura Young found a bust under a table with a yellow price tag. “Clearly antique—clearly old,” Young, who runs her own business as an antiques dealer was intrigued. The price tag was haphazardly affixed to the busts right cheek. The tag read $34.99 and it seemed like a …
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Meet Miska. She’s a tabby cat living in Bellevue, Washington. Miska also has been embroiled in lawsuits for the past eight years. That’s because she’s a homicidal sociopath — allegedly. Since 2014, Miska has been slapped with various court orders for — allegedly — committing cruel and horrendous atrocities on her neighborhood’s other animals. According …
Space is, as you’re surely aware, the final frontier. And as it is with any frontier, things can start getting a bit murky when you need to enforce laws. For example, let’s say an astronaut committed some kind of a crime while traveling on a space shuttle. Under which country’s laws should they be tried? …
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In Livonia, Michigan, parents became outraged at Grand River Academy Livonia when a Kindergartner brought ready-to-drink Jose Cuervo margaritas for snack time, and multiple students drank from them. One of the parents is Alexis Smith. Her and another mom, Dominique Zanders, were baffled when they found out about what happened. Smith’s daughter had a Dixie …
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A wedding is supposed to be a special occasion for the bride and groom. As such, it’s not that weird for them to include something from their lives — like hobbies or other interests — in the reception. But you probably shouldn’t share your love for psychoactive substances with the guests. And you definitely shouldn’t …
Indonesian social media shows a video gone viral of the local sitting in the police station. The man who bought the “pot” reported a crime after purchasing the illegal substance. He holds a mysterious piece of paper which contain the supposed drugs he bought. However, what the man bought in search of marijuana was not …
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Police found the bodies which they call “severely decomposing” inside a $2 million California home at 58 Riverboat in Irvine, California, at 10:30a.m. Wednesday morning. It led them to thoughts of a murder-suicide. The IPD was contacted by Canadian authorities had contacted the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to conduct a welfare check on a mother, …
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Some habits are really hard to break. Case in point, a California woman apparently just can’t stop trying to commit fraud. Ashleigh Lynn Chavez, 37, was facing a lengthy prison sentence for embezzling money. But just a day before sentencing, she conveniently received a note from her doctor. It wasn’t good news. According to the …
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Yesterday, we brought you the strange story about the Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist. As we were writing it, we got to thinking — what other strange heists have there been? As it turns out, crooks around the world have pulled off pretty dang weird cons and heists. They aren’t something you’d see in Ocean’s …
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Here it is. The single most Canadian story we’ve ever heard. The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that Richard Vallières must pay more than $7 million in damages for his part in one the biggest heists in Canadian history. Vallières is accused of being the ringleader behind a large-scale theft of maple syrup from …
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