A teenager shot himself in the testicles - doesn't have the balls to do it again.
17-year-old walked into a Vallejo Medical Center with a gunshot wound after he mistakenly shot himself in the testicles.
Actual headline: Police say fake veterinarian - apparently dressed as a man this time - arrested again.
A NJ man who police say posed as a female veterinarian was arrested Monday morning for allegedly trying to fraudulently obtain a drug prescription at a local pharmacy.
Goat Boy's mother found!
An 101 year old Chinese woman has stunned her family and fellow villagers by growing a horn than resembles a goat’s.
You're at the movies and someone asks you to stop talking on your cell. Do you: A) Stop B) Continue C) Stab him in the neck with a meat thermometer?
LANCASTER- A man was stabbed in the neck with a meat thermometer after asking a woman to silence her cell phone in a movie theater
That's Nacho Cheese fool!!
A SF man gets nearly 8 years in the slammer for stealing a bag of shredded goodness. He would've gouda'd away with it if it weren't for those provolone kids.
Pot found in 5th grader's Fruity Pebbles, no word on the contents of his Smacks.
A Stoneman Elementary School student was obtained after bringing "Space cakes" to school.
There ain't no party like a Vancouver party unless the Vancouver rubbers run out
Thanks to rowdy curling matches and booze filled celebration an emergency shipment of condoms is headed to Vancouver for Olympic athletes.
52 yr old man gets wood - beat poor mum with it.
Stanley Mumby was arrested Saturday morning after he attacked his bedridden 83-year-old mother, according to the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department.
Man opens up a museum dedicated to vacuums, knowing that it's going to suck.
A Nottingham man know as "Mr. Vacuum Cleaner" has opened the first vacuum museum.
Love letters from John F. Kennedy to his Swedish mistress are up for auction. Camelot? You bet he did.
Yo momma so stupid, she got caught stealin' from QVC!
A Broomall, PA. woman, already awaiting trial in Montgomery County for stealing from her former employer, is under arrest again. This time, she's accused of stealing tens of thousands of dollars worth of jewelry from QVC.
Over the highway and into the woods, it's grandmothers crack we smoke.
A Boston grandmother had been smoking crack Friday night before the car she was riding in crashed into a Seabrook police cruiser, sped up Route 1 at 100 miles-per-hour, then crashed into a tree on Elwyn Road, police allege.
Atlanta's MARTA system, similar to our T, renames only line to Little China Town the "Yellow Line" - karate ensues... most dishonorable.
MARTA officials were warned by an employee before the name change last October that Atlanta’s burgeoning Asian community would find the term for the line offensive.
It puts the lotion in its pants.
Springfield police arrested a Framingham man after a chase as he stuffed 75 bottles of lotion in his pants at a Bath and Body Works.
"OMG, watch this, I can totally txt, speed & hit this bong @ the same time."
Three teens in Montana where seriously injured when a car ran off the road as the driver was texting and speeding and smoking marijuana.
The groundhog has spoken. And it's bad news.
Punxsutawney Phil has emerged to see his shadow before chilly revelers in Pennsylvania, meaning winter will last another six weeks.
Want to get back at your ex-wife? Try the nimble mouse approach.
A 59-year-old man has been arrested for using his ex-wife's musophobia to wreak cruel revenge for their break up after he pushed 19 mice through her letter box on Sunday morning.
A Baltimore woman is bitten by a cobra in a mall parklot, Paul Blart unavailable for comment.
Over the weekend a woman walked into a Baltimore clinic reporting she had been in a shopping center parking lot when she bent down to pick up what she thought was a stick. The "stick," was a exotic two-foot monocled cobra.
Michael Jackson's Choreographer Teaches Dancing Filipino Prisoners 'This Is It' Routine.
The first Mr. Gay China competition will be held in Beijing this week and a lot of the men will be Hung.
Beijing to host first Mr. Gay China pageant. The show intends to help citizens acknowledge China's thriving gay community
Man who uses math to explain his women woes says, "It's as simple as pi."
A man studying in London has taken a mathematical equation that predicts the possibility of alien life in the universe to explain why he can't find a girlfriend... nuff said.
If you did something fishy & stole 22 tons of tilapia, then Port Authorities would like to speak with you & recommend a nice Chardonnay.
New York Container Terminal forked over almost 22 tons of frozen tilapia, valued at more than $49,000, to the wrong party, an importer alleges in a recent lawsuit.
Falling dolphin injures sea-world trainer, possibly on porpoise.
Ambulance officers were called to the Sea World theme park when a trainer sustained neck and back injuries after a dolphin fell on him.
Naked man with suspicious package scares children and White House security.
A DC man created a scene, and a Secret Service scare near the White House during rush hour last night as he stripped to the buff and took off running, leaving his bag of clothes unattended on the Ellipse.
Attention folks, this is your Captian slurring... we're approaching... fasten... one sec... I've gotta finish this Jagerbomb... wait... you can't say bomb on a plane!
A United Airlines pilot who was pulled from his trans-Atlantic flight to Chicago shortly before takeoff pleaded guilty Tuesday to being above the alcohol limit for flying a plane.
The paper airplane world record was set in Japan on Sunday.Those born in the last 15 years, ask your folks what a paper-plane is.
Japanese paper airplane virtuoso Takuo Toda — set a world record for a hand-launched plane made with only paper, but fell just short of the 30-second mark, which in the paper airplace world is the stuff dreams are made of.
Having never seen Poltergeist, US Marines build outpost on graveyard. What could possibly go wrong?
Eerie outpost unnerves US Marines with strange lights and whispers in the night.
Dog ownership has the same ecological footprint as driving an SUV. PETA responds by keying dogs.
PARIS – Man's best friend could be one of the environment's worst enemies, according to a new study which says the carbon pawprint of a pet dog is more than double that of a gas-guzzling sports utility vehicle.
What would Jesus Steal?
A clergyman has been criticised as 'highly irresponsible' after advising his congregation to shoplift following his Nativity sermon.
Man waiting for teller in a bank decides to text his girlfriend that there's a man with a gun inside. Swarms of responding police officers think that joke is jailarious.
King Henry II's mistress may have died from consuming too much gold. That's Au-ful
A British medical journal has published findings saying a mistress of 16th-century French King Henry II may have died from consuming too much drinkable gold.
Thief uses tow truck to steal cars off police impound lot. Police believe the tow truck was originally used to tow around the thief's enormous iron balls.
A car thief swiped three vehicles from the New York Police Department's own impound lot by simply towing them away, authorities said. The thief then allegedly sold them for scrap.
Anti-Social Networking hits France
Facebook makes you despair? Social networking makes you want to end it all? You may be ready for online ritual suicide with the aid of a new website that helps you kill your virtual identity."Impress your friends, disconnect yourself," is the slogan on www.seppukoo.com, a site that aims to subvert Facebook by offering its millions of users a glorious end and a memorial page to match.
"Mom, why is Santa naked?"
A Texas homeowner who adorned his front lawn with Michelangelo's "David" as a scantily clad Santa got more than just jolly laughs from his neighbors. The city said the statue did not violate any ordinances and there were no obscenity issues. But after an official voice mail was left, the owner responded by adding a pair of black and white velvet shorts with a Christmas bow.
Gold E. Locks to face trial.
BOSTON — Three Little Bears are hauling Goldilocks to court in Boston on breaking-and-entry as well as vandalism charges. Gold E. Locks will go on trial on Saturday for breaking into the Bear family home, vandalizing it and eating their porridge. A group of 60 Girls Scouts of eastern Massachusetts will act as the jury for the case at Northeastern University Law School.
Image of Virgin Mary found on pancake. Experts confident it's her since it clearly wasn't defloured.
When a woman claims to have found the face of the Virgin Mary imprinted on a pancake and she says that the holy image encrusted in batter has brought her family peace and comfort.
Residence set to vote on welcoming panel for extraterrestrials. The Mooninites not available for comment.
A Denver man has gathered the signatures needed to place the issue before registered voters of the Colorado state capitalto approve a welcome panel for extraterrestrials.
If you're going to rob the Wendy's drive-thru, make sure your mom isn't working that night.
Michigan - Police said a Wendy’s restaurant manager turned a would-be thief in when she realized it was her own son who was trying to rob the place.
Holiday gifts guaranteed to blow their minds.
A South Dennis woman brought an unwanted holiday gift to the Cape Cod Police Department Friday, causing a road to be closed off and the state bomb squad to be called to the scene.The woman arrived at 12:48 p.m. with a WW II hand grenade a relative had given her on Thanksgiving.
Step 1) Escape prison. Step 2) Steal cigarettes. Step 3) Return to prison with the cigarettes?
In TN the state Department of Correction said two inmates escaped a minimum security prison and where arrested for stealing cigarettes.
Indian woman divorces husband after he banned her from watching soap operas. Her plans now involve falling in love with a mysterious doctor who will later turn out to be her previous husband's long lost half-brother.
Mubai's Daily News and Analysis newspaper said the husband's ban had led to daily arguments between the couple from Pune, in the south-east of India's financial capital. Eventually, the wife decided the situation was unbearable and she filed for divorce.
When selling drugs door to door do you A) Carry a illegal firearm. B) Drink beers and sample product. C) Stop by a cops house D) All of the above.
A 19 yr old Texas man was arrested over the weekend for attempting to sell 3 oz. of marijuana to a police officer while going door-2-door, drunk and carrying an illegal firearm.
One of our favorites.
Man up to no guoda attempts to steal three blocks of cheese. Men in bleu say no whey, arrest him before he can edam up and achieve his feta accompli.
HARTFORD - Police arrested a man they say stole four blocks of cheese from a local grocery store and pulled a knife on the manager when he tried to stop the theft.
Worst commercial EVER!!
Neither sleet, nor snow, nor three times the legal limit can stop the mail from being delivered.
FLORIDA - A letter carrier was found slumped over the wheel of his mail truck on Wednesday, but authorities were surprised to find out why after someone called police thinking he had a medical problem. Kevin Crocilla, 29, was instead drunk, according to police. He tested three times over the .08 legal limit.
Packs of dogs in costume take over Faneuil Hall Marketplace.
Click here for pictures of the de-bark-ery at Mike FM's Howl-oween.
When confronting something strange do you A) Poke it with a stick. B) Throw a rock at it. C) Mistake it for an alien. D) All of the above.
A mystery lump on the South Pacific Beach of Temuka which was mistaken for an alien turns out to be the head of a sperm whale. Rose Fraser was walking the beach when she notice a large mass with boney ribs and tenacles coming out of it. She decided it was in here best interested to lob rocks at, then poke the blob with a stick. She admitted to police that she thought it was an alien, but that she was also an idiot.
Police respond to hair salon after reports of bangs, victims were frazzled and frayed, thankfully nobody dyed.
Seattle: Police are looking for two males who robbed a hair salon in the 2300 block of 15th Avenue South last night and then fired gunshots as they left. No one was injured.
When Zonkey's Attack; A News 5 Exclusive
What do you get when you cross a zebra with a donkey? Well a Florida man says you get knocked to the ground and bitten. Hernando County Sheriff's deputies say a man was attacked by the half-zebra, half-donkey at a zoo Florida on Monday. The man told deputies he was painting a perimeter fence near the donkey's enclosure when the donkey put his head underneath the fence and began to bite his feet.
You might be a Redneck if you set your trailer on fire trying to chase away raccoon with smoke-bomb fireworks.
The 52-year-old woman, who lives in the 100 block of Valley Drive in rural Portage, IA told police she used a full bag with eight to 10 "smoke bomb" fireworks, lighting them and throwing them under the mobile home.
Australian horse racing officials criticized for dwarf-racing competition.
Things get dirty in Washington.
A man accused of riding his bicycle naked has been arrest. The bike was taken as evidence, but police fear it's been tainted.
Boy brings his champion pedigree pet to "bring your pet to school" day. A 1-ton bull.
The seven-year-old farmer’s son brought his 16-month-old champion Charolais, called Hallbankgate Dragon, to show off to classmates at Hallbankgate School, near Brampton UK.
Mess with the bull, you get the horns. Mess with the cow and you get, the milk?
After months of complaints by European dairy farmers angry over low prices, protesters in Brussels on Monday poured milk onto the streets, hurled eggs and other missiles, and started fires that filled the air with black smoke. Police helicopters hovered overhead as hundreds of tractors — and some cattle — blockaded the area outside the European Union’s headquarters while agriculture ministers met in an emergency meeting.
When robbing a bank, make sure the 78-year old teller hasn't been using a Jack Lalanne Power Juicer. A feisty septuagenarian bank teller gave a would-be bank robber a piece of her mind -- but no money -- when he held up a Wachovia branch in Allentown, police said. Teller Helen Roth, 78, was at the counter of the bank on Friday afternoon when a man walked in and handed her a plastic bag and a note demanding she fill the bag with money. Instead she gave him a kick to the face and sent him on his way.
Don't pass go, don't collect $200.
Like a real life GTA game, a drunken 5th Grader led police on a 100mph car chase at 3PM in Wyoming. Police say he might have gotten away with it if he wasn't a pesky kid.
Arrested for selling stolen goods to a pawn shop; who's the tool now?
Two burglars in the MidWest have been arrested after targeting homes with garage doors open, stealing power tools, then selling them to pawn shops. This wouldn't normally have been a red flag except for the fact that they visited the same pawn shop over 60 times.
Man climbs into the Grizzly Bear exhibit at the San Francisco Zoo while Chuck Darwin apparently naps.
Saturday 21-year-old Kenneth Herron managed to climb inside a grizzly bear exhibit at the San Francisco Zoo, but was rescued without apparent injury, officials said.
Woman reports own son to police for rolling a joint with a page from a bible. Holy Smokes Authorities in Ohio said a 16-year-old arrested for drug possession allegedly used a page torn from his Bible as a marijuana cigarette rolling paper.
Man shakes the cops and his tush.
A man’s been given a police warning after he was spotted jogging naked in the Sweden. The 26-year-old told police that running nude allowed his skin to absorb more oxygen. He wasn’t entirely unattired though. He was wearing running shoes, a cap, sunglasses and a pouch around his waist. He said he ran in a similar outfit around three times a week. Police registered an official complaint against him for indecent exposure, and the young man agreed to wear more clothing from now on.
Mortuary worker charged with stealing cash from corpses, now faces a stiff sentence.
A hospital mortuary assistant has admitted stealing cash, a phone and wallet belonging to a motorcyclist killed in an accident in the Black Country.
Pure and utter perfection!
Developer commissioned to create PC game promoting sexual health. Working title is "Privates", presumably because the title "Afterburner" was already taken.
London - Channel 4 Education has commissioned independent developer Zombie Cow Studios to create a PC download game about sexual health.
When hand picking your get-away driver, make sure to put "arms" as a requirement on the application.
A gang that masterminded a £175,000 robbery made a big burglary blunder in using a getaway driver with no arms. After the raid on the jewellers in Essex the four gang members jumped in John Smith's waiting car and took off as police gave chase. Unfortunately things got complicated as Smith, 18, has no arms below his elbows and his gang members had to help change gears.
Kicks to the junk only $5 - $3 with coupon.
Rainier Canada - A man came up with an innovative — if rather painful — money-making idea and decided to give it a test run Tuesday. The 23-year-old man held a sign inviting people to kick him in the groin for the bargain price of $5 or $3 if you're a woman.
If you are looking for a new smoking experience, perhaps what you need is a flavorful cheese filtered cigarette.
According to its inventor, "current" cigarette filters (circa 1966) don't filter enough tar and nicotine from tobacco smoke, so he "discovered" a new one: cheese! He insists it makes a "very efficient tobacco filter."
Coke plant explodes. Police seek man leaving the scene with empty case of Mentos.
CLAIRTON, Pa. -- One dead and others injured after an explosion and a fire were reported at U.S. Steel's Clairton Coke Works.
Move over Smokey, Robo-Cop has a new friend.
Two young inventors have created a Sci-Fi like robot designed to help with forest fires.
Never bring a belt bucket to a spatula fight. GRISWOLD, CT - Two Connecticut men are facing assault charges after allegedly battling with a belt buckle and a spatula. Police say 29-year-old Cedric Eaton of New London and 31-year-old Nathaniel Ward were charged with assault Wednesday. Court documents show that Eaton told police he hit Ward with his belt and Ward struck him with the spatula. It's not known what triggered the fight.
Black Bear to play Christian Slater in Gleaming the Cub.
A bear was discovered in the Colorado resort town of Snowmass, according to KUSA-TV. Officials said the animal was apparently stuck in the hole all night, after being unable to scale the steep concrete sides of the skating park.
Boston woman popped by cops for stealing $600 in makeup. Picture proves CVS doesn't carry enough makeup.
A Boston woman apparently in the mood for a makeover was nabbed by police yesterday after allegedly stealing over $600 worth of makeup from a Jamaica Plain CVS. Police say the suspect, 28-year-old Miosotis Pagan, filled several bags with the unpaid merchandise before leaving the store.
Turkeys stuffed with Cocaine becoming a new trend?
Acting on a tip, Peruvian police where surprised to discover 3.5 kilos of cocaine surgically implanted inside two turkeys.They are still looking for the people responsible in connection to the fowl play.
Being drunk, high, and arrested for robbery while wearing a Speedo is no way to go through life, son.
EAST HARTFORD CT. – A robbery suspect wearing only a Speedo-style swimsuit was arrested in East Hartford after a police dog tracked him down and bit him on the leg. The Journal Inquirer of Manchester reported that the suspect was being held after his arrest Thursday on $50,000 bail. He was scheduled for arraignment Friday, but the result of that hearing was not immediately available.
Man licks woman's foot at local Whole Foods giving new meaning to this little piggy went to market.
Cambridge Police are looking for a man is accused of walking up to a random woman, and then licking her feet inside the Whole Foods on Alewife Brook Parkway.
3 Phish fans arrested in Magic Crystal Heist.
ALBANY NY: Three Phish fans were arrested on tresspassing and drug charges when found digging for crystals in an Upstate NY rock quarry and camping on local school property. Arrested fan asks if prison has fluff sandwiches on the menu.
Men who snore loudly are twice as likely to die early, possibly from being smothered by their wife. Scientists are saying that middle-aged men who have severe sleep apnoea, a common disorder characterised by snores, gasps and snorts, are twice as likely to die during any given time period.
A Brooklyn man claims that his cell phone caused the Maytag stove to turn on by itself. Of course this was way after his TV told him to chug a 5th of Jack and his Twitter account asked him to roll a fat doobie.
Messing with drunk friends hits a new high. Germany: Gerle Kittler lies asleep at a station blissfully unaware his mates carried him there after he dozed off at a party.They wheeled still-sleeping Gerle, 25, and the sofa more than a mile to the local station near Warngau, Germany, and put him on a train after buying a single ticket for him and a bike ticket for the settee. He only woke up on a platform four miles down the line in Warngau, Germany, still stretched out on his couch being quizzed by police.
Armed with explosives, two men are heading to Mongolia's Gobi Desert to find the fabled acid-spitting and lightning-throwing Mongolian death worm. (Seriously)
The worm has never been documented but some Mongolians are convinced it exists. They call it Allghoi Khorkhoi, or "intestine worm" because it resembles a cow's intestine and is about 1.5m long. It has been said to jump out of the sand and kill people by spitting concentrated acid or shooting lightning from its rectum over long distances, NZPA reports.
19 arrested in CT canary-fighting ring. They would have gotten away with it if it weren't for that meddling stool pigeon.
CT police have arrested 19 people in connection with a canary bird fighting operation. Over 100 canaries were seized from a home in Shelton as the 19 were preparing to the birds to fight Sunday reports Fox. Apparently Canaries can become aggressive and fight each other, particularly during breeding season.
No matter how much you hope it will, drinking gasoline is not going to transform you into Optimus Prime.
A 14-year-old Chinese fan of the Transformer movies has been drinking gasoline for five years in an attempt to "become a valiant fighter" like his hero Optimus Prime.
Ridiculous Mash-Up
Check out this ridiculous mash-up of Rick Astley and Nirvana!
Man accidentally shoots self while showing driver his gun. That's the last time he rides shotgun.
A man accidentally shot himself in the leg Sunday while riding in a car on Interstate 5, the Washington State Patrol reports. State troopers said the man was riding in the passenger seat showing a gun to the driver when it went off, hitting him in the leg.
Foul-mouthed one-legged exotic bird found, returned to home. Surprisingly, this has nothing to do with Heather Mills.
Stolen swearing parrot returned.The one-legged African grey "which swears a lot" was handed in at a Newcastle police station, along with another parrot of the same breed, on Sunday.
Road sign vandalism in Ottawa considered a hole in one.
OTTAWA — A roadside sign posted outside the village a couple of weeks ago by the City of Ottawa directs travellers to Constance Bay's downtown with some symbols indicating various amenities. One square was left blank.Sometime last weekend, a vandal filled in the blank spot with a pair of stick figures who appear to be particularly engaged.
Rock the boat, don't tip the boat over.
Boat ends up grounded on rocks during yacht race. This Jersey-registered Knight Star, ended up grounded and then wobbling in mid-air on its 6ft keel as the tide went out near Saint-Quay-Portrieux, north-west France. Mr Manning, who was trying to speed ahead of 19 rivals in a Royal Channel Islands Yacht Club race, described it as 'an embarrassing misjudgment'.
Attention Nerds: The Video Game Holy Grail is here!
Think $60 video games are too expensive? You won't hear any argument from us, but you might from JJ Hendricks, a collector who just paid a clinically insane $17,500 for an obscure NES game from 1990.
Little people call on the FCC to legally, most regally, reliably, certifiably, undeniably ban the word Midget.
Little people are calling on the Federal Communications Commission to ban the use of the word "midget" on broadcast TV.
Getting to the heart of the matter.
Doctors were shocked to discover woman has been cured of deadly heart condition after she was struck by lightning. Doctors can't explain watts causing the positive effect, but the patient is no longer terminal, and claims it no longer hertz.
Drunk New Zealand trucker spills 13 tonnes of milk all over the highway, cries about it.
An overturned trailer spilled milk powder across New Zealand State Highway 63, east of Wairau Valley township. Police allege the driver of the truck, who drove off after the crash, was drunk.
Italian-American group succeeds in getting offensive Miller Lite TV ad pulled, would like everyone to just fuhgeddaboudit!
Miller Lite beer's new "Protection" campaign, prominently featuring actor Frank Vincent from the HBO mobster hit "The Sopranos," is being pulled after Chicago representatives of the Italian-American community lashed out over the stereotypical mafia depiction of Italian Americans in the ads.
Sweet potato spill causes massive traffic yam.
A tractor trailer loaded with sweet potatoes has lost its load. One lane of Interstate 295 North at the exit for Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport is blocked because of the Tuesday morning spill.
If it takes police strip searching your wife of 3 yrs for you to realize she's a he, you're definitely doing it wrong.
Trusting husband Fu Shitou married transvestite Wei Jinhua after she struck up a friendship with his sister-in-law. The truth only emerged when Wei, from Zhechuan, eastern China, was picked up and strip-searched by cops when she fled the family home after a row.
World Taxidermy Championship hits St. Louis stuffed with great displays.
The 2009 World Taxidermy & Fish Carving Championships, May 7, in St. Charles, Missouri. Stare long enough and you can hear howling. Check out a slide show of the competition>>
Two all beef patties, special tax, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun.
It's still just a proposal, but Nassau County is talking about taxing your Quarter Pounder or Whopper. Anxious to find additional money to combat falling revenues during the economic downturn, the county included a 2 percent fast-food tax in its budget plans for next year.
Therapy dogs will be available for stressed-out students to hug during Finals Week at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Whatever happened to pounding some beers and playing video games in your buddy's dorm room?
The Pet Therapy study break on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus will be on Wednesday from 3:30 to 5 p.m. on Library Mall at the western end of State Street, with staff from University Health Services bringing their dogs to the mall so students can pet and play with the puppies.
School hires collection agency to collect lunch money. School bully unavalible for comment.
Those who owe the Marshalltown Community School District lunch money may be hearing from a collection agency soon.The Board of Education approved a proposal Monday by district Food Service Director Ann Feilmann to hire an agency to collect past due money on school meal accounts.
Mike-FM: "What did you do yesterday?" Weird dude: "Oh I just jumped babies on the street." This is a picture worth a thousand words. We wish this wasn't a real, but alas it is.
Catholic Church weighs in on genetically modified foods. Lettuce pray.
It's not your typical food fight. The battle being waged is between multinational corporations that market genetically modified crops and environmentalists who warn that gene-altered foodstuffs are not safe. See what Bishop Marcelo Sanchez has to safe>>
Britain introduces new "anti-stab" knives. What a pointless idea.
The first “anti-stab” knife is to go on sale in Britain, designed to work as normal in the kitchen but to be ineffective as a weapon.The knife has a rounded edge instead of a point and will snag on clothing and skin to make it more difficult to stab someone.
Man sleeping with gun suffers from premature discharge.
A man who said he was sleeping with a gun in his bed accidentally shot himself in the shoulder Wednesday morning. The 24-year-old told investigators that he must have hit the .40-caliber pistol with his hand, said Capt. Loyd Baker of the Tuscaloosa County Metro Homicide Unit. The gunshot wound was not life-theatening, Baker said.
Man who stole politician's wig will have toupee for his crime.
A man who tore the wig off a telegenic Taiwan legislator last year has been sentenced to five months in jail for depriving the MP of his freedom to look good.
See a bad driver? Instead of flipping him off, Twitter about it immediately and become a bad driver yourself.
Why waste your time futilely shaking your fist at the driver who cut you off on the country road when you can take him to task on the information superhighway? It lets aggrieved motorists in Alaska fire off 140-character vents about drivers who follow too closely, park too tightly, drive too fast or flout other vehicular etiquette. See what has Mike-FM Tweeting>>
Civilians, not police, will be directing traffic at Mass. construction sites this summer. What could possibly go wrong? Something strange happened along a wooded stretch of Route 8A in the rural town of Hawley last week. For a few hours, a construction worker dressed in a florescent yellow suit stood in the road, directing traffic approaching the Chickley River bridge. By noon, the worker had slipped off the safety suit and rejoined the Lane Construction Corp. crew repairing the bridge.
Today's non-swine flu related media story: Flirting with other women in front of your wife will get you bit; literally.
A woman who'd been in the car said she and her husband had been drinking at the Swamp nightclub on Okaloosa Island when she became upset with him. The woman admitted to slapping her husband while they were inside the bar. In the vehicle, she continued to yell at him and then leaned over and bit him on the right cheek, the report said.
British Boy Scouts to be given condom credit cards to help them avoid early withdrawal penalties.
BOYS as young as 12 are to be issued with condom “credit cards” allowing them to pick up free contraception at football grounds, barber’s shops and scout huts.
Man with broom asks woman if she's ready to die. Police eventually get a handle on him and whisk him away, but not until after he kicks a deputy in the bag.
Police responded to the home of a couple who has lived together for 22 years after the man reportedly threatened the woman with a broom.The woman told the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office deputy that her boyfriend had been drinking all day and when she took away his bottle of vodka, he threw food around the house and at her.
Knock Knock. Who's There? Bear. Bear who? Bear in mind this only happens in TN.
KNOXVILLE — Knoxville Police Department officers were searching a West Knoxville neighborhood for a black bear that reportedly broke through the front door of a home Wednesday night before scurrying off.
Man set house on fire while trying to kill a spider with a lighter.
Firefighters say the man, in his 40s, had been trying to set fire to the spider as it crawled up the front of the semi-detached property. But sparks reached material behind the cladding and caused a fire within the walls, shortly before midnight. Three fire engines raced to the scene in Portsmouth, Hants, and found the man trying to put out the flames with a garden hose.
NH Police on the lookout for serial flasher. Described as short and weird looking.
Manchester police are looking for a man who has been flashing people throughout the city.Police said over the past six months, four women have reported a naked man exposing himself in the city's south end.
Rodeo star accused of performing equine dentistry without a license. You heard it straight from the horse's mouth
Bobby Griswold is the first person arrested under a new Oklahoma law that allows only veterinarians to perform dental work on horses. The main issue is surrounding work to file down a horse's teeth, a practice known in the horsing industry as "floating". Non veterinarians and even trained equine dentists have been doing it for years, but the new law says they can't.
Old Nokia 1100s prized by criminal underground
Got an old Nokia 1100 sitting around? You may be sitting on a fortune... albeit with a catch.Certain circles are said to be paying upwards of $32,000 for the handsets, at least those made in Nokia's Bochum factory in Germany. Why? According to reports, the criminal underground has found a way to hack into the phones' firmware to allow for illegal bank transfers by reprogramming the phone number on the handset.
Egyptian man cuts off own penis. Osirisly
CAIRO—A 25-year-old Egyptian man cut off his own penis to spite his family after he was refused permission to marry a girl from a lower class family, police reported Sunday. After unsuccessfully petitioning his father for two years to marry the girl, the man heated up a knife and sliced off his reproductive organ, said a police official.
Police say novice stripper attacked by shoe-wielding rival.
A 52-year-old woman who took a job as an exotic dancer to help make ends meet was attacked on her first day by a jealous co-worker armed with a stiletto shoe, police said.
Burger King to offer healthier kids meals. These include...wait for it...FRIED apple slices.
Meals in the program must have no more than 560 total calories, with no more than 30 percent of those calories from fat and 10 percent from added sugars. The amount of sodium must be below 600 milligrams.One of the new meals include two bite-sized hamburgers,fried apple slices, low-cal dipping sauce and apple juice.
Man goes back to jail under new repeat offender law ... for visiting the John?
What started as a 90-day jail sentence for a city man may snowball into several years behind bars under state repeat offender laws.Ronald Reagan was prohibited from going inside his girlfriend’s apartment, but said he could not avoid “nature’s call.” When police knocked on the door Sunday afternoon, the woman initially denied Reagan was inside her Highland Avenue home, but police found him under her bed.
Skywalker trampolines recalled, are too dangerous to use. See three PO'd customers who already sued.
This recall involves the Skywalker Holdings 13-foot Square Trampoline and Enclosure Combo. The unit has blue spring pads, a black net enclosure, and a jumping mat. “Skywalker Holdings” is printed on a label located under the jumping mat and on the enclosure net.
Mass poetry recitation gets Ashrita Furman his 100th simultaneous Guinness World Record
Reciting poetry in Zulu may not seem like much of a talent, but it landed Ashrita Furman in the record books - yet again.
Lunch lady suspended for refusing to make kids eat veggie burgers.
Newton School Committee chairman Marc Laredo said he doesn’t expect the board to reconsider a policy that led to the suspension of a food service worker after she offered a meal to kids who didn't like the veggie burgers at Angier Elementary School.
Publisher: Please give us back our illegal weapons
Pens? Snore. T-shirts? Boring. Notepads? Been there, done that. Thinking up creative ideas for promotional tchotchkes can't be easy, but someone at uber-publisher Electronic Arts went a little too far last week. The game in question: Godfather II, a Grand Theft Auto-style adventure based on the famous movie. The offending item: a set of brass knuckles, mailed to video games journalists together with other goodies including a cigar, a silk handkerchief, and a book of matches. But while it nicely complements the game's mafiosi theme, it also had the unfortunate side-effect of turning recipients of the mailing into criminals, as mere possession of brass knuckles is illegal in many states and can carry hefty penalties.
Harvard University opens "Canine Cognition Lab" to study how dogs think.
Studying a species known to chase its own tail may seem an unlikely way to better understand the human mind. But scientists at Harvard University's new Canine Cognition Lab hope to gain insight into more than the psychology of dogs from visiting pet pooches - including an alert German shepherd named Celia and a rottweiler called Taylor who loves to eat chicken.
NY man accused of stealing business partner's dentures at gunpoint. Prosecutors demand the tooth, the whole tooth, and nothing but the tooth.
A Staten Island man takes false teeth back, claiming he paid for them; toothless victim says he was robbed at gunpoint. Police allege, Nativo, a contractor, slammed a revolver down on a desk at his business, then demanded that 40-year-old Gennario Sibbio take the dentures out of his mouth and hand them over.He also demanded Sibbio surrender $1,200 in cash, two cell phones, a Bluetooth wireless device and his jacket.
Couple robbed at gunpoint for chicken, come through safely on a wing and a prayer.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- The search is on for a team of crooks who robbed an Arlington couple at gunpoint for their takeout Popeye's chicken.Authorities said four men drove by several times in a burgundy Pontiac sedan yelling, "give us the chicken," at the woman and her boyfriend.
Hairy uproar over drugstore Obama
The grassy-headed figurine of President Obama was pulled from Walgreens shelves in Chicago and Tampa after some people called it racist and company brass decided the new collectible was wrong for their image.
GM and Segway unveil new two-wheeled urban vehicle
The companies announced Tuesday that they are working together to develop a two-wheeled, two-seat electric vehicle designed to be a fast, safe, inexpensive and clean alternative to traditional cars and trucks for cities across the world.
German DJ breaks world record by running his radio show non-stop for a week without once talking about scheisse!
By presenting his show for a consecutive 169 hours, 26-year-old Dominik Schollmayer from Hit Radio Antenne in Hanover, central Germany, beat the previous record - held by an Indian DJ - by one hour.
Man charged for drunken joy ride in school bus
A man was arrested after allegedly stealing a school bus, driving it to a motel while drunk and leaving it in the middle of a driveway on Friday. A police report said a woman who saw the man stumble out the rear door of the bus called authorities after he asked her if she wanted to go for a ride. Police arrived and found the man walking away from the bus
Suspicious dummy shuts down Kenmore Square
A “suspicious” mannequin in Kenmore Square shut down traffic and prompted a bomb squad response this morning for what turned out to be a banking protest.
Jesus appears in New Bedford?
The appearance of an image of Jesus has drawn crowds of people to a New Bedford video store parking lot. Is it the work of Shepard Fairey or just a fan of the big man?
Police searching for lobster bandit, hope to crack case, butter not optimistic.
MIAMI - Police are fishing for information on the thieves who stole more than $1 million worth of lobster from a seafood company, authorities said today.The thieves looted about 71,000 pounds of individually wrapped lobster tails Saturday night from the freezers of Carlos Seafood. They then tried to sell some lobster tails to a Hialeah seafood restaurant whose owner realized there were stolen.
Jon says, "Let's make room for one more!" as he leaves a club sans wedding ring and wife.
Jon & Kate Plus 8 dad Jon Gosselin is admitting he "showed poor judgment" by leaving a bar at 2 a.m. with a mystery woman and without his wedding band -- while his wife Kate was across the country promoting a book.
Gorillas get drunk on bamboo sap
Wildlife photographer Andy Rouse had a close encounter with a family of mountain gorillas - and discovered they were drunk.
'Twilight' Comes To Life? Vampire Rumors Hit Boston School
Police were called to the high school due to rumors of a bloodsucker invasion — seriously. On Wednesday, police were called to Boston Latin School, a nearly 400-year-old public school whose prestigious alumni include Ben Franklin, Sam Adams, John Hancock and Sumner Redstone. The reason? Rumors were running wild that the school had been infiltrated by vampires.
Fish market stored live crabs in toilet putting the 'dung' in 'dungeness'.
A SYDNEY restaurant with a dead rodent in its storage area and a fish market are the latest additions to the NSW Government's name-and-shame list. Jemes Fish Market on Liverpool Rd in Ashfield, in the city's inner west, was hit with two fines of $660 for storing live crabs in a toilet."This is one of the most outrageous cases of food storage I have ever heard about," Mr Macdonald said.
In a blanket statement to the public, Police announce that a Teen in a 'Snuggie' Tried to Break Into N.J. Grocery Store
Authorities found Brandon Ryzner-Meredith wearing a "Snuggie" allegedly breaking into a New Jersey grocery store, but was stopped when witnesses say they saw him climb through a window, the Daily Record reported.
Two men convicted of stealing food from Kansas. Still no word on who stole Foreigner's wallet or Survivor's bicycle.
Two men have been convicted of conspiring to steal pallets of food from the Tyson Foods warehouse in the Kansas City suburb of Olathe and transport them to Arkansas. Federal grand jurors in Kansas City, Kan., convicted both men of one count of conspiracy to conceal the crime of interstate transportation of stolen property.
Release of a new Lincoln penny draws 2,500 nerds out of their basement. Remarked one virgin, "This is a lifelong dream".
Amid rain, traffic and music, more than 2,500 people showed up for the official launch of the "Indiana" Lincoln penny, depicting (on the "tails side") a teenage Abe sitting on a log reading while taking a break from rail splitting.
Garment designer working on bra to automatically adapt to different temperatures to provide women with the perfect fit no matter how nippy it gets.
A MIRACLE new smart-bra that uses special expanding foam in the cups will loosen or tighten to adapt to the size of the wearer’s breasts as they get hotter is now being developed. “It’s healthier than an ordinary bra because it will always provide the perfect fit,” said a company spokesman.
Thai fireman in 'spider-man' rescue of autistic boy
A Thai fireman turned superhero when he dressed up as comic-book character Spider-Man to coax a frightened eight-year-old from a balcony, police said Tuesday.
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