Philadelphia, capital city of the United States*, is great at many things. It's great at being within relatively short driving distance of the Jersey shore. It's great at allowing you to bring your own wine to restaurants. The world's largest clothespin is there.

Unfortunately, two topics it has yet to master are race relations and nuance.

Which is why its residents are freaking out that a Philly cheesesteak shop, known since 1949 as "Chink's Steaks," has just changed its name to "Joe's Steaks & Soda Shop."

Chink's was named for its original owner, whose name wasn't "Chink" but, hoo boy, did he look like one according to his grade school classmates. (The Philadelphia Inquirer notes that the late Samuel "Chink" Sherman had "almond shaped eyes.") Folks in the shop's neighborhood understand why someone, somewhere, at some point, maybe could find the well-known racial slur inappropriate. But they stop just short of admitting that it actually is.

And because nothing flavors meat like a couple decades of tacit racism, they're pissed that "Chink's" no longer exists.

Do yourself a favor and check out the Inquirer's entire profile of the Cheesesteak Shop That Would Be Chink's.

Here's a sampling of the best lines:

• "Back then, ethnic slurs slipped off the tongue as smoothly as melted American cheese."
• "'Cracker Barrel hasn't had to change their name. I mean, that could be made into a racist thing.'"
• "Others [...] said the passing of "Chink's" symbolizes the neighborhood's decline."
• "This place has a tan," said [William] Ulrich, a 51-year-old postal worker, who wore a wireless phone device in his ear and shorts that revealed a large cross "in the colors of the American flag" tattooed on his calf.
• "If the shop had been named with a slur against blacks, 'that would be offensive,' [said Terrell Jenkins, a 44-year-old African American man]. 'But Chink was a nickname. It could have been a term of endearment.'"
• "At the cash register behind bulletproof glass at Crazy Joe's, an Iranian immigrant said he was glad Chink's was renamed, but would not comment further or identify himself."

And the kicker, from the shop owner's wife:

• "'Now, I can be called 'Mrs. Joe' instead of 'Mrs. Chink.''"

At least, for the time being, you can still buy Chink's Steaks apparel (including kids sizes) online.

*Philadelphia served as the nation's capital from 1790 to 1800.

[Philadelphia Inquirer // Image by Jim Cooke.]

Maybe you thought this was a happy day for sea lions, but sadly, for sea lions not exposed to pop music of the '70s and '90s, it has been a tragic 2013. Federal wildlife officials declared an "unusual mortality event" as hundreds of stranded and underweight sea lion pups have been washing up on the shores of Southern California.

In L.A. Country, almost 400 baby sea lions have washed up onto shores since January 2013. The number was just 36 this time last year. As of about a month ago, there have been 214 stranded sea lions in San Diego County, 189 in Orange Country, and 108 in Santa Barbara County.

With record numbers of small sickly pups, marine mammal centers have been packed as they try to save the animals from problems often more complicated than malnutrition. The increased number of stranded pups has bewildered researchers.

A wildlife biologist with the National Marine Fisheries Service, Sharon Melin, told the LA Times that this spike in stranded pups is a perplexing and disturbing anomaly. Usually, a rise in this many sickly animals would be the result of warmer ocean temperatures (like those during El Niño) or a disease, but "what's different about this incident is we don't have any of that."

Because of their young age (most of the pups are about 6 to 8 months old), they should still be with their mothers. It could be that they were abandoned as their mothers had to go further out to sea to look for food, leaving their pups to fend for themselves, says Melin:

"They're just not capable at this age. They can't dive deep, they're not very efficient swimmers. They're not old enough and big enough to be out on their own. They're really naive and trying to make their way."

[LA Times, image via Getty]

It's hard to imagine a purportedly heterosexual artist who has a more intimate relationship with the word "faggot" than the rapper Tyler, the Creator. His frequent use of word has defined his career to many (especially those who haven't taken the time to listen to his music or are generally hip-hop avoidant), its legend reaching exaggerated proportions – an oft-quoted, erroneous post on NME says he uttered the word and variations of it like "fag" 213 times on his 2011 sophomore album Goblin. Fader, in a more measured post of various Goblin stats, counted only nine.

That's still nine times too many for a lot of outraged people (folk-turned-dancey duo Tegan and Sara among them). Before listening to Tyler's third album, Wolf (out this week), I wondered what effect such outrage would have on his new output. The world, after all, is changing around Tyler and it goes beyond receiving way more feedback than he did before his career exploded two years ago. Gay acceptance is at an all-time high. Marriage equality seems like more inevitable by the day. Tyler's cohort Frank Ocean came out as having loved a man before the release of his major-label debut and it did nothing to impair his career.

In the face of advancement, Tyler puts up his middle finger and says "fag" or "faggot" about a dozen times on Wolf (I counted 15 utterances in total, but a few come from guests like Domo Genesis). While once tossed-off or haphazardly provocative, coming from Tyler's mouth the word feels more pointed than ever. It's part of Tyler's narrative. He's been asked about it repeatedly and has cultivated a stance on it. It's mutated from apathy — "Well, I have gay fans and they don't really take it offensive, so I don't know. If it offends you, it offends you. If you call me a niggaa, I really don't care, but that's just me, personally," he told MTV in 2011 — to something vaguely political. Regarding Frank Ocean's opinion on his fag-bombs, Tyler recently told Rolling Stone, "He knows me, and he knows I don't care about being gay. It's just another word to me. The same as ‘nigga.' Let's say Frank started using the word ‘fag,' just jokingly. People would be so fucking confused! They wouldn't know what to do. And it could take the power out of that word."

On Wolf, though, Tyler stays invested in using that word for all the power that it wields. On multiple references, "faggot" is how he refers to his absentee father, a common figure in Tyler's music who's so present on this album I started wishing he'd go away. He also expresses rage at being called it himself: In "Pigs," Tyler/his character recalls, "My step-father called me a fag, I'll show him a fag I'll light a fire up in his ass." The wordplay at work doesn't betray the simple truth that being called a fag hurts. Tyler knows this, too – in 2011 he told NME:

I'm not homophobic. I just think 'faggot' hits and hurts people. It hits. And 'gay' just means you're stupid. I don't know, we don't think about it, we're just kids. We don't think about that shit. But I don't hate gay people. I don't want anyone to think I'm homophobic.

And so "fag" is far from "just another word," which by the way, is a ridiculous way for any writer to treat the tools that facilitate his expression and ultimately get him paid (Azealia Banks, another young rapper notorious for her use of the word "faggot," has made a similar claim). His insistence on saying "fag" is something of a platform for him, and the more you poke around on it, the more you realize how hollow it is. On "Rusty," he pulls out his frequent, trite refrain of, "I don't hate gay people, I have gay friends": "Look at that article that says my subject matter is wrong / Saying I hate gays even though Frank is on 10 of my songs." Funnily enough, neither of the two Ocean-featuring songs on Wolf find Tyler saying "faggot." On record, it is a word that he says when his friend whose name works as a get-out-of-homophobia-free card isn't around.

This is not to accuse Tyler of hating gay people outright, although as Alex Macpherson noted in 2011, Tyler does seem unable to distinguish between active and cultural homophobia. "Gay" may just mean "stupid," to him, but it seems that he hasn't examined why, even when it's brought to his attention. That said, he doesn't seem particularly riled by actual homosexuality – in the "Stan" rewrite "Colossus," he says of an overzealous fan, "And I appreciate the fact that you would suck on my dick / But I'm not gay so it's awkward." In the single "Domo 23," he references provocation to respond to the response to his initial provocation: "So, a couple fags threw a little hissfit / Came to Pitchfork with a couple Jada Pinkett signs / And said I was a racist homophobic / So I grabbed Lucas and filmed us kissing / Feelings getting caught, it's off, I'm pissing / You think I give a fuck? I ain't even stick my dick in yet (No homo. Too soon.)." His friendship with Ocean is crucial, although unlike the similarly confused Banks, Tyler's use of the word "faggot" seems less of a product of thinking he's so down with gays that he can appropriate their slurs than the reckless aesthetic that Tyler and his Odd Future crew.

That hedonism excites and galvanizes Odd Future fans. It's certainly how some people live and so even if we don't endorse it or admire it, there is anthropological worth in its expression. There is a greater argument to be made about the complicated relationships people have to certain relics originating from outside of their immediate culture – relics that through their use by these outsiders become different-acting parts of their culture. Unfortunately, Tyler exhibits not enough depth to persuasively or consistently argue for his use of anti-gay hate speech (or the misogyny that still abounds), which he has no real claim to. He's clever (and is growing before our eyes as a producer, as Wolf is something of a lyrical slog but a musical journey) but his wit is on the surface. This person is not yet a great thinker.

Perhaps that's never been more clear than in Tyler's relationship to a word that he arguably does have some claim to reappropriate. With the same punkish attitude, he spits on Wolf's Tamale, "Tell Spike Lee he's a goddamn nigger." Lee is an outspoken opponent of that word, and as usual Tyler's telling his potential adversary, "Fuck you for caring so much." But Tyler's principle is rooted in willful ignorance of history and progress. HipHopDX recapped a February interview with New York's Hot 97 about this very issue:

"We don't actually give a fuck about that shit," he said when asked about White people using "nigga." "Mothafuckers who care are the reason racism is still alive."

Confronted about the historical view of the term as a derogatory one, Tyler said that is not on his "palette."

"That's sick. That's cool," he said about those who fought for racial equality and against the derogatory term in the past. "I guess people my age, we're not even thinking like that. When you think like that, you keep the racism alive when that's not even on our palette."

He was then asked what he stands for.

"Being rich and trying to have as much fun as I can," he replied.

It seems that #YOLO is about the most salient political stance thus far issued by Tyler, the Creator.

[Image via Getty]

It'll be another two years or so before the general public will be invited to gaze upon the unparalleled panoramas of New York City from the observation deck at One World Trade Center, but today, a lucky few got to be the first to visit the quarter-mile-high "room with a view" known as One World Observatory.

Though the actual observation will take place on the 100th, 101st, and 102nd floors, the "attraction" will actually start way down at the bottom, where visitors will walk along a meandering path guided by an audio-visual tour of the building's history.

They will then take a short yet memorable trip to the 102nd floor aboard an elevator capable of traveling 1,250 feet in 60 seconds.

At the end of their ride they will disembarked to encounter yet another "pre-show" called "See Forever," which will conclude with the raising of a curtain to reveal stunning 360-degree views of New York City.

All told, the tour, which operator Legends Hospitality LLC said it plans to package "like a theme-park ride," is expected to last over an hour. No word yet on how much it will cost, but officials expect the price to be comparable to other observation deck tours in the city.

Upon its completion later this year, One World Trade Center will be 104 stories tall and span 1,776 feet from ground to spire-top, making it the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere.

[top photo via Gary He, bottom photos via AP]

Patricia Brennan, tthe scientist who conducted the study on duck penises that ruffled the conservative media's feathers earlier this week, has finally come forward to tell everyone to stop freaking out about her scientific research. Duck dicks are important, she says, and Fox News just doesn't "get" science. She goes on to say some science-y things about ducks and their penises and then shares with us the real reason for her research: DUCK PENISES ARE FUCKING NUTS.

[Slate]

Former Democratic strategist Karen Finney, who was once the first African-American spokeswoman for the Democratic National Committee, was revealed today to be the new host of a 4 p.m. weekend show on MSNBC. Good for her, and good for MSNBC, which adds Finney, pictured at left, to an already diverse roster of talking heads that includes Chris Hayes, Melissa Harris-Perry, and Al Sharpton.

Don't mention Finney's race to Tim Graham, however. Graham, a so-called media "watchdog" for the conservative Media Research Center, doesn't think it's fair for MSNBC to herald Finney's entrance as an arrival of another African-American host—y'know, considering her skin is so light and all:

Thank god for right-wing white dudes clarifying who does and doesn't qualify as black, and for basing their opinion on literally the shade of a person's skin.

I suppose we can at least celebrate the fact that Graham didn't ponder as to whether Finney is "a quadroon"—at least not yet.

[Image via Getty]

Just one day after police in Cambridgeshire, England announced a manhunt for a 7 foot, 3 inch man and a woman with a "distinctive" face tattoo (both wanted for questioning in a murder case), authorities reported they have managed to find them. Imagine that. How did they do it so quickly? Just great detective work, I guess.

Detective Chief Inspector Martin Brunning said in his initial statement Monday that the suspects, 47-year-old Gary Stretch, whose last name is perfect, and 30-year-old Joanna Dennehy, whose last name should, according to the constraints of this story, be "Facetattoo," were "very recognizable – even more so if they are together."

This kicked off what were likely a tense few hours for every platonic best friend duo consisting of one (1) giant man and one (1) woman with "a distinctive green tattoo on her right cheek," who hadn't stabbed a man and dumped him in a ditch by a major road over Easter weekend.

Police advised the public, if they saw Stretch and Dennehy, not to approach them— a precaution that likely made it extra hard to confirm their identities with the naked eye.

Anyway, they've both been arrested now so if you see a 7'3 man and face tattooed woman lumbering around the Cambrideshire countryside, feel free to approach them and say hi.

[BBC // Images via Cambridgeshire Police]

Senator Mark Kirk (R–Ill) announced on Tuesday that he's joining the increasingly long list of politicians who support gay marriage. His announcement comes one week after the Supreme Court heard arguments regarding the Defense of Marriage Act and California's Proposition 8, and 15 months after the Senator suffered a stroke. As the Los Angeles Times reports:

"When I climbed the Capitol steps in January, I promised myself that I would return to the Senate with an open mind and greater respect for others," he said in a statement.

"Same-sex couples should have the right to civil marriage. Our time on this Earth is limited, I know that better than most.  Life comes down to who you love and who loves you back — government has no place in the middle," Kirk said.

In the weeks before Kirk's announcement, several other prominent politicians came out in favor of gay marriage, including Hillary Clinton, Senator Rob Portman (R- Oh) and Senator Clair McCaskill (D-Mo).

Kirk has been in the news before for less progressive reasons, including once for attempting to send out "voter integrity" squads in 2010 and another time for "misidentifying" his military records. But all was forgiven after his State of the Union exploding fist bump with President Obama, which — apologies to Marco Rubio — was the highlight of that evening.

[LA Times/Image via Getty]

Late Tuesday evening, Mark Sanford won the GOP primary runoff to become the Republican Party's official congressional nominee South Carolina's First District. Sanford soundly defeated his opponent, Curtis Bostic, reclaiming the GOP nomination for the House seat he held for three terms prior to being elected governor of South Carolina in 2002.

All of this would have been difficult to imagine in 2009, when the then-governor was caught in a bizarre and excellent scandal. In case you don't remember: Sanford disappeared from office, claiming to be hiking the Appalachian Trail when, in fact, he was in Buenos Aires cheating on his wife with an Argentine reporter. Flash forward to 2013: Sanford is divorced from his wife (though he asked her to manage his campaign), engaged to the Argentine reporter, and, most amazingly, back in the political spotlight with a realistic chance to be reelected to Congress. Quite the comeback, Mark.

And if the scandal and redemption story weren't enough to attract significant press attention, there's this: Sanford's opponent in the May 7 special election will be Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch, the sister of The Colbert Report's Stephen Colbert.

[Image via Mark Sanford]

The above video was taken at 2:40 a.m. on March 9 at the 18th Avenue F train station in Borough Park, Brooklyn. In it, you can see a man in a hooded sweatshirt attacking a 56-year-old woman. When confronted, the woman attempts to flee, only to be thrown to the ground and kicked. The mugger then grabs her bag, empties it and roots through her belongings. As he does so, the woman picks up her empty bag and runs. The last image is of her running through one of the station's doors, her attacker close behind.

According to the New York Times., the victim somehow escaped with only minor injuries. The New York Post reports the attacker was in his 20s and weighed roughly 150 pounds. Both the Times and the Post report the suspect was wearing a black hoodie emblazoned on one side with "Alpha Phi Delta" and "Stugots" on the back, although only the Times linked to the Urban Dictionary definition of "Stugots."

[h/t Daily Intelligencer]

The new strain of bird flu that killed two men in China this week has claimed its third victim, Chinese authorities announced on Wednesday, bringing the total number of confirmed cases of the virus to nine. The news means that cases have now been reported in Hangzou, Shanghai, and Nanjing, where five victims are in critical condition in the hospital; according to the agriculture ministry, no infected animals have been discovered. H7N9, as the virus is known, is not thought to be transferrable from person-to-person contact yet, but because it may not manifest symptoms in fowl, scientists have described it as a "silent" threat. "[I]f this continues to spread throughout China and beyond China, it would be an even bigger problem than with H5N1 in some sense," University of Hong Kong microbiologist Malik Peiris told the AP, "because with H5N1 you can see evidence of poultry dying, but here you can see this would be more or less a silent virus in poultry species that will occasionally infect humans." This year marks the tenth anniversary of the SARS outbreak in Hong Kong, during which the Chinese government minimized and covered up the virus' spread, and health officials are being careful to make a show of transparency and openness over H7N9—but at least one reported case is said to have been leaked to the media in a blog post by a hospital employee. [Reuters | NYT | AP]

While he attempts to put pressure on Congress to pass federal measures that would increase gun control, President Obama is visiting Colorado today to draw attention to its recently passed gun control laws.

Despite the state's tradition of hunting and historically highly valued gun ownership rights, Colorado expanded its restrictions on magazines and expanded background checks with a bill passed two weeks ago. Obama will visit community leaders and law enforcement officers not far from Aurora, where James Holmes killed 12 people in a movie theater last summer (prosecutors announced this week that they would pursue the death penalty for Holmes).

The President is advocating for Congress to at least vote on a ban of assault weapons, limits on large-capacity ammunition magazines, and universal background checks on gun buyers. The background check requirement is the most important component of the law to gun control advocates, and while the issue divides congress, 90 percent of Americans polled in public surveys support expanded background checks.

Obama has made a series of high-profile appearances over the past few weeks to advocate for gun control. As he called for legislation last week, he stood with 21 mothers who have lost their children to gun violence, saying: "I haven't forgotten those kids."

[ABC, image via AP]

An Oklahoma teen who thought it would be funny to fool her boyfriend into believing she was pregnant suddenly got serious halfway into her own April 1st prank and ditched the gag in favor of stabbing him in the neck instead.

Authorities in Wagoner County say Tori Wheeler, 18, started off by telling her beau Derek Bauer that she was with child, and followed that up by brandishing a knife in his direction and threatening him with physical harm.

Wheeler later insisted to deputies that it was all a lark up until the point that Bauer became angry and threatened to call the cops.

A fight ensued, during which Wheeler allegedly stabbed Bauer in the neck (with a knife he gave her as a gift) and bit him several times.

Wheeler was subsequently arrested on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon.

A Redditor who claims to be Bauer's brother posted a photo of the April Fools' Day's aftermath: Seven stitches, two bite marks, and one crazy April Fools Day story.

[mug shot via Fox23, photo via Reddit]

Hillsborough County officials have released video of the sinkhole that killed a man in his home in Seffner, Florida in early March. Jeff Bush, 37, was swallowed into the 60-foot-deep sinkhole before his brother Jeremy could save him.

The video was taken by a contractor who put a camera on the end of a pole that he stuck into Jeff Bush's bedroom window. Jeremy Bush says the sinkhole is deeper than when he tried to rescue his brother. "You can't see anything that was in there, than what I seen before, when I first jumped in," he told the Bradenton Herald. Previously, he said he saw his brother's mattress and bedspring sinking into the depths.

While Bush says he is glad this sinkhole can serve as a lesson to others, he is haunted by the loss of his brother:

"It was much, much, bigger than I thought. I'm having a hard time dealing with this myself. I went back to both jobs, and it's really hard not having my brother there beside me. I think about him all the time and I hear him in my head hollering for me to help him still."

[Bradenton Herald]

Being Courtney Stodden can't be easy.

After exploding onto the scene as the child bride in a January-December marriage to actor Doug Hutchison, Stodden was forced to sustain her addiction to attention by shedding a growing number of garments for an increasingly unrealistic series of ostensibly candid shots that would then be "leaked" to gossip sites looking to fill quotas on slow news days.

Now, it seems, Stodden has finally been left with no choice but to go all out.

Literally: The latest issue of Robert Steven "Corpsy" Rhine's infamous Girls and Corpses magazine features a wholly nude Stodden "getting groped by a zombie" (see below).

Here's everything you need to know about the "world's first comedy magazine about death," courtesy of their FAQ:

Are your corpses real? Do you dig them up?

Actually, we don't personally 'dig them up.' We're not grave robbers! The corpses are shipped to us from several locations — most notably South America, Eastern China and Guam, where the laws are more lenient about intercontinental shipment of cadavers.

"Girls and Corpses is a silly, yet sexy magazine, which fits my personality perfectly," Stodden told E! News when asked why she gave her first full frontal to a corpse fetish magazine. "It was definitely interesting, of corpse…hehe."

And with that, Courtney Stodden evaporated.

[H/T: Uproxx, ONTD, photo via Josiah True/WENN, image via Girls and Corpses]

While towing a couple of buddies back to their home port, a drunken sailor asks to be tossed a beer while not fully in command of his basic motor skills.

Needless to say, he came within inches of getting killed by the motor, basically.

A shipmate filed this report:

I was the one who threw the beer, he was really drunk the first beer we threw he caught one handed like a ninja. The second one he didn't have quite as much grace it hit him right in the chin. The can blew up on his tooth when he came up he had a gash almost through his lip and he was wiggling his tooth it looked like it was about ready to fall out.

Please remember to boat responsibly.

[H/T: HyperVocal, video via Reddit]

Until Monday, almost no one had seen Troy Knapp in nine years. The tattooed, red-haired drifter had more or less disappeared in 2004, after the latest in a string of prison stints, and the number of people who had laid their eyes on him—let alone spoken with him—could be counted on two hands.

Where was Knapp for that decade? Roaming across thousands of miles of southern Utah wilderness, surviving off the land—and off of the area's many weekend cabins, which he'd break into and steal supplies from, sometimes leaving mocking notes with swastikas doodled in the margin.

Knapp, 45, was arrested on Tuesday, the culmination of a seven-year manhunt, in a collaborative effort between several different law enforcement agencies. "He was severely outgunned at the time," Sanpete County Sheriff Brian Nielson told reporters. "He ran into a number of officers that were also well armed and he could see that he was out of his league."

That the final confrontation would be so peaceful was never a guarantee. In 2009, rangers found two camps Knapp had apparently abandoned in Iron County, stocked with an arsenal of 19 guns (and a copy of Into the Wild). He'd vaguely threatened his pursuers in notes he left in burglarized cabins: "Hey, sheriff, fuck you!" one read. "Gonna put you in the ground!"

Serendipitously, Jacob Baynham wrote a superb long piece about Knapp and the hunt for "the Ghost of the Mountain" for Men's Journal's May issue—completed, unfortunately, just before Knapp was captured:

For seven years, the lone outlaw who roamed the vast wilderness of southern Utah was more myth than man. He left clues of his existence but not much more. He was fast and fit, could cover 20 miles a day in rough terrain, and was savvy in the art of evasion, stepping on saplings to avoid leaving tracks. He snared squirrels with traps made from shoelaces in the summer and endured subzero temperatures in winter, traversing deep snow at elevations of more than 10,000 feet. He had survived some of the coldest winters on record living off the land – and off supplies he stole from cabins in his mountains.

He would go from home to home, tapping a quarter-size hole in a windowpane and unfastening the latch. He would eat all the food he could find, burn all the firewood, and then move on. He hit dozens of cabins across the state, riffling through the cupboards, taking batteries, binoculars, canned goods, and camouflaged clothing – anything that would keep him alive, moving, and out of sight. He stole all the shoes he could, too, from boots to sneakers to sandals, so his tracks would be harder to follow. Locals called him the Mountain Man, and said he was like a cougar – rarely seen, but always watching.

Baynham goes back to Knapp's pre-wilderness days, as a troubled kid and then a man in and out of jail, prone to violence and jealous rage, who'd been accused of assaulting a homeless man—"a heavy-drinking, pot-smoking, conspiracy-theorist ex-con," as his ex-girlfriend describes him. Knapp first took to the wilderness in 2000, stealing a truck and a ranger's boots and disappearing into the Sierra Nevadas in California, only to be caught when he snuck back into civilization to buy some groceries.

When he was finally released from jail four years later, he committed fully to his new lifestyle, and was barely heard from again. The homeless man who says Knapp beat him nearly to death was one point of contact; Knapp's parents, who drove out to see him when he called them from a payphone—only to have him walk into the woods after asking them to pull over on the side of the road—were another.

No one even knew Knapp was the man robbing the cabins (and defacing them: in one case he took an oddly considerate dump in a pan on the floor) until a motion-detecting camera set up at a cabin shot a photo of him in late 2011.

Knapp was finally caught thanks to one of his brief encounters with the rest of civilzations: two hunters who ran into him on Good Friday and reported their sighting later. A number of Utah police organizations agreed to work together, and, after tracking him over the weekend, set off early Tuesday morning on snowmobiles. They found him barricaded in a cabin and willing to give up. He's sitting in Sanpete County jail now.

"I envy the sights he's seen, the sunsets, and animals," Sevier County sheriff Nathan Curtis told Baynham. "I bet he's seen things most people never will."

[Men's Journal, AP, images via AP]

An unnamed Marine Sergeant from Camp Pendleton was filmed unleashing a torrent of threats and obscenities in the direction of a driver who allegedly rear-ended his car.

The passenger who captured footage of the incident on camera is a wounded Marine who is paralyzed from the waist down, according to 10News. The man behind the wheel is her brother and caregiver.

The two say the marine's violent temper has traumatized them, and they asked to remain anonymous.

A friend who spoke on their behalf said the accident occurred after the verbally abusive marine stopped short several times.

"He cut them off and apparently he kept brake-checking them," said the friend. "He would slam on his brakes abruptly. They hit into the back of him on the third time."

Sources with knowledge say the Marine's car sustained "minor scratches" while the truck belonging to the paralyzed Marine and her brother "needs a new bumper and grill."

After the incident was brought to the attention of Camp Pendleton officials, the Marine was detained and cited for communicating a threat.

"This individual's behavior does not meet the standards that are expected of our Marines and it has received the attention of senior base staff," a base spokesman said in a statement.

It is unclear if criminal charges will be filed. A Purple Heart recipient, the Marine is said to be suffering from PTSD and may be exhibiting signs of intermittent explosive disorder, according to one psychologist.

[H/T: BroBible, video via LiveLeak]

Wantin' a cheeseburger real, real bad. We've all been there. I'm there right now, because I'm having falafel for lunch. Busta Rhymes was there last night, when he reportedly threw such a fit in a Miami restaurant (after his cheeseburger was served to him with ketchup on the side) that the restaurant's owner called the police.

The Miami New Times reports that the trouble started when the rapper arrived at Cheeseburger Baby in South Beach around 6 a.m., either to enjoy a cheeseburger nightcap before changing into jammies or to start his Wednesday right with his first cheeseburger of the day.

Restaurant owner Stephanie Vitori said that, upon arrival, Busta Rhymes expressed his desire to jump to the front of the long line to get his food; when employees refused to let him skip ahead, Busta returned to his car to wait. After his order was brought out to him, Busta Rhymes allegedly returned to the restaurant even more agitated, apparently upset because his ketchup was hanging out with but not on his patty:

"He was calling our delivery driver Santiago a 'fag' multiple times, and me a 'bitch' and [telling] me 'to shut the fuck up' because we put his salt, pepper, ketchup, and mayo — that he asked for — on the side."

Vitori said Busta "caused such a scene," she eventually called the cops on him, though he left the restaurant before they arrived. (She added "on the side is just how we do it.")

Then, like a true angry mom, Busta Rhymes telephoned the restaurant a few minutes later to complain that there was no cheese on his cheeseburger, which Vitori says is a lie. She says that, while on the phone, Busta said "he was going to ‘come get us.'"

While Busta's camp has yet to respond to the allegations, Vitori is remaining steadfast.

"I deal with drunk and disorderly people all the time. I have been doing this for 11 years but never in my life have I felt more disrespected as a business owner or woman."

Obviously, the one topping the burger had in abundance was drama.

[New Times // Image via Getty]

Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax says it wasn't going for controversy when it decided to use a photo of three smiling men on a billboard meant to promote a campaign honoring remarkable women.

From the Chronicle Herald:

The billboard features Paul Kent, the president and chief executive officer of the Greater Halifax Partnership, former provincial Liberal leader Danny Graham and Rob Batherson, the senior vice-president of public affairs at Colour, an advertising and communications company. Each of the men has donated to the university.

The Women's Wall of Honour is set to open in December of 2014 and honor scores of women who have been submitted for inclusion by their friends and family.

According to a university spokesperson, many women have donated money to the project, but the university "wanted to appeal to another demographic, especially with Mother's Day coming up," so it decided to erect a billboard featuring three male donors instead.

If that makes any sense.

Many have taken to Twitter and other social media outlets to express their chagrin at the bewildering move, and some have received this ostensibly explanatory response from the university's social media handler:

While billboards feature men, online and print ads feature women and men who've honoured a woman.

Which is whatever, but then how do they justify giving the same three men top billing on the project's official website?

[H/T: AdWeek, photo via Chronicle Herald, screengrab via Women's Wall of Honour]