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Hairless Dogs Flock To Yearly Ugly Dog Competition

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Hairless Dogs Flock To Yearly Ugly Dog Competition

This Friday, the Sonoma-Marin Fairgrounds in California will host the 25th annual World's Ugliest Dog contest. The winner usually has something in common with many Californian genital areas: Hairlessness. Many of these hair-free dogs are Chinese Cresteds who descend from ones bred by famous stripper, Gypsy Rose Lee. Lee liked to describe her pets as "naked dogs, for a naked lady."

Hairless Dogs Flock To Yearly Ugly Dog Competition

Lee was gifted her first Crested by her sister, June Havoc, and, through the years, she worked to secure the legacy of her favorite hairless dog, who she called Fu Manchu.

Non-hirsute dogs are used in some cultures as one might use a water bottle — they're pressed to aching body parts to ease pain. Just like so many hairless California genitals!

Actually, not all Chinese Cresteds are hairless. In any litter, there's a one-in-three chance that a puppy will be born hairy. This variety is called "Powder Puff."

I happen to think this breed is quite cute, with or without their fur coats. When I was an associate producer at Animal Planet's Too Cute, I was lucky enough to work with two Crested puppies, Bella and her furry brother, Buttons. Nothing ugly about these two.


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Teens Steal Credit Card, Use It to Take Incriminating Photo Booth Pics

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Teens Steal Credit Card, Use It to Take Incriminating Photo Booth Pics

Police in Maryland are seeking the public's assistance in tracking down a group of teen criminal masterminds who allegedly stole a Crofton woman's credit card and then proceeded to take incriminating photo booth photos of themselves holding the card.

The unidentified victim reported her card missing to the Anne Arundel County on June 6th, saying she had "misplaced" it while shopping near a local Regal Cinemas.

Reviewing its most recent transactions, investigators found the card had been used to purchase movie tickets at the same theater 24 hours earlier.

After examining surveillance camera footage from the theater, police tied the crime to a group of teenagers who were also recorded using the card to take photos of themselves at a photo booth located in the theater's lobby.

The photos were subsequently retrieved from the booth's hard disk drive and released to the public.

Anyone who can identify the teens involved is being asked to phone Detective Jeff Golas at 410-222-6155.

UPDATE: You can stop calling: Anne Arundel County police say they've been able to identify the teens in the photos thanks to a "quick response" for the community.

Hooray! That's four dumb teens off the streets, infinity more to go.

[photos via Anne Arundel County Police Department]

Here Is a List of Everyone Currently Rotting in Guantanamo Bay

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Here Is a List of Everyone Currently Rotting in Guantanamo Bay

Thanks to a Freedom of Information Act request from New York Times reporter Charlie Savage, the U.S. Department of Justice today released—with certain classified omissions—a list of its Guantanamo Bay detainees and their formerly shrouded detention statuses. The Miami Herald, which also requested a copy of the documents, reports that included on the list are 48 so-called "indefinite detainees," Guantanamo captives who remain imprisoned but ineligible for trial or transfer "pursuant to the Authorization for Use of Military Force (2001)."

Some Gitmo prisoners, including some indefinite detainees, are now in their third month of hunger striking to protest their captivity. As of Friday the strike had grown to include 104 of the jail's 166 prisoners, according to the Associated Press.

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America's Kids Under Constant Threat of Being Crushed by Toilet Seats

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America's Kids Under Constant Threat of Being Crushed by Toilet Seats

Toilet seats: your penis belongs dangling in front them, not crushed underneath them, but try telling that to America’s dumb kids. A new study published in urology journal BJU International (summarized in Reuters under the ominous headline “Falling toilet seats: Rare but growing risk for boys”) found that emergency room visits prompted by toilet seats slamming down onto little boys’ penises with the righteous fury of an angry God increased by a rate of 100 per year between 2002 and 2010.

In 2010, 1,707 people were admitted to the ER with such injuries. 97% of them were boys under 8. 100% of them were male, because girls are smarter and more careful with their penises.

Study author Benjamin Bryer suggests that number could be “the tip of the iceberg” (just the tip) because there may be boys whose parents do not take them to the ER following the injury. (Bryer notes that “the vast majority” of the patients were treated in the ER and then sent home, with no evidence of permanent damage.)

At this rate, eventually every boy in America will have been admitted to the ER because he can’t figure out how to pee without injuring himself. Children will emerge from their mothers, pink and screaming, and a toilet seat lurking nearby will zoom in and snap shut on their little peeps.

In order to Save Our Penises, Breyer suggests parents swap out their traditional wooden, ceramic, or thousand pound iron toilet seats made of swords for “slow close” or “soft fall” models. Some manufacturers offer U-shaped options that preserve the thrilling clatter of a slamming toilet seat, but remove the more dangerous elements (such as the front part).

Alternatively, you could also groom your kids to develop lightning fast ninja reflexes, since Breyer notes that most toddlers “just don’t have the reflexes to move fast enough” when a toilet seat comes swooping down.

Or you could only have baby girls.

[BJUI // Image via Shutterstock]

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Mom Wants Class Photo Retaken After Disabled Son Pushed to the Side

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Mom Wants Class Photo Retaken After Disabled Son Pushed to the Side

A heartbreaking photo of a second grader with spinal muscular atrophy who was forced to "sit out" his class photo went viral over the weekend, sparking accusations of discrimination directed toward the school photography company Lifetouch Canada Inc.

"I couldn’t comprehend how the photographer could look through the lens and think that this was good composition," Miles Ambridge's mom Anne Belanger told the Toronto Star. "This just boggled the mind."

The New Westminster, British Columbia, native said she refused to show her 7-year-old the photo — "Look at the angle that he was in. He wants to be part of the gang so much," she told The Province — but did post it on Lifetouch's Facebook page to bring the injustice to the company's attention.

"This was not a malicious act," Belanger acknowledged. "I don’t think it was done on purpose. I just don’t think there was any rational thinking behind it."

"For some reason it makes me feel even worse that he’s so happy in the picture," said Miles dad, Don Ambridge. "I think it’s because he’s still innocent...He’s still naive to how other people can treat him."

Following significant "coaxing," Lifetouch finally agreed that the photo was a "mistake," and arranged to have the photo re-shot, this time with Miles sitting on a bench beside his classmates with a caregiver providing him with support off-camera.

Despite the rectification, Herbert Spencer Elementary School said it would no longer be employing the company's services following a number of complaints concerning the photographers' lack of concern.

"We had several comments from teachers who said they just didn’t feel that they had taken the time," said school principal Tracy Fulton.

Lifetouch has yet to issue a public statement concerning the incident.

[family photo via The Province]


Drunk British Man Survives Fall From 15th Floor Apartment Balcony

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Drunk British Man Survives Fall From 15th Floor Apartment Balcony

Losing your keys while you're drunk is something that happens to most people, eventually. What doesn't usually happen is the next part of 20-year-old Tom Stilwell's story: surviving a fall from a neighbor's 15th floor balcony at 2 a.m. after attempting to jump to a balcony below.

After a night of drinking during a “working holiday” in Auckland, New Zealand, Stilwell, a British resident, split off from his friends and returned to his 14th floor apartment. Upon realizing he'd lost his keys, Stilwell got an an idea: he'd go upstairs to his neighbor's apartment, wake her up, and make the climb/jump from her balcony to his.

That neighbor, Geraldine Bautista, told the New Zealand Herald that Stilwell appeared “a little bit tipsy.”

"I wasn't scared of him - he just requested 'Can you please let me jump off from the balcony? I will not bother you just let me use your balcony ...'

"I never thought he would really do that. In my mind I thought 'Okay, I'll just let you see that it's really impossible [to gain access to his apartment]. I didn't think he'd jump, because it's really scary."

Stilwell quickly crossed Bautista's apartment and, before she realized what was happening, climbed over the railing of her balcony. He lost his grip and fell. “It happened so fast,” Bautista said. “I couldn't even scream for help. He was like a paper falling from here.”

Stilwell fell roughly 13 storeys, eventually landing on the roof of a nearby building. He was taken to a local hospital, where's he's in critical but stable condition, with back and neck fractures, a broken wrist, and internal injuries.

Stilwell's roommate, Dave Thomas, returned to the building just 15 minutes later and was immediately approached by police seeking someone to identify Stilwell. Thomas said he was shocked by the incident and called Stilwell a “very lucky man.”

“He's normally the sensible one of all of us,” he said.

[via NBC News]

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'Real Housewives of NYC' Cast Caught Staging, Re-filming Scenes

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'Real Housewives of NYC' Cast Caught Staging, Re-filming Scenes

The cast and crew of The Real Housewives of New York City were filming in Southampton over the weekend, where onlookers got a chance to see how their reality TV sausage is made, as Heather Thomson and Carole Radziwell took instructions from producers, took breaks in dialogue to wait for camera setups, and shot multiple takes.

According to eyewitnesses on Meeting House Lane in Southampton, "It was like something you would see on the set of a movie or scripted television show." The crew had even set up large reflectors to create the most flattering lighting during their scene.

Carole and Heather stood on Meeting House Lane and waited for the crew to call ‘rolling,’ before walking toward the camera and sitting on a park bench. They even shot the scene twice!

RadarOnline has pictures of the "set."

It's not the first time that the Real Housewives franchise has been caught "creating" reality. Two years ago, an Atlanta-area blogger happened to sit next to some cast members of The Real Housewives of Atlanta as they were filming a scene and was floored by how contrived it all was.

1. The conversation was repeatedly interrupted and guided by a crew member. The women would talk for a few minutes, then a crew member would approach the table and tell the women what to talk about. At one point, the crew member told the women they needed to switch to a light topic because they’d already spent a lot of time on serious topics.

2. When one of the crew members was leaving, one of the ‘Housewives’ said she would see him tomorrow at the ‘funeral home scene.’ If she’s calling it a ‘scene,” how ‘real’ can it be?

3. For some reason, the first taping of the women exiting the restaurant didn’t work. At the crew’s direction, the women returned to their seats, then taped a second exit scene.

More recently Walter Jackson, who was featured last season on RHOA as Kenya Moore's boyfriend, gave a radio interview in which he admitted that the relationship was fake and that they were acting in order to give Kenya a storyline, and he suggested that Bravo knew all about it.

But comparatively, the Real Housewives might be more real than most reality TV, particularly the shows on the E! channel. Kim Kardashian and her mother Kris Jenner were infamously busted filming a scene for their reality show that was supposed to take place in Dubai, but actually was shot on a soundstage in L.A. And during the deposition for Kim's divorce from Kris Humphries, Russell Jay, a producer on Keeping Up With the Kardashians testified that at least two scenes were "scripted, reshot or edited" in order to vilify Humphries.

In her book The Bling Ring, based on her Vanity Fair story about the group of teens who burglarized celebrities' homes, Nancy Jo Sales recounts in great detail her time spent with Bling Ring convict Alexis Neiers as she filmed her reality show Pretty Wild, which aired on E!. (Sales would be a prominent figure in the show's most notorious scene.)

The reality crew was ready to film the scene. “Tell her, ‘Everything’s go to be okay, Gabby,’” said Gennifer Gardiner, the supervising producer. She was standing to the side of the action, holding a large loose-leaf binder—the script.

“Everything’s going to be okay, Gabby,” Andrea [Alexis' mother] repeated. She was still dressed in her brown suit from court.

Mikel Neiers [Alexis' father] looked a bit lost.

Gardiner told him what to say.

Later, watching a scene being filmed of a conversation between Andrea and her daughter Gabby:

The Pretty Wild producers didn’t seem to mind me watching these performances, I guess because they were so used to the show being scripted

Gabby: “And what happened when we did that?”
Andrea: “A lot . . .”
According to multiple sources, the last time Andrea gave Tess and Alexis a “time out,” the Orlando Bloom burglary occurred. But the Pretty Wild producers were not aware of this.
Gabby: “A lot of bad things.”
Andrea: “A lot of bad things . . .”
They stared at each other a moment.
Gabby: “So, obviously—”
Andrea: “That did not work, so what are you suggesting?”

Gardiner, the supervising producer, cut in, feeding them lines: “So Gabby, this is great! ‘You need to be a stronger parent, Mom! I shouldn’t be the one telling you what to do with them—these girls are out of control, Mom, do something!’ ”

Gabby, returning to the scene: “Mom, I don’t know what you want me to do. Why should I be the one making the rules? I’m the one who is having to explain to you that the girls are totally wrong in this situation. You’re letting them do whatever they want to do, even though every day they mess up like this. Parenting is parenting!”

Real Housewives, Fake Scenes: New York Cast Caught On Camera Staging Scenes For Show [RadarOnline]

MediaTakeOut claims that a nurse at Cedars Sinai Hospital has revealed the name of the Khrist Child:

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MediaTakeOut claims that a nurse at Cedars Sinai Hospital has revealed the name of the Khrist Child: Kaidence Donda West. She already has tons of fake Twitter pages. Welcome to the world, Kaidence.

Do You Have a Picture of THE POLITICO's Chief Hoarder in Action?

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Do You Have a Picture of THE POLITICO's Chief Hoarder in Action?

Reading the New Republic's enlightening and maddening interview with the the amoral monsters behind THE POLITICO—"Q. Does President Obama read Politico? A. I assume he does, yes."—we were reminded of an old story we read once.

THE POLITICO's chief asset and informal mascot is Mike Allen, an emotionally crippled and extremely powerful journo-bot who writes THE PLAYBOOK every morning and occasionally interviews presidents, deferentially. Mike Allen is widely known to be a hoarder, as the New York Times' Mark Leibovich put it in a weird and deeply subtextual profile last summer in 2010. Here's how he described Allen's, um, problem:

It got so bad at Time, where Allen was given his own office, that it became difficult to even open the door. His chair was raised at a crooked angle, as if it were not touching the floor, and the debris rose so high in some places that it blocked a portion of light coming through a picture window. Colleagues took pictures, as if the place were an archaeological site.

If colleagues took pictures, then surely those pictures still exist, somewhere. Do you have one? It would be interesting to see them.

Email the author of this post at john@gawker.com.

[Image via Getty]

Smoking Now Banned in Your Apartment and in Your Car

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Smoking Now Banned in Your Apartment and in Your Car

The smoking rate here in the USA is down to a meager 18%, continuing a decline that's been going on for decades. Which is good, because it is now illegal to smoke almost everywhere.

WHERE IS IT ILLEGAL TO SMOKE NOW, FOR CHRISSAKE?

- Related Companies, a huge landlord in New York City, has banned smoking in ALL of it residential rentals. You can't smoke in your own god damn home.

- A Starbucks worker tells Starbucks Gossip that "we've been told to tell customers in the drive-thru that they can't smoke because it is within 25 feet of the building." You can't smoke in your own god damn car.

- France has banned smoking in covered cafe terraces. What are we, France?

Will the children of today, fed up with butt chugging "blunts" full of jenkem, be forced to turn to "smoking alcohol," to rebel? Only time will tell.

[Photo: Shannon Holman/ Flickr]

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Cap'n Crunch Forced to Refute Claims That He's Not a Real Captain

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Cap'n Crunch Forced to Refute Claims That He's Not a Real Captain

In a month already rife with scandal, the Internet has somehow managed to unearth perhaps the greatest controversy in recorded history: Beloved cereal mascot Cap'n Crunch is not, in actuality, a Captain.

While the Cap'n's uniform displays three stripes, a naval Captain traditionally wears four stripes on his or her cuff.

In other words, the Cap'n is nothing but a lousy Commander.

It wasn't long before CNN unleashed the full force of its on-air talent to get to the bottom of this soggy cereal bowl of lies:

Cap'n Crunch Forced to Refute Claims That He's Not a Real Captain

So, is childhood canceled? Not quite.

In response to claims that he's been lying about his rank, potentially making him a criminal and a traitor, Cap’n Horatio Magellan Crunch took to his official Twitter account to refute the allegations.

"All hearsay & misunderstandings!" the Cap'n told Consumerist. " captain the S.S. Guppy with my crew, which makes me an official Cap'n."

He's absolutely right: Being in command of a seafaring vessel automatically entitles one to be addressed as "captain," irrespective of rank.

Also, as one Farker astutely notes, "maybe the ranks of the breakfast cereal navy are different."

Adds another Farker: "I find it more alarming that a naval service would accept a recruit whose eye bulge out beyond the brim of his hat."

[images via Reddit]

If You're Famous And Fly Delta To LAX, Prepare To Be Greeted ByTMZ

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If You're Famous And Fly Delta To LAX,  Prepare To Be Greeted ByTMZ Welcome to Hit List Wishlist, where we feature excerpts from some of the best manifestos and tips we've received so far. We still want more — so keep 'em comin.

" There are dozens of airlines that fly into LAX, but if you’re famous (and famous is truly a subjective term), make sure you do not arrive on Delta. Unless of course you don’t mind the friendly paparazzi that will be waiting to greet you after your long flight.

Jet Blue has little TVs for their customers, Virgin America offers some great beverage choices, and Delta, for their valued customers, they always seem to have a cameramen from TMZ waiting at Terminal 5 for them to get their bags. There is nothing a celeb loves more then to get off a cross country flight and be greeted by some asshole asking them the most mundane questions possible.

American Airlines and US Airways have the most celebs flying on them, and honestly if you are flying out of New York, no matter what airline you are choose,there will be a waiting party for you. Six hours of air travel is just enough time for a pap in NY to tip a pap in LA who then tips another pap until we have a gang bang at LAX.

Celebs who fly Delta though have an added check in process, because every morning someone at TMZ emails their LAX PAP a list. Now two things, yes TMZ keeps a pap at LAX all day every day. It’s not an accident the guy with a camera is waiting at the Delta check in counter at 8 am and seems to have a dozen question all ready to ask you. This brings me to the second thing, the list, the list is not say as famous as Schindler’s, nor as valuable as say a list of hidden gold deposits, but the list does have tons of value, because on it, is every celeb that is flying in or out of LAX on Delta, their flight number and their departure or arrival time.

Also since Delta caters celebs who fly to and from Atlanta, let’s just say there is a high quota of African American celebs who manage to get nailed at LAX, unless it’s around Sundance, then every celeb flies LAX to Salt Lake, a route which Delta kinda dominates.

So today’s lesson for celebrities, never fly Delta, and there are no coincidences in the pap world. If you get shot at LAX, someone sold you out. Except in the case of Michael Lohan...who always tipped us off to where he was going to be."

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These Hairy 'Anti-Pervert Stockings' Are Big in China

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These Hairy 'Anti-Pervert Stockings' Are Big in China

A photo that took China's Twitter-alike Sina Weibo by storm this week claims to show the country's latest fashion trend: "Super sexy, summertime anti-pervert full-leg-of-hair stockings, essential for all young girls going out."

These Hairy 'Anti-Pervert Stockings' Are Big in China

The image has subsequently been reposted all over the web, but besides its rampant popularity, there is nothing else to indicate that this is a real thing, or even that the "photo" is real and not some sort of shop or optical illusion.

But even taking the image at face value, what do the stockings actually accomplish?

At The Daily Telegraph, British comedian and women's life columnist Katy Brand weighs in:

In fact what will happen is that all those nice, feminist men who pride themselves on being above their own cultural conditioning will be buying the drinks, and the old misogynists will leave the ladies alone – the successful suitors will be a pleasantly self-selecting group of males who are intellectual, lentil-eating, gentle and good at listening. The sex will be awful, of course, but it will be ever so respectful.

Back on Sina Weibo, one commenter wonders: "If it has come to this, why not just wear pants?"

[photo via Weibo]

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