Thief Snatches Woman's Phone, Gets Run Over by the Bus to Karma City
A Colombian mugger's cunning plan to steal a defenseless woman's cellphone was nearly foolproof — except for the part where he was run over by a bus while fleeing, and ended up looking like a fool....
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Foreign "Crazy Ants" Attacking Southern U.S.
Monstrous "crazy ants" from Argentina and Brazil have invaded Texas and the American Southeast, driving out the already awful fire ant and making life even more miserable for those living in the...
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Unemployment Stories, Vol. 35: 'I Can't Really Afford to Be Alive'
In most states, the unemployment rate is coming down, ever so slowly. Still, nearly 12 million Americans are officially unemployed, and millions more have dropped out of the labor force entirely. Each...
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Quacks of All Political Persuations Fight Fluoridation In Portland
In 2013 one can have many legitimate beefs with the medical and scientific establishment, but fluoridated water, like immunization, is not one of them. Still, it appears increasingly likely that a...
View ArticleWatch A Man Beg Others To Call Police As He Clings To A Speeding Truck
This weekend, a man claims he was hit by a truck in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. But instead of getting run over, he jumped, landed on the hood, and yelled for other drivers to call the police as they sped...
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What a Tree Looks Like After Being Stripped Naked by Nature's Fury
Students at Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa, say a lightning strike is most likely to blame for completely stripping the bark off an on-campus tree. One student says he and others heard a "loud bang...
View ArticleAfter Friday's Village Voice bloodbath, two staff writers have resigned their...
After Friday's Village Voice bloodbath, two staff writers have resigned their positions: Tejal Rao, a restaurant critic owners just publicly lauded, and investigative reporter Nick Pinto. Update, 4pm:...
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Seamless Made Fun of My Dead Cat and Now It's Merging with GrubHub
Seamless and GrubHub, two nearly identical online food-ordering companies whose business model consists of providing a service that is already available for free, announced Monday that they would be...
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Nutella Maker Shuts Down Fan 'Holiday' Dedicated to Buying Nutella
Many brands would kill for a hugely popular, entirely fan-fueled International "holiday" dedicated to expressing affection for their product by buying it by the boatload. But Nutella, which had...
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Vigils Continue for Mark Carson, Murdered in Anti-Gay NYC Shooting
More than 100 mourners turned up on Saturday night to a candlelight vigil for Mark Carson, the 32-year-old gay man shot and killed by a homophobe early Saturday morning in New York City. Carson's...
View ArticleSurgeons at the Fourth Military Medical University in Xi'an, China, say they...
Surgeons at the Fourth Military Medical University in Xi'an, China, say they transplanted a genetically modified piece of pig liver into a Tibetan macaque this month, according to the state-run China...
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Unemployed Woman Blames Lack of Work on Being 'Too Attractive'
A London woman who has been unemployed for the last two years says it's not for lack of trying, but rather for excess — of good looks. Laura Fernee, who has a PhD in an unspecified field of science,...
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Pistachios Are the Fifth-Best Nut
I like pistachio nuts. In fact, I would say that pistachios are the fifth best variety of nut in the whole wide world. Once you crack that shell, you'll find a tasty nut waiting for you. And they're...
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Mayoral Candidate Charged for Defacing Signs with (Weak) Pussy Joke
It's Pussy versus Butts in a race to the bottom next Election Day in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania's ninth-largest (and capital) city, and a renowned "broke-ass sinkhole of despair." PennLive reports that a...
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Jann Wenner's Kid Is the New Head of RollingStone.com
Rolling Stone owner Jann Wenner has a knack for picking talent. So we're sure his online staff will give a hearty welcome to their new boss: Jann Wenner's fresh-out-of-college kid. Gus Wenner, 22, is...
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Dead California Cop Faces Prison For Rape, Kidnapping
Anthony Nicolas Orban already killed himself in jail, but the justice system isn't done with the evil California cop who abducted a diner waitress at gunpoint and raped her behind a storage shed in a...
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Tumblr and Yahoo: Everyone's Rich and Everyone Loses
Despite all the excited shouting, there's nothing particularly cheerful about Yahoo's maternal adoption of David Karp. Users are whining, investors are disappointed, pundits are ever-unimpressed, and...
View ArticleTalk Show Host Drinks Breast Milk Directly from the Source [NSFW]
Controversial Dutch TV personality Paul de Leeuw shocked some viewers of his primetime family program last week when he turned down an offer to drink mother's milk from a bottle — opting instead to...
View ArticleScientists have finally detected deep-space neutrinos.
Scientists have finally detected deep-space neutrinos. That and a dollar will get you a Snickers bar.
View ArticleBat Mitzvah Chaperone Unleashes Hell on Schoolkids Over Wayward M&M
A man put in charge of chaperoning a school bus full of Westchester County kids returning from a Bat Mitzvah in Manhattan was recorded going batshit crazy on the 12 and 13-year-old boys in his care...
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