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Japanese Lawmaker Refuses to Stop Wearing His Signature Lucha Libre Mask to...
A municipal legislator from Japan who goes by his pro-wrestling handle "Skull Reaper A-ji" won a seat on the Oita city council fair and square, but his fellow lawmakers are refusing to allow him to...
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What Does a Pope Do?
On Wednesday, a bunch of old men vacationing in Italy selected an Argentine man named Jorge Bergoglio as America's Next Top Pope. Bergoglio immediately accepted the position and chose new name...
View ArticleHere Is a Man Who Has Sexual Relationships With Balloons
Sixty-two-year-old Julius has had a fascination with balloons since he was four. At some point, it turned sexual, which distinguishes him from the other more childlike inflatable enthusiasts we've...
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Who Should Be The New Face of Twinkies?
After a brief and panic-inducing sabbatical, Twinkies are coming back, now that investors have scooped them up from the dying Hostess corporation. The big question now: who can be trusted to represent...
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Hostage Taker Lets His Captives Go After Police Meet His Only Demand: Pizza...
Police in the Russian city of Astrakhan spent several hours in intense negotiations with a hostage taker who claimed to have a gun and a box full of explosives. The unidentified man, said to a...
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Newly Discovered Robert Louis Stevenson Essay Shows He Was a Grump
A recently uncovered essay by Robert Louis Stevenson, author of Treasure Island, the Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and other things on your fifth grade summer reading list, shows that the...
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Congratulations to the NYPD on Its 5 Millionth Stop and Frisk!
Today the New York City Police Department, under the leadership of Commissioner Ray Kelly and Mayor Michael Bloomberg, will conduct its five millionth stop-and-frisk procedure, according to a data...
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Google Streetview Captures Public Handjob in Manchester, England
This has got to be the most explicit and NSFW of all oddities discovered on Google Streetview. A prostitute giving a hand job to a "bloke" (that's British for, "prostitute customer" ) in a back alley...
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What It Is Like to Spend 25 Years in Solitary Confinement
In February of 1987, deputies were transporting inmate William R. Blake to court in Dewitt, New York, to face drug and robbery charges. Blake grabbed a deputy's gun and shot two officers, killing one....
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Scientists Get Pandas in the Mood for Love by Showing Them Panda Porn
In a last-ditch effort to convince a pair of pandas to take advantage of their brief annual breeding season, scientists at China's Chengdu Research Base for Giant Panda Breeding turned to good ol'...
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Photo of Man Caught Watching Porn at Work Goes Viral on Twitter
When James P. of Brisbane, Australia, noticed a man engaging in some not-safe-for-work activities in the office across the way from his, he did what anyone with a cellphone and a Twitter account would...
View ArticleA 47-Second Video About a Beautiful Friendship: Time Lapse Captures Crescent...
This is a very brief video about a marvelous friendship between a Cheshire cat grin of a moon and what looks like his comet buddy chasing after him. Really, this is just the moon doing its lunar...
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A Discussion With Evgeny Morozov, Silicon Valley's Fiercest Critic
Does each mention of "the power of crowdsourcing" fill you with blind rage? Are you sick of geeks foisting the latest Kickstarter-funded self-tracking weight loss gadget upon you as if your main...
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Chopping Off a Dog's Balls, Auctioning Off a Friend's Belongings, and Other...
Welcome to Thatz Not Okay, a regular column in which I school inquiring readers on what is and is not okay. Please send your questions (max: 200 words) to caity@gawker.com with the subject "Thatz Not...
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Committed Con Artists Consume Donuts Stuffed with Razor Blades in Poorly...
Two Dollar Tree employees allegedly tried to pull off a settlement scam by claiming they found razor blades stuffed inside donuts on sale at a food store in Draper, Utah. 39-year-old Carol Lee...
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Americans Moving Exclusively to Shitholes
The complete and total collapse of the global economy had at least one upside for Americans: it briefly stopped them from moving to brand new housing developments in hellish southwestern desert exurbs....
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Some Spanish Wizard Predicted the New Pope's Name a Few Hours Before the...
In his sleep, no less. According to a tweet sent out by Yolanda De Mena of Madrid on the morning of February 11th, her boyfriend Alejandro Rodriguez woke her up very early that same day and told her...
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Kristen Stewart’s Mom Wanted To Cast Her Daughter as a Multiple-Rape Victim
K-11, the directorial debut of Kristen Stewart's mom Jules Stewart, is like a weird nightmare you just woke up from, in which you went to jail, watched someone shit out a balloon full of coke, stared...
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Justin Bieber's Hamster Is Dead
Why does the universe continue to test Justin Bieber? First, the world's most singin'-est teenager had a worst-day birthday. Then, a video of him squeaking curse words at a photographer surfaced...
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Reuters Social Media Editor Federally Indicted for Allegedly Collaborating...
Matthew Keys, the deputy social media editor at Reuters, was federally indicted today for allegedly conspiring with Anonymous to deface various news sites run by the Tribune Company, one of Keys's...
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