It’s no secret that when it comes to accusations of copyright infringement, Chinese corporations are usually frequent offenders. This is especially apparent in the automotive industry, where Chinese offerings are often styled to be nearly identical to their conventional counterparts. However, a rare meeting between the real deal and its plagiarized cousin materialized via a…
An A.I. bot created by Amazon to specifically design smartphone cases has outdone itself in ways you cannot even imagine. This bot is supposed to be generating cell phone cases based on trending and popular images searches. However, the programming of the bot has been flubbed, and the designs pouring from the machinery are nothing…
In case you haven’t heard, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is back in the news for yet another bone-headed move: Christie shut down beaches and state-run parks because of massive budget cuts, then was found lounging on one of the closed beaches with his family for the Independence Day Weekend. He was spotted at Island Beach State…
Studies are now showing that 7% of all Americans believe chocolate milk comes from brown cows. The study was commissioned and conducted online by the Innovative Center of U.S. Dairy, and while 7% might not seem like a big deal, it is when you realize that percentage means 16.4 million Americans believe this preposterous fact.…
Wes Metcalfe took on the brave world of customer service departments when he contacted Tesco after finding a worm housed in his packaged cucumber. Now, we all understand the world of customer service can be grueling, unforgiving, and unsympathetic. So, Metcalfe decided to try and tug at the heartstrings of the customer service department by…
Forty-five-year-old Carol Santa Fe, a native of San Diego, California, is a happily married woman. She has had the same lover for a whopping thirty-six years. According to Carol, the love of her life is the Santa Fe train station. Ever since she was nine-years-old, Carol has been in love with the old building. The…
Animal shelters usually write cute and endearing descriptions of their residents, sharing their likes and dislikes and quirks of their personalities. An Austrailian organization, Cats Of Melbourne, is no different, except in the case of “Lord Bigglesworth” where they dropped the cute and endearing part and replaced it with brutally honest and terrifying. According to the…
“Micropenis” is a medically-documented term that denotes when a man has an unusually small penis. Ant Smith, who went public about his condition with his poem Shorty, has now come out with a book entitled The Small Penis Bible, it’s goal is denoted perfectly within the title: this book was created under the deep desire for Smith to…
Miracles are real. They happen every day. However, it is not every day a miracle turns into an object of worship. In the Assam region of India, a goat mother recently gave birth to a baby with one eye and one ear. Local veterinarians did not give the little baby much chance of making it…
In the average American high school, students have to confront their awkward years along with everyone else. This can lead to some rather interesting results. Of course, cliques, which are more or less wholesome gangs created out of mutual interest or hatred, exist in order to pester those whose awkward years are especially clumsy. However,…
When a series of golden toilets have begun popping up around Indianapolis and Muncie, Indiana nobody was entirely sure what exactly was going on. It was clearly political, each toilet and “Take a Trump!” written on its tanks but who had created and placed the toilets and why was a mystery. Under the lid of each toilet…
In some movies it begins with a plague outbreak. Others involve voodoo curses or the Book of Revelation. In real life, it may just start with one deranged fox in the Russian town of Usinsk. In a terrifying video, a clearly bloodied fox bites and claws at what appears to be a metal doorstop. Then, just…
Smarties. The pastel candy pellets that taste like someone dumped too much sugar into the Tums machine. Kids love them, parents eat them when there are no other desserts in the house, and idiotic teenagers snort them to show how hardcore they are before their grandmothers pick them up from school. Every single day, more than…
Imagine this: you are lounging back in your favorite chair with your pajama pants pulled up above that pooch you don’t want to acknowledge exists as you zone out to your favorite show. Suddenly, your phone vibrates. You sigh deeply, not wanting to outside world to exist in the middle of your worst workweek ever,…
Terry George’s The Promise, released to American audiences this week, is about a tense love triangle during the Armenian genocide. Christian Bale, playing a reporter of the Associated Press, sat with The Daily Beast recently to promote the film. Neither Bale nor the reporter could get around the startling parallels of Ottoman tyrannical leadership and…
We all have bad days. Sometimes, these bad days turn into incredibly embarrassing bad days. One woman in New Caney, Texas had her horrible, terrible, not-so-good day reported online for millions to read about and watch. Gracie Henderson, in an attempt to manually fix a clogged toilet, put her left hand into the bowl. She…
Couples on social media. Everyone has them: those nauseating people on Facebook that make you thankful for the “unfollow” button. People who are growing up in an era where the word “private” is being replaced with the word “crunk” and the concept of conversation is being replaced with the concept of sexting. Our culture is…
Chief Warrant Officer Joseph John Schmidt III, a US Navy SEAL with twenty-three years of service, is currently in dutch because of his second career. Mr. Schmidt moonlights as a porn star. Filmed often in conjunction with his wife, porn starlet Jewels Jade, Mr. Schmidt, 42, has appeared in at least 29 adult videos. What’s…
Let’s play a little game. We’ll call it Versus. The rules are simple: we pit the two craziest people alive against one another in an all-out Twitter comparison to see if you can choose which bottle of crazy the statement belongs in. The rules are simple: read the tweet, then choose which person you believe…
Democracy is supposed to be serious business. Years after the reforms of the Athenian politician Solon, a revolutionary and democratic constitution was ushered in for the Greek citizens of that particular city-state. However, the Greek democracies of the ancient world privileged duties more than rights, and unlike the liberal democracies of today, the census of the…
Whenever a home goes up in flames, investigators usually sift through the evidence in order to uncover whether arson or mechanical failures were to blame. One year-long case in England is problematizing this standard approach. In Haxby, York, the body of a 63-year-old man named Paul Wilmott was discovered three meters from his house underneath dirt…
Sometimes life is awkward. It is littered with moments that convince you that your life is over and you will die of embarrassment right there and then. Fortunately, most of those moments pass and eventually evolve into charming anecdotes you can bore your friends, children, and grandchildren with for years to come. Until that time, while…
Having almost the entire depository of human learning available in the palm of your hand, it is unsurprising that we are overwhelmed by knowledge and choose to look at cat memes instead. However, since the Donald became POTUS the gods of the internet have turned their hands from our four legged feline friends to the…
A coati is an adorable mammal that can be found all across Latin America, from Mexico down to Brazil. A relative of the raccoon, coatis are known for their high intelligence. One coati named Sunny, who currently lives with a private citizen in the German capital of Berlin, certainly proves that theory. According to reports,…
Since his 2016 release from prison, countless conspiracy theories have been pitched circulating Atlanta rapper Gucci Mane. Fans immediately noticed something was off about GuWop—he returned 50 pounds thinner, his hair and beard had grown out, his teeth were pearly white, and it seemed as though he had purposely altered his fashion, mannerisms, and speech.…
It is no surprise that animals have some pretty whacky talents. These include the axolotl salamander’s ability to mend wounds immediately, the octopus’s ability to mimic other creatures’ movements, or even the hippopotamus—who can secrete a blood-sweat to protect their skin from the sun. The latest animal in the scientific spotlight, however, is the otter—more…
On March 24th, The Joker was spotted in Winchester, Virginia. Citizens of the D.C.-area city were put on edge as the laughing sociopath walked the streets with a cape, mask, and sword. Fortunately, the Winchester Police Department apprehended the comic book villain all on their own. No Batman need apply. As it turned out, “The…
Anyone who has ever imbibed too much alcohol or smoked something they shouldn’t have knows what shame feels like. Certain substances lower inhibitions, thus opening the floodgates for otherwise embarrassing behavior. One Scotsman found this fact out while being documented for posterity. In a YouTube video called “Crackhead tries to feel up cement mixer thinking…
Typically rally cross racers usually have a good sense of direction, as well as a map wielding passenger to help them avoid getting lost on some of the world’s fiercest rally circuits. However, for one driver, an errant bump nearly ruined his day, but he still managed to win the event despite his brief unplanned…
During a very serious live interview on BBC News, Professor Robert Kelly found himself unexpectedly interrupted by his children prancing into the room one-by-one to check out what daddy’s doing. In a video that just gets funnier and funnier, Kelly is discussing the implications of the impeachment of South Korean President Park Geun-hye when his toddler…
A grandmother in Holland, known in reports only as Annie, was handcuffed before being taken to the cells and locked up in her local police station. Her crime? There wasn’t one, but she is not complaining. Grandma Annie has been working her way through her bucket list, and her family found out she had always…
A fifth grader in Marion, Ohio decided to seek help in a rather novel way. Tasked with tough math homework, 10-year-old Lena Draper decided to contact the Marion Police Department via Facebook. She kindly asked: I’m having trouble with my homework, could you help me? Most would not expect a response. However, Lena got several…
Last month, a curious photo was shared to Reddit with the caption: My captain friend sent me this photo. Saudi prince bought ticket for his 80 hawks. This, of course, begs several questions. Why does someone have a need for 80 birds of prey? Where are they going? What did they order from the service…
You can buy pretty much anything online. While a majority of people confine their purchases to mundane items like video games, clothes, or the occasional book, there are those consumers who seek more outre novelties. According to the Bristol Post in England, a man named Tom Rygol recently took to Facebook in order to advertise the sale…
On Monday, February 6, mobs of people gathered on Washington to protest the results of the Super Bowl from the previous night. While nearly 500,000 people showed up to march on Washington, an estimated 5 million joined the fight worldwide. To discover why the world erupted with such potent anger following the Super Bowl results,…
Moose are one of the biggest herbivore species in North America, and are usually found above ground, happily munching away on various species of plants. However, one Idaho family discovered that they are also perfectly capable in a below ground environment, after a close encounter with one of these creatures early Sunday morning. The moose…
In the midst of our cultural understanding of climate change (the modern period beginning in 1988 with the establishment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), the terminology has shifted quite a bit. Starting with the now negatively-associated term “global warming” shifting to the all-encompassing term “climate change,” countless words have increased in usage over…
Sometimes safety and security comes from strange places. We’ve all invariably seen those “Beware of Dog” signs. Often, there isn’t a single dog for miles. However, the point is that those “Beware of Dog” signs deter people because of the idea that a vicious attack dog might be on the premises. It’s the same as the tower…
Carponizer, an online retailer that offers its clients the best in “high-end carp equipment,” has found a new special combination. Like peanut butter and jelly or cookies and milk, Carponizer’s Hendrik Pöhler has married together attractive women with the popular activity of carp fishing. This mixture of sex appeal and fish has already started turning heads…
Like most of the fashion world, mannequins have been invented to make us feel fat. For the ladies, they have improbably small waists, large busts, and inconceivably perky backsides. As for the men, they look like plastic statues of Tom Brady. Abs, abs, abs. Stores all over the world use these body dysmorphic disorder inducing…
Weird or Confusing is a website emboldening e-commerce by removing the middle man in our search for weird things we can buy online. The site, which averages more than 8,000 unique visitors per day, directs its users to the strangest Amazon pages known to man. We decided to try it out for ourselves and were…
People call the police for all sorts of reasons. Sometimes they need help to get out of a urinal. Sometimes they are weed dealers who ring to report that they are smuggling drugs across state borders and wish to turn themselves in.