May 14: If ever there was a case for Cookie Monster to investigate. A Kentucky woman was charged this week with stealing $15,000 worth of Girl Scout cookies and has since disappeared, state police said. A grand jury in Pike, Ky., indicted Leah Ann Vick, 26, on one count of felony theft after troopers said she […]
May 14: A pair of Scottish college students jokingly left a common pineapple on an empty table at a modern art museum, only to find days later it had been encased in glass and had become part of the exhibit. The prank was the work of Lloyd Jack and Ruairi Gray, both 22. They attended […]
May 13: A California police department is reveling in Facebook fame thanks to a viral post offering to make sure drug users’ meth is gluten free. The Newark Police Department posted a photo to Facebook showing some crystal meth and a glass pipe. The caption reads: “Is your meth laced with deadly gluten? Not sure? […]
April 8: Police in Canada are seeking information regarding a stolen tower used to support a cellphone booster and wireless Internet. Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Manitoba shared a notice about the 68-foot tower on Thursday, stating it had been stolen Sunday from Egg Lake, north of Winnipeg. “The tower was disassembled and loaded onto […]
April 8: Wendy’s challenged a Twitter user to accumulate 18 million retweets on a single tweet to earn a year of free chicken nuggets. Carter Wilkerson tweeted at the fast-food chain’s official Twitter account to ask how many retweets would earn him a year’s supply of his favorite treat. “Yo Wendy’s how many retweets for […]
April 8: The owner of a Florida video game store is challenging a town law that prevented him from displaying an inflatable character outside his store. Government in the Jacksonville suburb of Orange Park told Scott Fisher, owner of Gone Broke Gaming, he was required to remove the 10-foot inflatable Super Mario that once stood […]
April 8: Tourists driving through a Texas safari park captured the moment a camel stole a bagged lunch while an ostrich pecked at their SUV. Carrera Powell posted a video to YouTube showing what happened when the vehicle, carrying two women and a young girl, was blocked by a camel and an ostrich in the […]
Apr. 01: A circus entertainer set a world record on an Italian game show by stopping the blades of a fan with her tongue. Australian daredevil performer Zoe Ellis, known by her stage name Zoe L’Amore, appeared on Italy’s Lo Show dei Record to break her own Guinness World record for most electric fan blades […]
Apr. 01: An Englishman returned home to find a strange note explaining why a package he ordered was in his toilet. Sam Cooke shared photos of the unopened packaged nestled in his toilet bowl along with two missed delivery cards from the Royal Mail. “Well this has happened today…” Cooke wrote. The first missed delivery […]
Apr. 01: A California college student trying to take a photo of her ice cream cone next to the ocean captured the exact moment the ice cream was stolen by a seagull. Twitter user @youngweonhi, aka Kris, said she was visiting Santa Monica with her family when she decided to take a picture of her […]