March 10, 2013
My son has a phone app with revenge stories set in Israel and in Hebrew. His wife translated one very funny story for me. The following is an edited version of this wild story that appeared on the phone app. I do not condone this prank. Someone could have gotten seriously hurt. What I do [...]
Tags: Bloomberg is an idiot, funny stories, Israeli funny stories, revenge stories
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March 6, 2013
Robert Schiavelli, 42 of Rockville Center, New York has neurological impairments that cause sizures. He has the additional impairment of having a neighbour who laughs at him, sneers at him and calls him a “retard”. Instead of rearranging his neighbour’s face, Schiavelli laughs. Now, the neighbour has fought back by calling the cops, who gave [...]
Tags: Andrew Campanelli, Judge William Croutier, Robert Schiavelli, Rockville Center, summons for laughing
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March 4, 2013
A four year old boy in Aurora Colorado is fortunate to be alive after falling out a third story window and landing on his feet. The boy fell after a screen in the window he was leaning against gave way as he was speaking to a neighbour below. His family was badly shaken by the [...]
Tags: Aurora Colorado, Dylan Hayed, Fall from third floor, window safety
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February 20, 2013
Giovanna Chirri is the Vatican correspondent for the Italian news agency ANSA. She speaks Latin with relaxed fluency, which is a worthwhile skill in covering the only independent state in which Latin is an official language. Intelligent Life reports that since the news of Pope Benedict’s resignation was first released in Latin, Chirri”s fluency in [...]
Tags: dead languages, papal resignation, spoken Latin
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January 31, 2013
This has to be one of the craziest stories I have heard in a while. Peoplepets.com reports that a dog with no history of destroying property or attacking humans has been given up because its owner suspected it of being homosexual. Some dogs, it seems, seek to establish their dominance through what appears to be [...]
Tags: die Prinzen, Elton the gay dog, Mein Hund ist Schwul, owner gives up gay dog
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January 26, 2013
When John Allen, 81 was teaching his girlfriend, Linda to read when they were in Starbucks together, a deeply touched photographer snapped their picture and shared it on Facebook, where it went viral and reached more than two million viewers. The story was even more remarkable than the photo itself. John had been with Linda [...]
Tags: John Allen and Linda, recovering from stroke, viral photo
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January 24, 2013
Legos are incredibly sturdy toys, that can be recycled into countless new forms. What if a real house, suitable for human habitation were to be actually made out of legos. The following video shows that this can be done. The video is a bit of a spoof, since it contained furniture made out of Legos, [...]
Tags: Legos, real Lego houses, unconventional houses
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December 8, 2012
The first break that burglary suspect Darren Porter, 41, got on an otherwise bad day was when police handcuffed his hands in front of him rather than behind his back. This enabled him to steal the police car in which he was placed after he was caught and arrested for burglarising an antique store. Police [...]
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December 7, 2012
Religious imposters in India can breathe a little easier today, with the protection of India’s laws against blasphemy and offending the religious feelings of the people. Sanal Edamaruku, the president of the Indian Rationalist Association is in exile in Finland after hediscovered that the mysterious “tears of Jesus” dripping from a statue at a [...]
Tags: Indian Rationalist Association, Sanal Edamaruku, Weeping Jesus, Weeping Jesus statue in Mumbai
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November 25, 2012
If you do not believe in biblical prophecy, waiting for the wolf to lie down with the lamb may unduly tax your imagination. But there are inhabitants of the animal kingdom who are making it happen now. Maybe animal instinct is not as immutable as we had thought.Maybe we should think of the possibilities within [...]
Tags: biblical prophecy, Isaiah, Wolf and lamb
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