News

Woman Tries To Rob Store With Toy Gun, Gets Arrested By Fake Cop

Wilnelia Rivera Caraballo, a 19-year-old girl, got a little tipsy and felt empowered to rob a store. So she armed herself with a toy “Uzi-type” gun, a clear plastic mask and went to work. Too bad there was a keen worker who outwitted the dimwitted half of Bonnie and Clyde.


September 23, 2011
News

SERIOUSLY HP MEG WHITMAN WHY WHY WHY

All Things D reports that apparently HP CEO Léo Apotheker will be ousted today, and former eBay CEO/failed gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman will take his place. Because when your house is on fire, your first call should be to an arsonist.


September 9, 2011
News

Idiot Casually Steals 1000 Litres Of Petrol

On the right, you’re looking at Yoenis Cristo Banos, who’s currently out on bail for a felony theft charge in Broward County, Florida. On the left? The silly fuel-sucking system that got him there.


August 30, 2011
Geek Out

Watch Kids Dodge Death While They Hang Off A Moving Train

Not satisfied with trying to outrun trains, looney kids are now latching onto the side of a MOVING train and playfully dodging things that they pass by. Right when you think they’ll smash into a pole, they manage to stay alive. It’s insane.


August 28, 2011
Geek Out

Watch A Weather Man Get Covered In What’s Probably Raw Sewage

Look, if you’re getting pelted in the face with bad-smelling, bad-tasting “organic material,” maybe it’s time to pack up and take it to the studio, yeah? Poor Tucker Barnes learned that the hard way in Ocean City, MD, where he got covered head-to-toe in sea foam probably caused by raw sewage backup from Hurricane Irene.


August 27, 2011
Science

The 10 Stupidest Ways To Die In A Hurricane

Only 3500 Americans have died in hurricanes since the 1940s thanks to improved warning and evacuation systems. So if you end up one of them, you were either in the wrong place at the wrong time, or you were stupid. But you’re not alone! We found a bunch of really dumb ways people met their maker during a hurricane. Let their idiocy be a lesson.


August 26, 2011
Geek Out

The Most Tragic Way To Celebrate An Earthquake

Earlier this week, heroic Brooklynite Jonathan Berg managed to accomplish something that was simultaneously accomplished by a mere 2.5 million other Brooklynites: not get killed by a weak-sauce earthquake. And then immortalised said accomplishment with a tattoo. Oh, Jonathan.


August 24, 2011
Software

Police-Made Officer-Tracking App Is Probably The Worst Idea Ever

Are you especially interested in where police officers are in your town at any given moment? No? Then you’re probably not a criminal. But that logic hasn’t stopped the Surrey, England, police department from launching an app that gives live updates on police activity.


August 10, 2011
Mobile

Your Chance To Fund A Phone Case That Will End In Certain Death

We’re idiots when we drive. We text, we watch movies, we careen into lakes blindly following GPS directions. So I’m having some trouble understanding how bolting your phone to the middle of your steering wheel is supposed to make us pay more attention to the road, not less.


Online

If You’re Looting In The UK, Please Keep Tweeting Pics of Yourself

I though this would be obvious but if you’re looting stores right now, don’t post a picture of you and your stash on Twitter. The police will hunt you down and the Mango Body Butter won’t seem as worth it anymore.