Jeremy Taylor
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CapsCop Shames Those Who Tweet in All-Caps
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Get the Lowdown on the Dumbest People of 2012
With 2012 coming to a close, it's time for the annual parade of year end lists. Most of these features will celebrate the best of the past 12 months. However, some of our favorite lists will point out the year's low-lights, because they make us feel better about all the times people screwed up in 2012.
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Couple Kidnaps Handyman And Forces Him To Do Home Improvements
If you have stuff around the house that needs fixing, normal people have one of two options: you either do it yourself, or pay somebody else to do it for you. Neither of those options appealed to 36-year-old Jason DeJesus and 33-year-old Chanelle Troedson of Morgan Hill, California. So instead they lured a local handyman to their home and beat him until he agreed to spend the day fixing stuff around their house, gratis.
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Man Steals Ex’s Engagement Ring, Gives It To His Wife
Donald Albritton's marriage was going through a rough patch, so he turned to his ex-girlfriend for help. The catch is Megan White, the 35-year old's former-flame, didn't exactly get a say in the matter...
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Best Buy Sends Lucky Shoppers Five iPads Instead of One
An iPad would normally be considered a pretty substantial gift this holiday season. Thanks to a fortunate error by Best Buy, a couple of shoppers can now use the tablet computer for stocking stuffers.
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Boy Sits On Santa’s Lap, Realizes 13 Years Later It’s His Father-In-Law
When Chris Burd was 13-years-old he went to the mall in Maplewood, Minn during Christmas time. He was with his three-year-old sister, and to appease her he also sat on the lap of the mall's Santa Claus and asked for gifts.
Fast forward 13 years. Chris had recently become engaged when he got a call from his mother who tells him she had made an interesting discovery while going through a batch of old pictures.
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Snake Wrecks Havoc on Plane – Where’s Samuel L. Jackson?
Most people have never actually seen the movie 'Snakes On A Plane.' But thanks to its descriptive name and an aggressive ad campaign based around star Samuel L. Jackson's proclivity for profanity, we all know the bad things that can happen if the slithery reptiles get loose on an aircraft.
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Jerk Goat Terrorizes Middle School
Things got a little crazy at Lamar Fleming Middle School in Houston, Texas Tuesday morning when what has been described as a "mean old goat' wandered onto campus.
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Pizza Hut Perfume Is an Actual Thing That Is Happening
Fact: everybody who isn't a monster loves the smell of pizza. But that doesn't mean that Pizza Hut should be making a pizza-scented perfume. Especially because their pizza is exempt from the "everybody loves the smell of pizza" clause. But they're doing it anyway.
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Dumb ‘Chick Bank Robber’ Brags About Crime on YouTube, Gets Busted
After robbing a bank, most criminals will try to lay low for a period of time. Not 19-year-old Hannah Sabata. The Stromsburg, Nebraska teen wanted to get credit for her ability to knock over a local bank for over $6,000 and also make off with a Pontiac Grand Am that didn't belong to her.
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Insurance Company Declares Living Man Dead
George Johannesen is very much alive. Which is why it was so surprising when the Canadian man received a letter addressed "To the Estate of George Johannesen." Even more surprising is that it came from his insurance company, who should really be on top of such things.
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Watch 21,000 Teddy Bears Hit the Ice at a Holiday Hockey Event
There are all sorts of different traditions involving fans throwing things on the ice during hockey games. While most of them involve dead squid or fish, the Calgary Hitman have a much more cuddly tradition.