| Source | Fark Headline | Comments | |
| U.S. Air Force ends ban on recruits with tattoos on their saluting arms, admitting yeah, they'll pretty much take whatever they can get these days (guardian.co.uk) | (374) | ||
| Some people lift huge weights. Some people pull trains with their teeth. And then there's this guy (w/cringeworthy photo) (metro.co.uk) | (86) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Photoshop this armor (theartblog.org) | (42) | |
| (US Magazine) | Tiger Woods' fifth (and counting) mistress emerges from the rough, complains the golfer "used her for sex." Looks like someone doesn't know the meaning of the word "mistress" (usmagazine.com) | (574) | |
| Bandits steal $318 worth of gum from gas station. Although it blows for the victim, police say their best gumshoes are on the case and once the culprits are caught, charges will stick (freep.com) | (38) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Not news: Jumpstarting an engine, "You steer, I'll push." Fark: Off the top of a parking deck, 150 feet to the ground, and the 17-year-old girl behind the wheel survives. What's Malaysian for "Ta-da?" (thestar.com.my) | (44) | |
| Two contestants on the British TV show "I'm A Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here" were confronted by the RSPCA and then charged with animal cruelty for cooking and eating a rat while filming in NSW, Australia (abc.net.au) | (118) | ||
| (The More You Know) | Happy 20th Anniversary, Meme (themoreyouknow.com) | (100) | |
| (Some Guy) | If you broke into a house and stole three accordions, the police would like to ask you WTF you were thinking, once they stop laughing (wiltshiretimes.co.uk) | (69) | |
| (azfamily.com) | Every summer, countless number of people from Arizona travel to San Diego. In return, every winter San Diego police direct countless number of homeless people to go to Arizona. "I hear Phoenix is nice this time of year." (azfamily.com) | (82) | |
| Queen tells paparazzi she is not amused. Really, really not amused (news.bbc.co.uk) | (119) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Last minute Father Of the Year entry goes to dad who takes his 6 year old to the tattoo parlor. To rob it. While carrying heroin and cocaine. To his credit, he did remember to put socks and a t-shirt on his kids before leaving home (wcax.com) | (20) | |
| Iran... slows... Internet... access.... before... student.... protests (hosted.ap.org) | (156) | ||
| "The charms of the lumpy, sodden mass that is poutine have always escaped me. And really, in a nation plagued by obesity problems, do Canadians need a whole restaurant dedicated this now ubiquitous food category?" (torontosun.com) | (158) | ||
| Turns out MIT is slightly better than FARK at finding giant red balloons (news.bbc.co.uk) | (120) | ||
| (BuzzFeed) | The 50 best protest signs of 2009 (not a slideshow) (buzzfeed.com) | (550) | |
| (Some Guy) | Prison plans to cut costs in December by sending all prisoners home for Christmas, makes them promise they'll come back when jail reopens (heraldscotland.com) | (50) | |
| Merry Christmas. Go fast (thenewspaper.com) | (50) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Cutest baby hedgehog EVAR (pixdaus.com) | (79) | |
| Sweden holds auction of thousands of rare vintage porn magazines, although auctioneers say buyers won't be allowed to look through them prior to the sale. "That would take forever" (thelocal.se) | (56) | ||
| (Some Guy) | The number of paper holiday cards being mailed through old-fashioned snail mail is not only holding steady, but may even be increasing (post-gazette.com) | (42) | |
| The next big economy-wrecking bust on the horizon? Yup, the garlic bubble has popped (npr.org) | (67) | ||
| Photoshop this magnificent metal marble missing its middle (disconaplondon.files.wordpress.com) | (31) | ||
| (Augusta Chronicle) | Teacher did not inappropriately touch students. In other news, students will lie about lots of things (chronicle.augusta.com) | (126) | |
| Where's Waldo? (news.bbc.co.uk) | (57) | ||
| Not news: Getting fined for public intoxication. Fark: While quietly waiting for your designated ride (torontosun.com) | (168) | ||
| Parents spend less time worrying about the meaning of the nativity story and more time making sure their kids look better than the other kids in the Christmas play (reuters.com) | (35) | ||
| IRS audits single mom for being too poor for Seattle, decides her children do not legally exist (seattletimes.nwsource.com) | (224) | ||
| (Foster's Daily Democrat) | Thief forgets that most people who make their escape by bicycle 1) aren't drunk, and 2) aren't carrying a stolen christmas tree (fosters.com) | (14) | |
| (Some Guy) | Al-Qaeda hasn't claimed responsibility for hijacking near Heathrow Airport, but since 50+ Victoria Beckham dresses were taken, subby hopes Osama bin Laden will be more stylish in his next video message (catwalkqueen.tv) | (10) | |
| BASE* jumper dies in Arizona. (Building, Antenna, oh SHIAT - ELECTRICITY) |
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| Dozens missing in Egypt ferry accident, family members are in De Nile |
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| (Some Positive Thinker) | There once was a man from New Zealand / Whose HIV bug was not healin' / Said his wife, "no more dick" / So he gave her a prick / Now she knows just what he was feelin' (tvnz.co.nz) | (75) | |
| Oh, Lord, stuck in Lodi again....in a 33-car pileup (news10.net) | (59) | ||
| Photoshop this horse drawn carriage (popsci.com) | (22) | ||
| (Some gunowner) | "I don't want to have to kill this man, but I'll kill him graveyard dead ma'am." (ktul.com) | (473) | |
| Fake toilet concealed drug tunnel linking Mexico with US. Subby thought that smell was paraquat (earthtimes.org) | (41) | ||
| Hokey Pokey inventor gets body put in, body put out, body put in, not shaken all about (nytimes.com) | (64) | ||
| Cambridge University discovers that some condoms on campus contain little pricks (mirror.co.uk) | (102) | ||
| Turns out asexuality may not be a choice, either (thestar.com) | (354) | ||
| (DARPA) | MIT team wins DARPA balloon challenge. Thanks for all of your effort, Farkers. We put up a good fight (networkchallenge.darpa.mil) | (245) | |
| If you notice an eight-foot red weather balloon today while you're driving around, please let Fark know (Last reminder for anyone who missed the previous threads) (fark.com) | (555) | ||
| Today's Fark ready headline "Busy street, beaver don't mix" (pe.com) | (47) | ||
| (kenosha news) | Dumb: Guy travels two hours to the #1 drinking town in the U.S., gets plastered, and gets beat up/robbed. Dumber: He refuses to go to the hospital. Fark: He's suing because, well, it must be a hate crime (kenoshanews.com) | (137) | |
| Photoshop theme: The secret life of plants (en.wikipedia.org) | (28) | ||
| (Eagle Tribune) | Class President, straight-A student who is "rather cocky in my intelligence, and ... definitely an intellectual elitist" reveals just how colossally stupid he is (eagletribune.com) | (278) | |
| Here is your Yuletide Edition of the "online merchant keeps taking orders for out of stock product" article. 200 of you can read the article, the rest will have to get rainchecks (news.cnet.com) | (29) | ||
| (Daily Telegram) | College's "dispel-a-stereotype" event wants you to know that yes, all atheists are goths with chalk-white makeup and scarlet hair (lenconnect.com) | (127) | |
| (Bicycling.com) | This guy lost 331 pounds by getting his ginormous ass onto a bike, breaking a few in the process. It's a slideshow, but clicking your mouse is probably the most exercise you're going to get today (bicycling.com) | (188) | |
| Time runs out for Chinese immigrant as U.S. prepares to send him back. We know there will be forced breeding, but it's time (hosted.ap.org) | (18) | ||
| (Free Documentaries) | Documentaries you can watch for free. Because I know you farkers can't get enough Michael Moore and Morgan Spurlock (freedocumentaries.org) | (84) | |
| (Some Guy) | Is the International Outer Space Treaty ban on private property in space holding back space exploration and colonization? (thespacereview.com) | (61) | |
| Gambler who lost $127 million in Las Vegas - an amount that accounted for six percent of the annual revenue for two casinos - sues, claiming they forced him to gamble at gunpoint or some damn thing (online.wsj.com) | (105) | ||
| (jezebel.com) | The most beautiful picture you will see today is on the left (jezebel.com) | (152) | |
| There's hardcore. There's Chuck Norris hardcore. And then there's this guy (dailymail.co.uk) | (81) | ||
| "Some Australians are up in arms over a new kangaroo and emu-flavored chip, horrified that people are encouraged to eat the nation's coat of arms which depicts the iconic Australian animals" (uk.news.yahoo.com) | (60) | ||
| (Some Guy) | And here's your WTF story of the week: Minneapolis theater extends its run of "A Klingon Christmas Carol" (cbtheatre.org) | (38) | |
| Dime novels blamed in death of teenager. This *is* a repeat from 1909 (latimesblogs.latimes.com) | (37) | ||
| Some cars are literally invisible to red light cameras (theledger.com) | (70) | ||
| (BuzzFeed) | Another senseless fatality in the never-ending War on Christmas (buzzfeed.com) | (55) | |
| Ding. You are now free to cut the ambilical cord (wbbm780.com) | (92) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Bar owner busted for hooking up all his Budweiser and Coors Light taps to Milwaukee's Best kegs. Surprisingly, someone noticed (greenbaypressgazette.com) | (104) | |
| (Eagle Tribune) | Police start illegal high speed pursuit. City lawyer instinctively blames resulting crash on innocent bystander (eagletribune.com) | (75) | |
| The FCC momentarily comes to its senses, but wants to assure everyone that it won't last (theregister.co.uk) | (47) | ||
| (Some Guy) | To save the Earth get rid of Christmas (syracuse.com) | (163) | |
| (Santa's Little Helper) | The annual "YOUR CHRISTMAS TREE WILL KILL YOU AND EAT YOUR DOG" article. Be afraid. Be very afraid (kfbb.com) | (27) | |
| (Some Guy) | It's hard to believe, but burglars are still getting caught after dropping their cell phones during break-ins, then calling the phone later to ask if they can come and get it (independent.ie) | (12) | |
| (Some Guy) | Happy National Ninja Day (askaninja.com) | (92) | |
| School board considers whether after-hours bake sales should be required to sell 100% inedible "nutritional" crap or only 50% (metrowestdailynews.com) | (29) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Cell phones that were found to cause brain tumors, then not cause brain tumors, then cause brain tumors, , then not cause brain tumors, then cause brain tumors, are found to not cause brain tumors again. Tumor (health.usnews.com) | (59) | |
| (The Roanoke Times) | You know what they say about assume? Well that goes double when you assume the undercover state police officer you're meeting with is a hit man you're trying to hire for $500 (roanoke.com) | (32) | |
| (Some Guy) | Photoshop this explosion (af.mil) | (37) | |
| Britain's crappiest Christmas tree, compared to a giant traffic cone, to be replaced for - you guessed it - health and safety reasons (pic) (telegraph.co.uk) | (61) | ||
| (officer.com) | Butterfingered goober, being a smartie, tried to skor a hat and two Whatchamacallits from a police station. His fast break failed and he's in mounds of trouble. His airhead girlfriend also got some snickers and a time-out |
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| (My Fox 8) | English teacher will need all her fingers to count the felony sex charges she just got slapped with. (With "eh...maybe" pic) (myfox8.com) | (88) | |
| (Some Guy) | "One of the indications you want to look for when you're on your favorite tree lot, is to look at the needles and feel them and pull them a little bit, run your hands back and forth." Giggity (kfbb.com) | (19) | |
| (officer.com) | "This guy was not back in society to try to be a productive member of society. He's definitely going to try to wreck havoc." Dammit, that's all we need... wrecked havoc (officer.com) | (37) | |
| (Some Guy) | Cops catch two women in a motorhome with 14 pounds of pot and a pound of shrooms. Are Phish on tour again? (mywebtimes.com) | (32) | |
| Having solved all other problems, Texas legislature is considering banning tanning salons for teenagers (statesman.com) | (66) | ||
| 76 years ago today, the 21st Amendment was ratified by Utah. Don't get it? Okay, the 18th Amendment was repealed. Still not clued in? BEER (history.com) | (45) | ||
| Guerrilla knitting graffiti is an "ironic take on feminist history and a way of exploring themes of gender and sexual orientation." .... Wait, what? (cnn.com) | (33) | ||
| Trio of singing soldiers who raise money for injured comrades told they can't wear their uniforms when they sing God Save The Queen in front of the Queen because it's considered moonlighting (thesun.co.uk) | (20) | ||
| "Judge nixes please for man, who's accused of hosting racy underage drinking party, and sneds him to prison for stalking." Proofreading is only for print media these days? (mcall.com) | (29) | ||
| Free H1N1 Vaccine with every handmade violin bought. Or something (azcentral.com) | (5) | ||
| Your annual "Man Dressed as Santa Claus Commits XYZ Crime" story brought to you by Southeastern Pensylvania (cbs3.com) | (17) | ||
| The most awesome Himalayan skyscape you're likely to see today (apod.nasa.gov) | (61) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Mayor may be asked to resign for raising his voice to city employees. "I definitely did raise my voice maybe a couple of times. I was really stressed out, and it took me two weeks to calm down" (carrollcounty.com) | (19) | |
| (Some Farker) | Local police cordoned off the area in preparation for the Christmas parade. Reckless train driver refuses to alter his course to avoid police cruiser (johnsoncitypress.com) | (38) | |
| Your cat spends 22% of it's time looking out windows, 4% hiding dead animals in your bedroom (google.com) | (878) | ||
| Doing all your shopping on the Internet is quick, convenient and painless - until the postal service gets hold of your packages, runs over them with a truck and leaves them in a garbage can outside your house (dailymail.co.uk) | (50) | ||
| What better way to experience the cradle of the nation's gang culture than with a bus tour through South LA, complete with dance-offs, kids shooting water pistols at tourists, and "I Got Shot in South-Central" T-shirts (latimes.com) | (39) | ||
| Nanny State now refusing to serve train passengers sandwiches in case they choke on them. "'I don't understand how health and safety came into selling a hungry stranded passenger an egg sandwich on a broken-down train" (dailymail.co.uk) | (74) | ||
| Photoshop this dancing torch bearer (cache.boston.com) | (25) | ||
| Convincing prison guards those tomato plants you're growing is not marijuana for 5 months? That takes skills. Decorating them as Christmas trees? Now you're just taunting them (thesun.co.uk) | (33) | ||
| (Albany Times Union) | Dutch apologize for massacring American Indians over 400 years ago. Still no apology for Heineken (timesunion.com) | (81) | |
| Overweight, 57-year-old teacher strips during class: "I was trying to be cool" (dailymail.co.uk) | (47) | ||
| Man has heart attack in hospital parking lot. Hospital refuses to help unless his son calls 911 and pays for the ambulance trip (google.com) | (91) | ||
| Man briefly detained for possession of a handgun. A handgun made out of Legos. That he built while the knee-jerk police caller was watching (toronto.ctv.ca) | (139) | ||
| (Missoulian) | Talking trash or having sex in your squad car? You might want to make sure that you haven't inadvertently activated your radio (missoulian.com) | (24) | |
| Media whipping up fears that burglars are now chalking some sort of weird hobo code around houses to let fellow criminals know if they're worth robbing (express.co.uk) | (57) | ||
| (Journal Times) | State group works so hard finding housing for the poor, they decide to throw themselves a party. Complete with $1,400.00 worth of flowers for "moral purposes" (journaltimes.com) | (47) | |
| (Some Guy) | Man hired to repair roof sues homeowner for faulty roof (chicagonow.com) | (57) | |
| Former Catholic Archbishop shredded sex abuse reports, anuses |
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| Whether you believe in global warming or not there will definitely be some bed warming in Copenhagen as prostitutes offer free sex to global-warming delegates (nydailynews.com) | (49) | ||
| Colorize this city scene (flickr.com) | (43) | ||
| (Some Guy) | For the fourteenth straight day, the three broadcast networks have failed to report on the great and growing ClimateGate scandal on their weekday morning or evening news programs (mrc.org) | (875) | |
| Great White begins Russian leg of new tour (news.yahoo.com) | (69) | ||
| Five children go 11 days without food while mother makes no effort to look for job: "We were supposed to wait for God to provide and that's what we did" (nj.com) | (202) | ||
| Comcast may kill NBC, but cable will never kill Tom Brokaw (nypost.com) | (45) | ||
| Be vewy quiet, we're hunting mugshots (thesmokinggun.com) | (204) | ||
| College student achieves dream of sitting around and eating pizza for the rest of her life (guardian.co.uk) | (461) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Listen my children and you shall hear: the midnight ride of the mystery meth tweeker of good cheer (deathby1000papercuts.com) | (25) | |
| (Some Fed) | TSA head believes screeners should be allowed to unionize, because hey, it's not like they can get any worse (federaltimes.com) | (120) | |
| The best two-sentence news story you will read today (chicagobreakingnews.com) | (66) | ||
| University bans Nerf guns because they might be confused with real guns (thedenverchannel.com) | (140) | ||
| (Poynter online) | Drew Curtis: "It's a dedicated audience of really intelligent individuals" (poynter.org) | (483) | |
| Man barred from local library due to B.O. That stinks (news.bbc.co.uk) | (92) | ||
| (DARPA) | Reminder: DARPA Network Challenge starts tomorrow at 10AM ET. Join TeamFark to win $40,000 for Toys for Tots (networkchallenge.darpa.mil) | (140) | |
| Britain's military pulls the plug on a UFO reporting hotline because it thinks the money would be better spent in Afghanistan. "There is no defense value in investigating UFO reports." (hosted.ap.org) | (80) | ||
| (Some [Guy]) | [Kremlin] reports that a [US gov't] airplane piloted by [CIA agents] and carrying a cargo of [mutated swine flu virus] was [shot down] at [Shanghai airport] by [Israeli Mossad saboteurs], [preventing] an attack on [bases in Kyrgyzstan] (preventdisease.com) | (255) | |
| Photoshop theme: Mushrooms (flickr.com) | (51) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Woman forced to pay a $2,500 fee, travel to attend a meeting and do hours of paperwork just so she can teach yoga. Says it's a bit of a stretch (hamptonroads.com) | (85) | |
| Iowa woman accused of shoplifting 418 items. Employees got suspicious because she walked in looking like Keira Knightley, but when she tried to leave she looked like Rosie O'Donnell (cbsnews.com) | (50) | ||
| Mayor of Tennessee town says Obama's Afghanistan speech was timed to pre-empt Charlie Brown. And that he's a Muslim. And everyone who supports him should move to a Muslim country (myfoxmemphis.com) | (332) | ||
| No matter what they tell you in El Salvador, stuffing cocaine into a fully cooked chicken and carrying it with you off of the plane is not the best way to smuggle drugs into the US (myfoxdc.com) | (57) | ||
| Not news: Online retailer learns the hard way why they shouldn't use a tag cloud on their customer forums. Fark: It's Newegg (consumerist.com) | (170) | ||
| "I want to trace your thighs with my fingertips and make you squirm" is not a proper thing to write in an anonymous letter left in the locker of one of your female band students, sir (thesmokinggun.com) | (186) | ||
| The 2nd Estonian Horse Cavalry Division will be a big help: NATO says 25 countries will send more troops to Afghanistan (washingtonpost.com) | (96) | ||
| The United Kingdom's biggest problem? Apparently it's 'cheap beer' (news.stv.tv) | (56) | ||
| Man arrested for trespassing on own property (fox6now.com) | (126) | ||
| (Monsters and Critics) | Germany will finish paying World War I reparations next year, So, remember that the next time some guy named Archie Duke shoots an ostrich because he's hungry, just let it go |
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| Well, yes, technically your court-appointed translator completely skewed your testimony in favor of the prosecution, but you would have been convicted anyway. Totally (rgj.com) | (158) | ||
| A list of top paying US jobs. Anesthesiologist is at #1 cause everyone wants to get paid to pass gas (finance.yahoo.com) | (220) | ||
| (Some Fly on a Wall) | Hot swim teacher accused of teaching muff diving (with pics) (badbadteacher.com) | (224) | |
| Lazy swan to fly on Air Canada (edmontonjournal.com) | (45) | ||
| Pastor of the First Church of Tiger Woods says the organization is being dissolved because of the golfer's "personal sins" (int.iol.co.za) | (107) | ||
| Texas couple claims hen laid egg with cross on it. (With picture of what regular eggs without crosses look like) (myfoxdc.com) | (55) | ||
| Tanker leaks 8,000 litres of lube onto German highway, narrowly beating your Mom's record (thelocal.de) | (38) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Woman admits to killing her 18-year-old sister over a pair of hair straighteners. (w/ ugly sister-hot sister picture) (heraldsun.com.au) | (235) | |
| Cambridge university students scale college chapel to place Santa hats on all four spires, violating any number of elf and safety rules (telegraph.co.uk) | (20) | ||
| The world's seven weirdest houses. Yes, toilet house is there. So is wall house. And one where the owner levitated huge limestone slabs with magic (cracked.com) | (96) | ||
| Caller dials 911 to report a screaming woman being dragged through a parking lot. In front of a camera crew, several stagehands, extras, a director, two producers, and a key grip (wcco.com) | (57) | ||
| Your Smoking Gun Friday Photo Fun: Match the woman to her blood alcohol content at the time of arrest (thesmokinggun.com) | (58) | ||
| Australian diver wears a suit to protect him from dangerous jellyfish stings that covered his entire body except his face. You'll never guess where a tiny jellyfish the size of a peanut delivered its near-fatal sting (news.yahoo.com) | (114) | ||
| Christmas trees have started their counterattack (express.co.uk) | (61) | ||
| "I'm a jealous wife, his penis should belong to me. I just wanted to burn his penis so it belongs to me and no one else" (news.com.au) | (266) | ||
| Police charge man with "chicken-licking." Apparently this is a crime outside Kentucky (news.bbc.co.uk) | (41) | ||
| (Some Guy) | "Man airlifted to hospital after arm caught in bakery mixer." D'ough (thisissouthdevon.co.uk) | (58) | |
| IED: Improvised Explosive Donkey (theregister.co.uk) | (87) | ||
| Image of Virgin Mary found on pancake. Experts confident it's her since it clearly wasn't defloured |
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| Complete the rest of this sign: "The secret of happines is t..." (flickr.com) | (211) | ||
| Photoshop this art hanging on the wall (flickr.com) | (52) | ||
| Ric Romero reports that HDTVs might be big sellers this holiday season...and reveals you can hook certain TVs up to the internet (abclocal.go.com) | (126) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Not News: commodity dealer trades 28,000 tons of coal. News: a glitch means he orders 28,000 tons of coal. Fark: they deliver (thedailywtf.com) | (169) | |
| (mlive.com) | Charges against man accused of stealing 3906 bags of stuffing have been sagely dismissed (mlive.com) | (27) |
| "Thieves in Calif. Steal $100,000 in Toys, Food From Poor." In related news, in California you can stockpile a hundred grand in food and toys and still be classified poor (azstarnet.com) | (91) | ||
| Woman charged with a felony for taping four minutes of "New Moon." If she'd videotaped the whole thing, they would have given her counseling (consumerist.com) | (235) | ||
| Florida bar owner says a sign in front of his business reading: 'Stop, Absolutely No Color's' is aimed at bikers, not blacks (tampabay.com) | (280) | ||
| Do you read that article about the cute dog that wore a BP uniform and greeted customers at a gas station? The state health department did too (tampabay.com) | (326) | ||
| Nannystate seizes two-year-old from parents because they won't feed him junk food. "They said I should give him chocolate and cakes" (thesun.co.uk) | (217) | ||
| Concerned citizens of San Francisco: People are having sex outside at the leather fair. Leather men: Then we'll put up "sex tents." City supervisor: Sounds good to me (sfgate.com) | (264) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Man faces cyberstalking charges after sending 27 emails in less than an hour to a blogger. "I probably frightened her" (wxii12.com) | (143) | |
| That drug you've been taking for your enlarged prostate may also be giving you moob cancer (telegraph.co.uk) | (62) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Anti-wind NIMBYs suffer hit as new Department of Energy study finds wind farms have no impact on property values (ecopolitology.org) | (185) | |
| Manatee juveniles commit fewer crimes, but are more violent. It must be all those propeller strikes (heraldtribune.com) | (30) | ||
| Florida authorities asking for the public's help in identifying who drilled holes into some trees, poured herbicide into them and filled the holes with caulk. Heh. Caulk (clickorlando.com) | (92) | ||
| Today's Q&A that's absolutely factual, yet also 100% incoherent: Q. How much is a hobbit? A. Depends on whether you're buying wheat or oats (metro.co.uk) | (35) | ||
| The state of Nebraska wants to remind you to voluntarily claim sales tax on your internet purchases (omaha.com) | (172) | ||
| Photoshop this lonely lift (farm3.static.flickr.com) | (34) | ||
| New Reagan app for your iReagan lets you Reagan all Reagan, whether you're sitting in your Reagan or driving your Reagan down the Reagan (sfgate.com) | (735) | ||
| If there was any doubt as to which list William C. Caldwell III of Georgia is on, it was eliminated when he dressed as an elf and told a mall Santa that he was carrying dynamite. With pic of what an elf probably doesn't look like (news.yahoo.com) | (92) | ||
| More unidentified voters surface at Illinois cemetery (content.usatoday.net) | (79) | ||
| Screw you, loafers, homeless people and wishing wells (mainstreet.com) | (176) | ||
| (News-Gazette) | Power of Fark combines with power of attorney to touch children. Wait (news-gazette.com) | (170) | |
| Criticize the Iranian government on the streets of Tehran, get clubbed. Criticize them on Facebook from the US, get your relatives back home jailed. That's the Iran way (online.wsj.com) | (183) | ||
| The cheesification of the Wall Street Journal is complete, with this utterly vapid article on male cleavage...heavage, if you will (online.wsj.com) | (90) | ||
| Remember to get your Bowie and your big hair out of storage for this Saturday's DC Labyrinth Fark Party. We are not liable for blindness caused by staring at Bowie's... pants (fark.com) | (110) | ||
| Sir, enclosed please find $50 you kindly gave me after I unsuccessfully tried to rob your store with a bat. Your rifle was very scary. I now have a job and a child. Yours truly, Reformed Thug (bostonherald.com) | (99) | ||
| Not news: Drunk lady arrested after driving to police station. Fark: She's a cop, showing up for work. Bonus: Keeping booze in her locker in case the buzz wears off (metro.co.uk) | (51) | ||
| Just in case you were wondering, Cosmo confirms that the Reverse Cowgirl is the safest sexual position if you're worried about catching swine flu (gawker.com) | (602) | ||
| Men nearing retirement 'happier than women.' Women nearing retirement 'watching pool boy' (news.bbc.co.uk) | (78) | ||
| Obama X (cbsnews.com) | (194) | ||
| (Some Guy) | If you stole a flowerpot containing the ashes of an African witch doctor, her grandson wants you to know you'll be changing sexes, thanks to a curse (story.malaysiasun.com) | (52) | |
| Denver voters asked to approve a welcoming panel for extraterrestrials. Surprisingly some people are not amused by this (latimes.com) | (41) | ||
| ProTip: If you're going to paint graffiti along the train line, learn the train schedule (news.com.au) | (30) | ||
| If your wife's visa is rejected, it probably won't help her case if you threaten to decapitate the U.S. consular official (myfoxdc.com) | (39) | ||
| We're just simple cavemen, and this $7 billion inheritance frightens and confuses us (smh.com.au) | (90) | ||
| (NBC Miami) | Time for the annual "parent thinks she hears toy doll dropping F-bombs" story (nbcmiami.com) | (108) | |
| Hell hath no fury like a woman, her mother, her sisters, and her aunt, all scorned (stuff.co.nz) | (41) | ||
| Bar owner equipped with a Stool of Defense (+6) successfully repels two Bandits armed with a Chaos Tomahawk (+4) (news.com.au) | (49) | ||
| Photoshop this lighted rail (inapcache.boston.com) | (32) | ||
| Oregon parents kick off the Christmas season by heading into the mountains to embrace the frosty majesty of the winter landscape and select the most important symbol of Christmas - the perfect tree. Searchers hope to find them sometime today (usatoday.com) | (168) | ||
| (VillageSoup.com) | Man gets all fired up from a Clint Eastwood movie and exacts revenge on a hobby store. Get three coffins ready (knox.villagesoup.com) | (58) | |
| (Irish Times) | Cardinal says homosexuals can't enter heaven. What, not even by the back-door? |
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| (DARPA) | Join TeamFark in the DARPA Network Challenge and help us win big bucks for Toys For Tots. DIT (networkchallenge.darpa.mil) | (397) | |
| Let's go over this again - if you're going to steal from a store, don't kill some time there beforehand by filling in a job application with all your real information on it first (dailyrecord.co.uk) | (16) | ||
| (PhillyBurbs) | Unarmed, naked man stands in his yard, threatens to kill cops with his extreme naked-fu (phillyburbs.com) | (24) | |
| Trying to beat a murder rap? Don't rap about it on YouTube (hamptonroads.com) | (38) | ||
| Southerners have a higher risk of stroke, especially with their sister |
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| (WA Today) | Australian nursing tribunal confirms that "getting stoned and getting laid" is not on the approved list of depression treatments (watoday.com.au) | (49) | |
| Chinese news agency does hilarious CGI reenactment of the Tiger Woods incident. Starring Barbie as Mrs. Woods and the love child of George Takei and Denzel Washington as Tiger (examiner.com) | (87) | ||
| (Mizoolian) | One of the world's leading dog photographers has died at age 13. With links to portfolio of his favorite subjects, including cats, fire hydrants, other dog's asses (missoulian.com) | (63) | |
| You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door. You're about to be raped by a huge monster. There is a small mailbox here (cracked.com) | (349) | ||
| Photoshop this flower delivery clown (i.telegraph.co.uk) | (25) | ||
| Possibly the world's first win-win outcome from a bride's insatiable desire to have her dream wedding at any cost. "You want 200 white roses? Then go get the handicam..." (themercury.com.au) | (153) | ||
| Theme of Farktography Contest No. 239: Win, Fail, or "I Like Where This Thread is Going." Details and rules in first post. LGT next week's theme (farktography.net) | (125) |
| Only in Wisconsin: What do you get when you blend cheese with jerky? (fox6now.com) | (139) | ||
| Police can't decide if death of Iranian whistleblower was murder or suicide. Because lots of folks like a whole bottle of blood pressure medication on their salad (breitbart.com) | (50) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Russia to stop clubbing baby seals. Subby makes no such penis. Promise (rt.com) | (52) | |
| (Some Guy) | Today's 'Truck spills metric assload of random food item on roadway' brought to you by Logan, Utah and 38,000 pounds of yogurt, butter, and shredded cheese (w/pic) (ksl.com) | (44) | |
| Dad brings home full-size Barbie for daughter's Christmas gift. Soon, she starts moving around on her own, causing car accidents, frightening contractors and inducing gallstones. Then it gets weird (cnn.com) | (138) | ||
| Advisory to Maersk Alabama: "Stay 600 miles offshore." Capt. Phillips to crew: "Belay that; 350 miles is good enough." (hamptonroads.com) | (84) | ||
| Things you find when cleaning out the basement of a building you just bought: boxes of junk, garbage, a hidden Prohibition-era bowling alley from a forgotten speak-easy club, dead mice ... wait, wut? (huffingtonpost.com) | (90) | ||
| Denver School Board gets into a spat on Monday, decide the best use of taxpayer dollars is to talk to a marriage counselor at a five-star hotel in Colorado Springs. No, seriously (thedenverchannel.com) | (57) | ||
| Creepy town full of blond, blue-eyed Brazilians may be a Nazi legacy. Hey, this would make a good movie (huffingtonpost.com) | (135) | ||
| Photoshop these pollen producers (spiegel.de) | (15) | ||
| (Some Local Newspaper) | He had a toque covering his eyes and his pants down and he was shaking his junk at us (bclocalnews.com) | (55) | |
| Staring at a virgin will make you go blind (blogs.discovermagazine.com) | (75) | ||
| Deepak Chopra: new age tool, or EPIC new age tool? (blogs.discovermagazine.com) | (178) | ||
| You're caught with a protected Black Bear's head in your front lawn and its paws rotting in your car. Do you c) start calling yourself Chief Broken Eagle and claim that you are making a sacred choker with the teeth? (chron.com) | (48) | ||
| Ahmadinejad: Iran will further enrich uranium. You know, for peaceful purposes (msnbc.msn.com) | (329) | ||
| We're going to need a lot more popcorn: Sickout and bomb threat after MCSO officer goes to jail (azcentral.com) | (356) | ||
| Guy facing 3 years in prison for putting spy-cam in ladies' washroom at work. And all he got from it was video of himself trying to figure out how to work it (dailyherald.com) | (59) | ||
| (Some Guy) | San Francisco mayor goes to Bangalore, India to talk to Amsterdam mayor about Seoul, South Korea (govtech.com) | (43) | |
| Greek ship hijacked by pirates reaches Somali coast. Accomodations for captive crew members expected to be spARRtan (sfgate.com) | (51) | ||
| Hottie claims heroin drove her to crime spree while she worked as Queen's royal harpist (pic) (news.bbc.co.uk) | (166) | ||
| Now that we know that lonlieness is contagious, tips to avoid it include not having any empty chairs at your table (hosted.ap.org) | (102) | ||
| (azfamily.com) | It will cost a school district $1 million to remove software installed by a school employee that searches for extraterrestrial intelligence (azfamily.com) | (389) | |
| Sardine juice, condoms, lubricant, rival teachers, and a seventh grader. Yes, there's a mugshot (tennessean.com) | (93) | ||
| (Smart Planet) | Smart should not be something debated and looked down on (smartplanet.com) | (271) | |
| Woman charged with stealing money from the Sandhogs union. "Up your nose with a rubber hose Mister Kah-tare" (nytimes.com) | (63) | ||
| If you pay handsomely for hand sanitizers, you'll be happy to know they sort of work -- if you wash your hands vigorously beforehand (cbc.ca) | (236) | ||
| (Merced Sun-Star) | In the end, he had a point (mercedsunstar.com) | (118) | |
| Photoshop these cleanroom colleagues (spiegel.de) | (37) | ||
| Phoenix police say "repeated criminal acts" are happening at the local Elks Lodge (azcentral.com) | (83) | ||
| Iran releases seamen (google.com) | (98) | ||
| Survey says AT&T customer satisfaction lowest in +++CARRIER LOST+++ (tech.yahoo.com) | (317) | ||
| (wtap.com) | Good items to donate to Goodwill: clothes, furniture, baby things. Bad things to donate to Goodwill: marijuana (wtap.com) | (101) | |
| If you only see one picture of a flock of starlings flipping the bird today, you might as well make it this one (metro.co.uk) | (61) | ||
| "It's hard to see your wife in the same way after you have watched her shoot a revolver and learn body combat. It provides sexy new experiences" (metro.co.uk) | (164) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Inmate hijacks prison van, handcuffs officers, escapes with one of their uniforms and four guns. Fark: While in a wheelchair (officer.com) | (42) | |
| (Some Guy) | Man tells investigators he may have gone too far when he hit his friend in the head, stabbed him in the chest, and tied his feet to a bench so he couldn't chase him if he woke up. Which he didn't. Yeah. Too far (wsaw.com) | (14) | |
| White House: You're not invited. Uninvited Guests: Great, we'll see you tonight. WH: I don't think you understand. UG: Should we bring anything? WH: Don't come, get it? UG: Perfect, we'll see you around 8 o'clock then? (myfoxdc.com) | (136) | ||
| (tigerwoods.com) | Tiger comes clean on his website. As opposed to all those times he came dirty (web.tigerwoods.com) | (682) | |
| (mlive.com) | If headbutting and urinating on cops is how you roll, perhaps shoplifting is not the best hobby for you. Mom (mlive.com) | (34) | |
| (Some Guy) | Polish Pittsburghers perplexed by postal puzzle (post-gazette.com) | (39) | |
| (Some dancin' pervs) | I ain't here to cause no trouble. I'm required by law to do the Sex Offender Shuffle (videosift.com) | (62) | |
| (The Day) | Father issues bad check, gets arrested. Son goes to pick him up, is arrested for driving with a suspended license. Fark: Bad check was for son's court fines and fees from prior arrest (theday.com) | (72) | |
| Swedish milkman fails in his bold attempt to push forward the boundaries of gender equality (thelocal.se) | (71) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Girl struck by SUV while home in bed recovering from SUV crash (failuremag.com) | (117) | |
| Jesus Christ, what some people will do to get out of jury duty (content.usatoday.net) | (130) | ||
| Old and busted: An eye for an eye. New hotness: A shoe for a shoe (myfoxdc.com) | (41) | ||
| Man files human rights lawsuit after store bars him from bringing his service animal inside. It's a chihuahua. It's for his depression (cbc.ca) | (198) | ||
| There's a 30-percent chance your Christmas lights will kill you (nzherald.co.nz) | (46) | ||
| Cocktail waitress claims Tiger Woods scored another hole in one (w/pic) (telegraph.co.uk) | (346) | ||
| Woman suffers from mysterious disorder that turns her into a sex addict while she's asleep. Well, "suffers" might be the wrong word to use here, but you get the thrust of it (thesun.co.uk) | (110) | ||
| Photoshop these two two-day-old zebrafish (spiegel.de) | (29) | ||
| Unbelievable pics of how a coyote managed to survive being hit by a Honda, lucky for him it wasn't a Road Runner (snopes.com) | (96) | ||
| Google manages to pick 3rd worst option out of 2 (news.bbc.co.uk) | (201) | ||
| "In 1872, the NY Times published two dozen letters on the subject of scrapple, a steampunk prototype for online food discussion. It's all there: the pseudonymous usernames, off-topic ranting, and preoccupation with pork fat." (dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com) | (221) | ||
| Tiki-tour trail terminates in tree (stuff.co.nz) | (18) | ||
| Photoshop this Patriot's Act (centria.files.wordpress.com) | (28) |
| Former SETI@home "God" revealed as high school technology department head who installed program on every computer in the district, loses job. The search for intelligent life continues (news.cnet.com) | (159) | ||
| Rather than pay a $170 towing bill, genius couple stages break-in to impound lot, causing far more than $170 damage to other car. Then there's the bond payment (dailyherald.com) | (28) | ||
| When you have 400 pounds of marijuana in your home it would be smarter to pop a DiGiorno in the oven than call a pizza guy when you have pot smoke pouring out your front door (myfoxdfw.com) | (245) | ||
| Photoshop this big boar (spiegel.de) | (27) | ||
| There is only one response when your neighbor is chasing you with a lawnmower blade and asking you if you've ever seen 'Sling Blade.' Mmm hmm (clickorlando.com) | (61) | ||
| How not to handle your dad getting fired as GM CEO (jalopnik.com) | (208) | ||
| Apparently, Charles Dickens left us with one, and only one, manuscript of "A Christmas Carol", and he edited that so many times it's almost impossible to read. Try it for yourself (documents.nytimes.com) | (113) | ||
| (Some Guy) | If you live in Maricopa County, you may want to get stocked up on popcorn. The Arizona cop ordered to apologize to the Court? Yeah, he told the Judge to f*ck off (carlosmiller.com) | (453) | |
| (WOAI) | "Remember [when you used to work for] the Alamo" (woai.com) | (44) | |
| Not news: Debt collector sues the wrong person. Not news: The debt doesn't even exist. Fark: The judge is pissed, orders collector to pay missed wages to defendant under penalty of sanctions (consumerist.com) | (350) | ||
| (WBAL Baltimore) | Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon convicted of stealing gift cards intended for the poor (livewire.wbaltv.com) | (169) | |
| Annual Fark demographics survey. Results will be posted next week. Help us figure out who that one guy coming from the .va domain is (fark.com) | (lots) | ||
| (KTLA) | Today's 'Truck spills metric assload of random food item on roadway' brought to you by Santa Clarita and 40,000 pounds of pomegranates (w/pic) (ktla.com) | (123) | |
| (Some Guy) | Being crazy doesn't mean you can't be a good, effective nurse, say members of the Association of Crazy Nurses (nursingtimes.net) | (114) | |
| (Utne) | Man researches and collects the typewriters used to create classic novels. "The extra work makes me a more conscientious writer.... It's like firing a gun with every stroke." Typewriterfecta now in play (utne.com) | (64) | |
| Your loneliness is contagious, so get the hell away from me and leave me alone (wbbm780.com) | (150) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Second rule of bank robbing: Know what time the bank closes (ydr.inyork.com) | (39) | |
| Attention-whoring party crashers say they weren't crashing the party and they are upset by all the media attention. On Matt Lauer (msnbc.msn.com) | (136) | ||
| Sure, your job sucks, but at least you don't have to worry about neurological problems due to exposure to a "mist of pig brain tissue." (chicagotribune.com) | (85) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Photoshop these happy homeowners (trinityjournal.com) | (34) | |
| (My Fox Maine) | Some people listed in Maine's sex-offender registry may be about to get off (myfoxmaine.com) | (63) | |
| Apocalypse How (Sponsored Link) (ifc.com) | (53) | ||
| (Some Santa) | Jingle Bells, gifting's swell, spread some Christmas cheer / Buy a gift for a foster kid and feel warm & fuzzy all year (Link goes to wishlist) (amazon.com) | (135) | |
| Seven inventors who need a kick square in the balls (cracked.com) | (197) | ||
| Needy kids who would like a free toy for Christmas, take one step forward. NOT SO FAST, illegal immigrant niños e niñas (mysanantonio.com) | (477) | ||
| Yet again proving that priorities can be totally out of order, among the gems found in Vincent Van Gogh's correspondence is advice to a friend: "Don't fark too hard." (guardian.co.uk) | (21) | ||
| Like many a Farker, new Sam Adams Utopia beer is already banned in 13 states (google.com) | (222) | ||
| South Africa announces new policy of treating all HIV-positive babies. As opposed to their previous policy of what, tossing them to the hyenas? (breitbart.com) | (51) | ||
| The next time you get stuck in a toilet, make sure you try the Handel (metro.co.uk) | (23) | ||
| (Some Guy) | "Russia has fallen behind the United States in the race to arm sea mammals" (jacarandafm.com) | (56) | |
| (The Daily News) | A woman rejects your attempt to offer her a religious pamphlet in a bar parking lot at 2 AM. Do you c) proclaim you're a "sovereign citizen" and then shoot her friend in the stomach? (tdn.com) | (119) | |
| (WBZ TV) | 1996: Man accidentally runs down little old lady crossing the street. 2009: While crossing the street, man is run down by speeding karma (wbztv.com) | (43) | |
| (Some Guy) | ISS on possible collision path with space junk, too late to alter orbit. Potential impact 1:19 pm EST (clickorlando.com) | (493) | |
| (Some Guy) | Taken to the ER by ambulance, woman gets tired of waiting, decides to drive home. In the ambulance that brought her (recordonline.com) | (23) | |
| (click2houston.com) | The first rule of pie fight is that you don't talk about pie fight (click2houston.com) | (21) | |
| Suspect in killing of 4 Seattle police officers shot dead overnight after standoff (komonews.com) | (488) | ||
| This year's bad sex award goes to the man who described sex as "a jolt that emptied my head like a spoon scraping the inside of a soft-boiled egg." He really needs to find a new oeuvre (smh.com.au) | (46) | ||
| If you're going to piss off the President of the United States by crashing his first State Dinner you might as well get in some practice before hand by crashing the Congressional Black Caucus Awards Dinner (myfoxdc.com) | (70) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Rob-Your-Dying-Ass-in-the-ER (phillyburbs.com) | (42) | |
| Berkeley scientists suggest marijuana as a treatment for alcoholism. Of course, Berkeley scientists suggest marijuana in general (timesofindia.indiatimes.com) | (131) | ||
| After four years, Quentin got up the nerve to ask out one of the eighth-grade girls he saw on the bus. Might've gone over better if he wasn't sixty (seacoastonline.com) | (60) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Man watching football on TV is surprised when a deer bursts into his home for a rousing game of "pursue and sack" (fox8.com) | (27) | |
| Music teacher in court for teaching proper fingering technique (news.com.au) | (64) | ||
| First rule of bank robbing: a funeral home is not a bank (myfoxdc.com) | (23) | ||
| A villager is unable to park his truck in front of his house, so he does the most logical thing: spend the next 14 years carving a tunnel through a mountain (news.com.au) | (91) | ||
| Two men get probation over an oregano fight, thanks to a judge's sage decision (mcall.com) | (27) | ||
| Diagonally-cut sandwiches are superior because they approach the platonic ideal of the triangle and the Holy Trinity (npr.org) | (107) | ||
| Dancing queen attending the "World's Largest Disco" Saturday night spills his beer on a man. Tries to hustle away but the man and his four friends le freak on him, turn him upside down. The good news is he's stayin' alive (buffalonews.com) | (34) | ||
| Former Miss Argentina dies from cosmetic buttocks surgery - and she thought all her problems were behind her (huffingtonpost.com) | (131) | ||
| Tiger charges at photographer. OH SNAP (w/ amazing picture) (thesun.co.uk) | (138) | ||
| North Korea sharply revalues currency. With the new exchange rate, it will now take two wons to make a wight |
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| Owner of the Three Stooges Deli moidered (nj.com) | (52) | ||
| Photoshop this levitating soccer player (cache.boston.com) | (28) | ||
| Just in time for the holiday not-news Mad Lib season, it's the top ten (noun) TOYS that will (verb) KILL your (noun) CHILDREN (orlandosentinel.com) | (69) | ||
| Italian police turn their £150,000 Lamborghini Gallardo into a jump ramp for mini cars. (pics) (dailymail.co.uk) | (84) | ||
| (Some Guy) | If an Amtrak train leaving Boston with 48 passengers going 60 miles per hour is due to arrive in Portland at 9:25 p.m., how many whiplash lawsuits will occur when it hits the abandoned car on the tracks at 5:42 p.m.? (updates.pressherald.mainetoday.com) | (69) | |
| Time again for gold coins to start showing up mysteriously in Salvation Army kettles. Yup, there's the first one (abcnews.go.com) | (112) |
| Not News: Woman leaves message telling her daughter she will miss a mortgage payment, to send her money for food, on wrong number. News: Owner of wrong number calls back, pays for groceries so woman can keep her house (nbcsandiego.com) | (158) | ||
| "Teen stabbed in Anaconda." Ouch (montanasnewsstation.com) | (101) | ||
| For the last time, people - if you're going to rob the Wendy's drive-thru, make sure your mom isn't working that night (msnbc.msn.com) | (80) | ||
| Palo Alto parents stand by railroad tracks all day to prevent suicidal teens from jumping in front of trains. Because that's waaaaay less boring than actually listening to suicidal teens (npr.org) | (271) | ||
| Photoshop this soaring sculpture (icons-pe.wunderground.com) | (43) | ||
| German tourist tells Disney World security that he had bombs in his backpack. Ha ha, just kidding (hosted.ap.org) | (170) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Your mother is in a car accident, so you pull over and C) Kick the reponding State Trooper in the groin (wptz.com) | (130) | |
| Someone stole Simon? ALLLLLLLL-VINNNNN (620wtmj.com) | (71) | ||
| Instead of providing light during a power outage, lamp oil in a sauce pan will only provide you with pain (knoxnews.com) | (93) | ||
| (Mankato Free Press) | Ready-for-Fark headline: "Drive-by gooseing in North Mankato park" (mankato-freepress.com) | (86) | |
| (Daily Nonpareil) | Man tells cops he's wearing nylons and making sexual gestures to passing vehicles because the meth messed with his hormones (southwestiowanews.com) | (48) | |
| Man 'walking like Frankenstein' says 'hemmer, hammer hammer' while smashing TVs inside Target (myfoxtwincities.com) | (154) | ||
| (Drew) | Welcome to the best month for recycling. No, not white elephant gifts, but crap that passes for news. Also, Fark's favorite Headlines of the Week for 11/22 - 11/28 (fark.com) | (50) | |
| IPCC's new plan for saving us all from Global Warming floods: Build a huge Stone Wall. Yep thats the plan, plenty of stonewalling (guardian.co.uk) | (448) | ||
| FAA grounds 130 Boeing 777s over risk of icing up and causing midair engine shut-downs. Just kidding. They rejected NTSB and ALPA warnings, allowing them to stay in the air until 2011. Have a nice flight (cbsnews.com) | (147) | ||
| Photoshop this festive fellow (online.wsj.com) | (42) | ||
| Man who fell neck-deep into a cesspool: "If you panic, that s- - - will suck you right in." (nypost.com) | (60) | ||
| "She puts her hands flat against his chest and leans into him in a simulacrum of a swoon, making a mewling sound " (news.bbc.co.uk) | (169) | ||
| Burglar patiently explains to residents' children that "Obama let him in" while taking a shower (nwfdailynews.com) | (97) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Some guy sues because people have been photoshopping his mugshot (phillyburbs.com) | (287) | |
| Men and women respond differently to danger, brain scan shows. Especially if written by Andrew Lloyd Webber (news.bbc.co.uk) | (91) | ||
| Two Illinois cities have been planning for a pandemic like swine flu for years, and their efficiency is so great that they're offering drive-through H1N1 vaccines (chicagotribune.com) | (58) | ||
| Moller skycar nearing 'virtual flight testing', says company spokesman Duke Nukem (theregister.co.uk) | (152) | ||
| Illinois IRS says it has more than $3.6 million in undeliverable tax refunds. Hey, that's enough to buy a senate seat (chicagotribune.com) | (30) | ||
| (Cape Cod Times) | Guy finds large U.S. Navy flare on the beach and brings it home. Doesn't notice the "Do Not Handle" stamped on it. Hilarity ensures as bomb squad called in (capecodonline.com) | (77) | |
| Pakistan soldiers fighting in Waziristan have killed 100 terrorists a week for the past six weeks. Just two weeks away from the free chicken dinner (bloomberg.com) | (165) | ||
| "On one occasion a milking parlour had been entered and he had stripped down to his pants and climbed into a huge vat of manure." (telegraph.co.uk) | (43) | ||
| Just the thing for this holiday season: His & Hers DUIs. Make the tag a double, barkeep (toledoblade.com) | (35) | ||
| Rockville Police shoot Jesus. Awwwwwkwaaaaaard (msnbc.msn.com) | (116) | ||
| (Some Sexist Store) | Store apologizes for suggesting that men should make their wives "feel special this Christmas" by buying them a rotary clothesline (digitalspy.com) | (254) | |
| (Cape Cod Times) | "She wanted to get rid of a World War II hand grenade a relative had given her on Thanksgiving" (capecodonline.com) | (61) | |
| That sound you just heard was Mike Huckabee's political career going down in flames (talkingpointsmemo.com) | (655) | ||
| Two dogs in Beijing diagnosed with swine flu, will be treated with soy sauce |
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| Austrian government moves to ban Santa Claus, saying he is a foreign invader who threatens the racial purity of traditional Christmas celebrations. Don't ever change, Austria (telegraph.co.uk) | (134) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Photoshop this piece of paper (cdn-www.airliners.net) | (38) | |
| When driving your pickup into your ex's house just doesn't send the right message, try setting the truck on fire first (stltoday.com) | (23) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Organizers of prison raffle realize that offering a first prize of "get out of jail free" may have been a bad idea (digitalspy.com) | (14) | |
| Church finds success using football to bring people to God, because football is real and can change people's lives (nj.com) | (106) | ||
| British officials spend two years and $500,000 on study proving that 10-pin bowling is a health and safety hazard and should be banned (dailymail.co.uk) | (85) | ||
| New Zealand church fined for using cell phone jammers so people's phones don't go off during services. Tag is for the church (earthtimes.org) | (171) | ||
| The 40,000 British parents who home-school their children may be required to undergo a criminal background check to qualify them to teach their children (dailymail.co.uk) | (214) | ||
| Woman says a deranged man followed her off the bus and stole her teeth. "He kept thaying how my teeth were beautiful, like the moon and the starth." (sfgate.com) | (49) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Man arrested running down London street in only his socks, with photo of what a sock might look like (lfpress.com) | (24) |