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The idea is there.  You take a pair of normal workout pants, combine them with the MP3 player of your choice, and then figure out a way to turn the kinetic energy generated by movement (like running or biking) and turn it into actual energy to power the MP3 player.  That’s the idea behind the […]

Police in Tamarac, Florida, are looking for a man who robbed a TD Bank location in Broward County on Monday morning.  The clues to his identity are sketchy, but odds are you’ll smell him before you see him.  You see, this mystery robber has been called the bad breath bandit (by me) due to his […]

If you reported seeing a giant monster stalking the canals in the Madeira Beach area of Tampa, Florida, people would say you’re crazy.  Surely Russ Sittlow, a retired 78-year-old engineer, knows this.  However, after having captured a beast he calls Normandy Nessie (after the road he lives on) on film twice and having spotted it […]

People will do a lot of crazy things to try and get into the United States for a shot at a better life.  When you’re dealing with accused illegal immigrant smugglers, like Maria Candelaria Moreno of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Mexican native Ricardo Moreno Separza, there’s no depths to which those people will sink to make […]

What do you do when the bear won’t shoo?  Well, if you’re an anonymous 11-year-old boy in Driggs, Idaho, and you’ve got an American black bear on your front porch, threatening your family, there’s only one thing you can do.  Take care of the threat.  The boy grabbed a rifle and, after the bear refused […]

There is nothing more exciting to the mind of a creative person than the allure of infinite possibilities.  And what sort of novel utilizes infinite possibilities more than science fiction?  There is no genre of literature that has so captivated the mind and so inspired the inventor than sci-fi, as you can see by these […]

In some ways, Kavisha Seevnarain is a lucky woman.  I mean, sure she got robbed, carjacked, and thrown off a bridge, but other than that she’s pretty blessed.  Why?  Because she was thrown off a 200-foot bridge into a mostly dry river, yet she survived. While driving to a friend’s house in Durban, South Africa, […]

Tennessee Titans owner Bud Adams is one of the National Football League’s leading statesmen.  As one of the founders of the American Football League, the NFL’s last real competition, he’s renowned as a maverick and innovative owner, thought not a terribly classy one.  After all, would a classy owner flip the double-bird to the opposing […]

Katie Lynn Smith, a 20-year-old from Nitro, West Virginia, had a crush on a customer.  She saw the guy regularly, we assume, and eventually grew fond of the man.  In an attempt to curry favor with her suitor, she made him a sweetheart deal.  Namely, she gave him over $20,000 in discounted items from the […]

It’s not often that a professional football player feels the need to apologize for his on-field behavior when he does something smart, but Maurice Jones-Drew isn’t your ordinary football player.   Generally listed at 5’6, MoJo is a human pinball on the field, using his 200-pound bulk to run through and bounce off tacklers, making […]

All Dustin Reader wanted to do was show support for his favorite professional football team.  Is that so bad?  Well, when you’re an eighth-grade student in Hamilton, Ohio, and you decide to shave your head in an imitation of the Bengals logo, then yes, it is bad.  Thanks to his wild hair style, Dustin is […]