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This is closed circuit footage from a daring robbery on a Ladbrokes betting parlor in Kenton, Newcastle, England.  The three men involved, Thomas Reay, Alan Tams, and Shaun Ovington, are believed to have committed a string of similar robberies throughout Northwest England, but none quite as daring as this.  It’s not that the robbers themselves [...]

Yesterday, I posted a link to a fox riding the subway and wondered aloud just why they had given up hitchhiking with strangers.  The obvious dangers of hitchhiking aside, it didn’t seem reasonable for an otherwise wild animal to suddenly decide to eschew the open road for the crowded, troublesome underground and other forms of [...]

It’s one of my family traditions when it comes to Christmas get-togethers.  No matter what, my cousin will clamor to watch some of Bob Clark’s classic, “A Christmas Story.”  He’s seen it a million times, he knows it’ll be on all night, and he’s got it on DVD, but he still suggests we turn it [...]

Police in Galesburg, Illinois, have busted a woman who had stolen $600 worth of meat from a grocery store in this relatively quiet little town in northwestern Illinois, near the Iowa border.  This is why you don’t shoplift on an empty stomach, people!  You always steal more than you need, and the next thing you [...]

It was the perfect crime.  Phillip Menefee was going to hit the Mathisen Tree Farms in Portage, Indiana, pick up a Douglas fir when nobody was watching, and make his escape.  Unfortunately for Phillip, his get-away vehicle was a bicycle.  It goes without saying that he didn’t get terribly far from the scene of the [...]

The holidays are coming.  If you’re like most people, you’d rather lock yourself in the broom closet than get dressed up in finery and go out to hang out with your relatives.  Still, because it’s Christmas, you tear yourself away from the Internet and force yourself to be social.  But… what if you spend too [...]

By any chance, do you have an authentic medieval vampire hunting kit?  Well, if you do, Ripley’s Museum is willing to take it off your hands for a fair price.  Thanks in no small part to the Twilight explosion, vampires are big business now, and Ripley is in the vampire hunting kit business.  The kits, [...]

I love the weird, random errata Google Doodles honor on a day to day basis.  You never know what to expect, because you never know what sort of thing they’re going to point out.  From bar codes to Halloween, Google never ceases to honor the interesting and strange.  Today’s Goodle Doodle honors the late, great [...]

On the cusp of the end of the 2000s and the beginning of the 2010s, there’s two ways we can look.  Everyone will be looking back over the past 10 years, but let’s be different.  Let’s look towards the future, and some social media predictions for 2010.  Well, we can look back at the past, [...]

Book expert for auction house Christie’, Francis Wahlgren, described the book as “the black tulip of U.S. literature.”  Not bad for a book that was published without an author attribution!  Tamerlane and Other Poems, written by “a Bostonian,” is actually the first published book by Edgar Allan Poe.  There are 12 copies known to exist, [...]

It’s that time of year where everyone is trying to cash in on Christmas.  For some stores, this means they put up a sexy nativity scene or throw some huge special sales together.  However, if you’re a chicken in Burleson, Texas, what can you do to get in the holiday spirit?  Why, you lay an [...]

In 2006, the Russian Academy of Sciences, Okayama University, and Sapporo Beer conducted experiments involving wheat seeds sent into space.  The wheat spent five months aboard the International Space Station, and now it can spend a few hours in your stomach!  The fourth generation of that space barley has become Space Barley beer, but if [...]

The college football season is at an end, and as usual, we have several undefeated teams and no real meaningful playoff system.  However, that’s okay, because that means that the yearly glut of bowl games will continue unabated!  Yay for 34 relatively exciting football games after the season!   The meaningful games, of course, are [...]

Los Angelinos should be no stranger to sexy shenanigans.  After all, they are the center of Hollywood, so they undoubtedly see a whole lot of weird things.  However, a Christmas window display at the clothing store Madison has somehow managed to get the locals riled up, if only due to the content.  Madison’s Christmas decorations [...]

There’s not much scarier in the animal world then a swarm of insects.  I mean, just imagine a whole cloud of angry bees, all stinging at you and pursuing you long after you should’ve escaped.  Whether you call them swarms, hordes, or just packs, there’s not much more shiver-inducing than a clump of critters all [...]