Sometimes a bargain isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Often it really is true that you get what you pay for.

A woman in Miami Gardens, Florida learned that fact the hard way. Wanting to increase her curves, she turned to a black market “doctor” who charged the low, low rate of $700. His fix for her flat bottom was to inject his own home-made fix-a-flat concoction comprised of cement and mineral oil into her buttocks and then seal the incisions with Super Glue. I’m guessing this isn’t an AMA approved method.

I think it’s a bad sign when most of the medical ingredients used in a procedure come from a Home Depot instead of a pharmacy. Following the initial agony caused by the injections, the victim soon began suffering other symptoms as the toxins flowed through her body. I’m not sure it would have helped, but maybe she could have used a Backtacular Gluteal Cleft Shield.

The photo above is of the arrested “doctor” Oneal Ron Morris, who performed a version of the procedure upon himself to create a rear end worthy of every karaoke version of “Baby Got Back” ever performed. It took police more than a year to catch up with Morris before they found and arrested him.

In an era of rampant plastic surgery to appease the vanity that has taken over our society, too many people are turning to doctors to mold them into what they think is the perfect human form. Even monkeys are getting plastic surgery. Not everyone can afford to pay for the changes they desire. Because of this pursuit of perfection, these fake physicians are performing procedures that endanger the people who come to them for a cure.

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina and the flooding that followed, the New Orleans Times-Picayune and NOLA.com did a wonderful job in updating the outside world about the conditions in their city, and have further kept going in bringing the city back together in the wake of the hurricane.  Unfortunately, this is a “what have [...]

Hewlett-Packard is one of the world’s largest companies, and as such, they are not immune to mistakes.  Given their current revolving door at CEO, it’s no wonder the company has been making some bad decisions.  Paying too much money for Palm, killing the TouchPad, and generally just making mistakes left and right due to not [...]

Facebook’s IPO has been an incredible windfall for its founders, and a huge flop for investors.  Since the massive IPO late last week, the stock price has collapsed.  There are concerns over ad sales, revenues in general, and now, there are allegations of insider trading after people have alleged that Morgan Stanley warned favored investors [...]

Solar eclipses are very rare, but they probably should be used as an excuse for a car accident.  Then again, if you saw the sun disappearing, you might freak out a little bit.  A 26-year-old San Bernadino, California, woman blames the recent solar eclipse on a car accident in which she hit a woman and [...]

The Orlando Magic really want to keep Dwight Howard after this season.  Dwight Howard, slam dunk champion,  is one of the best centers in the NBA and that’s a hard thing to come by these days.  Orlando knows they have to do something big to convince Howard to resign with their team, and they’ve done [...]

It was as dramatic as the closing sequence of any James Bond movie.  The clock was counting down–5, 4, 3, 2, 1–and at the last second, everything ground to a halt.  It wasn’t some evil plot that was stopped, but a good plot.  Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, a pioneer in commercial space flight, was scheduled [...]

At one point, the toning shoe was a fad that you could not get away from.  It was a basic sneaker with an odd-shaped sole that was supposedly designed to help the wearer burn more calories and tone up while doing essentially nothing to add to their fitness level.  As it turns out, just walking [...]