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Drunk Guy Sings Bohemian Rhapsody In Cop Car

Posted 3/30/2012 7:30 am by

Police cameras have captured some very amazing things. Entire television shows and even a network have been based around the footage of incredible crashes like the one that re-enacted Smokey and the Bandit and rescues that dash-cams have caught. We can thank the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for many things including crafting an escape plan […]

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Choking Dog Makes Life-Saving Phone Call

Posted 3/30/2012 6:30 am by

Workers answering the phones in 911 offices (or the British equivalent 999) never know what kind of emergency they will have to deal with. In addition to talking people through life-or-death moments, they also have to handle drunk people ordering cheeseburgers and asking for dates, a criminal accidentally butt-dialing during a burglary or a family […]

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Happy St. Patrick’s Day 2012

Posted 3/17/2012 8:08 am by

It’s that one day of the year when everyone claims an ethnicity that possibly isn’t their own. The blarney flows as frequently as green beer and Lucky Charms is everyone’s favorite cereal. Yep. It’s St. Patrick’s Day. Unlike the offensive Old Navy shirts pulled off the shelves, the Kiss Me, I’m Irish T-shirts get pulled […]

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Opossums Go Viral

Posted 3/13/2012 8:00 am by

Up until the past week or so, opossums were an animal with very little time in the spotlight. Sure Walt Kelly’s comic strip “Pogo” provided satire of both the political and social varieties during the middle of the past century. The opossum gets credit for being the only marsupial native to North America, however, it […]

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Monkee Davy Jones Dies At Age 66

Posted 3/01/2012 7:00 am by

He was the teen idol that made Marcia Brady swoon. Davy Jones, lead singer for the pop group The Monkees, died at the age of 66 due to a heart attack in Indiantown, Florida on Thursday. This news isn’t quite as big as the unexpected passing of Whitney Houston, but any time a celebrity from […]

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Years and Years Of Oscar Losers’ Reactions In GIF Form

Posted 2/26/2012 11:26 am by

It’s a big day in Hollywood. Hairdressers are rolling and shellacking their clients’ hair. Designers are making final adjustments to gowns. Limo drivers are fueling up their long black vehicles. Housekeeping is running the vacuum over the red carpet. And Billy Crystal is rehearsing his jokes one last time. Yep, it’s Oscar Night in LA. […]

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Man Claims To Be Denny’s Manager, Cooks His Own Burger

Posted 2/25/2012 11:37 am by

  Most people when they masquerade as someone else pick out a person who is famous, or infamous as the case may be. Madison, Wisconsin resident James Summers co-opted a much more bland persona when he perpetrated his unusual crime. Summers, wearing a suit and tie and carrying a briefcase, walked into a Denny’s restaurant […]

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Tattoo Portrait Leads To Insane Facebook Breakup

Posted 2/25/2012 9:15 am by

Thanks to social media like Facebook for some people nearly every waking moment of the day is documented for the rest of the world to see. We’ve gone from six degrees of separation to four degrees and in addition way too many TMI moments. Now the whole world can not only see fun photos of […]

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Man Survives Two Months In Snow-Buried Car

Posted 2/20/2012 8:39 am by

I’ll admit I need to go on a diet. Granted I’m not as large as the world’s heaviest mother, but even she is trying to lose weight. I could stand to skip a few meals here and there, but I really can’t imagine missing two months worth of meals. Skipping meals for two months wasn’t a […]

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SNL Nails Racism Attached To Coverage Of Jeremy Lin’s Rise In NBA

Posted 2/19/2012 12:44 pm by

Saturday Night Live cleverly made its barbed points about the racism surrounding the coverage of the NBA’s newest star. The meteoric rise in popularity of second-year NBA player Jeremy Lin has created a buzz in his Knicks’ city of New York and around the world. As only the fourth Asian-American to play in the history […]

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Friends, Family, Fans Honor Whitney Houston At Funeral

Posted 2/19/2012 11:30 am by

The stars gathered to shine and honor one of their own in Newark, New Jersey on Saturday. One week after her body was discovered in an LA hotel room, friends and family of Whitney Houston gathered in her hometown church, New Hope Baptist Church, to mourn the untimely passing of the woman whose iconic voice […]

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Djokovic Outlasts Nadal To Win Third Australian Open

Posted 1/29/2012 10:17 am by

It took a marathon effort, but the top seed in men’s tennis, Novak Djokovic, fought off fatigue and No. 2 seed Rafael Nadal to win his third Australian Open and fifth overall Grand Slam title. Djokovic came back from a set down and a break down in a decider to win 5-7, 6-4, 6-2, 6-7 […]

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Starbucks To Begin Selling Alcohol In Atlanta and Southern California

Posted 1/24/2012 10:24 am by

Starbucks, it’s not just for coffee anymore. That’s not the official new Starbucks slogan, but the company’s latest announcement, one year after changing its iconic mermaid logo, means the coffee giant is expanding the list of its liquid offerings. The world’s biggest chain of cozy coffee shops is going to begin offering beer and wine […]

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Vanity License Plate Leads Police To Bank Robber

Posted 1/23/2012 10:36 am by

Vanity, thy name is dumb bank robber Robert Alm. Criminals just keep getting dumber and dumber. This weekend PopFi brought you the story of the thief who dropped the keys to his getaway car inside the Taco Bell he was robbing. There have been robbers dressed like leprechauns and Santa Claus. And don’t forget the […]

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Joe Paterno Has Died

Posted 1/22/2012 10:54 am by

Members of his family have announced that the winningest college football coach in NCAA Division I history Joe Paterno has passed away this morning. Rumors circulated around the Internet last night that the 85-year-old had died apparently before the actual event occurred. Paterno, who was battling lung cancer, had been hospitalized at State College’s Mount […]

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Dutch Teen Sets Unofficial Record For Sailing Around The Globe

Posted 1/22/2012 9:35 am by

When I was 16 years old, if my ancient brain remembers this correctly, I was trying to avoid homework in order to find more time to hang out with my pals. Like 15-year-old Jordan Romero who has climbed peaks on all seven continents, teenager Laura Dekker was a bit more ambitious in what she wanted […]

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New 2012 Super Bowl Commercials Released

Posted 1/21/2012 11:00 am by

It’s closing in on the time of year when people actually want their television to show them commercials. That’s right, the Super Bowl is just around the corner on Feb. 5. One of last year’s big hits was the little tyke who tries to channel Darth Vader and thinks he starts up his dad’s Volkswagen […]

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Thief Can’t Make Getaway After Losing Car Keys During Robbery

Posted 1/21/2012 9:57 am by

Criminal masterminds are few and far between. Most of the time, the people trying to pull off a scam or commit a crime are not the sharpest guys. Here at Pop Fi we’ve documented several bungled crimes including the bad guys who robbed a candy store and then got caught because they left a trail […]

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Skiier Sarah Burke Passes Away Due To Injuries from Crash

Posted 1/20/2012 8:30 am by

Watching extreme athletes perform, I am often so dazzled by their athleticism that I forget how dangerous their stunts and tricks really are. Yet, there is a reason the word extreme is used to describe them, and sadly sometimes they don’t survive their daring tricks. That was the case for freeskier Sarah Burke, who passed […]

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Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museums Celebrated 250th Birthday

Posted 1/18/2012 9:00 am by

Fame is fleeting for most celebrities. Only a few endure longer than Andy Warhol‘s quotable 15 minutes. For those celebrities and world leaders who survive the initial rush of fame and create life-long bonds with their fans, a  place of honor at Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum usually results. It’s hard to believe that the wax […]

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Twitter Used To Track Contagion Outbreaks

Posted 1/11/2012 8:42 am by

It’s one thing to track pop culture trends via social media numbers. The number of followers of Charlie Sheen’s Twitter account grew exponentially once he joined the site to report on all his “winning” and “Tiger blood” during his 2011 meltdown.  Twitter users have also broken big news stories before. The assassination of Osama bin […]

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Fun Stop Motion Video Promotes Book Store

Posted 1/11/2012 8:00 am by

I like big books, and I cannot lie. Yep, I’m a self-admitted reader. Granted, I don’t zip through books like a friend of mine, who I swear is a speed reader, but I plow through them at my own pace. Like the bookshelves built into a staircase, I’ve got piles of books I’ve purchased just […]

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Notre Dame’s Rudy Caught In Stock Fraud

Posted 1/07/2012 10:48 am by

We’re right in the midst of college football’s bowl season – a time when heroes are made. However, our heroes are still human beings who sometimes let us down. Unlike his moment of glory at Notre Dame when he was carried off the football field on the shoulders of his teammates, Daniel Ruettiger, or Rudy […]

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44 Pounds Of Gold Ingots Found On Paris Train Go Unclaimed

Posted 1/07/2012 10:08 am by

Traveling light is definitely an issue for whoever packed a suitcase with 44 pounds of gold ingots and then left it on a train in Paris. The pot-o-gold suitcase was abandoned, and the person who left it behind has yet to claim the stash worth $1 million dollars. The gold was not in the form […]

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Peter Frampton Reunited With Lost Guitar After 31 Years

Posted 1/04/2012 10:59 am by

Rock and roll is here to stay, but apparently prized instruments get lost along the way. Legendary guitarist Peter Frampton got a pleasant and unexpected prize last month when one of his favorite guitars was returned to him after being missing for more than three decades. Frampton used his beloved instrument most famously on the […]

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Fencer Who Played Darth Vader In Light Saber Scenes Dies

Posted 1/03/2012 11:30 am by

The iconic Star Wars character Darth Vader was such a large force it took three men to play him. James Earl Jones utilized his powerful voice to characterize the man behind the mask, while actor David Prowse was usually the performer wearing the dark headgear and flowing cape. That is except when Vader wielded his […]

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Freak Foam Storm Strikes UK

Posted 1/03/2012 10:33 am by

In January, weather is often a hot topic. Or should I say “cold” topic, since it is the winter here in the Northern Hemisphere. Plunging temperatures, ice and snowpocalypse, which at one point covered 49 of 50 states simultaneously last year, are usually the terms being bandied about. Winter even creates such a thing as […]

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Kids and Stickers Create Colorful Art Installation

Posted 1/03/2012 9:12 am by

Art, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. Whether it’s created from office supplies or the first art carved into a cave wall in the Western Hemisphere, it is a very subjective medium. Like the public art display in New Orleans that asked passersby to tell us what they wanted to do before […]

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Lucky Foods For New Year’s Day

Posted 1/01/2012 1:17 pm by

Happy New Year PopFi readers. We’ve survived 2011 and now are steeling ourselves for the challenges and opening our arms to the joys that await us in 2012. After the celebrating and epic fireworks of New Year’s Eve, New Year’s Day is often one of recovery from the night before and hopeful anticipation of the […]

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Tuba Thieves Raid LA High School Bands

Posted 1/01/2012 11:14 am by

The tuba is a mocked and maligned instrument. Possibly only the bassoon gets more grief. The stereotypical tuba player shows up in time for Octoberfest clad in lederhosen (not necessarily the world’s largest lederhosen, though) and knee socks and wearing a jaunty hat with a feather stuck in the band. That oompa-oompa man is usually […]

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