An unusually large man in Wisconsin called the police recently after an all-you-can-eat buffet restaurant decided he’d had enough fried fish and cut him off at 20 pieces. Standing 6-foot-6 and weighing 350 pounds, Bill Wisth certainly looks like trouble for any buffet restaurant. Chuck’s Place in Thiensville, Wisconsin recently…
University of Georgia researcher Kerrie Anne Loyd is strapping video cameras to record the secret lives of outdoor cats. Atlanta’s 11 Alive interviewed owner Amy Watts of Athens about her cat Booker T’s outdoor adventures. “I knew that Booker T’s favorite place to go was down in the storm sewer,”…
Two parent chaperones have been accused of spraying Lysol on students during a Colorado high school prom because teen’s “dirty dancing” looked like “they were advertising butt sex.” A police report obtained by The Smoking Gun on Tuesday indicates that Jennifer Farmer and Hannah Rockey were charged with “harassment” because…
An unidentified man set himself on fire Tuesday outside a courthouse in Oslo, Norway, where mass murderer Anders Breivik is on trial, leaving police insisting the bizarre self immolation was an act of a seriously disturbed individual and had nothing to do with Breivik. In a shocking video published to…
Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh was inducted into the Hall of Famous Missourians on Monday in the state Capitol. The Associated Press described the induction as a “secretive ceremony.” The event was closed to the public and only certain guests, including more than 100 Republican lawmakers, were allowed to attend.…
There’s been a epidemic of accidents resulting from texting while walking, and though the resulting stumbles, crashes, and wipe-outs have provided laugh-fodder for viral YouTube videos, one town sees it as a problem worth getting serious about. The city of Fort Lee, New Jersey has declared that any pedestrian caught…
Guiness Book of World Records officials have confirmed it, the wave that surfer Garrett McNamara surfed in November of last year was the tallest ever ridden, clocking in at 78 feet tall, a foot taller than the previous record, which was set in 2008. McNamara, 44, was surfing off the…
Thursday afternoon, violent storms swept over Gansu province in Northwestern China, killing at least 37 people with 19 others missing. Hail and torrential rains downed power lines, flattened buildings and razed crops. Nearly 30,000 residents have been evacuated. China’s national flood control and drought relief headquarters issued fresh warnings to…