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Charlie Sheen blames ‘lisp’ after calling audience ‘f*ggot a**holes’
Actor Charlie Sheen is offering a non-apology apology for a homophobic slur he recently hurled at night club customers and is blaming the entire incident on his “lisp.” At this opening of his new night bar, The Goose, in the Mexican resort area of Los Cabos over the weekend, TMZ…
English man arrested for ‘spraying urine to and fro’ and ‘making noises like an elephant’
A court in Plymouth, England has given a St. Budeaux man a conditional discharge after authorities said that he exposed himself to a 5-year-old girl and other shoppers in the process of urinating in flower beds “while making noises like an elephant.” This is Plymouth on Friday reported that Plymouth…
Mexico City launches trash-for-food program
Mexico City creates over 12,000 metric tons of garbage daily. But the city’s government is combating the mountains of trash with a program that allows residents to exchange recyclables for healthy food. People receive points for recyclable materials, which can be redeemed at an on-site market that sells local produce…
Former GOP candidate in jail after accusations he slashed rival’s tires
A man who ran for the Republican nomination for a U.S. House seat is now in jail after accusations that he slashed the tires of at least one former rival, reported KOB Dec. 28. A police detective in Albuquerque told the news outlet that a surveillance video of a man…
Comedian Katt Williams arrested for serious child endangerment
Comedian Katt Williams has been arrested and his four children have been taken into protective custody after police deemed that for them to remain in their father’s home placed them in significant physical jeopardy. According to YourBlackWorld.net, police were summoned to Williams’ home and upon arrival found amounts of drugs…
Missing Los Angeles toddler found months later in Kentucky
A 17-month-old girl was found in Kentucky by University of Kentucky police officers after being abducted from Los Angeles in October. According to Lexington’s WKYT, Alouette Day-Moreno-Baltierra is in custody of Child Protective Services after being found by UK campus police officers Jennifer Ockerman and Emily Smith. Ockerman and Smith…
Hundreds fall ill on Queen Mary II luxury Christmas cruise
Passengers on an exclusive Christmas cruise on the Queen Mary II have been stricken with diarrhea, nausea and vomiting in an outbreak of what is suspected to be the second occurrence of norovirus to strike a luxury liner in recent weeks. The U.K.’s Daily Mail reported that as of Saturday…
Small South Carolina town cannot find a mayor
Little Mountain, S.C., which has 292 people and one stoplight, also has a job opening: mayor. “There is currently no mayor in Little Mountain,” said Ezra Klein, filling in for Rachel Maddow on her MSNBC show Friday night, “which is odd. The mayor manages about a $90,000 budget — not…
Does Facebook make everyone a cyborg?
The Huffington Post starts the weekend by asking on Friday whether or not we are all cyborgs, a reference to a TED talk that claims we indeed are. A cyborg is an organism “to which exogenous components have been added for the purpose of adapting to new environments,” says the…
Snow falls inside Ukrainian subway cars
Public transportation users on one subway train in Ukraine’s capital city, Kiev, were surprised to look up and find that apparently it was snowing inside their subway car. The person who shot the video speculated that perhaps the filters in the train’s air uptake had been removed, allowing outside air…
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