Hoppin’ Pain Killers
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Hoppin’ Pain Killers

Some people pop painkillers; others pop frogs. Turns out, “hopping” on the latest wellness trend can have side effects.

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Dirty Carats
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Dirty Carats

They say diamonds are forever, but finding one might cost you three weeks, a sunburn, and your sanity. Instead of shopping at Tiffany’s, one New Yorker went with the “bring your own shovel” package instead.

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TP FaceTime
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TP FaceTime

When bathroom breaks require QR codes and commercials, you know we’ve reached peak surveillance. At least at work they only watch our Slack dots, not our squat breaks.

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Mad About Mayo
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Mad About Mayo

Turns out mayo really can be spicy — at least when it sparks arson. A café patron in Spain went full Gordon Ramsay meets Pyro after being denied mayonnaise. The sandwiches may have been dry, but his temper was extra crispy.

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Ridin’ Purdy
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Ridin’ Purdy

Forget Fast & Furious — this was Slow & Suspicious. A man’s quest for sugar ended not with brain freeze, but with a police stop in the tiniest getaway car ever made.

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Goal Digger
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Goal Digger

A 54-year-old fan went from cheering in the stands to guarding the net, proving sometimes dreams really do come true — just 30 years late. Perhaps I should dust off my cleats and start practicing my victory dance in case the NFL runs out of running backs.

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Virtual Retribution
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Virtual Retribution

Road rage just got a makeover. Forget iced coffee — drivers can now toss giant emojis at each other, turning traffic into something that looks suspiciously like Mario Kart with clown faces instead of banana peels. It may not fix bad driving, but at least it’ll make gridlock more interesting

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Bustin Jieber
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Bustin Jieber

Vegas has seen some wild nights, but this one didn’t need a tiger in the bathroom to make it memorable. A Justin Bieber look-alike fooled a nightclub into believing he was the real deal, racking up selfies, shopping sprees, and a $10K bar tab before his Hangover-style stunt ended with a lifetime ban.

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Road Rats
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Road Rats

Lab rats in Richmond have mastered driving tiny cars, proving once and for all that some rodents handle stress—and steering wheels—better than humans. Now if only scientists could teach them to deal with New York traffic without honking or throwing paws.

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Beware of the Googlerazzi
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Beware of the Googlerazzi

An Argentinian cop’s sunny afternoon turned into a full moon scandal when Google Street View captured his bare backside and beamed it to the world. Now $12,500 richer from a privacy lawsuit, he’s officially the only man to make money by putting his butt on the map.

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Concert Crasher
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Concert Crasher

A London bishop in a dressing gown shut down a church concert for making “a terrible racket” past 10 p.m., proving even holy houses have noise complaints. But the choir got the last hallelujah, leading the crowd in an a cappella “Dancing Queen” on the way to the pub — because when God closes a door, someone opens a bar.

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Spiked Spirits
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Spiked Spirits

A man in Shanghai took “knowledge is power” a little too literally and landed some PTO — minus the “P.” And speaking of vacation, if you suffer from PPTOSD, Pre-PTO Stress Disorder, Leevital may help.

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