A man from Ohio is accused of offering a Florida mother hundreds of dollars to “dunk” and torture her children under water in order to satisfy a bizarre sexual fetish. Jeff Doland, of Uniontown, Ohio, was arrested by authorities after he flew to Miami, believing he was going to meet a mother of two girls, [...]
Apple has invented a novel method of disabling stolen iPods – by preventing them from charging. The company has filed a patent for a technology that recognises when a device is plugged into an unauthorised computer and, if it is, prevents any further charging. Every portable gadget with a rechargeable battery has a charging circuit [...]
A Georgia family is upset with their local sheriff’s office after a deputy shot and killed their pet pig. Janice Jones said that Gator, a black, potbellied pig, was a friendly animal that her family had owned for five years and that her two children, ages five and seven, adored. David Davis, a chief deputy [...]
Prosecutors are considering criminal charges against casino gamblers who won big on a slot machine that had been installed with faulty software. The machine at Caesars Indiana credited gamblers $10 for each dollar they inserted because the software wasn’t designed for U.S. currency, state police said. More than two dozen people played the machine before [...]
A Mexican tipping the scales at 560 kilograms (1,234 pounds) will be listed as the world’s fattest man by the Guinness Book of Records, while a loss of 200 kilos (440 pounds) may make him the man who lost the most weight. “I’m glad to be in the Guinness Book as the fattest man. I [...]
Malaysian police were left red-faced after a man who abandoned the theft of a $280,000 Porsche for lack of fuel attempted the crime a second time and drove the sportscar out of a police station, local media said. The suspect had first attempted the theft on Monday at a luxury car showroom in northern Penang [...]
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A Sydney man has been refused bail on charges of using a restored army tank to destroy an number of mobile phone towers in the city’s west. Dharruk man John Robert Patterson, 45, has appeared in Parramatta Bail court on a range of charges including malicious damage. It is alleged that early this morning he [...]
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Waitress Jessica Osborne is getting more than a good tip. She’s getting $10,000 for her college education. The 20-year-old waits tables at a Pizza Hut in northeast Indiana. The money is from a mother and her two sons who are regular customers, but don’t want to be named. Osborne says she’d told the family how [...]