In a week of chaotic and contentious news, a foul-mouthed parrot might be just the distraction you need. The avian troublemaker was stuck up on a rooftop and refused the assistance of the firefighters who came to his rescue. The closer they got to the bird, the more…
Guerilla street artist Banksy has a habit of walking a very fine line between art-as-product and art-as-experience. Still, it was a surprise when one of his paintings was sold at auction Friday night and then immediately began to self-destruct. The frame in which the painting was housed shredded…
Tiny houses are a cultural concept that make sense for an ever-crowding planet. Amazon has recognized the emerging trend and jumped into the pre-fab house game. You can now order one directly from the shipping behemoth. Amazon’s offering is a re-purposed shipping container decked out for compact living.…
If you are going to use the phrase “Top Gun” in your callsign, you should be able to get your $140 million F-22A Raptor off the runway. “Top Gun 65” had some issues with exactly that. A new report says the rookie pilot pulled the nose up too…
Cops sometimes face undeserved hatred and vilification from the public they’re sworn to protect and serve. Sometimes, though, something happens that leaves other officers shaking their heads, like when a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer accidentally lost a grenade launcher on Monday. The incident happened somewhere near the…
Police officers have been dealing with idiot teenagers as long as there have been teenagers. Or maybe as long as there have been police. My point is that some things never change. Take the example of this troubled youth who was doing a bit of showing off in…
Hot car deaths, perhaps the most glaringly obvious example of parental neglect, have become increasingly common shock value headlines. This story, though, is going viral becasue of the sentence in one recent case. A four year old was left in a hot car for six hours. The girl…
Video has emerged of a state lawmaker being pulled over for driving way over the speed limit. The man’s encounter with the sheriff’s deputy is going viral, not because of the speed the lawmaker was driving, but because the man claims that he can speed with impunity. Being…
Here’s another case of a law abiding citizen exercising his right to armed self defense. In what seems to have been a daring daylight break-in, three armed teens kicked in the front door of a suburban house. They had their guns drawn, like they were expecting trouble. And…
The ongoing national debate about border security has taken an epic turn, Friday. President Trump has announced that he is declaring a national emergency to ensure he gets the funding needed to build the border wall after both the Senate and Congress failed to fully fun the President’s…
The details surrounding the shooting of Ismail Hamed are hard to fathom. The teenager self-identified as a terrorist, and openly pledged his allegiance to ISIS. He said as much when he called police and asked that an officer come to see him. When an officer arrived, Hamed attacked…
A fifth-grade boy is learning a hard lesson about following his teacher’s instructions. The woman reportedly asked him not to call her “ma’am.” When he did, the boy was punished. To enforce her message, she had him write the word out multiple times. Now the bazaar incident is…
There’s a lesson lurking in here somewhere. It might be this: leave criminal investigations to the police. That might have prevented this debacle that left a woman with a crossbow bolt in her face. And she wasn’t even the intended target. It was meant for her son. She…
This story doesn’t have a happy ending, but it ends better than many similar stories. A domestic dispute erupted in violence when a husband showed up at the dentist’s office where his wife worked. He shot her. A patient, though, was also armed. Before the husband could shoot…
Delivery drivers are typically on a tight schedule. As cell phone video and doorbell cameras have grown more popular, we’re seeing more examples of hapless and hurried drivers tossing packages at porches and defecating on driveways, but this video captures a new low. A UPS driver blocked an…