Masculine-Looking Female Athlete Asked to Prove Gender to Board Airplane
Anna Turaeva, a champion powerlifter from Russia, recently shared a shocking story of how she was stopped by airport security and asked private questions to prove that she really was a woman. 42-year-old Turaeva, a six-time world powerlifting champion and eight-time European powerlifting champion, described the experience of being prevented from boarding a plane from […]
Supermarket Chain Comes Under Fire for Selling Bouquet of Autumn Leaves for $7.5
UK-based supermarket Waitrose has been slammed by social media users for selling bouquets of “autumn seasonal foliage” at £6 ($7.5) apiece. Photos of various tree leaves packaged in transparent plastic foil and arranged as flower bouquets went viral on social media this week, sparking controversy because of the product’s price, six British pounds, of seven […]
Heavily Tattooed School Teacher Risks Losing His Job Because of His Appearance
Sylvain, a heavily tattooed school teacher from Essonne, in France, risks losing his job, because some parents don’t approve of his full-body tattoo, which includes his face. The 35-year-old teacher, who goes by Freaky Hoody on social media, recently went on French television channel BFM TV to complain about the threat of losing his job […]
Underage Couple Forced to Marry After Dating After Sunset
A fifteen-year-old boy and a twelve-year-old girl in Indonesia were reportedly forced to marry after breaking a local custom that forbids dating after sunset. Child marriage has been a controversial issue in Indonesia for a long time, and last week it was once again brought into the limelight by the story of a young teenage […]
Woman Jailed for Allegedly Cutting Off Her Hand for Insurance Payout
A young Slovenian woman was recently sentenced to two years in prison for allegedly cutting off her hand with a circular saw in order to cash a $1.2 million insurance payout. 22-year-old Julija Adlesic allegedly conspired with her boyfriend and her father to commit insurance fraud in an attempt to collect $1.2 million in insurance […]
Self-Described ‘Trans Satanist Anarchist’ Wins Republican Nomination for County Sheriff
Aria DiMezzo, a self-described “transsexual Satanist anarchist” who ran for the sheriff’s job in Cheshire County, New Hampshire, with the campaign slogan “F*** the Police”, decisively won the Republican nomination this weekend. DiMezzo said that she had expected to lose to a write-in candidate, adding that her surprising victory proves “the system is utterly and […]
Court Decides 22-Year-Old Woman Must Bring Up 2-Year-Old Brother, Because Their Parents Can’t Afford to
Chinese social media has been abuzz about the controversial story of a couple who took their own daughter to court in order to make her raise her toddler brother, because they couldn’t afford to. According to several news reports in China, a couple who for several years had survived on their child’s monthly allowance alone […]
White Woman from Kansas Spends Years Pretending to Be Black
Jessica A Krug, a professor of African American history at George Washington University, spent years pretending to be of North African, then Caribbean descent despite actually being a white, Jewish woman from Kansas. In a case oddly reminiscent of Rachel Dolezal’s story from a few years ago, and American academic and author whose worked focused […]
Engineer Creates ‘A.I. Jesus’ Trained Only on King James Bible
An artificial intelligence engineer has created an intriguing algorithm that learned human language from reading “the bible and nothing else” and is now churning out ominous prophecies based on the Holy Book. George Davila Durendal, a childhood coding prodigy and current AI engineer and entrepreneur, recently unveiled his wackies creation yet, an A.I. algorithm trained […]
Parents Allegedly Stream Overweight Daughter’s Eating Sessions for Views
A Chinese couple has come under fire from both the media and the general public after allegedly filming their young, overweight daughter devouring whole plates of food and streaming the footage online. Pictures and videos of a three-year-old girl nicknamed Pei Qi stuffing her face from multiple plates full of food have been doing the […]
Burmese Woman Shocks Internet With Her Tiny 13.7-Inch Waist
Su ‘Moh Moh’ Naing, a 23-year-old girl from Myanmar shot to online fame earlier this week after being featured by a popular English tabloid for having an incredibly thin waist. The Burmese student claims to have a waist circumference of only 13.7 inches, which would make it one of the tiniest waists in the world, […]
Man Whose Smartphone Got Stolen Forced to Pay Bank Loan He Did Not Take
A Russian man is taking a bank to court for forcing him to pay interest on a loan he never asked for, after fraudsters used his stolen smartphone to take out the pre-approved loan in his name. Vladimir Volokhovich, from Moscow, has been making news headlines in his home country of Russia after finding himself […]
Deepfake Journalist Is a Terrifying Sign of Things to Come
It’s almost impossible to tell, but the man featured in the photos below doesn’t exist. He is a deepfake, a persona created by a computer algorythim. However, the articles this “journalist” published in several popular newspapers are very real, and a sign of things we can expect from a fast-evolving AI. Oliver Taylor first got […]
75-Year-Old Woman Marries Son-in-Law After Her Daughter Kicks Him Out
A bizarre love triangle between a 75-year-old woman, her 52-year-old ex-son-in-law and her 56-year-old daughter has sparked controversy in Russia after their story went viral this month. Galina Zhukovskaya, 75, from St. Petersburg, Russia, married Vyacheslav Zhukovsky, a man 23 years her junior back in 2010, but it wasn’t the age difference between them that […]
Image of “Jesus Christ” Discovered in Cut Tree Branch Sparks Online Controversy
Photos of what many religious people are describing as a detailed representation of Jesus Christ discovered inside the branch of a recently-pruned willow tree have gone viral in Brazil. Last Thursday, while pruning a willow tree in Itaquiraí, Brazil’s Mato Grosso do Sul, municipal maintenance workers noticed a strange pattern on the inside of a […]