Chinese County Shames Debtors by Showing Their Faces During Cinema Screenings
Authorities in Hejiang county, China’s Sichuan province, have come up with a controversial method of convincing borrowers to pay up their debts – showing their faces and names during short clips played in cinemas before the main movie starts. Called “Reel of Shame”, the clip features an animated character who tells the audience “Come look at […]
Russian Millionaire Lets His Children Pick Out His New ‘Hot’ Wife from 2,000 Hopeful Candidates
54-year-old Konstantin Scherbinin, a Russian multi-millionaire who made his fortune in the oil business, is letting his children pick out his next wife on a controversial reality show called ‘Millionaire for Marriage’. Scherbinin has allegedly vowed to respect the on-screen decision of his three daughters and one son, and propose to the lucky woman they select […]
25-Year-Old Man Posed as 17-Year-Old Teen So He Could Play High-School Basketball
A 25-year-old Dallas man posed as a freshman high-school student for nine months so he could once again relive his glory days as a teen basketball player. Sidney Bouvier Gilstrap-Portley enrolled at the Skyline High School last year, claiming to be a Hurricane Harvey refugee named Rashun Richardson. At the time, Dallas high-schools had opened […]
Actors Dressed as ISIS Militants Storm Shopping Mall to Promote Movie. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Iranian actors dressed as Islamic State fighters recently stormed a shopping mall in Teheran, in an attempt to promote a new film about a father and son who travel to Syria to deliver humanitarian supplies but end up kidnapped by ISIS. Unfortunately, their performance was a bit too good, and caused some shoppers to run for […]
Canadian Man Named ‘Grabher’ Has ‘GRABHER’ License Plate Revoked for Being Offensive to Women
A Canadian man has been involved in a legal battle with the Nova Scotia Department of Transportation after having his vanity license plate revoked for featuring a “socially unacceptable slogan”. The problem is that that slogan is also the man’s family name. In December of 2016, Lorne Grabher, of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, was informed that his license […]
Chinese Companies Equip Workers with Brainwave Reading Helmets to Increase Productivity
It sounds like something out of a Black Mirror episode, but according to recent news reports, Chinese companies are using special helmets to monitor workers’ brain activity in order to reduce stress, manipulate break times with the ultimate goal of increasing productivity. The South China Morning Post recently reported employee brainwave monitoring in China is […]
Controversial High School Class Has Students Hatching and Raising Chickens Before Killing and Eating Them
For the past 60 years, every generation of freshman students at Izumo Agricultural and Forestry High School, in Izumo, Japan’s Shimane prefecture, has taken the “Class of Life”, a controversial six-month course during which the students help hatch and raise chickens, before having to slaughter and eat them. Last year, the Class of Life at […]
Russia’s Recently Completed Floating Nuclear Power Plant Dubbed a “Nuclear Titanic”
While countries like Germany or on track to completely phase out nuclear power plants by 2022, Russia’s is building more of them and even making them floatable so they can provide power to remote areas. However, not everyone is convinced that placing a powerful nuclear reactor on a ship is such a good idea. Looking […]
South-Korean Woman Allegedly Dates Almost 200 Men in Less Than Two Years
Popular South Korean TV show Mars People XFile recently featured a young woman who claimed to have dated nearly 200 men in the last two years, purely for materialistic purposes. The young and attractive woman, named Han Mirim, gives speed dating a whole new meaning, admitting that she sometimes broke up with men on the […]
8-Year-Old Boy Trains for Over 4 Hours a Day to Imitate Bruce Lee
Ryusei “Ryuji” Imai, an 8-year-old boy from Nara, Japan, has dedicated his life to imitating martial arts legend Bruce Lee. Despite his young age, he trains for four and a half hours every day, and has already developed a similar physique to that of his idol. The world was first introduced to Ryuji three years […]
Man Believes Prescription Painkillers Turned Him Gay
A 23-year-old man from Lincolnshire, in the UK, claims that taking a prescription painkiller has caused him to lose sexual attraction to women and become interested in men. Scott Purdy started taking Pregabalin, also known as Lyrica, after breaking his foot in a go-karting accident. Before he knew it, he had stopped finding his girlfriend of six months, […]
Artist Faces Backlash After Killing Butterflies And Using Their Wings for a Painting Symbolizing Rebirth
A Chinese art student sparked a heated debate online after using the wings of over 500 butterflies to create a series of artworks symbolizing rebirth. While some consider her “sick” for using butterfly wings as an art medium, others think her creations qualify as original art. Li Zheng, a fourth-year art student at Quanzhou Normal University […]
“Most Ignorant Man in America” Has Been Blocking Out All News Since Trump Became President
Disappointed by the news that Donald Trump had become president of the United States, a former Nike executive decided that ignorance truly is bliss, so he retreated into his pig farm in rural Ohio and completely cut himself off from all news. The last news that Erik Hagerman heard was that Donald Trump was the new president of […]
Meet the Superstar Prophet Who Can Walk on Air, Cure HIV and Put ‘Miracle Money’ in Your Pocket
Africa is full of so-called prophets who have found fame and fortune by performing miracles in the name of God, but few are as popular and as wealthy as Shepherd Bushiri, a 30-something superstar from Malawi. But then again, few pastors can pull off the kinds of miracles that Bushiri is famous for – walking on […]
Argentinian Man Legally Changes Gender So He Can Allegedly Retire Sooner
An Argentinian man has recently been accused of changing both his gender and his name so he could retire at the age of 60, instead of 65. Although he acknowledges the changes, the former man claims he went through with them for personal reasons. Sergio Lazarovich has become a topic of debate throughout South America, […]