Woman Allegedly Fakes Son’s Kidnapping to Test Her Husband’s Love
A Chinese mother allegedly faked the kidnapping of her 11-year-old son as a way of testing whether her husband really cared about her and their child. The boy’s mother, a 33-year-old woman named Chen, filed a fake missing persons report in Yueqing City, on Friday. She told police that her son had last been seen […]
Scottish Man Banned from the US Forever After Accidentally Declaring Himself a Terrorist
A 70-year-old man from Scotland ruined his winter holiday and got himself banned from the United States forever after accidentally declaring himself a terrorist on an online visa form. John Stevenson and his wife, Marion, an elderly couple from Inverclyde, Scotland, were supposed to vacation in New York this month, but they ended up losing […]
Thieves Wanted – Shop Owner Wants to Pay Skilled Thieves $64 an Hour to Steal from Her Shop
The owner of a clothing store in the UK is taking an unconventional approach to preventing theft. The woman, who preferred to remain anonymous, wants to hire skilled thieves to come in and steal from her store and then tell her how they did it, so she can prevent it from happening again. The witty […]
Police Slammed for Spending Almost $600 on DNA Tests to Catch Thief of $2 Yogurt Bottle
Police in the Taiwanese city of Taipei were accused of wasting taxpayers’ money on solving stupid cases, after local media revealed that they recently conducted DNA tests worth hundreds of dollars to find out who drank a student’s $2 yogurt bottle. Sharing a fridge with roommates in college usually means accepting that, from time to […]
New Zealand Man Claims Speaking in an Irish Accent Cured His Lifelong Stutter
Nick Prosser, a 28-year-old man from Rotorua, in New Zealand, has been stuttering for as long as he can remember, but he recently discovered that speaking in an Irish accent makes his speech disorder disappear almost completely. The young New Zealander claims he discovered the simple cure to his stutter completely by accident, while trying different accents […]
Chinese Company Fines Employees for Not Walking Enough
A Chinese real-estate company has been accused of taking a wrong approach to encouraging its employees to exercise. Workers claim that they have been fined 0.01 yuan for every step they failed to take to meet their monthly target of 180,000 steps. Taking a set number of steps every day has become a big deal […]
Indian Woman Has Allegedly Spent Every Day of the Last 20 Years in a Lake Due to Strange Disease
A 65-year-old woman from a village in India’s West Bengal has allegedly spent every day for the past two decades submerged up to her neck in the waters of a nearby lake, due to an unknown disease. Before getting into this strange story, I have to disclose the fact that it is unverified. It went […]
Japanese Boy Breaks Internet with His Incredibly Feminine Looks
A 15-year-old Japanese boy has been getting a lot of attention in his country and in neighboring South Korea for his unusually feminine looks and voice. Idegami Baku’s meteoric rise to fame occurred late last month, when he became a finalist in Japan’s popular talent contest JUNON Super Boy. Organized by famous entertainment magazine JUNON, the […]
Australian Families Living a Nightmare as Thousands of Bats Drop Dead in Their Yards Due to Heatwave
Dozens of families in and around the city of Cairns, in Australia, have been forced to temporarily abandon their homes after flying foxes started dropping dead on their properties due to the unbearable heat. Cairns residents started reporting massive numbers of spectacled flying foxes dropping out of trees on Monday, when temperatures in Australia’s Queensland region […]
Explosive Baby Gender Reveal Stunt Sparked Massive Wildfire That Took 800 Firefighters a Week to Put Out
When US Border Patrol agent Dennis Dickey decided to reveal the gender of his soon-to-be-born baby to family and friends in an explosive fashion, he never imagined that his stunt would spark a 45,000 acre wildfire, but that’s exactly what it did. The 37-yer-old Border Patrol agent planned to fire a shotgun at a target […]
Irish Football Club Fakes Player’s Death to Get Game Called Off
An amateur football club in Ireland has recently come under fire for faking the death of one of its players in order to have a match postponed. Ballybrack FC was due to play Arklow Town in Ireland’s Leinster Senior League last Saturday, but the match was called off after Ballybrack representatives announced that one of the club’s […]
Exhausted Burglar Falls Asleep on the Job
Russian media recently reported the comical case of a burglar who last week broke into an office building in the city of Orenburg and then fell asleep in an office chair. The botched burglary took place on November 20th, when a 36-year-old man fraudulently entered a private office building on Sharlykskoye Road, in Orenburg, by […]
Chinese Scientist Claims to Have Created the World’s First Genetically Edited Babies
Chinese researcher He Jiankui recently shocked the entire world after revealing that he had altered the DNA of twin girl before birth, to make them immune to the HIV virus and AIDS. If his claims prove to be true, these twins would be the world’s first genetically-edited babies. Professor He revealed his controversial genetic editing […]
Dutch Church Has Been Holding Service Continuously for Over a Month to Protect Refugee Family From Getting Deported
Over the last month, hundreds of pastors from all over the Netherlands have taken turns holding non-stop service at a Protestant church in the Hague, where a family of Armenian refugees scheduled for deportation has taken shelter. Dutch law prevents police from entering places of worship during prayers, and religious leaders are determined to continue […]
Man Uses Fake Police Uniform and Gun to Pick Up Women, Gets Arrested by Real Police
A 21-year-old Indonesian man who used a custom-made fake police uniform and a realistic gun to pose as a police officer and get women to go out with him was recently arrested by real policemen. He still has a scheduled date, only this time it will be with a court judge. Ari Septian Pratama, a […]