HR Manager Defrauds Company Of $2.2 Million by Making Up Employees and Collecting Their Paychecks
The HR manager of a Shanghai technology company was imprisoned for defrauding his company of millions of dollars by “hiring” dozens of fake employees and collecting their salaries. The People’s Procuratorate of Minhang District, Shanghai recently released a “White Paper on the Prosecution of Duty-Related Crimes by Company and Enterprise Personnel in Minhang District” featuring […]
Brazilian Woman Poisons Co-Workers Drink After Arguing with Them Over Promotion
A textile worker in Brazil’s Goias state stands accused of poisoning a co-worker’s water bottle after quarreling with them over what the woman considered an unfair promotion. The incident occurred last month at a textile factory in Abadia de Goias, a town in the Goiânia Metropolitan Region. Police claim that the 38-year-old suspect was caught […]
Man Terrorizes Neighbors by Playing Loud Music and Dog Barking All Day Long
A Russian man has allegedly been trying to force his neighbors into selling their share of a communal apartment by playing the national anthem and other patriotic songs from early morning until late at night. Several tenants and apartment owners in an apartment building in Volgograd, Russia, have been complaining of insufferable loud music playing […]
Humanoid Robot Appears to Attack Crowd at Popular Chinese Festival
A video that has been doing the rounds on Chinese social media appears to show a humanoid robot malfunctioning and erratically “attacking” the crowd at a festival in Tianjin. The footage, shot during the Tianjin Winter Gala Festival on February 9th, shows one of several Unitree H1 humanoid robots seemingly attacking a spectator who had […]
Russian Soldier Allegedly Fights for a Week with Bullet Stuck in His Brain
Russian media outlets have been hailing a Russian soldier as a hero for allegedly continuing to fight in the Kursk region for a week after getting shot in the head. The unnamed man, reportedly a member of the 155th Marine Brigade of Russia’s Pacific Fleet, was fighting Ukrainian troops in Kursk when he got shot. […]
Unfixed Pothole on Cuban Street Turns into Urban Banana Plantation
What began as a broken water pipe in Havana’s El Cerro neighborhood is now a small banana plantation, after local authorities forgot to fix the pothole. Cuba’s infrastructure crisis is a well-known fact, with around 70% of the country’s roads deemed in “regular” or “poor” condition, but some streets are in such a bad state […]
Man Suffers Collapsed Lung After 20 Pushups and Skipping Rope
Doctors in Henan, China, were shocked by the case of a middle-aged man who suffered a pneumothorax after mild physical exercise – 20 pushups and a few minutes of skipping rope. The unnamed man told physicians that he had decided to get in shape as part of a New Year’s resolution, but things didn’t really […]
Doctor Loses 55 Pounds in 42 Days, Wins Bodybuilding Contest
A young Chinese doctor has gone viral for his rapid weight loss, shedding 25 kilograms (55 pounds) in just 42 days and then entering and winning a professional bodybuilding contest. At the end of 2024, Wu Tian Gen, a 31-year-old surgeon at Hubei’s Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, weighed 97.5 kg (215 lbs), the heaviest […]
32-Year-Old Man Marries Ex-Classmate’s 53-Year-Old Mother
Isamu Tomioka met his wife, Midori, when he was still in school. She was the mother of one of his classmates and 21 years his senior, but he didn’t let that stop him from marrying her. Isamu and Midori’s unusual love story went viral in Japan after the Shizuoka couple spoke about their relationship on […]
Man Suffers Intestine Necrosis After Fiancee Electrocutes His Belly for 3 Hours as Pre-Marital Pain Test
A Chinese woman subjected her fiancee to simulated childbirth pain for three hours as a sick pre-marriage test that caused the man to develop intestine necrosis and undergo emergency surgery. It’s not uncommon for people to test their partners in various ways to see if they are right for each other, but some people take […]
White Woman Sues IVF Clinic After Giving Birth to Other People’s Black Baby
A US woman is taking legal action against a fertility clinic after an error essentially made her an unwitting surrogate, carrying and eventually another couple’s baby, and having to give up custody. The day Krystena Murray learned that she was pregnant after undergoing IVF treatment at the Coastal Fertility clinic in May 2023 was one […]
Man Offers to Split $525,000 Jackpot with Thieves Who Stole His Credit Card to Buy Winning Ticket
A Frenchman appealed to the homeless thieves who stole his credit card to buy a jackpot-winning scratch lottery ticket, offering to split the €500,000 jackpot with them. They say every misfortune can be a blessing in disguise, and that certainly seems to hold true for a Toulouse man who had his credit card stolen earlier […]
High School Teacher Allegedly Identifies as Cat, Growls at Students
An Australian high school teacher has come under fire from concerned parents for allegedly identifying as cat and acting weird in front of students. Australian media have been reporting on the bizarre case of a teacher at Marsden State High School in Logan City, Queensland, who reportedly asked students to refer to her as “Ms. […]
Woman Loses Both Hands Trying to “Interract” with Shark on Caribbean Beach
A 55-year-old woman tragically had both her hands bitten off by a shark she was trying to photograph while on vacation in the Turks and Caicos islands. The Canadian woman was reportedly trying to photograph a 6-foot-long shark in the shallow waters at a beach in the Turks and Caicos Islands when the marine predator […]
Someone Keeps Leaving Plates of Peeled Bananas on a Street Corner, And Nobody Knows Why
For more than a year, at the start of every month, the people of Beeston, a town in the United Kingdom, have been finding a plate of peeled bananas in exactly the same place. Between the first and second day of each month, a plate stacked with 16 to 20 peeled bananas always shows up […]