A screenshot has sold on eBay for $90,900 proving that it’s not what you’re selling it’s how you’re selling it. OR that people can’t be trusted with their own money because they’ll buy just about anything. Rivaling jars of air and the ‘souls’ of celebrities this latest purchase has, at the very least, a modicum of meaning attached as the …
How Did Four Elephants End Up Getting Addicted To Heroin?
Four elephants who were addicted to HEROIN are now “clean” thanks to a drug-treatment programme, conservationists say. The group have had to go cold turkey at an elephant breeding centre in south west China but are now ready to rejoin elephant society. Campaigners say cruel drug dealers use turned the elephants into junkies by feeding them bananas laced with heroin. …
Police Believe Champion Powerboat Racer Faked His Death
The official story goes like this: Last month, a pontoon boat carrying two men crashed off of Longport, N.J. One swam to shore safely; the other, 44-year-Andrew Biddle, has not been found and was reported missing. But local police now believe that Biddle faked the accident in an attempt to escape prosecution on a series of complaints that he scammed …
Church Presses Charges Against Homeless Man For Stealing Cookies
A church in Los Angeles has pressed charges against a homeless man who was caught stealing around $2.25 worth of cookies from the First Baptist Church of Royal Palm Beach. According to a report in the Palm Beach Post, the homeless man had been looking for assistance from the church when he entered the building and found the unguarded cookie …
Former Prison May Be Converted Into A Marijuana Shop
In a fitting encapsulation of how the tables have turned on U.S. marijuana policy, a former correctional facility in rural Colorado may one day be the site of a marijuana dispensary. Earlier this year, Nicholas Erker, an agricultural businessman from the region, purchased the High Plains Correctional Facility in Brush, Colorado, on the rural plains about 100 miles northeast of …
Map Shows Where Cats Are More Popular Than Dogs Around World
We all know there are only two types of people in the world: cat people and dog people. But data from market research firm Euromonitor suggest that these differences extend beyond individual preferences and to the realm of geopolitics: it turns out there are cat countries and dog countries, too. Here in the U.S., slightly more households own dogs than …
The Newest Human Ken Doll Spent $50,000 To Be A ‘Human Puppet’
There’s a new Ken in town. Brazilian model Celso Santebanes, 20, can now compete with the likes of “Human Ken Doll” Justin Jedlica over who pulls off the creepiest, most plastic-looking version of a real-life Ken doll. Santebanes told The Mirror that he has spent more than $50,000 to perfect his look, undergoing four surgeries on his nose, chest, chin, …