A buddy of mine got his car stolen a few months ago. Over the weekend, the police called and said they found it and it was waiting for him. It hadn’t been wrecked, but it was out of gas and entirely filled with trash from the joyriders. We carefully cataloged all the trash as we […]
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Terrible Headline of the Day
Comes from Crooks & Liars: Florida Man Cites ‘Bush Doctrine’ After Pre-emptive Killing of Neighbors at Labor Day Cookout And yes, that is exactly what it sounds like: In their motion, Woodward’s attorneys claimed that the victims had called him names and threatened to “get him.” The motion referenced Enoch V. State, which suggests that […]
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Surprise!
Daily Mail: White people who kill black people in ‘Stand Your Ground’ states are 354 per cent more likely to be found justified in their killing than a white person who kills another white person, according to research. On Saturday George Zimmerman, 29, was acquitted of second-degree murder and manslaughter in the shooting death of […]
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NSFW (the W is for Wussies)
Tuesday’s at the Mercury SUUUUUUCK! I just type and click, type and click, type and click, fart on Erik the film editor’s mouse when he’s not looking, type and click, all day until the paper is sent to the printer and I finally get to go home and pet my kitty (knowhattamean?). Sometimes I just […]
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The Best (Miniature) Car Chase You’ll See All Day!
Check out this hilariously awesome car chase using Matchbox-sized cars—and three hip hoorays for whoever did the sound editing on this mini-cinematic masterpiece. via
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Forensic Expert in O.J. Simpson Case Calls Game of Thrones “Unrealistic”
Everybody’s talking about last night’s very bloody episode of Game of Thrones—particularly the last scene. (Check out our recap here.) HOWEVER! An expert witness in the O.J. Simpson trial, forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Baden, tells TMZ that it was a bunch of BAAAAA-LONEY! “Blood doesn’t come out like that.” “If cut deep enough, the right […]
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Supreme Court Says DNA Testing of Arrestees Is “Reasonable”
Steve wrote about this in Good Morning News, but this story deserves your attention, so I’m going to highlight it in its own post: A narrowly divided Supreme Court ruled Monday that police can collect DNA from people arrested but not yet convicted of serious crimes, a tool that more than half the states already […]
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Someone’s “Burning” Dislike for Fluoridation: Witness a Torched Lawn Sign
Craig Mosbaek went to bed Friday night assuming nothing was amiss outside his house near SE 30th and Division, hardly a hotbed of mayhem and trouble. He woke up the next morning to something a little startling and a lot annoying. His lawn sign endorsing Portland’s water fluoridation measure—Mosbaek is a public health consultant, former […]
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Placentas and Saliva: Monday in the Oregon Legislature
Just when you thought leaving it behind at the hospital was the only option for your afterbirth….. Pretty much everyone in the Oregon Legislature is all about HB2612—a bill that allows postpartum moms to take their placentas home with them. The thing is, some people have already been taking their disposable organs home, breaking the […]
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Finally, Life Is Imitating Action Movies
As a rule, the world is disappointing compared to what movies made me believe would exist. But reading the news the past couple week, I feel like people have been going out of their way to show me reality is at least as good as action films. Brussels Diamond Heist Masked gunman drive in through […]
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Justice is Served… Cold; Milk Jug Pranksters BUSTED!
Last month, Marjorie posted a video of pranksters pulling “the old slip ‘n’ smash” where kids would pretend to slip in grocery stores and smash plastic jugs of milk on the ground. According to the comments, YOU DID NOT APPRECIATE THIS BEHAVIOR. Well quit shaking your cane, Grandpa—because the cops have identified the kids criminals, […]
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Newsflash: Murderers Are Assholes
So said T.J. Lane, the 18-year-old convicted of killing three students at Ohio’s Chardon High School, to the families of his victims at his sentencing this week. From the Associated Press: T.J. Lane, 18, had pleaded guilty last month to shooting at students in February 2012 at Chardon High School, east of Cleveland. Investigators have […]