A Polish tourist looking for a discreet place to urinate wandered off the platform at Vauxhall Station and discovered the electrified rail. picked by pocksucket 17 hours ago

He refused to be evacuated for medical treatment, and an hour later shoots a Taliban insurgent. Will take time out from polishing huge brass balls to receive George Cross from the Queen. picked by tigertony 1 day ago

What's next, a bonus for pilots if they don't crash the plane? picked by tigertony 1 day ago

He used his credit card at a hotel and Amex told the authorities where a charge was made. He is now suing Amex, calling them spies. The perverted swine is also suing everyone else he can think of for violating his rights. picked by BernardBlack 1 day ago

Charles T. Payne was 20 years old when he helped liberate Ohrdruf, a subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp. He is the "Uncle Charlie" that Obama told a group of veterans about. The ones he mistakenly said Auschwitz. Here he talks about that moment in his life. picked by 2manyusernames 2 days ago

Awesome (repeat: awesome) Photography. picked by suckersklub 2 days ago

What a terribly sad beautiful story! picked by topofall 2 days ago

You'll see some mighty pretty scenery, but don't let it fool you. You're in enemy country. Be alert! picked by suckersklub 3 days ago

A US woman has been charged with the murder of a young mother whose baby boy was cut from her womb.

Pittsburgh woman Kia Johnson, 18, was bound and gagged and her near-full term baby cut from her stomach last week. Picture source. picked by AutumnLotus 3 days ago

For decades the Tao aborigines of Taiwan's Orchid Island have used colorful canoe-like boats to net flying fish in the warm waters of the Pacific. But now more and more Tao men are migrating to Taiwan's cities to look for work, leaving fewer to learn how to build the 23-foot boats. The tribe is also under siege from Taiwan's majority Chinese culture. picked by 2manyusernames 4 days ago

Psychiatrists discover new mental illness: patients who believe their lives are on TV. picked by deEPCHIll 4 days ago

The official inflation rate in Zimbabwe is running at 2,200,000%. In response to what this means to the prices of standard goods on shelves the Zimbabwean Treasury has announced they will be printing a one billion dollar bill.

This would probably buy two loaves of bread. picked by pocksucket 5 days ago

Children's Charity, NSPCC, says MyLOL.net, which is marketed for teenagers but has hundreds of adult profiles, should clean up its act or be shut down. picked by deEPCHIll 5 days ago

Have you ever thought about changing your name? Well, if you started hanging out with sign language users you will soon find they change it for you ...Like the old maxim about publicity, the only thing worse than having a bad sign name is having no sign name at all. That'd be like you don’t even exist. picked by Bornbad 5 days ago

1. Buy a house in East Orlando between Lee vista and Azalea Park 2. Watch the news to see if you live on top of a former military bombing range 3. Watch your home value plummet For more than a year this community has had to deal with undetonated WWII munitions buried under an elementary school and sprinkled throughout a neighborhood or two. Now they have to deal with mustard gas and "other d... read full post picked by badbud 6 days ago

Our local news has confirmed that police have located a shovel that the mom borrowed from a neighbor. Police dogs, after sniffing the shovel, led investigators to a spot in the grandparents backyard. They are continuing to dig.

Video update on the right side after the jump.

an upate to thispost from Rowan picked by badbud 6 days ago

Nelson Mandela turns 90 today.

Rebel, freedom fighter, prisoner, inspiration to many and much more.

Here is a timeline of his life so far. picked by pocksucket 6 days ago

Mom continually lies to police when questioned and shows no remorse that her daughter is missing.
FLORIDA! picked by Rowangrey 7 days ago

Despite our ever-increasing knowledge of the natural world, too many people still see it as just another means to make money. picked by deEPCHIll 1 week ago

Five years without fishing around Lundy Island off the coast of Devon have brought a significant revival in sea life, scientists report. picked by deEPCHIll 1 week ago

Lilian Ladele, the bigoted registrar won a lawsuit against Islington Council when they punished her for not performing her duties. She claimed that her strict religious beliefs superseded the will of the law and her employer. It has recently been discovered that she had a baby out of wedlock. I guess her strict religious beliefs only matter when it suits her. picked by 2manyusernames 1 week ago

When her beagle, Rocco, squeezed himself under the backyard gate and disappeared into the streets of Queens, 5-year-old Natalie Villacis refused to believe - as her parents reluctantly told her - that she would never see the puppy again.

That was in 2003.

Last weekend, Rocco came home - after being found in Georgia. picked by TraumaMamma 1 week ago

An archaeological team has discovered the site of the ancient hippodrome race course in Olympia in Greece, where the emperor Nero competed for Olympian laurels 1,600 years ago. picked by AutumnLotus 1 week ago

Irena Sendler, an amazing Roman Catholic woman who created a network of rescuers in Poland and smuggled about 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw ghetto in World War II. picked by jhordie 1 week ago

Mass extinction never sounded so awesome. picked by sofsr 2 weeks ago