Hey, if I ever come to you and I’m all, “I’m thinking of going to Turkey to be on a reality show,” you can punch me. Ok, well don’t literally punch me – just remind me of this story. Nine women were rescued from the villa in Riva, a summer resort on the outskirts of Istanbul, Turkey on Monday after the military police raided the place. According to a spokesman, the women had been held captive there for around two months. Details... 

mo⋅ron – noun – a person who is notably stupid or lacking in good judgment. From one of my local news stations, Fox40: Dine, dash, smash: Women reportedly try to skip out on bill at IHOP, plow into restaurant DETROIT (AP) — Four women trying to skip out on their bill at an International House of Pancakes ended up plowing into the Detroit restaurant as they sped away. No one was injured in the accident Tuesday morning. Restaurant... 

We all know the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears – little girl breaks into home, eats bear food, goes through bear belongings, falls asleep in bear beds. But what happened to her once she was chased away and grew into an adult? Perhaps it goes a little something like this: Police in Casper, Wyoming arrested a 28-year-old woman last Saturday after responding to a call from her hotel room, and found the woman to be in possession of... 

Remember last November when a Florida teen committed suicide in front of a live web audience? Well here’s a similar story, but with a very different ending. It was profiled on my local news last night: ROSEVILLE – Dispatcher Kurt Anderson has asked how he could help, for the past 18 years. Last week, the call for help came all the way from a lady in Merced, who was in a chat room and learned that a girl from Roseville was attempting... 

Whaaa??? An infant boy married his neighbor’s dog in front of about 150 tribes people in an effort to prevent the child from being killed by wild animals. Yes, that’s what I said. The ritual was performed in hamlet in the state of Orissa’s Jajpur district after the boy, who isn’t even 2-years-old yet, grew a tooth on his upper gum. The Munda tribe, of which the boy is a member, sees the early growth of the tooth as a bad omen and... 

U.S. heiress, socialite, and philanthropist Martha “Sunny” von Bulow has died at the age of 76 after spending 28 years in a coma. The only person who knew for sure how Sunny von Bulow entered the coma, was Sunny von Bulow. It’s widely believed, however, that Sunny’s second husband Claus von Bulow was the culprit. The one thing that everyone agrees upon is that Sunny von Bulow slipped into a permanent vegetative state on December... 

How can something that’s been around and used for over 2,000 years still be illegal?? From FOXNews.com: An ancient Caucasian people, probably the Indo-European-speaking Yuezhi whose fair-haired mummies keep turning up in Xinjiang province, seem to have buried one of their shamans with a whopping 789 grams of high-potency pot 2,700 years ago. That’s about 28 ounces of killer green bud, worth perhaps $8,000 at today’s street... 

There are museums with weird stuff, and then there are museums of weird stuff. The folks over at Mental Floss have a great list of “12 Oddly Specific Museums Preserving Our History” (here). Here are a few weirder of the weird museums: National Museum of Funeral History It’s pretty hard to argue with the motto “Any Day Above Ground is a Good One.” So goes the backhanded optimism of the National Museum of Funeral History, a Houston... 

How about a little white trash for your Sunday afternoon? DELTONA, Fla. (AP) — An angry Deltona father whacked his teenage daughter’s boyfriend with a metal pipe after finding the boy naked in his daughter’s room. Authorities say the father, 45, didn’t even know his daughter had a boyfriend or that the youngster had been sneaking into the home for more than a year. When he heard noises coming from his daughter’s... 

Which is worse…. A man being awarded a wimpy $4,100 in damages stemming from a botched brain surgery…Man loses top of his head in brain operation? OR A judge suing a mom and pop dry cleaners for $54 million because they lost his pants…DC judge loses $54 mln lawsuit over trousersDC judge loses $54 mln lawsuit over trousers…and then taking his loss to the appeals court…Judge presses $54 mln suit over pants? Hmmmm………….a... 

For shame! For shame! So not cool man. There are unspoken rules at things like this. And you go stepping over the line! For shame! That’s what I would have said to Paul Addis, the 35 year old (mellow harsher) from San Francisco, if I were there when he set the man of Burning Man on fire four days too early. Many festival-goers who were awake watching Tuesday’s lunar eclipse said they saw a man deliberately ignite the figure at... 

So thinks true-crime writer Arthur Jay Harris anyway… The abduction and murder of 6 ½-year-old Adam Walsh, who disappeared in 1981 from a Florida mall, is one of the most famous missing children cases in America. It was a crime that outraged a nation and propelled Adam’s father, John Walsh, to devote his life to fighting crime on the television program “America’s Most Wanted.” John Walsh remains convinced the... 

If you tried complaining about your sore feet to this woman, she’d probably tell you that you have no idea what having sore feet really means. And you thought your shoes were uncomfortable… The practice of foot binding may have started during the Song Dynasty (960–1279). According to legend, women’s feet were bound in this way in order to impress the emperor. By the 12th century, the practice had become widespread among the... 

I’m a virgin, are you? A Burning Man virgin, I mean. Because lord knows, I’m no virgin… Eight days in Black Rock City – a temporary city in Black Rock Desert of Nevada, 90 miles north-northeast of Reno – culminating in the burning of the Man on Labor Day weekend. My boyfriend has been, but I have not. From what I hear, it’s pretty darn crazy. We’ve been trying to go for years, but just haven’t been able to get our... 

I had a totally weird dream last night… It was a few years into the future, but I’m not sure how many. Britney Spears made her comeback and was actually successful at it. Her hair was shoulder length and a natural brown color. She was in shape, but not too skinny. Here’s the crazy part… While not in the public eye, Britney Spears had taken singing lessons, unbeknownst to pretty much everyone. And they were very helpful,... 

My goodness it’s been a crazy week for me. As I mentioned on Tuesday, the water heater at my office blew up. The blast was so strong, a part of the water heater flew through a wall. Now the office is being ripped up, from the carpeting to the baseboards, and beyond. Quite a mess, I must say. While the repairs are being done, we’re hunkering down at our other office. A MUCH smaller office, where we have to share desks and there... 

Ever have one of those days when the universe throws you a curve ball and you’re not quite sure how to handle it? Today is one of those days. It started off okay – I woke early and straightened my hair (something I haven’t done in a while), took a nice shower, and put on a brand new outfit. I left my house at the normal time and had an average drive to work. And that’s pretty much where the humdrum ends. I arrived at the office... 

Okay, so this story doesn’t quite fall into the crazy animal story category. It’s more of an endearing tale of two birds in love — two gay flamingos in Slimbridge, England, to be exact. After six years as a couple, the duo has been given the opportunity to be parents to an abandoned baby flamingo. Fernando and Carlos have wanted a baby for so long; they’ve even tried chasing fellow flamingos at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust... 

Ok, so I seriously don’t know what’s going on anymore. Is it just me, or are farm animals getting freaky? I found it amusing in the beginning, but now it’s just weirding me out. First there was the calf born with two faces, who sadly died. Then there was the baby chick with four legs. Now there is a cow with six legs, and another one with two noses. Don’t believe me? Picture proof… But the craziness doesn’t... 

I believe that if you can’t laugh at yourself, you can’t laugh at anything. Fortunately I find myself laughing at me often. Last night was no exception. Imagine if you will, a subdivision in the middle of basically nothing, where all the houses look the same. There is no on street parking, but one particular BMW with a custom plate doesn’t seem to know this rule. If you were to look at this place from above, it would look like a target,...