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A lot of people were saddened by this video of a 65-year-old robber repeatedly apologizing to the convenience store clerk he was robbing. The "Polite Robber" spoke in a soft voice, used the word “sir” and remorsefully told the clerk that he needed money to pay rent and feed his kids. However, it seems they needn't have felt bad for the the thief, who was arrested after a tipster recogniz

Belgian runner Stefaan Engeles has just completed a marathon for every day of the past year. Saturday was the 49-year-old’s 365th consecutive 26.2 mile race, shattering the record of 52 consecutive marathons set by a Japanese man last year. Engeles attributed his ability to run for so long to the fact that he doesn’t run very fast. However, his average of about four hours per marathon is still 3

In snowy Chicago, David Wells had his snow shovel stolen from the front of his house. The thief was a woman who used the shovel to clear a space for her car, and then didn’t return it. So, to get revenge, Wells used a gas-powered snow blower to bury the woman’s car in snow. Ultimately, it took her four hours to dig her car out of this man-made blizzard. How do we know this happened? Well, it w

Robert J. Michelson wanted to know how much trouble he could get in for growing one marijuana plant. So he called 911 and asked. The dispatcher tried to dissuade him for using the emergency service for a non-emergency, but he persisted, and admitted he was growing marijuana before asking her what the legal ramifications of doing that would be. Not long after his misguided call, the cops traced hi

Security at London’s Gatwick airport have deemed the three-inch rifle that came with a toy solider a “firearm” that is too dangerous to take on a flight. Ken Lloyd, a Canadian, was flying home with a military figurine he had bought from a museum gift shop in his carry-on bag.

Infrared surveillance cameras at the Arizona/Mexico border have captured images of Mexican drug smugglers using a nine-foot-tall catapult to hurl 45-pound bags of marijuana over a border wall and into the U.S.

The new trend in Japan is LED teeth -- a mouth-guard like insert that lights up when the user smiles. Especially popular among Japanese schoolgirls, some  also purchase a wireless hand-held computer which allows them to switch up the colors of their LED teeth on the fly. Anyone who has seen a hip-hop video knows Americans aren’t opposed to sticking shiny things in their mouth, so maybe the tren

It's hard to imagine a worse way to wake up than with a rat perched on your face. But that's exactly what happened to this man, who was sleeping on a New York City subway car when a rat scurried up his pants leg and onto his face. Now, NYC doesn't exactly have a reputation for being the cleanest city in the U.S. But rats crawling on people's faces? It's enough to make you swear off mass transit al

It started a few months ago in Seattle, when would-be masked crusaders came out of the woodwork, taking on crime in the city (and in one instance bravely stopping a man who was exposing himself on a city bus). So how are the heroEs doing now? To put it bluntly: not so super. Just ask "Phoenix Jones, the Guardian of Seattle," who got clocked in the face and threatened with a gun over the

The hysteria surrounding the engagement of Prince William and Kate Middleton has a lot of Brits rolling their eyes. London gallery KK Outlet is responding to the madness with a send-up of the ultimate collectible: the commemorative plate. A current exhibition features china plates that thank the couple for a day off (which will be a national holiday in the UK), among other snarky messages... Read