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Zachary Christie: 6 years old and facing reform school for taking cub scout utensil to school

Zachary Christie: 6 years old and facing reform school for taking cub scout utensil to school

The insanity of the nanny state has reached a new low with news out of New York that Zachary Christie, a 6 year old student is facing reform school after taking a cub scout utensil to school. Zachary ... continue
Fake McDonalds Australia memo discussing fraud sucks in Consumerist, others

Fake McDonalds Australia memo discussing fraud sucks in Consumerist, others

American blogs, including leading consumer blog The Consumerist have published a memo (above) that allegedly shows that McDonalds Australia has a policy of short changing customers at drive thru's, or what the Consumerist calls "New Profit Center ... continue
Video shows Texas police tasering student pinned to the ground and not resisting arrest

Video shows Texas police tasering student pinned to the ground and not resisting arrest

Police in Lubbock, Texas are under fire after a video published to the web showed them tasering a student they had pinned to the ground who was not resisting arrest. The video, taken during a charity cycling event ... continue
Yahoo’s new ad is like doing Vegas on LSD

Yahoo’s new ad is like doing Vegas on LSD

Yahoo's new ad campaign is out and they've gone with some song and dance in an experience which is something like doing Vegas on LSD. Actually the introduction is probably a little unfair, because it's actually far worse ... continue
Nintendo threatens websites that wrote about College Humor’s Mario and Princess sex tape spoof

Nintendo threatens websites that wrote about College Humor’s Mario and Princess sex tape spoof

Nintendo of America is threatening sites that wrote about College Humor's Mario and Princess sex tape spoof on the grounds of trademark infringement. In a letter sent to The Inquisitr from Nintendo representatives Cyveillance, the firm states that ... continue
How News Corp slandered this site

How News Corp slandered this site

There's nothing funny about being defamed and accused of undertaking illegal activities, and that's precisely what Australia's biggest newspaper group is currently doing to The Inquisitr, and by extension myself today. Over two posts Wednesday evening (Australian Eastern) ... continue
Way to holiness fail

Way to holiness fail

Did someone give Ted Haggard a new church? [Epicfail] continue
Buhahahaha: Cuil adds realtime search

Buhahahaha: Cuil adds realtime search

Self proclaimed Google killer Cuil has introduced real time search as part of a range of changes the company hopes might bring customers back. The new feature offers a "real time" popup box that promises to show real ... continue
10 year old girl fined $50 for operating a lemonade stand without a license

10 year old girl fined $50 for operating a lemonade stand without a license

Life imitates the Simpsons: a 10 year old New York girl has been fined $50 for operating a lemonade stand without a license. Clementine Lee set up a lemonade stand in Riverside Park, New York Saturday as a ... continue
Officer who killed 10 year old boy given one day suspension

Officer who killed 10 year old boy given one day suspension

A Dallas police officer who hit a 10 year old boy on a bike while speeding to a call out without his siren or lights on has received a one day suspension. Sr. Cpl. Michael Vaughn hit Cole ... continue
Bush told French President Iraq was a quest foretold in the Bible

Bush told French President Iraq was a quest foretold in the Bible

If you thought that the WMD story behind the invasion of Iraq was bad, wait until you hear what former US President George W Bush told then French President Jacques Chirac: the invasion of Iraq what a ... continue
Remember the America’s Cup? well they’re still in court

Remember the America’s Cup? well they’re still in court

What was until the late 80's the best yacht racing competition in the world (one that many outside the yachting world paid attention to) has continued its form by descending yet again into a court room argument. America's ... continue
J.K. Rowling a Potential Pedophile? UK Laws strike again

J.K. Rowling a Potential Pedophile? UK Laws strike again

The British Government has introduced a law that forces all children's book authors who visit schools to register in a national database intended to protect children from pedophiles. The Vetting and Barring Scheme begins October 12, 2009 and ... continue
Make it stop: movie to be made based on the View-Master

Make it stop: movie to be made based on the View-Master

Today's I can't believe they're turning that into a movie story comes to us from a View-Master...you know, those binocular like things you insert pictures in to view. Fringe co-producer/writer Brad Caleb Kane will be writing the movie ... continue
Cleavagefield: possibly the worst porn pisstake ever made

Cleavagefield: possibly the worst porn pisstake ever made

Cleavagefield as the name suggests is a porn pisstake on the movie Cloverfield, and it's possibly the worst pisstake ever made. According to the synopsis, “A bunch of hot chicks are having a slumber party for their friend ... continue
Australian News Corp chief attacks Google, bloggers

Australian News Corp chief attacks Google, bloggers

John Hartigan, the Chief Executive of News Ltd, the Australian arm of News Corp has joined in with his colleagues in the United States today in bashing Google and bloggers. In a wide ranging lecture about how News ... continue
Fail: Ambulance crashes on way to Ambulance crash

Fail: Ambulance crashes on way to Ambulance crash

In a seriously bad dose of karma, a Minneapolis ambulance rushing to the scene of an ambulance crash has crashed. The first ambulance crash involved a taxi that didn't get out of the way at 3:15am Saturday morning. ... continue
Confirmed: Second Life, online adult games to be banned outright in Australia

Confirmed: Second Life, online adult games to be banned outright in Australia

The Australian Minister for Censorship has today confirmed what I've been reporting for nearly two years: online adult games including Second Life will be banned in Australia. A spokesman for Censorship Minister Stephen "Goebbels" Conroy confirmed to Fairfax ... continue
If you’re selling pot, best not to advertise the fact on Craigslist

If you’re selling pot, best not to advertise the fact on Craigslist

A Massachusetts man has been arrested for selling marijuana after he advertised his services on Craigslist. The ad Christopher Gray posted was headlined "420 help is here" and said "Give me a ring if you need some help." ... continue
In Russia, talent show contestants shoot each other with arrows

In Russia, talent show contestants shoot each other with arrows

The popularity of the show Britain's Got Talent has spawned a range of licensed local versions and knock offs, and Russia is no different. Like its western counterparts, Russia's Got Talent involves a large variety of contestants trying ... continue
Police shoot dead a chihuahua, but only after tasing it first

Police shoot dead a chihuahua, but only after tasing it first

Police in Blue Ash, Ohio have shot dead a Chihuahua cross dog, but only after first tasing it. 5 year old Jack was the pet of the Bullock family, who bought the dog several years ago for their ... continue
Classified Information Fail: US Gov’t posts list of nuclear sites online

Classified Information Fail: US Gov’t posts list of nuclear sites online

Although the information was apparently available elsewhere, the US Government is still kind of embarassed by the accidental leak, which was marked "highly confidential safeguards sensitive." The 266-page document- intended for international nuclear inspectors- contained locations, maps and other ... continue