A Nigerian policeman angry that his daughter had died in hospital took revenge by teargasing the very same hospital.
According to local reports, the unnamed officer was "furious at the death of his daughter" at a children's hospital ...
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True (and depressing) story: some little sod from Illinois has called 911 on his parents after they punished him by taking away his Xbox 360. Ugh.
The Chicago Tribune reports that the boy hung up before the emergency ...
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[UPDATE: Aaand suspicions about fakery are confirmed: Joystiq has exposed this as an amusing spot of viral marketing for EA's Dante's Inferno.]
Game developer Prayer Works Interactive just released a press release and debut trailer for Mass: We ...
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Chinese MMO King of the World has introduced a new Gender Identity System in a bid to stop male players playing as female characters, or vice versa. According to MMOsite, the game will use a webcam to ...
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On these pages alone, I've already written about some pretty weird Wii accessories. There was the horseback riding saddle patented by Nintendo, the Wiimote football shell, and the game that comes with its own exercise bike.
But this ...
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I caught this one earlier via those crazy folks at geekologie and like them I have watched this a few times because it is just plain cool. That said however be forewarned there is definitely one part ...
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Meet Pastor Vincent Xavier, who as well as being head of the New Wine Ministry is also claiming to have insider knowledge that Washington DC is going to be flattened by a nuclear bomb Sunday October 11.
Pastor ...
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Not wanting to be done by the United States who turned bar room brawls into a sport called mixed martial arts, the Japanese have upped the ante with the new sport of "neon light fighting."
As the name ...
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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 ...
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From today's WTF files comes a serious dose of looking for things that might not be there, or specifically in this case an alleged "Wizard of Oz Hanging."
The clip from the Disney classic allegedly shows (and we're ...
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French politicians are pushing a new law that will force publishers who use photoshopped pictures to print a disclosure that the pictures are photoshopped.
The new photoshopped disclosure law, which would apply to any "retouched photograph aimed at ...
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An English teacher at a New Hampshire High School is being watched like a hawk after assigning a rather interesting essay topic to her class of about 12 or 13 seniors.
The students un her class were ...
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A blogger reading about Chrome noticed a bit of AdSense fail, for Google's own product.
[Source: Intershame]
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Just how fast would you be willing to cough up your spare change when nude panhandlers run up to your car stopped at the lights?
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This picture is so wrong on so many levels, and yet I couldn't resist not running it.
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Because gaming nowadays is all about how many peripherals can be shoehorned onto any given console, Nintendo has patented a soft football controller for the Wii and its remote. Official: it is no longer acceptable to play ...
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Would you like you jeans to blink? Then have we got something special for you. Winkers Jeans, patent pending jeans that wink as you walk. Start with eyes, then progress on to the fascinating array of animals ...
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Here's a very strange photo of a guy at an ATM machine. WTF is he doing?
Photo via Clumsy Crooks.
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Remember how Activision recently announced plans to raise the price of Modern Warfare 2 in the UK? Well, it looks like Microsoft is following suit.
Retailers have confirmed to Eurogamer that the price of an Xbox 360 Arcade ...
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Congrats, Sony! You just became the new favorite for August's prestigious Dumbest Idea for Patent to Secure Hilariously Irrelevant Technology (or "DIPSHIT") award. Incidentally, you stole the lead from Nintendo's inflatable Horseback Riding Saddle, so well done!
So ...
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A 16 year old boy in the African country of Zambia has committed suicide after seeing his sister-in-law naked.
The demise of Fredrick Shinjoma started when (and we're not making this up) a chicken belonging to Shinjoma's brother ...
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No, it's not April 1st. Yeah, I sort of wish it was.
Not content with getting people to insert their fingers in things for fun, Nintendo has patented something called the Wii Horseback Riding Saddle. The what what ...
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