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A hitchhiking robot that had won the hearts of people all over the world came to a grizzly demise on the streets of the United States on August 1. Hitchbot was created by Canadian researchers as a social experiment to test the kindness of strangers. The child-sized robot was immobile on its own. Its creators would drop it off on one end of a nation, with his thumb pointing upward and a sign around its neck indicating where it wanted to go. From there it was up to anyone who found it to help Hitchbot along. A gps inside the...

Obama Hater Stole Vibrator From Orland Lover's Lane: Cops The Harvey man shoved the vibrator down his pants and left the store, police said. By Joseph Hosey (Patch Staff) August 6, 2015 An Obama-hating Harvey man shoved a vibrator down his pants and slipped outside the Orland Park Lover’s Lane, but didn’t get far before he was caught by the cops, police said. An employee of the 159th Street sex shop reportedly tipped the law to a man walking around the store with a vibrator stuffed down his pants. The cops arrived just in time to find 44-year-old Christopher Hucko...

You're going to insist it's fake, because that's what you do, but watch. I’m guessing about half of you are firing up your keyboards and getting ready to type replies that consist solely of “FAKE!!!!!!” because that’s the instinctive reaction whenever a video comes out purporting to show something like this. But remember: This isn’t some fly-by-night outfit claiming to have done the impossible in its garage. This is Lexus, which already has a pretty nice reputation and doesn’t need to beg for attention via fantastical claims it can’t back up. And if you’re going to claim a video’s been...

The idea of a "nuclear family"—white picket fence, a kid or two, friendly golden retriever—has been under siege for a while now. No longer do stories of step-parents or half-siblings shock us, and children being raised by parents of the same gender (so-called "pink families") are becoming increasingly common. Another new, lesser known family structure that has emerged is that of multi-parenting—or raising a child with more than two legal parents. For instance, a lesbian couple and a gay couple bringing up a child together as a single family, but in separate households. That's more or less the family unit...

The Mormon church’s push toward transparency about its roots and beliefs took another step forward Tuesday with the first published pictures of a small sacred stone it believes founder Joseph Smith used to help translate a story that became the basis of the religion. The pictures of the smooth, brown, egg-sized rock are part of a new book that also contains photos of the first printer’s manuscript of the Book of Mormon. Officials with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints unveiled the photos at a news conference in Salt Lake City.

Melody, a 5-year-old Newscaster and political pundit, ‘interviews’ Donald Trump about his Political Opponents on her Internet talk show, “A Moment with Melody.” ANNOUNCER: Welcome to today’s edition of A Moment with Melody with your host… MELODY: Melody! …Today I’m going to ask Donald Trump a question: What he thinks of his political opponents. And at the end of the program, I’m going to see if he will give me a helicopter ride… Welcome to my show, Mr. Trump. I’d like to ask you a question. What’s wrong with the other candidates? And a follow up question: Why you would...

Yahoo Travel reported on Wednesday that three women in Chechnya took ISIS for $3,300 before getting caught. They are now under investigation for Internet fraud, which seems to be illegal even when committed against the most fearsome terrorist army in modern times. The scam seems to be a combination of the Nigerian Prince con, in which a mark is fooled into giving the con artist large sums of money and catfishing, in which the mark strikes up an online romance with someone he thinks is an attractive woman (or man depending on the gender and preference of the mark.)

According to 'The New York Post', the Brazilian supermodel wore the burqa as a way to conceal the fact that she was having work done on her figure. Muslims, French furious after Gisele Bundchen spotted wearing burqa during Ramadan According to 'The New York Post', the Brazilian supermodel wore the burqa as a way to conceal the fact that she was having work done on her figure. Parisians and Muslims are up in arms over a report in the French tabloids which claims that Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen donned the traditional Muslim burqa in order to avoid being spotted walking...

RIKERS ISLAND — The head of the Harlem Historical Society wants Rikers Island renamed based on the namesake family's connection to slavery. The embattled jail complex, which has been beset with scandal over poor treatment of inmates and calls to shut it down, gets its name from the family of Abraham Rycken, a Dutch immigrant who settled in New York in the 1600s, according to the New York Historical Society. Jacob Morris, director of the Harlem Historical Society, recently started a petition to rename the embattled jail complex due to family member Richard Riker's history of helping send blacks into...

Feminist writers across the Internet have unearthed the latest conspiracy against women: office air conditioning. The Washington Post published an “investigation” of the “sexism” of air conditioning. The author, Petula Dvorak, spoke to an array of women who felt as if their offices were too cold; meanwhile, the men did not feel uncomfortable. Therefore, Dvorak concluded, “That’s right, my friends. Air conditioning is another big, sexist plot.” …

(VIDEO-AT-LINK)A US property tycoon has proposed what he calls a "radical solution" to the world's crisis of refugees who have nowhere to call home: simply create a new country for them to live in. Jason Buzi, a millionaire Israeli businessman living in San Francisco, believes that a new island could be created to house all of the world's millions of refugees. His 'Refugee Nation' project suggests creating a brand new country "which any refugee, from anywhere in the world, can call home" - perhaps by taking over an existing country without many people or building a new island in the...

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My tenants, who live out back of my house just came running up and told me there is a serial killer on the loose in our neighborhood. He just torched a car not 500 yards from my home. My tenants are loading their weapons, they say that several local hunters are out looking for this guy. We are also prepared. Weapons at the ready, all external lights on and our GSD is out patrolling the property. Maybe a practice run for what is coming. I'll update on this thread if anything happens.

On June 23, 2014 35 members of Congress sent a letter to DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson, urging him to release lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) illegals. Due to significantly higher sexual assault rates among this population in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody, ICE established a working group to develop recommendations to address this very real and serious issue. However, Congress is pressuring DHS to release these individuals before the working group’s recommendations have been reviewed. The members stated in their letter that, “…detention should almost never be used for vulnerable groups such as LGBT immigrants.” It is unclear...

Much of the media was recently unhealthily consumed by the unveiling of “Caitlin” Jenner. They praised her/him for how brave he/she supposedly is and people have raised him/her up to hero status. While I respect the man’s right to do what he wants with his body, I do not think he/she should be held in such high, hero-like regard. I was quite pleased to see that other women are also speaking out about what it really means to be a courageous female. Check out one of the best letters to “Caitlin” Jenner I’ve found to date: Being courageous and being...

Behind what appears to be a beaded net stained the color of Skittles stands a hollow figure, made distinct by the hint of a sneaker sticking out from under the obscurity. Pan up from the shoe and there's a glimpse of a hooded sweatshirt topping off the towering statue, an unmistakeable bit of clothing loaded with meaning. Titled "TM 13," the work -- shown above -- memorializes the death of Trayvon Martin, the unarmed Florida teenager who was fatally shot by former neighborhood watch leader George Zimmerman three years ago. Created by Missouri-born artist Nick Cave, the piece is currently...

A teenager has survived after falling 100ft off a cliff then being bitten by a venomous snake at the bottom. Brock Leach, 14, tumbled over a cliff edge and bounced off outcroppings and rocks during his descent - before landing on a ledge. But as he tried to clamber to safety before the tide came in Brock suddenly felt a sharp pain in the hand he'd been using to help pull himself along. He was horrified to discover he had been bitten by an adder - the only native venomous snake in the UK. The fall was witnessed by his...

Target is now under fire after selling a shirt in the women’s section of the store with the word “TROPHY” printed across it. Some have called the shirt sexist and suggested that it objectifies women. Since the shirt has premiered in stores and online, many outraged customers have taken to social media, Fox 2 News reported. “Hey Target, I’m in the men’s section and don’t see a Trophy shirt here,” one Twitter user wrote. “Why is that?” Another Twitter user complained about the variety of titles offered on graphic t-shirts in Target stores. “Who’s gonna [sic] sell me a shirt...

n one of the most ridiculous photo-ops of his career Obama visited a federal prison on Thursday. This is part of his legacy push to release as many scumbags back on to the streets as possible, or as he calls it “justice reform.” During an otherwise uneventful waste of time and money a funny thing happened: the President of the United States admitted that he used to be a drug dealer or possibly drug trafficker. It’s hard not to feel the patriotic pride. Obama’s visit to the El Reno minimum-security prison in Oklahoma was as bullsh*t as it gets. ABC...

[snip]Then, "[a]fter Plaintiff's complaints about the excessive exposure to the coal dust, Defendant Adam Whitt sprayed Plaintiff's testicles with spray paint on two separate occasions," the complaint says.