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Predictably, steerage-class carrier Spirit Airlines doesn't get a lot of great press. Details on the company's latest low come courtesy NBC News, which reports a recent flight was disrupted by passengers brawling over a blasting boombox. Since Spirit's core customers are people who don't fly, it's...

"Nazi" and "cocaine" aren't great PR buzzwords. That said, bad press is all relative. So, in comparison to the myriad horrific stories detailing the behavior of Catholic priests, a BBC News story about how Father Stephen Crossan was recorded snorting cocaine in a room full of Third Reich relics is...

If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Especially in Mother Russia. So when news broke that 16-year old gamer Ruslan Schedrin had won a month-long stay with adult film star Ekaterina Makarova, we were suspicious. Because even for a Russian online contest—already not the...

Essentially, the Jurassic Park films are extraordinary tales of piss-poor zoo keeping. But that's not to say dinosaurs don't occasionally escape their pens and wreak havoc. Because earlier this week, drivers on the United Kingdom's Isle of Wight found a road blocked by a stubborn triceratops...

One of fast food work's few positives is that on-shift alligator attacks are rare. But as Florida's Joshua James recently proved, occur they do. Because in an incident which James' mother calls a "stupid prank" and Florida authorities less charitably describe as "assault with a deadly weapon," the...

It takes a special celebrity to be most famous for simply not being dead. But that's the case for Abe Vigoda. Along with fantastic turns in the Godfather franchise, Vigoda was repeatedly referred to as deceased for over three decades, a fact which he and friend Conan O'Brien exploited expertly...

This week, world events have been, to put it mildly, universally terrible. So as opposed to highlighting a news story, we'll instead turn out attention to the surreal splendor of Dan Walsh's Garfield Minus Garfield, which excises the lasagna-loving feline from the comic's traditional three-panel...

Hot Pockets are best known for lava-like cores and gastric distress. But today, an Ohio man is crediting a craving for the punishing pastry with saving his life. Jason Bentley would have been killed when a business jet crashed into his apartment building, but his last-minute move to head out for...

Dating is tricky, and reading between the lines is a crucial skill. That said, you don't have to be a cryptographer to understand what an admirer means when they suggest you "Netflix and chill." And while the joke might have gotten a little tired, that didn't stop an intrepid graffiti artist from...

Nope, The Fab Four weren't the only band to release a Let it Be. In 1984, former janitor Paul Westerberg, along with brothers Bob and Tommy Stinson, made a perfect album so far past post-punk it still rings like a brand new bell. Their chaotic melodies might sound gritty, but they defined rock and...

More than anything, it sounds like a viral marketing campaign. But in observing a star roughly 1,400 light years from Earth over the last four years, scientists using the Kepler Space Telescope have found some anomalies they just can't explain. And that's resulted in researchers from institutions...

Overall, it was a pretty terrible pair of products to confuse. After Katherine Gaydos got something blown into her eye by a leaf blower, the man operating it attempted to help her by giving her a few drop of Visine. But instead of getting the red out, he actually delivered a few drops of super...

No, you're not imagining it. People are actually getting dumber. New proof comes via the United Kingdom's Independent, which revealed authorities in locales as far-flung as Houston, Texas and southern England's hamlet of Kingston had to remind citizens that while it's inconvenient for many, their...

The deal is about what we'd expect from a guy named Rooster. It's hardly as bad as Decca Records snubbing the Beatles, Seattle's last Superbowl play, or VW's diesel deception, but Rooster McConaughey's decision to name his son Miller Lyte for a year's supply of beer wasn't the best move. The...

Talia Lavin used her moment in the spotlight beautifully. While she stood no chance at winning on Jeopardy!, during the game's Final Jeopardy round—where the answers are written as opposed to verbal—she answered "What is the love ballad of Turd Ferguson?" Her inspired reference to...

When the news broke six years ago, it felt like the music died. Panasonic had done the unthinkable. Citing waning demand, the company stopped production of the iconic Technics 1200 turntable, the legendary deck which is as much a part of hip hop culture as beats and rhymes. But this week brought...

Sometimes, the news is simply too bleak to reflect upon. So we'll turn these usually topical lines toward Wikipedia's entry for Action Park, a New Jersey attraction which promised excitement, but disproportionately delivered injury. Don't miss the description of the "notoriously difficult to...

Many made the trek, only to find their childhood dream home draped with a tarp. We're talking, of course, about the residence at 368 38th Street, in Astoria, Oregon, the iconic house from 1985 classic the Goonies. In the wake of the film's 30th anniversary, its sleepy little street has been...

"Sometimes bad things happen to good robots." That was the somber response of the HitchBOT team after learning its friendly hitchhiking robot—which had traversed Canada and Europe without incident—had been decapitated and destroyed in Philadelphia. After crossing into the United States...

The Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance is nearly upon us. The legendary event is the sophisticated pinnacle of the year's automotive calendar, and while luminaries from around the globe will descend to the California coast to bid on priceless examples of automotive art, it's fair to say the vast...