The economy was tanking. Millions lost their jobs. Stocks were down. And since bankers seemed to be riding out the bad times better than anyone, the government appointed a commission to look into who was to blame for the...

Neatorama presents a guest post from actor, comedi...  ...records from the colony indicate that sex-related crimes were common transgressions. Fornication, which wa...  ...x outside of marriage, was a frequently committed crime , one that often resulted in a fine. Sometimes the...  ...a marriage.The only recorde...

Author Sam Harris writes about the possibility of...  ...ence and how one should respond to it. Real-world crime is different from what we are used to seeing on T...

It's time to unlock your body's full potential. 1. Friends in High Places In 2003, a 28-year-old Swedish man named Johan Adolfsson took a nine-hour flight from Thailand to Australia with eight extremely lethal snak...

A $44,500 ticket is pretty outrageous, but it's really bad when you consider that the citation claims the violation lasted for over 1,800 years. That's right, it claims the person parked in their spot over 1,650 years be...

Artist He Xiangyu created a life-sized sculpture of activist Ai Weiwei lying face down as though he were dead. While it's a great work of art with a powerful message, you can be certain that the police in Bad Ems, the Ge...

Sean Faulkner of Ross Township, Pennsylvania was arrested for a bizarre theft that "seemed like a good idea at the time." Faulkner was apparently tired of carrying a case of beer, so he took a forklift from a constructio...

You know there's a problem in your neighborhood when drug dealers are brazen enough to post signs saying "heroin for sale" -with an address! That's just what happened in north Portland, Oregon, last week. Portland police...

(YouTube link) The Lego version of CSI is a lot like the real thing, bad puns and all, but the gore is plastic. -via Laughing Squid...

Albino hummingbirds may be pretty rare, but for that matter, seeing someone walking around with shorts filled with hummingbirds isn't an every day sight either. It seems that releasing their birds from their bonds an...