There are bad parking lot exits, and there are bad parking lot exits. And then there's whatever the hell is going on in this video.

With the deadline to raise the debt ceiling just three days away and negotiations between members of Congress at a stalemate, international financial leaders at the World Bank and International Monetary Fund this weekend warned about the “massive disruption” a continued shutdown and debt default would have on the world economy.

"Yesterday I set up a stall in the park selling 100% authentic original signed Banksy canvases," the renowned "spray artist" himself writes in a blog post dated October 13th. "For $60 each."

Eugene Fama, Lars Peter Hansen, and Robert Shiller won the Nobel Prize for Economics on Monday morning. The three American professors – Fama and Hansen from the University of Chicago, and Shiller from Yale — developed new methods to study long-term trends in the stock market.

What was initially reported as a “dry ice bomb” Sunday night at Terminal 2 in LAX was an explosion of a plastic bottle filled with dry ice in an empty bathroom. While the terminal has since reopened, departing flights out of LAX are delayed and the FBI is investigating.

Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas and Mike Lee of Utah, along with never-gonna-be-Senator Sarah Palin, gathered on the National Mall on Sunday to remove barricades from the WWII Memorial and the Lincoln Memorial. And to, of course, angrily rant about President Barack Obama, democrats, and their “shutdown priorities.”

Oscar Hijuelos, Cuban-American novelist and the first Latino to win the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for his 1989 novel The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, died Saturday in Manhattan at the age of 62.

Warning: This post contains a video of a man being shot which some may find disturbing.

The Rev. James McGonegal of the St. Ignatius of Antioch Church on the west side of Cleveland had a not-so-good Friday. First he told an off-duty Cleveland Metroparks ranger that he was just out “cruising” in his Jeep. Then the priest offered the ranger $50 to get him off before he began to masturbate in the crowded parking lot. And finally, after he was arrested, McGonegal admitted he was HIV-positive. The whole incident is another crushing defeat for vows of celibacy.

Scientific inaccuracies didn’t stop Gravity from topping the box office for the second week in a row, raising its overall gross to $123.4 million. Captain Phillips, the Tom Hanks drama based on the hijacking of a cargo ship by Somali pirates, came in second with $26 million.

Ohio police responding to reports of a drunken driver who nearly swiped a pedestrian had to chase the man for a few minutes from a McDonalds drive through because he wanted to buy enough time to eat his Big Mac.

A horrifying story out of Missouri: A mother was run out of a small town after her daughter blacked out at a party filled with older high school athletes and was left, with clear marks of rape, on the front lawn of her home in freezing weather.

Mount Kisco ain't big enough for the two of them.

Sassy-television-detective-turned-action-hero Bruce Willis just hosted Saturday Night Live for the first time since 1989, with musical guest Katy Perry. One of the episode's highlights was this amusing digital short about the secret manly society of boy dance parties, a stress-relieving breakdown of herky-jerky man-cave moves that're "not homoerotic, just a call for brotherly unity." This is a rare instance where a twerking joke still really works.

The killer of a previously unidentified 4-year-old who was killed and then left in a cooler on the side of New York City's Henry Hudson Parkway in 1991 has most likely been found: Her cousin, Conrado Juarez, confessed to killing the young girl, with his sister aiding him in the act.

Robert Hunter recommended playing your hand, but one drunk man in Westchester took it a little too far on his drive home from the Grateful Dead lyricist's concert earlier this month.

Why don't the Democrats in Congress just force a vote on the spending bill already passed by the Senate? Because less than two hours before the government shutdown, House Republicans enacted a special rule that prevents anyone but the majority leader from introducing a bill to fund the government.

Bummer, ladies: New York Times media wunderkind/dating maverick Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) has officially popped the question to NY1 traffic anchor Jamie Shupak (@JamieShupak). Wish we were there! Don't worry though, they tweeted about it.

Two men were walking down a street in Northern Philadelphia when they made a very big mistake — according to two police officers who detained them, locked one man inside a squad car, and searched them, all while making racially derogatory comments.

Quentin Tarantino has weighed in on his top ten films of 2013, listing among his favorites Blue Jasmine, Gravity, and... The Lone Ranger?