On Wednesday night, Danzig headlined the Cuban Club in Ybor City, Florida. During the opening of doom-rock ballad "Blood and Tears," the eponymous gloom-metal god noticed someone in the audience recording the performance and demanded, "Somebody punch that fucking asshole right there."

After Air Canada lost her dog, one Ohio woman reached out to a news station in Sacramento to share her story.

When a big drug trafficking operation is brought down in the real world, its participants usually go to ground and lie low for a while. But the aftermath of last Tuesday's bust of the on online drug market Silk Road, has witnessed a remarkable amount of public chatter from sellers and buyers.

The two-year-old son of Minnesota Vikings running back and NFL MVP Adrian Peterson died on Friday afternoon, following an apparent beating from his mother's boyfriend.

A newly married man picked the worst possible time to forget his blushing bride at a filthy gas station in the middle of highway: On the way back from their honeymoon.

Last month, Gawker’s Rich Juzwiak received an email from the PR Team at “New York’s first and most terrifying haunted house, NIGHTMARE” inviting him and a guest free passes to “encounter various psychopaths […] who are neither glorified or romanticized – but rather presented for what they are...scary as hell!” at a seasonal attraction located a convenient yet ominous 13-minute stroll from Gawker HQ. On Thursday night, Juzwiak and Caity Weaver made the 13-minute journey to the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural and Educational Center, ready to experience a night of culture and education…AND TERROR. It was time for “NIGHTMARE: KILLERS2.”

Authorities in Texas have launched an investigation into the origin of a brand new super-potent form of meth found in the hands of local middle schoolers.

Nerd Broville, a mesh-shorted seaside town with Call of Duty casinos and a high-speed party monorail, has a new Mayor. His name is Christian Reed, he's a member of MIT's Phi Beta Epsilon fraternity, and he has solved a problem that's plagued nerd bros for eons: the sticky balls (heh) and constant spillage (heh heh) that come along with those long, arduous nights of Olympic beer-pong feats.

For the second time in less than a week, a senior commander of the U.S. nuclear forces has been fired.

"Zen!" shouts the forest. "Zen!" screams the tree. "Zen!" yells the leaf. But the stupid aphid on the leaf can only reply, "Huh?" This is why koans were invented. Do you understand?

A bunch of truckers, led by a woman who thinks Osama bin Laden and President Obama are the same person, were going to show up in Washington D.C. and "arrest" lawmakers today. It... didn't go as planned.

The New York Times is shining (a lot of) light on New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s involvement in the handling several dozen indictments—all of which were later mysteriously dismissed by the state’s attorney general Paula Dow—against Deborah Trout, the former Sheriff of Hunterdon County in west-central New Jersey and prominent Christie supporter.

Rumor has it Shia LaBeouf found himself in yet another altercation with a random person on the street — this one involving a swift kick in the LaBalls.

The commuter who snapped this photo yesterday told Gothamist that this guy was "enjoying a half wheel of what must have been a severely aged Brie with crackers" on the N train at rush hour. Each generation gets the hero it deserves. [via]

For the past seven years, the Pentagon has faked “arrival ceremonies” meant to honor the remains of missing American soldiers returning to the U.S., according to NBC News.

One night not long ago, "two-hit-wonder" Macklemore and his sidekick Ryan Lewis decided to randomly crank call a person who was scalping tickets to one of their shows for $65 a pop.

Horace Mann School in New York City is well-known for its cut-throat, student-eat-student culture. According to Joe Coscarelli at Daily Intelligencer, one very enterprising (and very evil) student there kicked it up a notch by sending a letter to several colleges where one of his or her Horace Mann classmates is planning to apply, intending to torpedo the classmate’s chance of being accepted. (If you have a copy of this letter, or know what it contained, email us immediately.)

Beleaguered job seekers: you can look forward to a day very soon when the fate of your employment will no longer be in the hands of some bored and prejudiced HR person. Instead, you will be able to be rejected by a computer program, which can mathematically quantify your many shameful human flaws.

So many websites and programs let you use Twitter to sign in that it's easy to miss that you're often giving them permission to tweet from your account—as attendees at New York Comic Con learned this week.