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Tough Guy Taunts a Mob of Mad Cows, Quickly Realizes He Probably Shouldn't Have
Neetzan Zimmerman · 03/18/13 11:03AMCaution: Video opens on a close shot of an extremely dead cow.
Chopping Off a Dog's Balls, Auctioning Off a Friend's Belongings, and Other Questionable Advice
Caity Weaver · 03/14/13 02:50PMPhoto of Man Caught Watching Porn at Work Goes Viral on Twitter
Neetzan Zimmerman · 03/14/13 02:03PMMother Seen in YouTube Video Letting Her Toddler Take a Bong Hit Says It Was a Joke 'That Wasn't Really Funny'
Neetzan Zimmerman · 03/13/13 12:58PMPolice arrested a young mother from Centralia, Washington, last week after footage surfaced on YouTube showing her allowing her 22-month-old son to inhale marijuana smoke from a bong.
Neptune Puts the Kibosh on Couple's Saccharine Seaside Proposal
Neetzan Zimmerman · 03/08/13 06:51PMMatt Hartman's proposal to his fiancée Lis began the way most of these insufferable public displays of affections often do.
Netflix Tattoo Gets Man Free Netflix for a Year, Free Regret for a Lifetime
Neetzan Zimmerman · 03/08/13 11:20AM'Dumb' Identity Thief Hands Waitress Her Own Stolen ID Card
Neetzan Zimmerman · 03/07/13 11:50AMPennsylvania City Councilman Chastised, Mocked for Using Citywide Emergency Alert System to Call His Friend 'Gay'
Neetzan Zimmerman · 03/07/13 10:37AMStudent Who Badmouthed Teacher on Twitter Learns an Invaluable Lesson: Teachers Use Twitter Too
Neetzan Zimmerman · 03/06/13 04:28PMConcertgoer Nearly Impales Herself on Security Fence, Ends Up Mooning Hundreds Instead
Neetzan Zimmerman · 03/05/13 09:35AMMan Fakes His Own Kidnapping to Avoid Angry Girlfriend, Gets Arrested
Taylor Berman · 03/03/13 08:37PMAfter Rahmell Pettway spent several weeks away from home without telling his girlfriend where he was, the 36-year-old probably knew he was in trouble. So Pettway, whom the NYPD describe as a career criminal, came up with a plan: he would fake his own kidnapping as an excuse. Brilliant idea? Eh, not so much.
Police Chief Claims He Was Hacked After Racy Photo of Him with Gun-Toting Woman Appears on His Facebook Page
Neetzan Zimmerman · 03/01/13 10:59AMDon't Make That Rap Video: SUNY Edition
Hamilton Nolan · 03/01/13 09:24AMWeather Channel Installs Sprinklers in Bus Shelters, Gets Commuters All Wet to Promote an Android App
Neetzan Zimmerman · 02/28/13 03:07PMAssemblyman Dov Hikind, King of One-Way Sensitivity, Partied in Blackface Yesterday (UPDATE)
Cord Jefferson · 02/25/13 04:07PMDov Hikind is the asshole New York assemblyman representing District 48, a swath of concrete in Brooklyn that includes Midwood and Borough Park, a famous Orthodox Jewish enclave in the borough's southwest quadrant. Hikind is an Orthodox Jew himself. To celebrate Purim this year, marking the deliverance of the Jewish people from extermination in ancient Persia, Hikind threw an elaborate costume party. Hikind's wife dressed as a red-faced demon and his son painted a yin-yang symbol on his face, reportedly to look like an "angel." And Hikind himself, the 62-year-old elected representative from one of the world's most diverse cities? Why, he went as a basketball player, in Afro and blackface, of course.
Manhattan School Apologizes After Assigning 'Slavery Word Problems Homework' to Fourth Graders
Taylor Berman · 02/21/13 10:10PMMath is obviously an important skill for elementary students to learn, and we support creative methods for teaching what, for some, is a boring subject. But, as we noted last year, there are much better ways to teach math than by using word problems about slavery. Alas, a fourth grade teacher at Manhattan's P.S. 59 failed to heed our warning and thought it would be a good idea to distribute a worksheet titled "Slavery Word Problems Homework," which included questions such as: