For reasons that still aren't clear, Judy Viger thought it'd be a good idea to hire strippers for her son's 16th birthday party. Maybe she thought it'd make her a cooler mom. Maybe she lost a bet with her son. Or maybe she just has terrible judgement. Probably all three. Regardless of her reasoning, she hired the strippers and now she's facing the consequences. Four months after the party, Viger was arrested and charged with five counts of endangering the welfare of a child.

The Instagram account of an Israeli soldier has been thoroughly scrubbed after a photo posted recently generated significant criticism both from the soldier's followers and from the Internet writ large.

A man who sought to avoid paying the $2.25 fare a a Manhattan PATH station ended up with some serious prison time after he was caught carrying an illegal weapon.

Most people wouldn't consider a bond hearing to be an appropriate time to joke around.

An NBC affiliate serving the Dallas-Fort Worth area was forced to apologize today after posting a shockingly tasteless write-up of a soldier's death on their Facebook page.

We've all been there.

Semi-nude selfies and jokes about on-campus drug use are just some of the things found on one Colorado math teacher's Twitter page.

A woman in Oregon was charged with prostitution and promoting prostitution after she walked into a police station in Salem to meet with a client.

A middle school teacher's poorly thought-out plan to get out of going to jail by offering a police officer oral sex and a breast grope resulted in bribery getting tacked on to her existing DUI and hit-and-run charges.

According to Google Translate, this particular performance of 'cigarette acrobatics' took place during last year's "World No Tobacco Day."

Returning to his Astoria, Oregon, home after a busy day of driving drunk, sideswiping cars, and fleeing the scene, 18-year-old Jacob Cox-Brown couldn't wait to let all his Facebook friends know what he'd been up to.

Justin Bieber released a statement this morning expressing his sympathies to the family of a paparazzo killed while trying to score a shot of the pop star sat in his Ferrari off California's Interstate 405.

A man in Tunisia lost a bet and his life after consuming 28 raw eggs in a single sitting for the entertainment of his friends.

It remains unclear why a Virginia man walked into the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Strasburg this morning armed with a 2 x 4 labeled "High Powered Rifle," though the Shenandoah County Sheriff's Office believes he was trying to make a point about school security — or, rather, lack thereof.

Law enforcement officials in York County, Nebraska, believe they have a key piece of evidence necessary to convict a 19-year-old woman of bank robbery and motor vehicle theft: A YouTube video she posted last week in which she brags about robbing a bank and stealing a car.

Have you seen Silver Linings Playbook? It's pretty good, right? Now close your eyes and re-watch the whole movie in your mind, only this time imagine it with Vince Vaughn and Zooey Deschanel in the lead roles.

An Alberta man who scored instant Internet notoriety after he uploaded a video of himself belting all of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" in the back of a Royal Canadian Mounted Police cruiser after a DUI arrest has had his day in court.

Fear makes us act irrationally. That's kind of its "thing."

There are so many reasons not to go swimming in the open sewer that is St. Mark's Square in Venice right now.

An independent pro-wrestler from Indiana who received $15,000 in exchange for tattooing the Romney/Ryan logo on his face told Politico he had no regrets.