Recent controversies involving individuals putting on blackface for Halloween apparently failed to deter the football coaches at a San Diego high school from darkening their skin and dressing up as members of the Jamaican bobsled team made famous by the 1993 comedy sport flick Cool Runnings.

A desperately lonely man who was unable to find a girlfriend decided he had no more use for his penis — and proceeded to cut it off.

I'm assuming this dude never saw Game of Thrones, because otherwise he probably wouldn't be challenging Dothraki warlord Jason Momoa to a game of slaps.

A high school chemistry in Indiana was fired from his job shortly after being charged with three counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor for allegedly taking several of his students on an unauthorized "field trip" to a local strip club.

Word around the Pentacrest is that a Teacher's Assistant at the University of Iowa accidentally emailed her students a file attachment filled with her own homemade porn instead of solutions to a homework assignment.

A full-on Internet manhunt is currently underway for a young man who callously assaulted a street performer in broad daylight, and then uploaded footage of the attack to his Facebook page.

A trio Boy Scout leaders in Utah claim they were merely performing a "civic service" when they decided to destroy a unique rock formation that had been overlooking Goblin Valley State Park for the past 20 million years.

A Florida man attempting to burn a cross as part of an ill-conceived "prank" suffered severe injuries after accidentally setting himself on fire in the process.

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

In this wide world of ours, cultural practices are as diverse as colors in the rainbow. Only the ignorant imperialists believe that they are equipped to judge unfamiliar foreign cultures. Still, we feel comfortable in saying: Chinese couples, do not wear matching outfits. There is no happy ending to this story.

When the BBC referred to Azerbaijan's Ilham Aliyev as the "Pre-Determined President," they weren't kidding around.

A weatherman who apparently needed to be taught not to eat things you find on the floor learned that lesson the hilarious way today when he accidentally ate his own cat's vomit on live television.

Rogelio Andaverde of Edinburg, Texas, was home alone with his wife Tuesday night when two masked men forced their way in and abducted him at gunpoint.

An unnamed postal employee (who likely won't be a postal employee for much longer) was recently caught on a home security camera driving her delivery vehicle over the homeowner's front lawn in order to drop off a small package.

So many Internet "pranksters" deserve to get hit very hard in a sensitive region for the stunts they pull, but, sadly, few ever do.

An Arizona man who called 911 to report that his girlfriend was on fire says he never expected to get laughed at by the dispatcher.

A west Phoenix woman was fatally injured while hugging her boyfriend when the gun in his pants accidentally discharged.

A couple who stopped to have relations on railroad tracks in an effort "to spice up their sexual life" was subsequently run over by a train.

There are terrible vacation plans, and then there are deadly ones. A tipster recently forwarded us a promotional email from the Chinese travel agency Taedong Travel, copied below, hawking “the first Christmas tour of North Korea,” costing approximately $1,000 (€740) for five days and four nights in the capital city of Pyongyang. “You can now join local North Koreans for a Christmas and New Year to remember!” the pitch promises. “Will you be visited by Santa Claus, enjoy Ginseng flavoured Turkey or listen to familiar Christmas carols?”

A grieving Brooklyn father whose son drowned during a field trip back in June is living with a constant reminder of his loss — because the teen's school won't stop calling to ask why the boy has been skipping class.