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Is Christopher Walken Trying to Abduct College Students?

Max Read · 04/04/11 07:11PM

Quiz time! Is the gentleman pictured on the left actor Christopher Walken sporting a new mustache? Or is it one Tony A. Kadyhrob, accused of harrassing and attempting to abduct college students at a variety of New Jersey colleges?

Recently Defeated New Jersey Congressman Dies

Jim Newell · 04/04/11 04:01PM

Former Rep. John Adler of New Jersey, a one-term Democratic congressman who lost his seat last November, has died. Adler, who was 51, had undergone emergency heart surgery last month for staph bacterial endocarditis.

Bruce Springsteen Writes a Letter to the Editor

Max Read · 04/01/11 02:23AM

Bruce Springsteen looks pretty good for 61, doesn't he? Not that it stops him from doing classic old-dude stuff, like writing letters to the editor of his local paper—which he did this week. The Boss' letter was not, however, about how the lady at Wal-Mart said "Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas" (though give him 15 years)—it was a letter of commendation for the Asbury Park Press' front-page story on poverty and budget cuts:

Snooki Is Worth $2,000 More Than Toni Morrison

Max Read · 03/31/11 11:55PM

Is it possible to assign a dollar value to a specific person? Duh, yes, Rutgers University just did it: Jersey Shore's Snooki is worth $32,000 and Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison is worth $30,000.

Three-Year-Old Really Wants to Be the Governor of New Jersey

Marisa Gladstone · 03/31/11 04:00PM

Three-year-old Jesse is crying because he's sick of being told he's too small to be the governor of New Jersey. I mean, he's already got the proper education under his belt...or so he claims. His first order of duty seems to be raising property taxes.

Sobbing 3-Year-Old Really Wants to Be Governor of New Jersey

Jim Newell · 03/31/11 12:09PM

Poor three-year-old Jesse here can't stop sobbing in the car ride home, because people keep telling him that he's too small to be governor of New Jersey. By current New Jersey gubernatorial size standards, he is absolutely too small. But can't somebody make an exception? This passionate kid is volunteering to be governor of New Jersey, one of the worst jobs in America. Maybe he can temporarily fill in the next time Sandwiches runs off to Disney World. [via Buzzfeed]

Woman Can't Close Her Eyes After Botched Plastic Surgery

Brian Moylan · 03/30/11 12:24PM

Marilyn Leisz can't close her eyes even when she sleeps, and she was in a New Jersey court yesterday suing her plastic surgeon Paul Parker, because she claims this is the result of a cosmetic eye surgery gone bad.

New Jersey Covered in Fine White Powder

Brian Moylan · 03/29/11 03:15PM

The blanket of fine white powder covering Englewood, New Jersey, wasn't anthrax, it was fallout from a flour silo at a wholesale bakery that blew its top. The last time we scored some white powder from New Jersey it was some grade-A shit, so we have high hopes that this is the finest flour in the land.

Police Accidentally Leave Partying Teens in Freezing Cold Van for 12 Hours

Richard Lawson · 03/28/11 03:56PM

A group of teens who were attending a Fort Lee, NJ house party over the weekend were put in a police van by officers busting the fabulous fete and then just... forgotten about. The kids were only let out, after a miserable twelve hours, because a passerby heard them screaming and banging on the windows.

Man Claims Four Loko Gave Him Permanent Heart Damage

Max Read · 03/21/11 09:51PM

Michael Mustica, a 22-year-old tire salesman from New Jersey, kicked off his Atlantic City vacation in style last October by drinking two and a half cans of alcoholic energy drink Four Loko and falling asleep. Little did he know that when he woke up, things would never be the same!

Lawmakers Attempt to Decriminalize Sexting

Max Read · 03/15/11 02:19AM

Right now, tweens in New Jersey who send "suggestive photos" to their "bffs" can be prosecuted as sex offenders. And even though this makes perfect sense, and is a productive way for the state to teach adolescents that the expression of sexuality is a deeply harmful thing, pervert lawmakers are attempting to stop it with a new bill. Yes, New Jersey may soon be the Amsterdam of sexting:

Chris Christie Knows He Could Totally Beat Barack Obama

Jim Newell · 03/02/11 04:11PM

It's been a little while since we last checked in on the good Governor Sandwiches of New Jersey, Chris Christie, but he's suddenly become the most popular Republican in the country! And all it took was a few choreographed YouTubes of him screaming at teachers' unions, with his sleeves rolled up (crucially). So why won't he run for president already? Republican operatives, who hate all of the other candidates, demand it.