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Burglar Logs Into MySpace On Store Computer (167 diggs) Burglar Helps Washington Police Find Him By Using Store's Computer To Log Onto MySpace

The Mystery Of Cursed Bread & A CIA Agent's Death (213 diggs) For 60 years, the French village of Pont-Saint-Esprit has been famous for the events of a few days in August, 1951, when dozens of villagers were struck with unexplainable and horrifying hallucinations of fire and snakes and beasts of all kinds.

WOW! Do Your Crayons Look Like This? (PIC) (985 diggs) Crayons carved into the 12 symbols of the Chinese zodiac Artist Diem Chau usually works in porcelain, but she sometimes steps it up and uses crayons as her medium. This post has lots of photos showing her carvings of the 12 symbols of the Chinese zodiac. They're on exhibit at the Packer Schopf Gallery in Chicago. My favorite is the rat.

Modern army learns from ghosts of the civil war (330 diggs) Army leaders who fight wars with night-vision goggles and aerial drones will find out what they can learn from the ghosts of the Civil War. "What it takes to advance — that hasn't changed whether you're a Roman legion soldier or a soldier fighting in Afghanistan," said William Glenn Robertson, director of the Combat Studies Institute.

The Unexplainable Gallery (928 diggs) What? Why? How and WTF?!? are all valid questions you may have while browsing this gallery, questions, that we are unable and or unwilling to answer. A few of these questions however can be answered with the following answer: "Japan"

Security guard fights arsonists in internet café (vid) (262 diggs) Two attackers attempted to set fire to an internet café in the Moscow suburban town of Klin, but a brave security guard managed to thwart their plans.

Five of the Weirdest Addictions in the World. (221 diggs) Computer games addicts are now able to receive treatment for their addiction, but there are stranger addictions out there. What is wrong with people these days?

Truck driver pushes car down road at 60mph and doesn't know (1,571 diggs) A trucker drives along a motorway at 60mph unaware a car is trapped sideways on his front bumper. The scene was caught on a phone by people in another car.

10 Things You Didn't Know About The Impending Apocalypse (507 diggs) Now that National Geographic Explorer exposed Iran's potential to develop nuclear weapons, it's best to prepare ourselves for the worst case scenario. Here are ten things to help get you through the inevitable nuclear apocalypse.

Oops: Dallas police send 123 bags of drugs to resale shop (335 diggs) 123 bags of illegal drugs seized by Dallas Police were mistakenly sent to the Dallas CityStore.

Man Assaulted Female Police Officer With His Penis (326 diggs) A 28-year-old man who assaulted a female police officer with his penis in Aberdeen is fined £600 by a sheriff. Fiscal depute Elaine : "The accused got to his feet and was standing over the police officer exposing his penis and thrusting it in her face, forcing her to take evasive action to avoid getting struck."

51 Headless Vikings in English Execution Pit Confirmed (489 diggs) Naked, beheaded, and tangled, the bodies of 51 young males found in the United Kingdom have been identified as brutally slain Vikings, archaeologists announced Friday.

North Carolina kiddies treated to Playboy TV (329 diggs) Due to a "technical glitch" Time Warner Cable's Kids On Demand channel featured Playboy programming from 6:15am-8:15am in the Raleigh, NC area and surrounding counties Tuesday.

Cop cheats death when drunk driver rear ends car during stop (369 diggs) Just wait until 36 seconds into this video. Chief Jim Corwin posted it on his blog today, and it shows the officer flying when a suspected drunk driver slams into the back of a car involved in a traffic stop.

Pot Postal Shipments on the Rise (387 diggs) Marijuana traffickers are taking advantage of our national postal service like never before, according to new statistics from the U.S. Postal Inspection Service... The agency, which handles everything from mail fraud to parcel theft, reported a 400 percent increase in seizures of marijuana packages between 2007 and 2009.

The Swastikas Hockey Team of 1916...WTF? (PIC) (515 diggs) Before it became associated with the Nazis, swastikas had been used for hundreds of years as a symbol of good luck and prosperity.

MTV Reality Show Angers Town With Giant Snow Penis (Video) (403 diggs) "It was a giant penis with water shooting out," said downtown merchant Stefani Olivieri, whose store is directly across the street from the historic train depot where the sculpture was built. "It was not appropriate. There were a lot of children around."

He deserve that (2,545 diggs) video

Sex tonight? Read her lips (453 diggs) A NEW lipstick has gone on sale that shows when women are in the mood for sex. The saucy slap changes from clear to deep crimson as the wearer feels frisky. It works by reacting with a girl's body chemistry. And each £12 tube comes with a colour chart so men can work out how randy their partner is feeling. The Mood Swing Emotionally Activated Lip

Easy as ABC: Dance group members contort into all 26 letters (274 diggs) New Hampshire dance collective Pilobolus and photographer John Kane took four days to run through the full 26 positions.

Invisible Hulk??!! [GIF] (2,440 diggs)

UFO Sighting Convincibility Over Time (PIC) (609 diggs) -.-

Snuggie vs Slanket: Which Is The Better Blanket With Sleeves (280 diggs) Before the arrival of The Snuggie, we never knew we needed a blanket with sleeves. However, the Snuggie is a rip off of a lesser known blanket-with- sleeves, the Slanket. Mo Rocca recently profiled both companies, sitting down the founders of each. It's Snuggie Vs. Slanket: The Great Sleeved Blanket Debate.

Did Video Games Wreck 1,000 Marriages? (297 diggs) An annual report from a Catholic counseling service claims computer games are partly to blame for complicating wedded bliss.

Bodybuilder Nicknamed "Big Puppy" Beats Up 4-Year-Old Girl (529 diggs) Sean "Big Puppy" Madigan sounds like a tough guy with a soft side. But to his four-year-old stepdaughter, the 6'3'', 230lb bodybuilder is just an asshole with a misleading nickname.