Rantings of a New Yorker

I found this story this morning on metafilter. Read the article here.

Because the Nerve.com‘s version is built on crappy flash, here’s the text version for you to read and enjoy.  These are all from the book, The  Quotable Douchebag by Margaret McGuire. “The feathered [hair] cut projects an attitude of ease and quiet confidence that seems to have all but eluded our generation. This is a [...]

In a grand act of stupidity, NYU students have said they’d give up their right to vote in next year’s elections of they had free tuition, a million dollars, or an iPod. Two-thirds say they’ll do it for a year’s tuition.  Only 20 percent said they’d exchange their vote for an iPod touch…And half said [...]

One of the funnier stories I’ve read this week is that of privately employed, parking attendants, now known as super wardens, in Eccles, Manchester being issued CCTV head sets and subsequently being given the power to issue fines up to £80 ($160) for littering and antisocial behavior.  This is the most humorous use of big [...]

I swear, you can’t make this stuff up and I can’t stop laughing. Yes, I know there is a special place in hell for laughing at this story but, it’s just too funny to not to chuckle at these people. A jury convicted a man of second-degree domestic assault Saturday for shoving a cell phone [...]

It never ceases to amaze me how people continue to act like idiots.  You would think that there are enough of them out there already as examples so that people would stop and think before they start down the path to stupidity. Erin Callahan Lambert, 28, who apparently was intoxicated during Flight 179 on Sunday, [...]

Around 3:30am, Wednesday morning, Police received several calls from people who were concerned about screams they heard coming from a nearby park. When the police arrived on the scene, they discovered Adrian Apgar screaming that he was being attack by an alligator. Deputies dove into the alligator-infested waters and pulled Apgar from the alligator’s jaws [...]

This story comes from the United Press International. MONCKS CORNER, S.C., Nov. 16 (UPI) — A South Carolina firefighter who was fired after being charged with having sex with his girlfriend in a half-built mansion has escaped a charge of fornication. Fate took a bad turn for Paul Sloan, 25, in September when a fire [...]

Just a short post today about the worst burglar ever. Beware, it’s a video, so it might take a few moments to load for you. I don’t know whether to feel sorry for him or for the owner of the shop, whose store is destroyed by this idiot. Still, it’s the funniest thing I’ve seen [...]

Your mom always told you not to play with fireworks, right? Well, a brilliant British soldier, back home from Iraq, thought it would not only be okay to play with fireworks but that it was a good idea to shove a bottle rocket up his backside and then light it. Of course, he was imitating [...]