Jeremy Taylor
[
High School Football Coach Raises Money for Team With ‘Will Work For Helmets’ Sign
Football is a rough game, and the last thing you want to do is play it with a faulty helmet.
That was the dilemma facing North Marion High School football coach Doug Bilodeau of Aurora, Oregon. Thanks to district budget cuts, his squad doesn't have nearly enough safe helmets to play the 2013 season.
[
Vigilante Dressed as Batman Drops Off Wanted Man at Police Station
There's a costumed superhero looking over Bradford.
Authorities in the Northern England city were confused and amused in the early morning hours of February 25 when a man dressed as Batman dropped off another man, who had been wanted for the handling of stolen goods, at one of the city's police stations.
[
Ikea’s Swedish Meatballs Found to Contain Horsemeat
So far America has been spared in the horsemeat scandal that began in Ireland last month. Which is good news for all of us who never developed a taste for Mr. Ed.
[
Prankster Adds Hilarious Fake Menu to Guy Fieri Restaurant Website
Guy Fieri has been having a tough time with his new restaurant, Guy's American Kitchen & Bar, which opened in New York's Times Square last November.
First the eatery was savaged in a New York Times' review. And just when folks were starting to forget about that, Fieri has made an unforced error which is sure to subject him to another round of ridicule.
[
Hackers Make Burger King Twitter Praise McDonald’s
Things got weird in the burger wars yesterday when hackers broke into the Burger King Twitter page and started firing off pro-McDonald's tweets.
[
The World’s Most Expensive Bacon Sandwich
If there is one thing the internet has taught us it's that people really love bacon. A coffee house in Cheltenham, England is betting that there are folks out there who love the cured meat so much that they would be willing to shell out 150 pounds ($237) for what they are calling the Bacon Bling sandwich.
[
Thief Arrested After Trying To Ransom Stolen Lemur
James Edward Welborn Jr. probably didn't have primate theft on his mind when he broke into Julie Harris's home in Mobile, Alabama.
[
Woman Buys Ad Space to Dump Boyfriend on Valentine’s Day
Whether you're stuck trying to figure out an original way to be romantic or lamenting the fact you don't have a sweetheart, Valentine's Day definitely isn't all chocolate and good feelings.
But no matter your February 14th gripe, you are still probably having a better Valentine's Day than a Manchester, England man named Dan.
[
Woman Has Had the Same Song Stuck In Her Head For Three Years
A song like Carly Rae Jepsen's 'Call Me Maybe' is called an earworm for the insidious way it tunnels into your brain and gets stuck inside your head.
The medical term for this is tinnitus, which is a legitimate condition that causes a sufferer to hallucinate songs in their head on an endless loop.
[
‘Sleep Texting’ Is Now a Thing Among Teenagers
Being a teenager is a perilous time in one's life as a not-quite fully developed brain will cause the teen to make all kinds of questionable decisions.
Now thanks to a new phenomenon called sleep-texting, the teenager can even make these bad decisions while they are catching z's.
[
Waiter Who Defended Boy With Down Syndrome Gives All Donations To Charity
Last month, Michael Garcia made a lot of people smile. The 45-year-old, who is a waiter at Laurenzo’s Restaurant in Houston, Texas, refused to serve a family who insulted Milo Castillo, a five-year-old with Down Syndrome, by suggesting that "special needs children need to be special someplace else."
[
Deceased Husband Wins Valentine’s Day With Romantic Gesture From Beyond the Grave
For 46 years, Sue Johnston had a pretty good idea what she'd be getting on Valentine's Day. Each February 14 her husband John would give her a bouquet of flowers with a note that read "My love for you grows."
Sadly, John passed away two years ago in April. 10 months later, Johnston received Valentine's Day flowers from somebody named John. At first she thought it was a cruel joke.