One of the CIA's waterboarding torturers called himself "The Preacher" and...
More word from the ongoing attempt to bring the people responsible for years of CIA torture to justice: one of the three waterboarding specialists at Guantanamo was called "The Preacher" because while...
View ArticlePolice: Don't call 911 when you run out of toilet paper
In Oregon, the Newport Police Department posted a message on Facebook (pasted below) urging citizens not to dial 911 when they run out of toilet paper. The reason they posted this is because, yes,...
View ArticleDecapitated store mannequin washes up on Florida beach, horrifying onlookers
Kathleen, a volunteer doing a beach clean up for environmental nonprofit Ocean Hour in Perdido Key, FL, spotted what she thought was a decapitated corpse on the beach. The barnacle encrusted figure was...
View ArticlePlease stop calling 911 about cicadas
As the plague of 17-year cicadas descends across the eastern and midwestern United States, officials in Union County, Georgia ask that residents stop calling 911 over the bugs' infernal noise. From a...
View ArticleMan arrested for repeatedly calling 911 to report that he's "tired"
Evansville, Indiana police arrested Daniel Schroeder, 61, for calling 911 four times in one evening. He allegedly called to report that he was "tired." This occurred the day after Schroeder pled guilty...
View ArticleWoman finds intruder asleep on her sofa, 911 operator suggests waking him
In Winnipeg, Canada, Angela Chalmers woke up early on Monday to find an intruder asleep on her sofa. She quickly told her roommate and the two quickly hid in a closet and called 911. According to...
View ArticleIn Oakland, 911 is a joke
I dialed 911 a long time agoDon't you see how late they're reactin'They only come and they come when they wannaSo get the morgue truck and embalm the goner–Public Enemy Oakland, California, has been a...
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