On March 12th, 2023 with 242 comments
As millions set their clocks forward one hour, there's pockets of resistance, according to this local news report:
- "According to a March 2022 CBS News...
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On September 14th, 2019 with 63 comments
Somewhere along the North Raccoon River in Adel, Iowa -- population 3,682 -- two men were arrested for trying to break into the county courthouse.
And then...
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On August 17th, 2019 with 43 comments
Late Christmas Eve, 1966, a retired British army major named Paddy Roy Bates piloted a motorboat seven miles off the coast of England to an abandoned...
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On June 23rd, 2019 with 98 comments
The Hustle tells the story of a mysterious legend who "produced thousands of the ugliest counterfeit $1 bills ever made...so poorly done that the Secret...
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On June 15th, 2019 with 140 comments
"Caterpillar Inc. is trying to stop a tiny cafe from using the word cat," reports Fast Company.
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On June 2nd, 2019 with 259 comments
CNET reports on the prison sentence given to "the YouTuber who reportedly filmed himself tricking a homeless man into eating Oreos filled with toothpaste."
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On April 21st, 2019 with 294 comments
CNN tells the story of 24-year-old "social media influencer" Rossi Lorathio Adams II who'd wanted his domain to be the slogan of his social media sites (which...
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On December 29th, 2018 with 374 comments
"What's the worst that can happen?" thought Nicko Feinberg last December when he listed his house on Airbnb.
The listing explicitly said no parties. Then a...
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On September 23rd, 2018 with 95 comments
"These devices kind of look like cell phone chargers, so they probably thought they had some kind of street value," said the co-founder of Roambee, a...
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On February 3rd, 2018 with 133 comments
An anonymous reader quotes the Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
A private investigative team announced Thursday morning that members now believe D.B. Cooper was a...
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On December 17th, 2017 with 119 comments
The San Francisco Bay Area has more car thefts than any region in America, according to SFGate.com. A National Insurance Crime Bureau report found that between...
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On December 10th, 2016 with 85 comments
Long-time Slashdot reader v3rgEz writes: A Freedom of Information Act request for FBI files on a figure at the center of dozens of 20th century conspiracy...
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On November 5th, 2016 with 134 comments
A two-year FBI investigation apparently centered on the satirical web site "GodHatesGoths". Long-time Slashdot reader v3rgEz writes:
In 2005, the FBI launched...
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On September 18th, 2016 with 211 comments
A woman in Chicago filed a class action lawsuit against the makers of a smartphone-enabled vibrator, alleging their devices "secretly collect and transmit...
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On September 4th, 2016 with 89 comments
An anonymous Slashdot reader writes:
"A fugitive in Florida has been arrested by police after he used a wanted poster adorned with his mug shot for his...
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On July 17th, 2016 with 124 comments
An anonymous Slashdot reader quotes an article from FastCoExist:
When debt-troubled businessman Michael Spackman put his private New Zealand beach on sale,...
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On March 8th, 2016 with 142 comments
dfsmith writes: CNN is reporting today on the prosecution of a man who stole $196,000 worth of quarters from his employer in Alabama. Apparently the Brinks...
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On January 26th, 2016 with 255 comments
An anonymous reader writes: A British filmmaker has forced the people who decide how to censor films to watch a 10-hour movie of paint drying on a wall...
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On November 12th, 2015 with 83 comments
HughPickens.com writes: BBC reports that Budi Waseso, the head of Indonesia's anti-drugs agency has proposed building a prison island guarded by crocodiles to...
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On August 27th, 2015 with 177 comments
dkatana writes: For many cities one of the biggest cleaning expenses is dealing with dog poop. While it is impossible to ask the birds to refrain from...
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On August 21st, 2015 with 280 comments
xPertCodert writes: According to this article in Der Welt (Google translate from German), in Germany if you take a picture of a dish in a restaurant without...
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On August 7th, 2015 with 236 comments
jones_supa writes: North Korea has announced that it is winding its clocks back by half a hour to create a new "Pyongyang Time" — breaking from a time...
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On April 6th, 2015 with 95 comments
An anonymous reader writes Want to divorce your husband or wife but can't give them the papers in person? Just use Facebook. No, apparently this isn't a late...
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On February 16th, 2015 with 132 comments
itwbennett writes Jo Seong-jin, the head of LG's home appliance division, was indicted Sunday by prosecutors in Seoul for allegedly damaging Samsung...
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On November 6th, 2014 with 251 comments
An anonymous reader writes The Supremes have decided to hear a case regarding whether groupers are 'tangible articles' under the Sarbanes-Oxley law. The issue...
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On July 9th, 2014 with 36 comments
v3rgEz writes Marc Abrahams, founder of the Ig Nobel Prize, has put together a fascinating history of people patenting the wheel, including one inventor that...
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On May 20th, 2014 with 319 comments
An anonymous reader writes "The rate of cybercrime is growing and growing, and law enforcement is struggling to keep up. The FBI is in the process of beefing...
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On May 5th, 2014 with 157 comments
Jason Koebler (3528235) writes "A Redditor got more than he bargained for in the mail today: He was accidentally mailed parts to a $350,000 environment and...
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On February 16th, 2014 with 467 comments
An anonymous reader writes "Could you imagine being arrested for failing to return a movie you rented 9-years earlier? Well that's just what happened to one...
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On February 14th, 2014 with 69 comments
Daniel_Stuckey writes "Inside the memory card in the cat's collar, authorities found a resentful message criticizing the police along with versions of the...
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