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Video Shows Inmate's Remarkably Easy Escape From Jail
Some solid police work here. Derrick Estell was being held in the Garland County (Ark.) Detention Center on Sunday on charges including aggravated robbery, burglary, and theft. But when deputies left him unattended for a moment, he hopped a counter, jumped out a window, and ran toward a getaway car....
Woman Holding Baby Starts Chuck E. Cheese Brawl
Welcome to Tuesday Night Fights, a weekly celebration and analysis of street-fight videos found on YouTube. Tonight's fisticuffs: "A birthday brawl erupts at Chuck E Cheese as a mother holding her baby throws a punch." Tonight's commentator: author/Twitterer Jeff Pearlman. (Coming next week: White ...
Searching For The Most Masturbated-To TV Show Of All Time
I have new neighbors moving in this week. New neighbor anxiety is a vast and complex kind of tension. There is good tension: They could be nice! They could be attractive and like being naked with the blinds open! And there is bad tension: They could be rednecks! Or child molesters! Or redneck ...
How To Drink At Weddings Without Making An Ass Of Yourself
I'm going to a wedding in Delaware in a few weeks, because aren't we all. I was very excited about this adventure when I thought Delaware was in the South—I've never been to the South—but it turns out Delaware's just off to the right of Maryland. So now I'm merely regular excited, because even thoug...
Yinzer Watches A Drunken Fist Fest That Would Disappoint Don Cherry
Welcome to Tuesday Night Fights, a weekly celebration and analysis of street-fight videos found on YouTube. Tonight's fisticuffs: "Two Drunk man - Funny Street Fight for ugly Girls." Tonight's commentator: Pittsburgh Penguins blogger Rich Miller. (Coming next week: Pearlman, on the Strong Island Ch...
Zodiac MF Takes On An Epic Boston Ladybrawl
Welcome to Tuesday Night Fights, a weekly celebration and analysis of street-fight videos found on YouTube. Tonight's fisticuffs: "Boston chicks Fight Club." Tonight's commentator: ZODIAC MOTHERFUCKER. (Coming next week: TBD.)...
America Is Ruining Johnny Football
Let's talk about Johnny Manziel's hangover, which is a fun thing to talk about because it ends with Johnny Manziel getting screwed regardless of the truth. If Johnny Manziel really was hungover the night before a meaningless voluntary offseason QB camp session, then NFL people will crush him for n...
Why Your Children's Television Program Sucks: <em>Thomas & Friends</em>
A look at the awful children’s programming you’re forced to endure before you can finally kick the kids out of the TV room to watch sports for eight hours. Image by Jim Cooke....
There Are No Real Winners In A Peruvian Drag Queen Pageant Brawl
Welcome to Tuesday Night Fights, a weekly celebration and analysis of street-fight videos found on YouTube. Tonight's fisticuffs: "RAW VIDEO: Wigs Fly as Peru's Drag Queen Beauty Pageant Ends in Brawl." Tonight's commentator: returning Philadelphia drag-show regular Butch Cordora. (Coming next week...
How I Made @DadBoner (And How @DadBoner Made Me A Better Man)
It was just over a year ago that I wrote a post here at Deadspin outing comedian Mike Burns as the man behind @DadBoner, one of the most popular Twitter feeds ever devised. If you're unfamiliar, the @DadBoner universe centers on the labors of a heroically optimistic Michigan man who lives in his ca...
Is It OK To Stop Watching Sports?
I was on a flight yesterday and half the people aboard were asleep. And this wasn't some nighttime flight, either. This was at like, 10 in the morning. How the fuck can so many people sleep so well on airplanes? On every flight I board, there are 60 motherfuckers who are passed out with their necks ...
BBC Apologizes For Shitty Thing It Said About Bartoli And Her Dad
Today, gentlemen, we were reminded why we lug our reputations as troglodytes well into the 21st century. A woman named Marion Bartoli proved athletic enough to win a singles title at Wimbledon and was thereupon described to BBC Radio 5 listeners as something other than "a looker." Because, you see, ...
Nothing Says U.S. Independence Like A Pregnant Lady Brawling In Ohio
Welcome to Tuesday Night Fights, a weekly celebration and analysis of street-fight videos found on YouTube. Tonight's fisticuffs: the since disappeared "Pregnant lady fight." Tonight's commentator: Ohio resident, and esteemed Deadspin commenter, Eric Peacock. (Coming next week: A drag-queen competi...
How Do You Ask Someone To Trim Their Pubic Hair?
Whoa hey, it's 4th of July week! Time to take the kids to the town fireworks celebration, fail to find a decent spot on the grass, get eaten by bugs, pull my hair out as the fireworks display starts two hours later than I want it to, and then watch half a firework explode from behind some asshole's ...