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Washington D.C. Fox Affiliate Interviews "Zombie Pirate" For Insight On Hurricane Sandy
Here is the actual broadcast transcript of an interview that aired this morning on D.C. Fox affiliate WTTG:...

Do Not Touch Daddy's Electronics
When I was 6 years old, my dad was an avid collector of hi-fi equipment. He had an entire bookcase filled with all kinds of boxy hi-fi pieces, each one featuring hundreds of switches and knobs and dials and all kinds of crazy shit that helped you hear every possible sound inside a recording studio, ...

New York Policeman Arrested On Charges That He Planned To Slow-Roast Some Ladies
Well, this is pretty much the grossest thing. It happened in neither Florida nor Ohio, though. Rather, it unfolded in the nation's greatest city. Reports The New York Times:...

Tuesday Night Fights: Lady Hockey Writer Compares Lady Street Fight To College Hockey Brawl
Welcome to Tuesday Night Fights, a weekly celebration and analysis of street-fight videos found on YouTube. Tonight's fisticuffs. The since-removed "Crazy Girl Fight" and "Rowan Ice Hockey vs. Temple Fight - 10/13/12." Tonight's commentator: Sarah Baicker, who covers the Philadelphia Flyers for Co...


Another Horrible Way Friends Cockblock One Another
Welcome to Great Moments in Drunken Hookup Failure, where we showcase three heartwarming true stories of drunken love gone horribly awry. Off we go....

Tuesday Night Fights: Rodney Anonymous Reflects On "Ten Minutes Of Pure Crazy"
Welcome to Tuesday Night Fights, a weekly celebration and analysis of street-fight videos found on YouTube. Tonight's fisticuffs "Philly Fight! 2012 Crackheads Going N Downtown Philly!" Tonight's commentator: occasional Deadspin contributor Rodney Anonymous of The Dead Milkmen....

How To Sleep Train A Selfish Baby
When you have a new child, you have only one priority in life, one that takes precedence over procuring food, finding a job, or anything else: getting the child to sleep through the night. Everything you do with a baby beforehand—feeding it, putting it on a schedule, repeatedly throwing the baby up ...

Horny Teenager Sells The Family Jewels To Visit A Brothel
This is just a delightful story of adolescent hjinks with a dash of sexiness and an appropriate amount of criminality. A 14-year-old boy stole some jewelry from his mother and he and his buddy sold it on the cheap and bought some hookers. Everything about this story is great, including the police st...

Cockblocked By The Lord!
Welcome to Great Moments in Drunken Hookup Failure, where we showcase three heartwarming true stories of drunken love gone horribly awry. Off we go....

This Might Be The World's Most Ingenious Prank Phone Call
Reader John emailed me this week with this audio of a prank conference call he set up between two pizza joints. He explains his methodology thusly: ...

Tuesday Night Fights: My Grandma Explains Why It's Wrong To Encourage Your Grandkids To Fight
Welcome to Tuesday Night Fights, a weekly celebration and analysis of street-fight videos found on YouTube. Tonight's fisticuffs "Grandma Tells Kids to Fist Fight (Caught on Camera) Fighting," aka "Wilmington Delaware Fight!!!!" Tonight's commentator: My grandmother Leona, who is the best grandmot...

Hunter S. Thompson Was "The Bad Boy Of Our Neighborhood," According To Some Dumb Snitch's Letter In An FBI File
Cody Winchester of the Argus Leader just posted the FBI's file on Hunter S. Thompson on his Tumblr, and it looks like the agency was keeping close tabs on Thompson during his failed bid to run for sheriff of Pitkin County, Col. in 1970. Looking through the pages, it seems that the FBI first took in...

The Iron Sheik: Hulk Hogan Sex Tape Proves "He Have Grasshopper Dick"
When our old pal A.J. Daulerio got his hairy palms on this here Hulk Hogan sex tape, we were absolutely certain it would catch the attention of the Iron Sheik, occasional Deadspin contributor/Greatest Iranian of All-Time. ...

Cockblocked In The Big Easy!
Welcome to Great Moments in Drunken Hookup Failure, where we showcase three heartwarming true stories of drunken love gone horribly awry. Off we go....

I Had The Best Cell On Death Row: A Member Of The West Memphis Three On Life In The Shadow Of Execution
In 1994, Damien Echols and two of his friends, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley, were wrongfully convicted in what prosecutors called a satanic ritual murder of three 8-year-old boys. Echols, the leader of the group, was sentenced to death; Baldwin and Misskelley received life sentences. The trio...

Tuesday Night Fights: Philly Cop Watches Porn-Theatre Brawl, Decries Peer As "A Gigantic Pussy"
Welcome to Tuesday Night Fights, a weekly celebration and analysis of street-fight videos found on YouTube. Tonight's fisticuffs x2: "Nightlife in Philly," a brief window into a fight outside Center City's premier adult movie theatre, and "old men fight." Tonight's commentator: An active-duty Phil...

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