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Two-Year-Old Girl Loses Both Legs in Terrible Lawn Mower Accident
Taylor Berman · 04/10/13 10:28PMA horrific accident in Palm Harbor, Florida left a two-and-a-half year old girl a triple amputee. The girl's father was driving his riding lawn mower down his driveway when his daughter crossed in front of him, apparently slipping and falling. The girl's mother attempted to flag the father down and yelled for him to stop, but couldn't be heard over the engine. The father then accidentally ran the girl over, reportedly dragging her down the driveway and into the street before he noticed what he'd done.
Racist Airplane Passenger Who Allegedly Slapped a Two-Year-Old Toddler Is Now Out of a Job
Taylor Berman · 02/17/13 11:27PMFather of 6-Year-Old Newtown Victim Heckled by Pro-Gun Activists
Taylor Berman · 01/28/13 10:10PMFrom their "What Would Django Do?" campaign to their ill-fated (and shooting-filled) Gun Appreciation Day to idiotic NRA commercials, pro-gun activists have been on an impressive roll. But it's been a few days since their last PR disaster – surely they've done something stupid recently, right? Correct. During a legislative hearing Monday in at the Connecticut State Capitol in Hartford, protesters heckled the father of a six-year-old killed at Sandy Hook elementary.
Five Charged In Brutal, Deadly Philadelphia 'Dungeon' Scam
Taylor Berman · 01/23/13 09:18PM'Law School Husslin 3' Is the Illest Rap Video Since 'Law School Husslin 2'
Hamilton Nolan · 10/26/12 01:20PMBoston Pediatrician Arrested on Charges of Child Pornography
Taylor Berman · 09/13/12 07:06PMDr. Richard Keller, a pediatric endocrinologist at Boston Children's Hospital, was arrested earlier today and charged with the receipt of child pornography. He also worked as a pediatrics instructor at Harvard Medical School and served as a medical director at Phillips Academy for 19 years until resigning last year.
Creative Uses for Cat Heads: Baseballs
Caity Weaver · 04/03/12 08:47PM'Human Zoo' Allowed Tourists to Throw Bananas at Islanders
Maureen O'Connor · 01/11/12 01:07PMSanta Kills Six
Hamilton Nolan · 12/27/11 09:04AMDo Not Shoot Your Gun in the Air, Lest You Kill Someone
Hamilton Nolan · 12/20/11 02:53PMRachel Yoder, a 15 year-old Amish girl in Ohio, was riding home in her buggy from a Christmas party last week when she was, mysteriously and without warning, shot in the head and killed. Now police have found the killer: a man who fired his "muzzle-loading rifle" into the air while cleaning it, more than a mile away.
Mom Denied Food Stamps, Shoots Self and Kids
Hamilton Nolan · 12/07/11 09:52AMRachelle Grimmer, a 38 year old mother of two in Texas, had been trying to qualify for food stamps "for months" without success. On Monday, she went to a Laredo welfare office with her kids and a gun. After a seven-hour standoff, she killed herself and shot both of her children, who are now in critical condition.
Sacramento Cops Arrest World's Worst Human Being
Seth Abramovitch · 10/13/11 08:27PMThe internet is a funny place, in that one moment, it's restoring your faith in the world — say, with the story of a one-legged cat who returns a $10 million lottery ticket to his favorite waitress — and the next, it's showing you something so cruel and awful, you want to climb into a kayak and not stop paddling until you reach Pluto. This video, first posted on Tuesday afternoon by World Star Hip Hop and which has since gone viral, is a perfect example of the latter.
Russian Hockey Player Who Survived Plane Crash Dies
Jeff Neumann · 09/12/11 05:26AMJust When You Thought the Qaddafis Couldn't Get Any Worse
Jeff Neumann · 08/29/11 03:22AMCoverage of the war in Libya has exposed an incredible amount of atrocities — by both Qaddafi loyalists and rebels. And the video report below, by CNN's Dan Rivers, is yet another awful addition to the formers' crimes. Rivers visited a vacation home that belonged to Muammar's youngest son, Hannibal, and his wife Aline Skaff, a Lebanese former model. There he found a woman who was essentially a slave to Hannibal and Aline, and was repeatedly tortured. Hannibal — whose party crew recently included Beyoncé and Usher — has a long history of beating servants and general scumbaggery. So while it's not surprising that he and his wife would abuse this woman, what Aline did to her is horrifying.
When the Hospital's Burning, Don't Forget Your Patient
Jeff Neumann · 08/26/11 04:22AMMaintenance Worker Gets Sucked Into Airplane Engine
Jeff Neumann · 08/08/11 06:46AMThink of a truly horrible way to die, and then think about this: A 51-year-old airplane maintenance worker in New Zealand was performing "a very routine procedure" on a a C-130 Hercules when he was sucked into the engine and killed. The propellers were not attached and the engine was on a stand at the time. The man, Miles Hunter, worked for a subsidiary of Air New Zealand, according to ONE News.
Dad Angry Over Missing Cologne Gets Son Killed
Hamilton Nolan · 06/30/11 08:33AMIt's early, but this should be a lock for Most Awful Story of the Day: Isayah Muller (pictured) graduated from high school in the Bronx on Tuesday. Afterwards, he went out to a celebration dinner with his family. When his father, Andre, got back in the car after the dinner, he found that a $200 bottle of cologne was missing. Andre, with his family in the car, drove back to the parking garage where he'd been parked and confronted the attendants there, accusing them of stealing the cologne. They let him search the office. He couldn't find it. So, police say, he attacked one of the parking attendants, punching him. The other attendant grabbed a knife to defend his colleague.
Kids Fined for Operating Lemonade Stand Without Permit
Matt Cherette · 06/17/11 12:27AMWhat's worse than a story about how a group of children were fined $500 by Montgomery County for operating a lemonade stand without a permit outside the site of this weekend's US Open? How about the fact that they were going to donate their proceeds to a pediatric cancer-fighting charity? Don't worry, though, because all the middle-aged men charging $50 to park on their lawns are doing just fine. [via WUSA]