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Woman Sues Sushi Restaurant for Adding Semen to Her Spicy Sauce

Remy Stern · 08/05/11 06:57PM

In a motion to dismiss a court case this week, we learned that a woman is suing Planet Sushi on New York's Upper West Side. Why? Because she thinks there was semen in the spicy sauce that came alongside a delivery order of tuna rolls. Per the filing:

The New York Poop Assault Is Not Over

Jeff Neumann · 07/26/11 06:25AM

Just when you thought it was safe to venture out into the once poop-infested waters around New York, the city's Health Department yesterday closed four beaches — three on Staten Island and one in Brooklyn — "based on review of both water flow through the harbor and evaluation of actual water samples taken in the harbor and at the shoreline." In other words, if you've been swimming anywhere between the Verrazano and George Washington bridges, well, you get the picture.

New York Is Awash in Poop

Maureen O'Connor · 07/22/11 02:21PM

Think you can escape the heat by going swimming? Think again! Following a "catastrophic fire that shut down one of the city's largest sewage treatment plants," New York City is awash in poop. Millions of gallons of untreated sewage poured into the Hudson and Harlem Rivers this week, tainting beaches as far as Brooklyn and Staten Island. Basically, New York is a big, hot Port-a-Potty today. A festering cauldron of fecal matter. A fetid puddle of poo. [NYT, image via Flickr]

A Week of Cooking Meth Can Make You Crazy

Jeff Neumann · 07/18/11 12:57AM

Have you ever wondered what it's like to cook meth with an armed Hells Angel named California Sack? Let this ex-con and former Aryan Brother, who once made $4 million in a year cooking and selling ice, explain:

Who Stunk Up the Space Station's Toilet?

Jeff Neumann · 07/15/11 06:37AM

Someone apparently dropped a big deuce in the International Space Station's zero-gravty toilet and didn't light a match, because the stench coming from it is so strong that one poor astronaut, Ron Garan, has been tapped to fix the $90 million plumbing system.

The Nazi Sex Doll That Almost Was

Max Read · 07/11/11 08:45PM

People talk so much about the "fanatic genocidal fascism" aspect of Nazis that some of their other, less genocidal (but no less crazy!) ideas. Like the Nazi sex doll "designed to stop soldiers being laid low with syphilis"!

Study Finds That Belly Buttons are Disgusting

Jeff Neumann · 07/05/11 04:15AM

We already know that belly buttons are gross. But now, thanks to a lengthy survey of human navels, we know that they're really gross. Not only do they hold lint and all sorts of other shit, but they're bacteria-filled pits of filth. Researchers from NC State University have analyzed 95 navel samples so far, which contained some 1,400 bacterial strains. Ugh. And, as The Washington Post notes: