Drunk Oregonian falls asleep in a dumpster
An Oregon man decided to sleep off a night of heavy drinking by crawling into a dumpster—and was still sleeping when the dumpster’s contents were emptied into a garbage truck. Justin Gilpatrick, 27, somehow survived even though the truck twice tried to compact the load of trash inside. The truck driver finally heard Gilpatrick’s screaming, turned off the compactor, and set him free. “I have not had a drink in years and the one time I do this is what happens,” Gilpatrick said. “I will never drink again.”
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Demi Moore is pretending to have a new boyfriend to make it appear that she’s gotten over Ashton Kutcher, says the National Enquirer. The 49-year-old actress has recently been appearing publicly with a handsome 37-year-old New Zealand actor, Martin Henderson. But a source says “the whole thing is a setup on Demi’s part. They’re friends and that’s it. Martin kind of felt sorry for Demi.” Moore, the source says, “freaked out” when she found out that Kutcher had become seriously involved with actress Mila Kunis, 29.
A Norwegian bear bash
A family of Norwegian bears broke into a holiday cabin and threw an epic, alcohol-fueled party. The cabin’s owner, Even Nilsen, returned to the cabin to find that the bears had eaten all the food and bitten into more than a hundred cans of beer, sucking down the contents. One bear evidently became so intoxicated that it passed out on a bed, leaving it covered in beer and fur. “It’s almost like it’s taken out of Goldilocks and the three bears,” said Nilsen. “They had a hell of a party in there.’’
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Judge rejects top state charges in Mangione caseSpeed Read If convicted, Mangione faces up to life in state prison
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UN panel finds Israeli genocide in GazaSpeed Read The report found that Israeli leaders had committed ‘four of the five “genocidal acts”’ prohibited under the U.N. Genocide Convention
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Trump allies reportedly poised to buy TikTokSpeed Read Under the deal, U.S. companies would own about 80% of the company
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Romanian swallows a metal fork, and more
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Suicidal man helps save a stranger, and more
feature A suicidal man who was threatening to jump off London Bridge helped save the life of a complete stranger drowning in the waters below.
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Morticians discover live man in body bag, and more
feature Workers at a Mississippi funeral home got a shock when a corpse started moving inside his body bag.
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How to shake a vending machine, and more
feature An Iowa man was fired from his warehouse job after he allegedly used a forklift to pick up a vending machine and shake loose a stuck candy bar.
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Young boy goes joyriding, and more
feature A 10-year-old Norwegian boy took his parents’ car for a joyride, then told police that he was a dwarf who had forgotten his driver’s license.
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Taking aim at Kroger's, and more
feature A Kentucky woman allegedly bought a car just so she could ram it into a supermarket that she hates.
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A name like no other, and more
feature Britain’s most heavily tattooed man has been refused a passport because of his unusual name.