Apparently it didn't look *enough* like a gun

A man tried to rob a gas station and a dry cleaner using “a knife and a potato that apparently looked like a handgun.” All he got was a fake $20 bill.

  

Sharknado is truly dangerous

Even this Sharknado action figure is dangerous! It is hazardous to anyone under 16 years old. A 15-year-old cannot be trusted to play with this toy.

Cruel and Unusual Punishment

Europe is outraged that the U.S. could botch an execution. Yes, it is embarrassing that it took 43 minutes for Clayton Lockett to die after he was injected. As one twitter user noted:

“How could Oklahoma botch an execution? If there’s one thing I would expect Americans to know how to do by now, it’s kill somebody.”

However, given that Lockett duct taped, kidnapped, beat, gang-raped, shot, and then buried alive a 19-year-old girl, I don’t feel too bad for him. He willfully meted out more than 43 minutes of agony on an innocent victim (and raped her friend, too).

We can debate about whether death by lethal injection (or capital punishment in general) is “cruel and unusual punishment,” which is banned by the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. But what I don’t understand is how people are outraged by the situation in the U.S. when another country has just adopted sharia law. That’s correct…the small nation of Brunei in East Asia has joined many other countries around the world in adopting the Islamic criminal law, which includes “flogging, dismemberment and death by stoning for crimes such as rape, adultery and sodomy,” and it will apply to non-Muslims as well as Muslims. Where’s the outrage over that? 

 

WARNING: Graphic images of sharia law follow. 

 

Yes, this little boy is having his arm severed by a truck, as part of sharia law.

Where is the international outrage?

#hypocrisy

"Baby on Board" signs: Not just for humans anymore.

This bumper sticker says there is a baby on board:

What kind of baby? A baby octopus?

“Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.” ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

I was disturbed to see this sign hanging in my local grocery store to support a non-profit campaign:

They want to "END CHILDHOOD"!!! What is this world coming to?

I did a double-take and found out that they actually want to end childhood hunger. 

Wow. Someone needs to go to design school.

Bubble Soccer (or football, as they call it in the rest of the world)

Bubble soccer looks like so much fun. 

 

You could forget the soccer ball and just run around bumping into people in your bubble. It would be like bumper cars. It could be very popular at amusements parks.

Bumper Stickers

You've seen those braggy bumper stickers for people who have run a marathon or half-marathon:

But now they have stickers for the rest of us:

 This guy apparently made it a quarter of a mile before collapsing:

This one probably refers to 3.1 miles, or 5 km, but I prefer the interpretation that it refers not to a number, but to a food (pi, or 3.14159....)

Forget the marathon. I'll show up for pie.

Do you hear a faint ticking sound?

A Pittsburgh woman found a ticking package and, fearing that it was a bomb, threw it out the window. Turns out it was a metronome sent as a gift. Did she think it was a bomb from a Wile E. Coyote cartoon?

Modern bombs don’t tick. The bomb maker would have to go to an antique store to find a ticking alarm clock to make a bomb like that. 

Now who's the super genius?