20 Horrifying Stories About Famous Kidnapping Victims

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Over the years, headlines have been flooded with stories of dark, grisly kidnappings. Many of these stories are so horrifying, that they're almost hard to believe. Some famous kidnapping victims return home, but others were sadly killed by their captors. Several of the most famous kidnapping victims were abducted because their families were rich, and the kidnappers wanted a hefty ransom.

Who is the most famous kidnapping victim? One of the most well-known kidnapping stories is that of Adam Walsh. The child was kidnapped at a department store in 1981. Two weeks later, his head was found by a fisherman, but his body was never recovered. The murder was unsolved for many years, but Ottis Toole was later declared responsible for the crime. Walsh's father, John Walsh, went on to host the show, America's Most Wanted.

Do you think that there is a better way to prevent kidnappings? Share your thoughts in the comment section.

20 Horrifying Stories About Famous Kidnapping Victims,

Adam Walsh
Adam Walsh was kidnapped at a department store in 1981. Two weeks later, his head was found by a fisherman, but his body was never recovered. The murder was unsolved for many years, but Ottis Toole was later declared responsible for the crime. Walsh's father, John Walsh, went on to host the show, America's Most Wanted.

Toole was suspected of the crime for many years, but a changing story and retracted confessions slowed down progress in the case. At one point, people thought that Jeffery Dahmer may have been the culprit, but that was later discounted. The case was finally closed in 2008, with Toole held accountable for the crime.

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Amber Hagerman
In 1996, Amber Hagerman was kidnapped while riding her bike in a parking lot. She was later killed by her captor, who has never been identified. Her case was the inspiration for the Amber Alert notification system.

A neighbor witnessed the kidnapping of nine year old Hagerman and called the police. The girl's mother, father, and neighbors started looking for Amber, but sadly, a dog walker found her body four days after her abduction. The crime remains unsolved to this day.
 

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Elizabeth Smart
Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped at knife point back in 2002. She was held by Brian David Mitchell, and his wife, Wanda Barzee, for nine months before she was recovered.

Brian David Mitchell broke into the Smart home and kidnapped 14-year-old Smart while her sister pretended to sleep in the same room. After Mitchell brought Smart to his camp, he repeatedly raped her, often multiple times a day.

Nine months after the abduction, a biker called police when he saw Mitchell, Barzee, and Smart traveling together because it looked suspicious. Officers recognized Smart, and Mitchell and Barzee were arrested for kidnapping.

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Michael Anthony Hughes
Michael Anthony Hughes has been missing since 1994. He was abducted by Franklin Delano Floyd while he was attending school. Hughes has never been seen since, but Floyd was arrested for his kidnapping and sentenced to 55 years in prison.

The freakiest part about this case is that Sharon Marshall, Hughes's mother, was married to Floyd. Floyd actually kidnapped Marshall when she was a little girl, raised her as his daughter, and married her later in life. Sharon Marshall's real name was Suzanne Marie Sevakis. Floyd took her and her sister and brother from their home when she was a young child, and began sexually abusing her. Her brother was never seen again. Marshall/Sevakis was found dead in a suspicious hit-and-run accident in April 1990. Floyd was listed as a suspect, but never charged with her murder.

The investigation of Michael Hughes's murder is still on-going, as there are mixed testimonies associated with his disappearance. Some say that Floyd confessed to drowning Hughes in a motel bathroom in Georgia, while others say they saw Floyd bury a body in the cemetary. Floyd himself has not made any formal confessions.
 
Floyd is currently on death row for murdering another woman.

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Patty Hearst
Patty Hearst was kidnapped for 19 months by the Symbionese Liberation Army in 1974. The SLA was asking for two of their members to be freed from jail, and when that wasn't accomplished, they demanded that food be given to every needy Californian.

Later claiming a case of "Stockholm Syndrom," Hearst joined the SLA in criminal behavior before the FBI recovered her. Hearst was convicted of bank robbery, but she served a shortened sentence and was released in 1979.

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Sabine Dardenne
In 1996, 12-year-old Sabine Dardenne was kidnapped by Marc Dutroux and held captive for 80 days in a cellar. She was snatched while riding her bike to school. Another girl, Laetitia Delhez, was also kidnapped in order to give Dardenne a friend.

A witness wrote down the registration number of Dutroux's car during the abduction, and Belgian police eventually tracked Dutroux down and arrested him. Dutroux admitted to kidnapping and raping both girls. Five bodies of his previous victims were found buried in the cellar.

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Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., son of famed pilot Charles Lindbergh, was kidnapped from his bed in 1932. A ransom note was left at the scene requesting $50,000. After a 72-day search, the baby's body was found in the woods. In 1934, police arrested Bruno Richard Hauptmann for the kidnapping and murder of the child.

Investigators suspect that Lindbergh, Jr.'s cause of death was due to a massive skull fracture. Hauptmann was found guilty and sentenced to death. He was electrocuted to death in 1936.

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Graeme Thorne
The 1960 kidnapping and murder of Graeme Thorne was the first of its kind in Australian history. The culprits were trying to blackmail the child's father for a recent lottery win.

Eight year old, Thorne was taken as he waited for his ride to school. His body was found in a rug. Police suspect that he died from asphyxiation and/or a head wound. Forensic evidence was used to track down his murderer, Stephen Bradley, who died in prison in 1968.

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Jaycee Lee Dugard
Jaycee Lee Dugard was abducted in 1991, when she was just 11 years old, and held in captivity by Phillip Garrido for over 18 years.

Dugard was walking to her school bus stop at the time of the kidnapping. Garrido stopped his car, and used a stun gun to capture her. While in captivity, Dugard was forced to shower with Garrido, and was repeatedly raped. She first became pregnant at age 13, and her second daughter was born three years later.

In 2009, Garrido raised suspicions after an events manager at UC Berkeley noticed that his daughters looked pale at a meeting. Officers were notified and after an investigation of Garrido's home, he was arrested. Dugard was finally freed.

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Jessica Lunsford
Jessica Lunsford was abducted from her home in 2005. Her body was found one month later behind a house where John Evander Couey was staying. Couey was later found guilty of kidnapping, murder, burglary, and sexual assault.

Couey provided investigators with a detailed confession. He raped Lunsford, and then told her to climb into a black garbage bag so that he could take her home. Instead of returning her to her parents, he buried her alive. Couey was sentenced to death for his crimes, but died of colon cancer in 2009.

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Facts About OJ Simpson That Will Make Your Skin Crawl

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The OJ Simpson murder case is never far from popular culture. With the 20th anniversary of the killings in 2014, and a new FX miniseries about the murders and trial debuting in 2016, it's worth diving into some creepy OJ Simpson facts. Simpson's behavior before, during, and after the trial is some of the strangest and most compelling in modern history - and much of it was really, really creepy.

For example, Simpson has made numerous attempts to profit from the notoriety he achieved from the murders, even while insisting he didn't commit them. He put his name on a ghost-written confession, wanted to put his first interview on pay-per-view, and tried to cash in with a prank show. Oh, and he threw a giant bash after being acquitted of the double murder over which he was later sued and ultimately found responsible for.

What happened to OJ Simpson? Here are some of the creepiest, most WTF facts about OJ Simpson and the insane trial of the century that swirled around him.

Facts About OJ Simpson That Will Make Your Skin Crawl,

Many Jury Members Thought He Was Guilty
After nine months of testimony, the jury, made up mostly of African American women, took just four hours to find Simpson not guilty. In the months and years to follow, many publicly claimed they personally believed Simpson committed the murders. But the prosecution and LAPD had botched the case to the point where they believed there was reasonable doubt.

A more focused and competent prosecution, along with less-sloppy work by forensics investigators, might have convicted Simpson - as it's clear the jury wanted to.

OJ and Nicole's Kids Were a Few Feet Away When She Died
OJ and Nicole's two children, Sydney (8) and Justin (5), were upstairs in the two story Brentwood condo they lived in with their mother during the attack. Downstairs, just a few feet away, Nicole was being butchered by an assailant.

We Finally Know What OJ Whispered to Robert Shapiro
Just after the jury pronounced him not guilty, OJ leaned over to Robert Shapiro and whispered something in his ear. Now, after a 2016 interview with Fox News' Megyn Kelly, we finally know what the just-exonerated suspect said to his high-priced lawyer.

"You were right."

According to Shapiro, he'd told OJ at the very beginning of the trial that he'd be found not guilty, and as it turned out, he was completely correct. Shapiro blamed a narrow prosecution, and in particular, the moment where OJ was asked to try on the glove that didn't fit, for his being found not guilty. And does Shapiro himself think OJ did it?

Apparently, he never thought about it. ""As far as moral justice," Shapiro said, "I haven't discussed it with anyone. Our system of justice is one that's balanced. We hope and pray that innocent people are never convicted. And the price we pay is that sometimes guilty people can and do go free."

OJ Wanted to Do His First Post-Trial Interview on Pay-Per-View
OJ briefly thought of having his first interview post-acquittal take place in a pay-per-view deal, and would have made millions if it had gone through. Fortunately, he couldn't find any sponsors, and the plan fell apart. He ended up doing his first interview on NBC - and neither he nor the network made any money from it.

The Kardashian Sisters Can't Agree On Which Bedroom OJ Tried to Kill Himself In
While it's long been known that OJ threatened to commit suicide at the home of Robert Kardashian, the FX miniseries revealed new details about it - namely, that he sat in Kim's bedroom sobbing, holding a gun, vowing to off himself.

But even in that, the details are fuzzy. Not to mention that the Kardashian sisters are trying to one-up each other. Khloe, Kim's younger sister, told James Corden that while she though the miniseries was great, it got one detail wrong: that OJ threatened to kill himself in her bedroom, not Kim's.

Simpson Got Military Knife Skills Training on a TV Show
A few months before the murders, Simpson filmed a TV movie/backdoor pilot for NBC called Frogmen, about an elite squad of Navy SEALs based in Miami. Simpson starred as the group's leader, and as such, underwent knife combat training. The pilot also had a scene in which Simpson's character held a knife to his daughter's throat, thinking she was an intruder.

It was during the shooting of Frogmen that Simpson went to Ross Cutlery and examined the knife that prosecutors say he used to kill Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. The tape of the pilot was admitted as evidence, but never used. It's now in a Warner Brothers vault, and has never been aired.

Simpson Has Pictures of Kim Kardashian in His Prison Cell
Simpson knew Kim's parents, Kris and Robert Kardashian, for years even before his trial. He also seems to have a pretty intense crush on Kim - who is half his age (not to mention married and a mother of two). Sources say OJ, serving a 33 year prison term for a 2008 robbery in Nevada, talks about her constantly, demands silence when her show is on, and has decorated his prison walls with pictures of her from Playboy.

One anonymous source quoted him as once saying "Kim likes black ball players, I am a Hall of Famer - and I still have my Heisman award,” - a dig at ex-boyfriend Reggie Bush, who returned his 2005 award. Whether or not this is true or just tabloid nonsense is anyone's guess.

There are also rumors (let us repeat: just rumors!) that OJ Simpson is the biological father of Khloe Kardashian.  Just thinking about even a far-off possibility makes your skin crawl!

OJ Whispered to Nicole's Corpse (and Kissed It) During Her Funeral
Despite the horrific wounds inflicted on her, Nicole Brown Simpson was buried in an open casket wake. Sure enough, OJ came to it. According to multiple witnesses, including testimony from Nicole's mother, he kissed her corpse on the lips, murmured something that sounded like an apology, and might have spent as long as 15 minutes talking to the body.

Someone Found a Knife on OJ's Property - In 1998
On March 4, 2016, the LAPD held a press conference to announce that it was examining a knife that had been found buried on the perimeter of OJ's Brentwood estate. In a shocking twist, the folding buck knife had actually been found by a construction worker in 1998 when the estate was being demolished. But by June, authorities had determined that the knife was not the one used in the murders, since forensic tests (and its small size) ruled it out.

Apparently, the worker gave the knife to an off-duty police officer who was in the area providing security for a film shoot. The officer inexplicably held on to the knife, and it wasn't until earlier in 2016 that the officer retired and told a friend at the LAPD about it, allegedly seeking the case number so he could frame the weapon and add a plaque with the identifying detail. That officer turned around and told his superiors, who demanded the knife be handed over for examination.

The murder weapon in the Simpson case was never found, but Simpson can't be tried again due to double jeopardy laws. Simpson himself is reported to be laughing about the whole thing, quipping to a guard "If the knife is rusted, I can’t be busted.”

Johnnie Cochran Redecorated OJ's House to Look "More Black"
During the seemingly endless trial, jurors were allowed to go to OJ's Rockingham estate. But Simpson lawyer was inexplicably given permission to redecorate it before the tour. Among other things, Cochran took down naked photos of OJ's then-girlfriend and replaced them with stereotypical African art.

The 13 Most Horrible Bosses of All Time

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We've all had a bad boss or two, one that makes us stay later than we want to, doesn't pay us enough or makes us do demeaning things for her/him like take out their trash when it's full. Bad bosses get a lot worse than that, though. From firing a woman who just donated a kidney to her boss, to a boss that made employees tattoo his birthday on their necks, to a boss who installed sniper towers and canons when workers asked for a raise, these are the worst, most horrible, bad bosses of all time.

Who are the worst bosses ever? If you think you've got it bad, just read a few of these and come into work tomorrow morning at peace with the fact that your bad boss isn't going to fire you over bringing him/her a flat Coke or liking a Facebook page. All of the bad bosses you've ever had ain't got nothin on the worst bosses of all time. And if they do, maybe it's time you looked for a better place to work (i.e. the streets).
The 13 Most Horrible Bosses of All Time,

Employees Forced to Tattoo Boss's Birthday on Neck
What would you do if someone demanded that you get his birthday tattooed on your neck? Even if that person was your boss? Are you sure? Yeah, OK, me too. (Wait, you answered, "Get it for shiggles," right?)

In 2010, an employee at Day and Night Spa in Mount Prospect, IL, told police that her boss Alex "Daddy" Campbell forced her to get three tattoos. One was a horseshoe - a "brand" he made all his female employees get - and another was the date of his own birthday (Sept. 17th - "917") on the back of her neck.

But that was just the beginning. Turned out all the women working out the "massage parlor" were illegal immigrants from Belarus and Ukraine, and Campbell held on to their passports and visas. He forced a few to have sex with him, and some to have sex with each other, and he taped the sex to use as blackmail in case any of them got mouthy.

In some places, these practices are called forced labor, sex trafficking, and extortion. Luckily, one of those places is America. At his arrest, Campbell was quoted as saying:

You all hating on my pimp game. My lawyer gonna get you good for f--king with me and my hos.

Campbell's first trial was dismissed after his defense attorney was exposed as a parlor client, but Campbell was eventually convicted on 11 counts and faces life in prison. What a pimp.
Boss Pimps Out Employee's Wife
Call this one a Long Con. Shelley Lynn worked at McDonald's, which is known for his minimum wages, lack of benefits, and weak job protection. The employer is so useless, in fact, that it forced Lynn into a life of prostitution.

Hold on, it's more complicated than that. Actually, it's very complicated.

Lynn met Keith Handley in 1982 when she worked the counter at a McD's in Arroyo Grand, CA. At 29, she already had three children and three ex-husbands, so she was happy to meet franchise owner Handley. He was educated, older, and English. And he stood by the manager when he fired Lynn for not putting ice away.

After her termination, Handley never gave Lynn money, but he did take her and her children to McDonald's every night. Back on welfare, she went to Las Vegas to try to be a dancer. Handley bought a house there for them, but it was hard to keep up homes in both places. Eventually, he convinced her to start prostituting herself.

At the end of 1986, Handley took Lynn to Chicken Ranch Brothel in Pahrump, NV, where she worked for the next 6 years. She had sex with many, many gentlemen, and Handley asked her to describe her trysts to him. They hung out with other McDonald's franchisees and their wives. They were living the good life.

The couple drew up in a romantic prenup and married in March 1988. Soon after, Handley started pimping his blushing bride out on freelance hooking gigs.

Things went on this way for years, until Handley - not Lynn - filed for divorce in 1994. Still, if 12 years of forced prostitution does not a horrible boss make, for the life of me, I don't know what does.
Walmart Employees Disarm Robbers, Save Lives, Get Fired
In January 2011, four Walmart employees in Salt Lake City were confronted by a robber and pushed into an office. One worker, in a heroic move, ripped the gun away from the would-be shooter, disarming him until police could come. After saving the day, they all got fired:

They were fired for violating the store's policy on shoplifters, known as "AP09."

AP09 shows employees are allowed to use reasonable force to limit movements of struggling suspects. But if a gun comes out, associates must disengage and withdraw.

Acting like a hero could endanger customers, but what choice did the employees have? They literally had their backs against the wall. Sounds like Walmart higher-ups could stand to take another look at their company policies.
Boss Takes Away Company Chairs
In a Bad Boss contest, this winner takes the gold cup. A former employee at a Minnesota non-profit started work to raise money for a cause. They had to reach goals. They were on their way...

So the first month after launch and doing $75K, we were all proud of ourselves, but we were all written up because "it wasn't enough"

The second month we doubled sales to $150K, but "it wasn't enough"...so to "teach us a lesson" Our boss took away all of our chairs...FOREVER!!!

Yes, we were in the ecommerce department, with NO CHAIRS, hunched over our desks working on computers all day long.

Best of all: A disabled employee had her chair taken away, too. Since her job description was rewritten as a "standing only" position, the writer was required to fire her.
Boss Fires Employee for Flat Coca Cola, Not Recognizing Him
It's understandable for an employee to want to keep a low profile at the workplace, but some bosses expect all their staff at the front-and-center. Jim Dolan, son of Cablevision / HBO founder / billionaire Charles Dolan, is one of those bosses. As chairman of Madison Square Garden, he has a reputation for being an absolute tool. Cases in point:

-He once fired an employee for serving him flat cola.
-He once fired a security guard for not recognizing his face.

Dolan is also known around the workplace for using colorful language - if not a very broad vocabulary - liberally sprinkled with those misogynistic B-words and P-words designed to keep lady staffers and athletes, like Anucha Browne Sanders, in line. In response to accusations of foul language around his arena, Dolan said:

It’s not appropriate. It’s also not appropriate to murder anyone. I don’t know if that’s happened here.

Whatever that means. Dolan also reportedly let Knicks player Stephon Marbury use his own truck to get down with a MSG intern - which officially makes him either the World's Worst Boss or the Best.
Boss Uses Employee Credit Cards to Pay for Fuel for His Private Jet
Lenny "Nails" Dykstra was a center-fielder for the New York Mets in the late-1980s and the Philadelphia Phillies throughout most of the '90s. Some years later, in 2008, he started a magazine called Player's Club about professional athletes and their expensive lifestyles. He even offered them financial advice.

The problem was that Dykstra was still living one of those expensive lifestyles even though he was no longer an athlete. In 2008, his net worth was estimated at $58 million. In 2009, he filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, listing less than $50,000 in assets. He claimed to be a victim of mortgage fraud, lost a house to foreclosure, and was the subject of at least two dozen legal actions since 2007. He has also been accused of sexual assault (Jan. 2011), arrested for sexual harassment (1999), and charged with indecent exposure (Aug. 2011) - note that those are three separate incidents. And he's been charged with grand theft auto, identity theft, bankruptcy fraud, vandalism, and possession of cocaine, ecstasy, and some other stuff he shouldn't have.

"But that just makes him a horrible guy," you say. "It doesn't necessarily make him a horrible boss."

Au contraire. Dykstra was known to pester employees at all hours of the night - and even to invite prospective employees to dinner and stick them with the bill. But those were still small potatoes:

The unluckiest employees were pressured into providing him credit card access with the promise they would be paid back with interest.

"One of the dumbest decisions I ever made, giving him my American Express card information," said Kevin Coughlin, who left another job to become photo director for The Players Club.

Coughlin said that Dykstra ran up tens of thousands of dollars on his card, including one $32,000 charge for a leased jet from Atlanta to Helena, Mont., where Dykstra’s son, Cutter, was playing minor league ball. Coughlin worked only 67 days for Dykstra, but it took months to recover the money.

Kevin Dykstra said Lenny used the same credit card ruse on their mother, Marilyn, and alleged that his brother invested, and lost, the $700,000 bonus his son Cutter received when he signed his first professional contract with the Milwaukee Brewers organization.

Stealing from his own mother? That's some cold sh-t.

In April 2012, Dykstra was sentenced to nine months in jail after pleading no contest of assault with a deadly weapon on a woman he met on Craigslist. The month before that, he was sentenced to three years in prison for grand theft auto. He is still awaiting trial for charges of federal bankruptcy.
Boss Counteracts Union's Plea with Paycuts, Sniper Towers, Cannons
Henry Clay Frick was an insanely rich man. Being the chairman of Carnegie Steel will do that for you. He was the exact kind of "fat cat" that's inspired cartoons for generations, living extravagantly with little to no regard for those around him.

An example of his "greatness", apart from the insane reaction he had to a union approaching him for higher pay, is that he once owned an entire town with his rich friends, just so they could fish there. They altered the dam in the town in a few different ways to make their fishing a bit more luxurious/easy. These alterations not only made is so that the dam got weaker, but also so that it broke, killing over 1500 people in neighboring towns. (From this article).

When the price of steel products started to drop in 1892, Frick anticipated a strike by members of the craft union in his Pittsburgh plant. First, he had them produce as much as possible before their contract expired so that he could stand a few weeks without them. When they asked for an increase in wages, Frick slashed them by 22%. Then he closed the mills, locked out 1,100 men, and announced that he would no longer negotiate with the union. Here's what happened next:

Although only 750 of the 3,800 workers at Homestead belonged to the union, 3,000 of them met and voted overwhelmingly to strike. Frick responded by building a fence three miles long and 12 feet high around the steelworks plant, adding peepholes for rifles and topping it with barbed wire. Workers named the fence "Fort Frick."

Eventually, a force of Pinkerton enforcers were brought in, and on July 6, a violent kerfuffle erupted on the Monongahela River. By the time the state militia was called in, 12 were dead; by the end of the ordeal, the total was 16. It really got out of hand. Fast.
Boss Fires Employee for Time Spent Off After Double By-Pass
Last time I had surgery, I was out of commission for a week. I spent every day on the couch watching "My Super Sweet 16" and popping Vicodin, unable to bathe, dress myself, or even microwave my own Easy Mac - much less go to work. And all I did was have my wisdom teeth removed.

In January 2008, New Zealander Murray Gardiner, 60, was admitted to the hospital after suffering a week's worth of major chest pain. He was put into emergency surgery for a double bypass. Afterwards, records noted that the procedure was "uneventful" and had "nil" complications" - successful by all accounts. Except one.

Gardiner's boss, Patch Rubber Company director Julian Proctor, dropped by the recovery room not with flowers or balloons, but with his briefcase. He pulled out a letter that said the following:

Murray, this is very hard on both of us but unfortunately I have to find a replacement for you.

I have been told that the operation was not fully successful in that the veins that they took from your legs were not much better than the ones that were going to your heart, so that only half the operation was able to be completed.

To return to full duties too soon could kill you.

A temporary replacement for you can not be found even if you are able in the future to resume full duties.
Woman Donates Kidney to Boss, Gets Fired
Debbie Stevens, a Long Island mother who sources could only describe as "kind and generous", donated a kidney to save her boss's life. The woman was then fired soon after, by the very same boss to whom she donated the kidney.

"I decided to become a kidney donor to my boss, and she took my heart," she said.

After temporarily moving away and taking another job elsewhere, Stevens decided to visit her old town in Long Island and meet up with her former employer, Jackie Brucia. Brucia had told her all about her health problems and that she had a kidney donor all lined up. Stevens, the kind-hearted, wonderful woman she is, then offered to donate her own kidney nonetheless, should she ever need it.

A few months go by and Stevens moves back to Long Island indefinitely, asking her old boss for her old job back. A few weeks later, she has a job. The boss, Jackie Brucia, let Stevens work for a while before calling her into the office and telling her that her kidney fell through.

Stevens quickly donated her kidney, which actually wasn't a perfect match, but it did help Brucia get up higher on the donor list. So Stevens donated her kidney to someone else so that Brucia could have a quicker transplant. This woman is a saint.

Soon afterward Brucia kept asking the woman who'd just donated a kidney (which is a very painful process for the donors and includes all kinds of digestive problems and body pain) "What are you doing? Why aren't you at work? You can't just come and go as you please. People are going to think you're getting special treatment."

If you're a co-worker of a person who just donated a kidney to the boss, not only are you going to have compassion for them already (I have a hard time giving a day of my weekend to my boss), but you're going to understand if invasive surgery keeps them out of the office for a few days.

Stevens was then moved to another dealership (these are all car dealers, by the way) 50 miles away from her home in a high-crime neighborhood that her co-workers jokingly called "Siberia". She was being punished for the medical implications of saving her boss's life. She was then fired. Lawyers were involved and the woman still does not work there anymore.

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Boss Kills Workers for Asking for Salaries
Maybe you've dreamed of killing your boss (#dark), but in Soviet Russia, boss kills you. In March 2009, a group of minibus drivers working in the central Russian city Nizhny Novgorod went on strike following a salary cut. The men - all Uzbek nationals - were especially upset because their boss not only cut their wages, but also took their passports. That meant they couldn't even leave the country.

The strikers confronted their boss to demand payment, but things got heated when he took out a pump-action gun and fired at the crowd. He wounded 47 year-old worker Aktam Khuzhamuratov and fled the scene. Khuzhamuratov died later that day.

This wasn't the first time a boss turned on his employees. In 2007 in Atlanta, Lithuanian car dealership owner Rolandas Milinavicius shot and killed his only two workers, Inga Contrearas (25) and Martynas Simokaitis (28), who had been asking for more money. Turns out the only thing Milinavicius had to unload on them was stress. Well, and bullets.

The 25 Most Elaborate Final Meals in Death Row History

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The most bizarre last meal requests in the history of the penal system reveal that if you're crazy enough to get yourself landed on death row, you're crazy enough to order a litany of fried and otherwise crazy foods when facing the death penalty.

Texas recently got rid of the "last meal" for any people getting executed due to Lawrence Russel Brewer's choice of "meal" (see the first item below), it's a better time than any to look back at some of the most absurdly elaborate meals that dead men walking have ever requested.

What are the best last meal requests of inmates on death row? From tubs of ice cream to slabs of ribs, here they are.
The 25 Most Elaborate Final Meals in Death Row History,

John Wayne Gacy
Executed: 1994 for the assault, murder, and rape of 33 young boys, 26 of whom he kept buried in his backyard. He's most famous for dressing up as a clown, solidifying many people's existing fear of the horrifying hell-creatures. His last meal, surprisingly, did not include cotton candy.

Last Meal:
Fried shrimp, a bucket of KFC original recipe chicken, fries, and a pound of strawberries. A pound.
Lawrence Russel Brewer
Executed: Sept. 21st 2011 for the murder of James Byrd. He and two of his white supremacist friends beat him severely, urinated on him, and chained him by his ankles to their pickup truck before dragging him for three miles while he was fully conscious. A curb finally killed him and severed his arm.

Brewer was later arrested. This is the jerk that ruined the whole "last meal" thing for other inmates in Texas. When he got all this, he refused to eat a bite of any of it. This guy was just out to make people angry and hey, mission accomplished. Here's what he ordered...

Last Meal:
Two Chicken Fried Steaks, Triple Bacon Cheeseburger, Cheese Omelet, Large Bowl of Fried Okra, three fajitas, one pound of barbecue w/half loaf of white bread. a Meat Lovers pizza; three root beers; one pint of Blue Bell vanilla ice cream; and a slab of peanut butter fudge with crushed peanuts.
Robert Dale Conklin
Executed: 2005. While on parole for armed robbery, he killed a man by sticking a screwdriver in his ear and twisting it around. He then dissected the body and put select parts of it down the garbage disposal.

Last Meal:
Filet mignon wrapped in bacon, de-veined shrimp sauteed in garlic butter with lemon, a baked potato with butter, sour cream, chives, and real bacon bits, corn on the cob, asparagus with hollandaise sauce, French bread with butter, goat cheese, cantaloupe, apple pie with vanilla bean ice cream, and an iced tea.
William Bonin
Executed: 1996. The most famous "Freeway Killer," he tortured, raped, and killed at least 21 boys. He would get male prostitutes, young hitchhikers, and school boys into his truck, rape them, torture them, then brutally murder them, often using their own t-shirts to strangle them.

Last Meal:
Two pepperoni and sausage pizzas, three servings of chocolate ice cream, and three six-packs of Coca-Cola and Pepsi.
Dennis Bagwell
Executed: 2005. Bagwell invaded the home of Ronald Boone, who returned to his Texas home to find the bodies of his wife Leona McBee, his daughter Libby Best, and his granddaughters Reba Best and Tassy Boone. According to reports, McBee and Tassy had been beaten and strangled, necks broken, and Tassy was raped. Libby was shot in the head, and Reba’s skull was crushed with a hammer and a metal exercise bar.

Last Meal:
Steak, fried chicken, BBQ ribs, fries, onion rings, bacon, a dozen scrambled eggs with onions, fried taters with onions, sliced tomatoes, a salad with ranch dressing, two hamburgers with everything, peach pie, milk and coffee, ice tea with real sugar.
Ronnie Lee Gardner
Executed: 2010. He killed a man during a robbery, then when being transported to a hearing for his crimes, he killed an attorney. He got life in prison for the first, then the death penalty for the second.

Last Meal:
Lobster tail, steak, apple pie, vanilla ice cream, 7-Up while watching Lord of the Rings. Huh.
Steven Michael Woods, Jr.
Executed: 2011 for the murder of a young couple, even after many appeals and being backed by some popular non-profits/media organizations.

Last Meal:
Two pounds of bacon, a large four-meat pizza, four fried chicken breasts, two drinks each of Mountain Dew, Pepsi, root beer, and sweet tea, two pints of ice cream, five chicken fried steaks, two hamburgers with bacon, fries, and a dozen garlic bread sticks with marinara on the side.
John Wayne Gacy's Last Meal

Ronnie Lee Gardner's Last Meal

Thomas J. Grasso
Executed: 1995. He strangled an elderly woman using her own Christmas lights, stole $8 from her purse, $4 from around the house and sold her television for $125. He then murdered an elderly male and stole his social security check (even after having been recently married).

Last Meal:
Two dozen steamed mussels, two dozen steamed clams, a double cheeseburger from Burger King, half-dozen barbecue spare ribs, two strawberry milkshakes, half a pumpkin pie with whipped cream with diced strawberries, and a 16-ounce can of spaghetti with meatballs, served at room temperature.

He later complained "I did not get my SpaghettiOs, I got [canned] spaghetti. I want the press to know this."

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We all love to hear celebrity anecdotes—they make us feel like we really know our Hollywood idols. Celebrity stories can go one of two ways, though: They can bolster our love or they can crush our dreams. A recent Reddit thread asked users to spill their saddest celebrity encounters. From mean celebrities (Gene Simmons is NOT a nice guy) to just plain sad celebrities (drunken Carrot Top isn't funny anymore), here are the saddest celebrity encounters of all time—that really happened!

Once you've cringed at the stories on this list, be sure to read all about the celebrities who were jerks even before they had fame in their corner.
The Saddest (Real) Celebrity Encounters,

Aaron Carter
Reddit user Mr_President worked at Six Flags over the summer, and one night the park shut down to accommodate a 13-year-old Aaron Carter. "Security had to make sure he was escorted around and 'safe' from the empty park. Aaron was constantly eating a blue blow pop, his face was covered with blue sugary goop. He began behaving like the 13 year old he was and his mother had to pull him aside and all but spank his butt. It was so awkward to watch a celebrity being reprimanded by his mom."
Betty White

Betty White is all of us in this moment from joeb7474: "I was at the Beverly Center in Los Angeles and saw a poster promoting Betty White signing her latest book about how much she loves animals. I liked the Golden Girls so I thought I would swing by the bookstore to take a gander at Betty White. It was so sad. I'll always remember she was sitting alone at a big table with a stack of books in front of her. People were in the bookstore shopping but no one was buying her book or really acknowledging her. She just sat there, pen in hand, waiting. She would occasionally wipe off some imaginary dust to look busy."

Chris Pontius
Commenter buttdirt had a conversation with Jackass's Chris Pontius entirely through body language. "I realized who he was, he saw that I recognized him and he gave me a look that was so sad, like, 'please don't announce to the world that I'm here.' I nodded and he smiled and looked relieved."
Hulk Hogan
The Hulk must've had a sad day after he met Reddit user JoyceCarolOatmeal. She says, "All I remember is that my dad got his attention as he was walking toward the ring, and when he came around he stuck out this GIANT hand and said "Put it there, darlin'!" I recognized him but he was scary, so I peed my pants and cried."
Kel Mitchell
YaBoyWillMess met one of his childhood idols, Kel of Keenan and Kel fame, at a bar, when, "I ran over, made awkward eye contact with him, and the child in me yelled 'WHO LOVES ORANGE SODA?' Kel turned around real slowly from where he was sitting, looked me in the eyes, and in a very disappointed voice said 'F*ck off, white b*tch.' Easily one of the worst nights of my life."
Larry David
fromdario is a huge fan of Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm, and naturally wanted to shake Larry David's hand when he saw the actor at a sandwich shop. "As I approach he looks up at me, I say, 'Mr. David, sorry to interrupt, but I am a big fan of your work and wanted to say thank you for making me laugh so many times. It would be an honor to shake your hand.' He looks down at the food, looks up at me, looks at my out stretched hand and goes, 'Ahhhh, I just washed my hands, sorry.'"
Michael Cera
When Lets_Get-Weird ran into Michael Cera on the subway, the encounter was Cera's signature brand of awkward. "We had an eye conversation. No words exchanged, but he was terrified I was going to speak up or ask for an autograph. He kept nervously looking back over his shoulder at me. When he got to his stop he paused and nodded at me in thanks."
Michael Phelps
When a friend of Reddit user bubba3517 stumbled upon Michael Phelps eating a granola bar, "Phelps quickly finished his granola bar in order to shake my buddy's hand. As they were shaking hands he transferred the wrapper to my buddy, leaned in, whispered 'you can keep that', and promptly walked off."
Muhammad Ali
GretSeat got a chance to meet his hero, Muhammad Ali, at a restaurant in Florida and asked for his autograph. "He took at least (no joke) 2 full minutes to sign his name. And it was at that point that it killed me. This was Cassius Clay. Muhammad Ali. The most charismatic, float like a butterfly sting like a bee, man in boxing history. And he was such a shell of his former self because of the Parkinson's. It was so heartbreaking. It really was."
Steve-O
Willie1707 went to see Steve-O do stand up and said, "After his show, he said he would meet everybody there. We waited in line, and he was being super nice, laughing and taking pictures with everyone. Right before we got to the stage some fat, redneck a**hole told him that he was funnier back when he was on drugs. It killed his whole vibe. When we got to him he just took a picture with us and said thanks for coming, but he was clearly in a bad mood."

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Every year there are hundreds of people who die in really weird ways, and 2015 is no different. Whether they die accidentally by falling off a lighthouse or if a cow falls through their ceiling and kills them in their sleep, it’s all weird. The crazy deaths of 2015 on this list run the gamut from avoidable deaths to completely tragic endings, but the one thing that connects them is that they’re all insane. Keep in mind that all of the deaths on this list are tragic, and all of the people who died in weird ways on this list should have lived until a ripe old age, but the cosmic absurdity that is life saw fit for them to be stabbed by a swordfish. It goes without saying, but this list of the craziest deaths of 2015 is NSFW, so make sure your boss isn’t standing over your shoulder.

No matter how great we think we are, everyone’s ears tend to perk up when someone tells a story involving weird deaths. 2015 has been a year full of strange occurrences, and the deaths are no different. This catalogue of horrors is full of deaths that are equally odd and terrifying, some of them are downright grim. If you find yourself feeling down while reading this list of crazy deaths, just open a browser with a list of the cutest kittens and you’ll be right as rain.

Vote up the craziest deaths of 2015 below, and if you’ve read a news story from 2015 that involved people who died in weird ways, tell everyone about it in the comments.
The Craziest Deaths of 2015,

After Waking Up in a Grave, a South American Teen Dies in Her Coffin
A 16-year-old Honduran girl, Neysi Perez, passed out and began foaming at the mouth after hearing a gunshot near her home. She was given an exorcism and then pronounced dead, after failing to wake up. 24 hours after her burial, her family dug her up after hearing her muffled screams, but they were too late.
Stowaway Falls to His Death From a British Airways Plane
A stowaway from Johannesburg, South Africa fell to his death, landing on a building in West London, after hanging on to the bottom of a plane for 8,000 miles.
‘Crocodile Poison’ Beer Kills Nearly 70 at Funeral in Mozambique
At least 69 people were killed at a funeral in Mozambique, after drinking a beer brewed with poison crocodile bile. It didn't seem to be a malicious attack, as the woman who brewed the beer also died.
Utah Man Dies of Bubonic Plague
A 72-year-old man in Utah died after becoming afflicted with the bubonic plague, a disease thought to be extinct. However, in Utah, prairie dogs and their fleas are known carriers of the illness.
An 18 Year Old Died After Injecting Himself with Hydrogel
In Ribeirao, Brazil a young man died of respiratory failure after injecting himself in the penis with Hydrogel, a substance thought to thicken the penis. The substance not only causes respiratory problems, it's also been known to eat away at the skin if not injected correctly.
Hawaiian Man Is Impaled by Swordfish
Randy Llanes, 47, of Kailua-Kona, suffered fatal internal injuries after being stabbed by the bill of a swordfish after jumping into the water with a spear gun. He struck the swordfish - which fled - became entangled in a buoy line and turned around, striking the man.
German Man Dies on Christmas Trying to Rob a Condom Machine
A 29 year old man died on Christmas Day, 2015 in Germany after he and two friends tried to rob a condom dispenser by blowing it up. He was hit in the head by a flying shard of metal after trying to run for cover. His two accomplices rushed him to the hospital, but unfortunately, his injuries were fatal. The other two men involved have not yet revealed what kind of explosive device they used to try to blow up the condom machine and take its money, but we're guessing it was a pretty powerful one.  

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Actor Who Portrayed Gaston at Disney Dies in Fireworks Explosion
During a July 4th celebration in Maine, 22 year old actor Devon Staples, who formerly portrayed Gaston at Disney World, was drinking heavily when he placed a fireworks mortar tube on his head and set it off. After the accident a friend said, "There was no rushing him to the hospital. There was no Devon left when I got there..."
Woman Survives Car Crash, Dies Trying to Get Her Purse from Car
In a police report that reads like a Final Destination movie scene, officers detailed the death of Brittany Leith, a 25-year-old Long Island woman who died in a car accident on the Southern State Parkway. Sounds sad, but not altogether strange - until you realize that Leith had just survived a gruesome accident where her car completely flipped after it hit the center median. Passing motorists managed to get Leith out of the car and to safety, but she insisted on returning to her vehicle to get her personal items. When she tried crossing the three-lane highway to get to the overturned Nissan, she was hit by another car and killed.

Car Crash Kills Two - Airbags Are Replaced With Cocaine
Two people died in a horrific car crash in Mexico in September 2015 when their airbags did not deploy. Upon further investigation, police found that the airbags had been replaced by 25 kilos of cocaine.   

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Creepy Murder Basements from Around the World

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It’s a sad fact that most murderers and serial killers usually do their work in horror basements reserved explicitly for committing unnamed acts to their victims. For some killers, the basement is a means to an end - a way to quickly get rid of a body in a place where no one’s going to stumble upon it. But for other, more methodical murderers, the basement is their place of refuge. A room away from the world where they can truly be themselves; a place where their inner monsters can roam free. On this list you'll find many kinds of murder basements from across the world – from dirty rooms at the bottom of New York tenements, to torture chambers that cost more than your car, if you saw the inside of one of these rooms it’s likely you never saw the outside world again.

It’s terrifying to think that the most recent crime on this list of people murdered in basements happened in 2016, and the earliest was from when H.H. Holmes dedicated an entire castle to murder in the late 19th century. You’d think serial killers would have changed their M.O.s in the hundred years between crimes, but you know the saying, “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” The killers on this list are a kind of real life monster, and a few of them even had lairs or dungeons to prove it. Please don’t get any ideas from this list of murder basements from around the world.
Creepy Murder Basements from Around the World,

Gary M. Heidnik
Gary Heidnik was a real creep who, despite spending years in a mental institution was able to buy a house in the North Philly area, where he kept five women captive. One of the women, Sandra Lindsay, starved to death while chained to a wall. After her death she was dismembered by Heidnik in front of one of the other women.
John Wayne Gacy
John Wayne Gacy is one of the most famous serial killers in American history. However, one of the goriest details in his story was the crawlspace beneath his house, where he kept 28 of his 33 victims. How bad do you think his neighborhood smelled?
Leonard Lake
Leonard Lake was a true monster (and a complete dork) who, along with Charles Ng, tortured, raped, and murdered women in a chamber designed by Lake himself. Lake committed suicide before he could be arrested.
Maury Travis
In 2014, a woman in St. Louis discovered that the house she was renting sat above a basement that was once the site of a gruesome torture chamber where Maury Travis tied his victims to a pole before dispatching with their bodies. To make things worse, the woman couldn't get out of her lease because the landlord (Travis's mother!) didn't see what the big deal was.
Josef Fritzl
Josef Fritzl will never win a father of the year award, and though he never technically murdered anyone in his basemen, this Austrian monster locked his daughter in a cellar for nearly two decades. During the time he had her locked up, Fritzl raped his daughter repeatedly and fathered multiple children with her, all while he rented out the room above his chamber of horrors.
The Philadelphia Basement of Horrors
Linda Ann Weston, from Philadelphia, would confine mentally disabled people in the basement of her apartment building, force them into prostitution, and steal their social security benefits. During the initial stage of the investigation, one woman was found chained to the building's boiler.
The Toy Box Killer's Hundred Thousand Dollar Lair
Like Leonard Lake, David Parker Ray (or The Toy Box Killer) built a $100,000 torture chamber in the middle of nowhere where he videotaped his exploits. In 2001 he was finally sentenced to 224 years in prison.
H.H. Holmes's Murder Castle
H.H. Holmes didn't just have a murder basement, he had a whole murder castle. He spent nearly a decade hiring and firing builders to add pieces to his house that included pipes for pumping gas into bedrooms, a room built specifically to suffocate people, and a good ol' fashioned murder basement where he would strip the skin from his victims.

Gay Love Triangle Ends in a Louisville Basement
What began as a love triangle between three men ended with a bizarre murder that was only supposed to be a robbery. Jeffrey Mundt and Joseph Banis allegedly used GBH to drug their victim, before killing him and burying him in a plastic tub in a Lewisville basement. They then escaped to a nearby hotel. They were quickly caught after the doorman of the hotel decided that they were way too suspicious.
William Caruth's Hole in the Basement
After being reported missing, police found the body of Andrea Caruth in a hole dug into the closet of a basement in her father's apartment. According to the police, Andrea's father murdered her after having a dispute about their finances.

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As selfie culture has exploded in the last several years, it seems inevitable that crime scene selfies would work their way into news and social feeds. But could anyone have predicted murder selfies? It seems like the last thing someone guilty of murder should do, but there are plenty of killers who took selfies before, during, and after committing their crimes. The reasons given for snapping these photos are both clear and complete mysteries, as you will see in these 15 stories of murderers who took selfies. 
Killers Who Took Selfies Before, During, and After Killing,

Jamie Reynolds
Under the pretense of assisting him with a photography project, college student Jamie Reynolds lured his friend Georgia Williams to his home in England in 2015. There, he enacted a sexual fantasy he'd been harboring for several months, whereby he would hang a woman and assault her body as she died. Reynolds photographed the entire horrendous ordeal. He has been given a life sentence in prison.
Ashish Kumar
In the small valley of Doon in Dehradun, India, Ashish Kumar snapped a selfie with his friend Gurpreet Kaur. He then attempted to strangle the woman with a cloth, but, failing at this, slit her throat in two places, killing her. Kumar then uploaded the selfie to WhatsApp and made his profile photo. His motives for the photo and the murder were not immediately clear.
Frederick Roy Miller
Following a custody dispute with family members, Temple Hill, Maryland resident Frederick Roy Miller kidnapped his three-year-old daughter Leila in August 2014. He took a selfie of himself with his daughter next to him and sent it to the family members. Following snapping the photo, Miller cut Leila's throat and shot her. He later died in a police shootout. 
Bashid McLean

Suffering from severe mental illness, 23-year-old Bashid McLean of New York City stabbed his mother Tanya Bird to death inside their Bronx apartment in 2013. Bashid then dismembered Byrd's body and posed for a selfie holding his mother's head in his hands. Police discovered pieces of Byrd's body across the burrough.

This is a ridiculously killer selfie.

Tyler Hadley

In July 2011, Florida teen Tyler Hadley told his friends he was having a big party at his house. He claimed his parents were out of town, though no one knew where they had supposedly gone and how long they would be away. Turns out, Hadley had dropped Ecstasy and murdered his mother and father, leaving their bodies in their bedroom while he entertained 60 friends and fellow students.  

Also during the party, Hadley admitted his crime to his friend Michael Mandell, who took a selfie with Hadley because he figured it would be the last time he ever saw his friend in person. Mandell then phoned the police and told them everything.

This is a different type of killer selfie.

Merrick McKoy
22-year-old Colorado resident Merric McKoy took a selfie of himself holding his 19-month-old daughter Mia in November 2013. The photo looks innocent enough, but in fact McKoy had a restraining order against him, placed by his ex-girlfriend Kim Phanthavongsa. After making cryptic comments on his Facebook page - one, for instance, reading "don't judge me had no choice" - and posting the selfie, McKoy shot Mia, attempted to murder Phanthavongsa, and after failing to kill her, shot himself. Both McKoy and Mia died from their wounds. 
Two Teenagers Kill 39 Year-Old Woman
Two unnamed teenage girls, one 14 years-old, the other 15, beat Angela Wrightson to death inside her home in 2015. The woman was an alcoholic who opened her home to teens as a place to drink and smoke. For reasons that were unclear, the teens used a number of items around Wrightson's house, including her television set, and spent hours pummeling her. The girls then took a series of selfies together standing next to Wrightson's body. 
Kirsty Edmonson
Kirsty Edmonson, a sex worker in Manchester, UK, along with accomplice Christopher Sawyers, killed school teacher Kenneth Chapman in his home by giving him a lethal dose of heroin. The couple then lived in Chapman's home, stealing his possessions and using his credit cards. They had sex in Chapman's bed, with the corpse right beside them. Edmonson and Sawyers both took selfies of themselves with Chapman's body. Though off camera, in the above photo, Edmonson is apparently sitting on the corpse.
Emma Wilson
25-year-old Emma Wilson of England battered her infant son Callum so severely her neighbors felt their wall rattle. She then took a selfie of herself with her crying, clearly injured baby. Callum later died at the hospital, and Wilson was given a life sentence for first-degree murder.
Man Kills Girlfriend, Takes Selfie with Her Body
In September 2015, a Nanning, China man, identified only by his surname Qin, killed his girlfriend and then posted a selfie of himself with the woman's dead body. The caption he wrote read, "forgive me for my selfish love."

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If you're not in the know, you might be asking, "What is the deep web?" Also known as the "dark net" (this latter term is, in fact, more accurate) and primarily accessed through the Tor network, the deep web is basically the 21st century black market. It's also an anonymous "playground" for content that's illegal or unsuitable for the "clearnet" (the everyday Internet). It is largely untraceable (though not completely) and is perhaps most widely used for the sale of illegal substances.

Beyond drugs, some use the deep web to buy and sell firearms and other weapons. But perhaps most alarming of all, some use it to exchange or discuss child pornography, cryptically referred to as "cheese pizza." (The "C" and "P" heading each word explains this code word.) 

While these illegal and downright sickening aspects of the deep web are unsettling in and of themselves, the deep web's reputation as a playground for hedonism, depravity, and nefarious or sinister acts is a bit unfounded. Aside from questionable pornographic content and illegal sales, much of the content accessed via Tor is fairly innocuous. Several Reddit threads corroborate this, as users encountered mostly mundane forums and load times so slow they lost patience before every really seeing anything. (Read a few of those threads here, here and here.)

And yet, while they are certainly the exceptions and not the rule, there are a handful of deep web stories out there that manage to baffle, disturb, and even sicken. True, some of the more disturbing content on the dark net is the stuff of rumor and lore, but this doesn't make it any less creepy -- particularly when considering that, while they have not been proven to exist, they have not been disproven either.  

The Most Disturbing Things You'll Find on the Dark Web,

Red Rooms
If you've seen the David Cronenberg film Videodrome, you understand the basic concept of a red room. Essentially, it's a live feed of people being tortured and killed in highly perverse ways. Some even speculate that, for a price, you can act as the "director" of the red room, and tell the torturer exactly what to do to the victim.  

The thing is --  if you can locate a red room easily, it probably isn't real. The appeal of the deep web is its anonymity, so if something as perverse as a red room actually exists, it is doubtful the orchestrators would put out a welcome mat. Moreover, if you've genuinely witnessed a red room on the deep web, you wouldn't necessarily admit it. Otherwise you'd be headed to jail.

All that said, the existence of a genuine red room is not that implausible.
Weapons
While sales of guns and other weapons do take place in certain dark web markets, it isn't as common as most people think. That's mostly because weapons are tricky to send via snail mail (as opposed to drugs, which can be easily hidden when shipped in small quantities), according to Fast Company. Moreover, should you attempt to purchase a firearm via a dark web market, you might find yourself in trouble with the law, as it is highly possible that many sellers are undercover FBI or DEA agents.  

Still, the mere idea of illegal gun sales - particularly to those who should absolutely not own guns - is terrifying.
Cicada 3301
No one is really sure of the purpose behind Cicada 3301. It's a group that hosts an annual, Internet-based puzzle that involves mystery telephone numbers, voice messages, and GPS coordinates, and dips into the dark web via the Tor network. There isn't enough room here to go into the intricacies of the puzzle, but you can read a pretty thorough breakdown of the steps here, from one man who came the closest to actually solving it.  

Is Cicada 3301 a secret government recruiting tool? An anarchist or anti-establishment group looking for the savviest of members? Simply a hoax? The world may never know.
Pink Meth
Fortunately, Pink Meth is a website that was hosted on the dark net, until it was seized by the FBI in 2014. Despite the name, the site had nothing to do with drugs. Rather, Pink Meth was a market mainly for men, whereby they could sell nude photos of their exes for a hefty sum. Pink Meth then posted these photos, alongside the women's names, home addresses, phone numbers, and any other information the operators could dig up. Then, a ransom on the content was delivered to the victim - pay up to have the photo removed, or let the whole of the dark web have access to your personal information, including your nude photos.  


8Chan's Baphomet Subboard
If you're familiar with GamerGate, you've likely heard about 8chan, the forum and message board site where "anything goes," more or less. And if you know about GamerGate, you're probably all too familiar with the term "doxing," a process of temporarily making certain individuals' personal information (home address, phone number, email, etc.) available in order to harass them. (As part of GamerGate, sexist gamers targeted women in the video game industry for this kind of harassment.)

The Baphomet subboard is the place where most doxing takes place, as it is seated within the dark net, and thus harder to trace. Users of the subboard go one step further by posting the personal information for a brief period of time, then deleting it. This allows those in the know to obtain the information anonymously and use it instigate vicious attacks.
Hitmen
There are numerous sites and organizations accessible via the deep web that claim to offer contract-killer services. Of course, as many Reddit users theorize (likely correctly), these services are probably sting operations for the FBI.  

Moreover, even if these organizations are "legit" (in the sense they are not fronts for law enforcement agencies), there is still no guarantee they are, indeed, contract killer services. Because the deep web's major currency is bitcoin, which is essentially non-refundable, your attempts to off someone may result in plain and simple robbery.  

Still, the only way to find out for sure is to actually engage these services, which would either result in you being arrested, or having someone you know killed for a large sum of money...
Violent Desires
The name of this forum, which is purported to still exist as of 2016, pretty much describes what you might find there: people sharing their most gruesome and brutal desires. Perhaps the most infamous example is a post written by an anonymous doctor who offered to "manufacture" living child sex dolls through a combination of human torture, experimentation, and body modification.  

While it is likely that Violent Desires is mostly just fantasy, the Armin Miewes cannibalism case - where a derange man killed and ate a voluntary victim he found online - arose from a "clearnet" (regular, everyday) Internet forum called The Cannibal Cafe, where users shared their sexual "appetites" with one another. It just goes to show that in an anonymous place, anything can happen.
Sad Satan
Reportedly only downloadable via the Tor network, Sad Satan is a perplexing and psychologically unnerving game with completely mysterious origins. The graphics, from a purely technical standpoint, are subpar, and the gameplay is seemingly pointless - you spend a fair amount of time simply wandering down surreal and abstract hallways.  

However, the screeching audio soundtrack, which sounds like the rejects from Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music sessions, quite effectively crawls under your skin. There are also arcane hidden images and videos that emerge the longer you play, and clips that seem to hint at murders being committed by people in masks. Is this all just random, atmospheric spooks, or is there a deeper meaning here?  

As of this writing, Sad Satan is no longer downloadable. Fortunately, YouTube provides us a glimpse into its truly unnerving gameplay.
Cruel Onion Wiki
There's an old saying: "If you can think of it, it's probably a fetish." This adage proves true for many deplorable and inhuman acts, like child pornography, of course, but also for the things happening on the Cruel Onion Wiki. It's a dark web site that features scantily-clad or semi-nude women crushing and killing small animals - including kittens - under their feet.  

Animal cruelty laws prevent such sites from operating above the radar, and the Cruel Onion Wiki has been shut down on a few occasions. However, much like the rest of the dark net, the site always manages to resurface under a different name or URL.
Daisy's Destruction
It's difficult to separate fact from urban legend here, since having detailed knowledge of sadistic Australian child pornographer Peter Scully's videos would basically be an admission of committing a crime.  

What is clear is that "Daisy's Destruction" (sometimes called "The Destruction of Daisy") are extreme and brutal videos, available only in the darkest corners of the deep web, featuring children as young as two years old being tortured, assaulted, and in some cases, murdered by Scully and various accomplices.  

If you are so inclined, you can find descriptions of these videos around the web. But Scully is now in prison and his utterly sickening videos are now the property of the FBI, so it's safe to assume most of the finer details still available are mere rumor. Still, the very fact these videos exist in the first place is enough to churn your stomach.

Terrifying Cursed Objects That Actually Exist

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Cursed objects have long been a favorite subject of people who enjoy the side of life that’s a little more spooky-ooky than your every day walk down the street. Objects that have curses on them usually have a backstory that runs parallel to something awful that happened in history. Eras like the Civil War and the British colonization of India are full of awful things happening, so a lot of real cursed items started popping up right after those events. But that’s not to say all cursed items are from forever ago. Some of the cursed objects on this list can be purchased right now and put in your home today!

It can be hard to tell whether or not you’re dealing with real curses or if you’re an unlucky human being. Some of the items on this list of cursed objects have an origin in death and destruction, which is the perfect breeding ground for a curse. But some of the objects are simply spooky and they give anyone who sees them a feeling of unease. “Unease” may not be the worst symptom of a curse, but it’s no way to spend your day.

This list covers some of the more well-known cursed items, as well as a few that you probably don’t know about. There might even be a few that you might have in your home right now! Whether or not you believe in curses, or the supernatural, take a look at the items on this list of cursed objects and do your best to avoid their malevolent aftermaths.
Terrifying Cursed Objects That Actually Exist,

The Basano Vase

This vase is thought to be one of the most haunted objects in the world, good thing it's allegedly locked in a coffin that's been buried in a mystery spot. The vase was given to a woman in Northern Napoli as a wedding gift, and then she was murdered (maybe) and the vase moved through her family, bringing deaths with it. In 1988, the vase was found with a note that said, "Beware. This vase brings death.”

The Crying Boy Painting
One of the more interesting haunted items, The Crying Boy was a mass-produced painting by Bruno Amadio that was distributed in post war England. All of a sudden, the houses in which the paintings were hung caught on fire. Not at the same time, but you get it. The only thing to survive the flames? The Crying Boy. Firefighters began to believe that the paintings were cursed.

After some research in 2010, it was discovered that the paintings were coated in a fire repellent, which usually saved them and was the reason so many survived the fires.
Little Bastard
"Little Bastard" was James Dean's Porsche 550 Spyder, which he bought while filming Rebel Without a Cause. One week after purchasing the car, he died in a car crash. But "Little Bastard" didn't stop there. The guy who sold Dean the car bought the body and it fell off a trailer, maiming a mechanic. Then, when someone tried to steal the car, the thief ripped his arm open on the steering wheel. The car disappeared during transportation and hasn't been seen since.
Delhi Purple Sapphire
After stealing this gem from the Temple of Indra in 1857 (when are we going to learn our lesson about robbing temples?), Colonel W. Ferris almost immediately fell into economic disrepair, then a friend of his committed suicide while wearing the gem. Some time later, a friend of Oscar Wilde's had the gem and fell into a "series of misfortunes" that led him to throw away the sapphire tree times. After each attempt to rid himself of the gem, it would reappear at his home. Spooky.
Robert the Doll

Robert the Doll is not messing around. In 1906, a mistreated servant of the Otto family imbued a doll with "dark spirits" and gave it as a gift to the youngest son of the Otto family, Robert, who named the doll after himself. His parents said that they could hear their son speaking to the doll all evening, and that they could even hear the doll responding in a guttural voice. After Robert (the man) passed away, the doll moved on to a new home where it allegedly attacked a young girl, and was seen roaming the hallways.

The doll is now kept in the East Martello Museum where you have to ask permission to take his picture. If he doesn't say it's cool, you get cursed.

This is even more creepy, and will definitely give more nightmares than Robert.

Anna Baker’s Wedding Dress
Anna Baker's cursed wedding dress is just one of the many haunted items in the Baker Mansion, which boasts at least two ghosts and disembodied screams coming from the "ice room." But the most haunted room is supposedly the room where Anna's wedding dress is kept encased in glass.

You see, her dad (Elias) didn't care much for her beau so he kicked the young man to the curb and gave the dress to another lady in town. Big mistake, Dad. Anna never remarried and now the dress supposedly moves of its own volition while inside the glass case.
The Phone Number +359 888 888 888

The three people who had the phone number +359 888 888 888 all died a terrible death. One died of an alleged radioactive poisoning, while the other two holders of the number were gunned down - one while on a date, the other while having lunch. It kind of sounds like all three of these guys were targets for the mafia or a government death program... or maybe that's what the curse wants you to think.

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Thomas Busby's Chair
This chair is so cursed that if you sit on it, you're going to die. Obviously everyone is going to die, but this chair just speeds up the process. A little backstory, Thomas Busby was a nasty guy who murdered his father in 1702 and a chair that he liked to sit in was thought to be unlucky after multiple people died after sitting on it.

Now, the chair is suspended in the Thirsk museum where no butts can come in contact with it.
Annabelle the Doll

A lot of people know Annabelle from The Conjuring, or maybe from the movie Annabelle, all about her murderous exploits. But this creepy doll is no piece of fiction, it actually belonged to a nursing student named Donna who had to have her home exorcised by a priest after the doll "attacked" one of her friends.

The Haunted Small Doll
For some reason, Ebay doesn't filter out cursed or haunted items. Honestly, you'd think it would be the first thing they would do. Since the Dybbuk box made such a splash in the headlines (and even got a movie), it would make sense that all sorts of cursed items would start popping up online.

You can actually bid on this "cursed" doll now, but that doesn't mean you should. One, because it's junk, and two, because in the words of its seller, "I KEPT IT IN A DISPLAY CASE ON THE LOWER SHELF AND NEVER TOUCHED IT, WHEN I WENT TO DUST IT WAS ON THE TOP SHELF!  I LIVE ALONE, THIS IS NOT A JOKE."

15 People Who Married Inanimate Objects

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Object sexuality: heard of it? It's a syndrome that causes people to fall in love with objects and identify them as a gender, give them a name, and have what they believe is a fulfilling, loving, relationship with these items. Yes, you read that right: there are (at least 13) people in the world who have fallen in love with, and married, inanimate objects (and you thought your love life was complicated).

OS is defined as "a pronounced emotional and often romantic desire towards developing significant relationships with particular inanimate objects." Individuals with this expressed preference may feel strong feelings of attraction, love, and commitment to certain items or structures of their fixation. For others, sexual or even close emotional relationships with humans are incomprehensible and undesireable. Object-sexual individuals (people who enjoy the company of, and marry, inanimate objects) also often believe in animism, and sense reciprocation based on the belief that objects have souls, intelligence, feelings, and are able to communicate.

How many people have married inanimate objects? Can people marry pillows? You'll find out all you want to know about object sexuality, and maybe some things you don't want to know, in this list of people who married non-living things.
 

15 People Who Married Inanimate Objects,

Game Over: A Man Marries a Video Game Character
A man called Sal9000 (this story should really just be able to end after this, the guy's name) married Nene Anegasaki. Nene lives inside of a Nintendo DS video game called "Love Plus." The wedding was quite an event, carried out before a live audience and broadcast to a virtual one; the bride (who made a speech) and groom were married by a real human priest.

While normal people worry about growing apart, Sal9000 has to worry about the fact that the Nintendo DS is completely outdated at this point and Gamestop will not take returns on used equipment.

In the video above, a guy marries a video game.

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The Ride of Her Life: A Woman Marries a Roller Coaster
Amy Wolfe Weber is a church organist who comes from Pennsylvania, and she is married to a roller coaster. The husband in question is an 80ft gondola ride called 1001 Nachts. The 35-year-old woman said she first fell for the ride at the tender age of 13, "I was instantly attracted to him sexually and mentally. I wasn’t freaked out, as it just felt so natural, but I didn’t tell anyone about it because I knew it wasn’t ‘normal’ to have feelings for a fairground ride."

Amy had ridden the ride over 3,000 times before they were married, I guess that's her version of a normal courtship, she sleeps with a picture of the ride on her ceiling and carries spare nuts and bolts from it in her pocket, so that way they are always together.... just what you like to hear... a fair ride having "extra parts."

Amy claims they have a fulfilling physical and spiritual relationship, and she doesn't get jealous when other people ride her husband. Oh, and Weber is the name of the ride's manufacturer; Amy changed it after she was married.

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Talk About a Family Tree: Bollywood Actress Marries a Tree
Bollywood movie star and former Miss World Aishwarya Rai participated in an ancient Hindu ritual ceremony in which the bride spiritually marries a tree.

The ritual is allegedly to help overcome differences in the couple's astrological charts – disparities which traditional Hindus believe have negative consequences on marriage. Under this ancient belief, Rai is considered a 'manglik' because her chart bears the planet Mars, and she must be 'married' to a peepal tree, a banana tree or a silver or golden idol of the Hindu god Vishnu in order to overcome the devastating effects being a 'manglik' could have on her impending nuptials.

Rai was also hit with a lawsuit, so it didn't take away ALL bad luck; she faced a civil lawsuit for practicing the 'untouchability' service, which is associated with the caste system, because such ceremonies are in violation of the Indian constitution and are deemed offensive to women.

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May Their Love Never Be Brought Down: A Woman Marries the Berlin Wall
Eija-Riitta Berliner-Mauer, whose surname means Berlin Wall in German, wed the Berlin Wall in 1979 after being diagnosed with a condition called Objectum-Sexuality. Was this REALLY the only prescription?

Berliner-Mauer says she fell in love with the structure when she first saw it on television at age seven, she refers to it as "he" and she collected his pictures until she could save up enough money to visit. On her sixth trip in 1979, they tied the knot before a handful of guests.
 
While she technically remains a virgin, she insists she has a full, loving relationship with the wall.

When the Berlin wall was brought down 1989, Berliner-Mauer was horrified as she watched her husband being brought down. She has not been back since and now keeps models depicting "his" former glory.

"What they did was awful. They mutilated my husband," she said. She has since been said to have shifted her affections to a nearby garden fence. So, because the wall doesn't look as good as it did in 1979, you're just gonna leave him for another rampart? Apparently, Berliner-Mauer partakes in sexual stimulation with this fence by rubbing herself on it... like a cat in heat.

Berliner-Mauer, said: "I find long, slim things with horizontal lines very sexy. The Great Wall of China's attractive, but he’s too thick – my husband is sexier."

There's nothing left to say after that really.
 
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A Modern Mobile Fairy Tale: Man Marries His Smart Phone
Los Angeles filmmaker Aaron Chervenak claimed he wanted to make a point about the emotional connection people have with their phones, but he was probably just sick of his parents bothering him about finding a girlfriend. In the name of ~art~, Chervenak eloped with his phone to the Little Las Vegas Chapel.

He explained, "If we’re gonna be honest with ourselves, we connect with our phones on so many emotional levels. We look to it for solace, to calm us down, to put us to sleep, to ease our minds, and to me, that’s also what a relationship is about. In a sense, my smartphone has been my longest relationship." What a catch.

He Choo Choo Chooses It: Man Marries Steam Engine Train
Joachim A has a thing for the inner workings of technical objects, which is great since he works as a repair man... but not so great for his spouse, a steam locomotive.

"A love affair could very well begin with a broken radiator," Joachim says, "Repair jobs have often led to infidelity in the past." But they always seem to plow through it and stay together somehow.

He stresses that people like him (the people on this list) aren't just fetishists. "For some people, their car becomes a fetish which they use to put themselves in the limelight. For the objectum-sexual, on the other hand, the car itself – and nothing else – is the desired sexual partner, and all sexual fantasies and emotions are focused on it."

Needless to say, this guy loves to fix things.

He realized he had a "thing" for things when he was 12. He's currently 45. He loves his train like he would a person, according to him: "you can reveal yourself to an object partner in an intimate way, in a way that you would never reveal yourself to any other person...[even] experience sexuality together."

[insert sex-train pun here]

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The Architecture of Her Love: Woman Marries the Eiffel Tower
Erika Eiffel has had a love for objects since she was a little girl.

"I thought everyone had a connection to objects in one way or the other. It really wasn't until I saw that they were dating each other and I was dating a bridge, that I was different. I just went to school and pretended I was like everybody else," she said.

Her love of objects served her well; she became a world-class archer and won a $250,000 scholarship to the United States Air Force Academy, all thanks to her attraction to the F-15 fighter jet. She said when she saw the F-15 she thought, "I'd like to get to know this jet. Kind of like a guy goes to a bar and he sees a really nice-looking girl and he, he wants to go sit next to her, buy her a drink and get to know her more. Well, I kind of felt that way about the F-15."

However, her love of objects got her discharged from the Air Force, ridiculed by her peers, and abandonment by her family.

That's when she found true love, with the Eiffel Tower. "Her structure is just amazing. You know, she's got subtle, subtle curves, you know," that's how Eiffel describes her wife. Erika Eiffel participated in a commitment ceremony with the Eiffel Tower. "I will tell you that I know love is being reciprocated," Eiffel said. "I'm happy, I'm not hurting anyone, I'm not hurting myself, I'm not being held back. I love my life." C'est la vie!

I guess she really had to burn all her bridges to get to that point...

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His Bride Is Such a Doll: A Man Marries a Barbie Doll
A 46-year-old Taiwanese man, Chang Hsi-hsum, said he needed to marry a doll in order to appease the restless spirit of his dead wife. Not even the adult kind of doll most self-respecting weirdos like marrying (more on that later), but a 28cm (11-inch) Barbie doll.

Apparently, the ceremony was quite elaborate. Barbie's so spoiled with her dream house and yacht that he had to show her a better way to live by having the wedding take place at his local Buddhist temple.

The man believes the doll houses the spirit of his wife, Tsai, who killed herself 20 years ago because his family opposed their marriage.

According to the news story, "the ceremony appeared to be a wedding like any other, with the bride's anxious family waiting outside the temple for the groom's arrival beforehand."

The bride wore a wedding dress, complete with gold jewelery and rings and a gold necklace that had belonged to Tsai was placed on the doll. Tsai's dowry was also included in the ceremony, represented by a paper model of a red Mercedes car. It was then burned so she could use it in the afterlife. How had she been getting around all this time?

After the wedding, Chang and his new bride returned to their home together with the urn that contained Tsai's ashes. He clearly carried her over the threshold.

The urn will be placed at their home, and from now on, Tsai will be regarded as a member of their family. The groom's family have asked for Tsai's forgiveness by giving their blessing to the marriage, thus placating her spirit.

Chang Hsi-hsun said: "I have waited for this day for 20 years. Even after all this time, I feel in love with her. Now I will marry her spirit and take her home. We will be finally together and able to live in peace."

But before you get all sentimental, Chang did not spend 20 years alone, he remarried after Tsai's death and this ceremony was carried out with his current wife's blessing. Yes, current wife. He is still married.

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Artist Tracey Emin Married a Rock/"Impressive Stone"
At her 2016 exhibition in Hong Kong, UK artist Tracey Emin announced that she had married a rock. Excuse us, an "impressive stone." In her own words:

"The whole thing with the stone is - it's a big stone, right. It's in my garden, it's very nice and very impressive and I like it a lot. The other thing about the stone is that it could be quite monstrous and scary. Instead I saw it as a protection thing as opposed to a fearful thing. The other thing with the stone is it's not going anywhere. Even if there's the biggest tsunami in the whole world, the stone will probably still stay there. Maybe it's not a person. But maybe it's an anchor for me, something I can identify with. No matter how mad my life might be or what may happen that stone is stability and comfort."

To each their own!
A Picture Perfect Marriage: Man Marries a Picture of Himself
It's always good to have self-confidence, and people really should learn to love themselves and all, but this man is taking it to an extreme. 39-year-old Chinese man Liu Ye married a life-sized cutout photo of himself wearing a red bridal gown. Ye said he was dissatisfied with reality so he married himself. That makes perfect sense.

The wedding took place in the square of Guanzhou Village before friends and weirded out local villagers. All of the ancient Chinese wedding traditions were honored including the bride kowtowing to heaven and earth, to ancestors and to the elderly aged 90 and over. Bride and groom made the traditional rounds of toasting guests during the banquet.
 
Remarked one guest, "It is a real grand wedding except that the bride is a photo." Oh, just that one little thing?

Self described as "an angry Chinese youth at best," Liu Ye denies he is gay but does admit to being "a little bit narcissistic." Just a little!?! Ye said, "marrying myself is a process of deconstructing and reconstructing myself. I make use of the wedding to reconsider opposite-sex marriage. My behavior seems ridiculous, but I am traditional and conservative in heart so the wedding ceremony is traditional."

Yeah, totally conservative and traditional... he's just crazy enough to fit in with the conservatives here in the States!

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911 Dispatchers Describe the Creepiest Call They've Ever Had

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911 dispatchers have a tough job. They're constantly faced with the pressure to send help to people in need while also keeping the injured person or witness to a crime or accident calm while police, paramedics and firefighters race to the scene. Not only this, but dispatchers also sometimes have to hear crimes - in particular, murders - happening in real time, which can certainly take a psychological toll.  

A group of 911 dispatchers shared their creepiest and most unforgettable phone calls on Reddit. Here's a collection of some of the more outstanding tales.
911 Dispatchers Describe the Creepiest Call They've Ever Had,

Three Nightmare Stories

"I've had a lot of messed up calls as a 911 operator. The one I had, this lady was screaming. Just horrific screaming. Then the phone went dead. I called back only to hear that horrific screaming again. Then I heard someone in the background screaming 'He's stabbing her! He's stabbing her!" She died. He did get caught by an officer I had dispatched - she literally jumped off a car roof and landed on top of the guy. Not sure what his sentence was.  

"I had another guy who drowned his two-year-old son. That fucked me up for a while because I was pregnant with my son at the time. I kept thinking how unfair that some child could be so terrified as the one person he trusted and loved was harming him. Not only that, but when you drown you're conscious to the end. I still cry for that little boy some days.  

"I had another man who was changing the oil in his SUV. Long story short, the SUV fell on him and he died before help got there. There were a lot of calls like that - where you're the last person to ever talk to someone. I knew as soon as I heard his breaths go agonal, he was done."

Diana

"She was depressed and suicidal. She called from a disconnected cell phone and refused to give me her location. I never stopped trying to to get a ping on her but it was an apartment complex and there wasn't much I could do for that.

"She refused to let me send anyone to her, refused to talk to EMS, suicide hotlines or supervisors. I answered the phone so I was the only one she would talk to. 

"We talked for a really long time, not just relative to my normal calls of a couple minutes, I mean around two hours of my life was spent trying to talk Diana out of it.  

"She ingested a large quantity of narcotics and alcohol. I remember her telling me her husband's name was David and they were recently divorced. She had the narcotics for pain because she was involved in an auto accident not too long before all of this. She was unable to work, in extreme pain, and considering the recent divorce it's easy to see why she felt the way she did. Her youngest son had just moved away from home as well. I felt really bad for her."

Blood-Curdling Scream

"I took a public safety dispatcher class (for POST cert). The class is taught by a current dispatcher. The teacher played one for us I won't forget. 

"It was an old woman on the phone that was calling to report someone creeping around in the backyard. She asks them to hurry. The dispatcher says police are on their way but won't be there for 5 minutes. The dispatcher asks for an address but hears it wrong. As the lady is saying the address she gets attacked and lets out this scream that sounds like a dying animal combined with the worst fear you've ever heard in your life. Then, it's silent--gone. The phone's on--you can hear someone moving shit around. Police spent four hours looking for that woman's house. The dispatcher got the address wrong.

"It was an example of how important it is to ask for a clear address/address first. I will never forget that dead woman's scream."

The Vanishing Man
"A year into the job in a pretty large town with woods all around. Got a call from a young man, identified himself as 21. Said he went on a hike with his best friend, this is where it got weird. I asked for his location and it was ~50 miles from the nearest trailhead, but not in the direction the trails move. I asked him to tell me what the problem was and what services he needed when he burst into tears, saying one moment his friend was in front of him, and the next he was gone. Dispatched sheriff and was told neither man was ever found. Still freaks me out."
Attack with Baseball Bats

"I had one person call in screaming about a guy getting beat to death in her front yard, with the sounds of aluminum bats ringing in the background."

It Never Stops

"I was honestly debating whether or not to even post this because it upsets me.

 
"I'm not allowed to give exact details, but one of my worst calls was from a little boy, I think he was five. He was hiding in his closet because his dad was drunk and beating the ever-loving sh*t out of his mom. He lived in a very rural area, and it was about an hour drive from the nearest police detachment. I stayed on the phone with him for almost 45 minutes (the guys drive FAST when there are kids involved) trying to keep him calm. You literally talk about anything that pops into your head. The weather. Favorite TV shows. What his favorite toys are. All the while you can plainly hear a woman screaming and crying in the background, and as the call goes on, you can still hear the guy beating her, but her screams turn into grunts and moans. You can't tune it out, because you are constantly typing what your hear. Any details you can get from background noise are valuable to the officers attending. Anyway, the members arrived, arrested the piece of shit, and I hung up once they had the kid safe. And then the phone rang again. Because there is no stopping. There's no time to process what just happened and honestly, it's probably for the best. A lot of the time you don't find out the outcome of the call because as I said, there are always more phones ringing."

Man Shoots His Wife, Himself

"Guy shot his wife after he found her cheating. He was hysterical and scared shitless about what he had just done. He put the phone down and there was another gunshot. He killed himself and I heard it. His wife was still alive and she was screaming that she forgave him over and over and that they were gonna get through it. It was fucked.  

"...she survived, so there's a little bright side to the story."

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The Calm, Suicidal Man
"Got a call from a guy saying he was sitting in his car with a shotgun and was going to kill himself. He seemed very calm and I could tell in his voice that he had made up his mind and this wasn't a cry for help like most of the other suicide calls I receive. He told me he was at one of our train stations but wouldn't tell me which one so while I had officers out looking for him I made small talk with him about his family and sports, I even had him laugh a few times. After about 10 minutes of talking and me thinking I'd made progress, he finally says, 'Well, it's been nice talking to you but I gotta get going.' He then proceeded to put the gun in his mouth and pull the trigger. I heard his death gurgles."
Haunting Mother-Son Story

"Had to help a maybe 12-year-old boy start CPR on his mother who attempted suicide on July 4th some years back. She died. That's never left me."

Horrendous Neglect
"My worst call was a child that died in a hot car. This was not a case where a parent went shopping and left a baby in the car for some time on a summer day. It was not someone who admitted they forgot their child in the back seat. This was a child that was old enough to walk, talk, turn the car on and off if air was needed, hang out and read a book or go inside and cool off. The parent had restrained the child in an SUV so none of these things could be done and did not check on the child for several hours. It was a few more hours before the parent told anyone the child had died."

Lottery Winners Who Lost Everything

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It’s almost a cliché in this day and age that when someone wins the lottery they’ll be broke and destitute before they even get their first check. Lottery winner horror stories are all too common these days. Not all of the stories are the same, but they begin the same way, with someone having the best day of their, and not realizing that they never should have played the lottery. On this list of lottery winner stories there are millionaires who became even richer while they circled the drain, garbage men who found out that they had a penchant for prostitutes, and a couple of people who just couldn’t stop gambling. If you’re a Powerball player or a scratch-off nut, be mindful of the stories on this list of lottery winners who lost everything.

Lottery winners horror stories may always end with someone working at McDonalds, or fishing change out of the city dump, but that doesn’t mean that the same thing’s going to happen to you if you win the lottery. If you pay close enough attention to this list, there’s a good chance that your lottery-winning experience will play out in a much happier way. Just don’t buy a new car immediately, that seems to be where most of these people go wrong. Check out this list of the biggest lottery losers and start fantasizing about your lucky numbers.

Vote up the worst story of a lottery winner destroying their lives, and then leave a comment about what you’d do if you won the lottery.
Lottery Winners Who Lost Everything,

16 Year Old Wins Lottery and Things Go About How You'd Expect
Why 16 year olds are allowed to play the lottery in Europe is beyond us, but Callie Rogers's winnings are probably going to change everything. When she was 16 she won £1,875,000 (equal to about $2,846,812). She said that she initially planned on helping out her family, but that obviously didn't happen. Instead, she underwent two breast implant surgeries, bought about $380,000 of cocaine, and attempted suicide four times. Rogers is now in school to become a nurse.
Lottery Winner Has to Split Winnings with a Waiter
In 2014, a waiter pestered his boss about buying lottery tickets after he had a dream that the manager, Hayati Kucukkoylu, was showing off a briefcase full of cash. Kucukkoylu went out and bought some lottery tickets and lo and behold - he won $1.7 million. Even though the manager bought the ticket and guessed the numbers, the waiter felt that he was entitled to half of the money since he was the guy who convinced his boss to buy a ticket in the first place. A judge ruled in favor of the waiter, saying he was "a strong believer in the power of dreams, he interpreted his own dream to mean that he and Mr. Kucukkoylu would win the lottery," and that they were equally deserving of the winnings.

See what bad things happened to this international lottery winner. 
Ryan Magee's £6.4 Million Blunder
Ryan Magee made quite possibly the biggest mistake that a lottery winner can make. When he won £6.4 million in the EuroMillions lottery he immediately went out and bought a £170,000 Ferrari. But his luck didn't last, he's since had to put his home up for sale, broken up with his wife, and his business went belly up. In February of 2015 he was pulled over while driving a Ford Focus. 
Man's Friend Steals His Winning Lottery Ticket
In December of 2015, Santiago Gasca bought a scratch off lottery ticket and won $40,000. Unfortunately Gasca was an undocumented worker who couldn't cash the ticket. When he offered his wife's co-worker $1,000 to cash the check, she happily did as he asked, but kept the full amount.
Lottery Winner Spends Fortune on Drugs
Michael Carroll is a British lottery winner who won £9 million at the age of 19 and went effing crazy. At one point he was reportedly snorting cocaine through a gold pen, while using a catapult to destroy the town he lived in. By 2012 he'd run out of cash and was back on the dole. But don't worry about ol' Mike Carroll, he's got himself a job at a shortbread cookie factory and he's pretty sure things are going to be a-okay.

See which lottery winner spent their money on this crazy thing.
British Mom Sets £1.8 Million on Fire
Lara Griffiths had a rough time after she and her husband won £1.8 million from the lottery. After buying a £800,000 barn conversion (whatever that is), a couple of cars (duh, of course), and a few exotic vacations, a fire broke out on New Year's 2010 and that was the beginning of the end. Lara and her husband we underinsured, and their relationship buckled under the strain of their losses.
California Man Loses Lottery Ticket & 1 Million Dollars
A man in Rosemead, CA became the punching bag of the Internet when he bought a Powerball ticket that was worth $1 million, but for some reason never came forward to claim his cash. According to NBC Los Angeles, the employees at the supermarket where the ticket was purchased that the man knew he won, but may have lost his ticket, which makes this entire story even more depressing.

Vivian Nicholson's Money Went Fast
Vivian Nicholson became famous when she told British tabloids that she would "spend, spend, spend" after her husband won £152,319 (the equivalent of £3.03 million in 2015). According to Nicholson, they bought ALL THE STUFF while traveling the world, and for some reason they never thought to save. As of 2007, Vivian was once again looking for a job.
Sharon Tirabassi Spent $10 Million in 10 Years
Sharon Tirabassi won $10 million in Ontario and she almost immediately started buying everything under the sun. To hear Tirabassi explain it, she bought a "big house, fancy cars, designer clothes, lavish parties, and exotic trips." Couple those things with loaning money to friends and now she's back to the real world, living paycheck to paycheck.



Jack Whittaker Drags Everyone Around Him Down
When Jack Whittaker won the lottery he was already a millionaire. So when he was awarded $314 million he probably figured that he could do no wrong. Whittaker opted to take his prize as a one-time payout of $113,386,407.77, after taxes. Shortly afterwards his car was robbed of $545,000 in cash that Whittaker carried around in a suitcase. After that things continued to go downhill. Family members died of drug overdoses, and friends of family followed suit, but Whittaker somehow managed to survive.

18 Dirty Facts About Flying Airlines Don't Want You to Know

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If you're a frequent flyer, there are two approaches to this list of airline secrets you may or may not want to know: 1. Ignore it and carry on in your blissful ignorance of duct tape holding the wing of your aircraft together while flying. Or 2. Read about the awful things that happen on commercial flights, and go in armed with the knowledge of how awful the flight you're on really is (but possibly avoid dysentery). There's no option three, so choose wisely, because some of these airline worst practices can't be unseen.

From odd / surprising (hopefully) places you'll find poop on a plane to the things a flight attendant might overlook so they get paid, there are an uncomfortable number of scary things airlines don't want you to know about flying. Culled from the experiences of real pilots, flight attendants, airline staff, ground crew, and TSA officials, these are the reasons logical people are afraid to fly - and even the most seasoned traveler should be at least a bit skeeved out by this list of awful things that happen on planes. 
18 Dirty Facts About Flying Airlines Don't Want You to Know,

Some Airline Employees Don't Get Paid Until the Flight's in the Air
Why is this scary for you? Let's say a pilot, flight attendant, or other airline employee notices something off about the plane (torn carpet, a toilet issue, a possible technical issue) they consider negligible, they may fail to report the condition in case it causes the flight to be substantially delayed or even cancelled. 

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Somebody Has Probably Changed a Diaper On Your Tray Table
Why bother going to the bathroom to remove your child's sodden diaper when you could loose it on a small table that most people eat their food on? 

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Planes Are Frequently Struck by Lightning
Better the plane than you.


Pilots Get Served Different Meals in Case of Food Poisoning
Likely the same meals you're being offered, so hope you chose the same meal as the pilot who continues at the helm during the other's bout of food poisoning.


The Emergency Door Handles Are There So Flight Attendants Aren't Pushed Out
People go nutty whenever there's a situation involving an emergency exit, and the poor flight attendants – who are trying to get you out safely – are often disregarded like limits on carry-on baggage, necessitating the plane's version of "Oh Sh*t" bars.

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Pilots Routinely Nod Off During Long Flights
While nap breaks are scheduled so one pilot can rest while the other commands a plane once it's at cruising altitude, most pilots (more than 50% according to this survey) have involuntarily nodded off while in the cockpit.
People Steal the Under-Seat Life Jackets
Somewhere, in a Midwest frat house, is the life jacket you should be using in case of emergency.

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Guidelines Exist for the Amount of Screws a Plane Is Allowed to Fly Without
Seems you'd prefer to have zero screws missing, but apparently there's a threshold of acceptable missing screws on the plane.

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The Toilets Can Be Unlocked from the Outside
This is more of a "Charlie from 'Lost' getting cranked on heroin" precaution than a "People in row 23 joining the mile-high club" fail-safe, but the fact remains that occupied does not mean you're free from the possibility of interruption.


If You Use the Oxygen Bags for More Than 15 Minutes, You're Gonna Have a Bad Time
The oxygen masks on planes only supply 15-20 minutes of oxygen. The theory is that the pilots will descend to a height of normal cabin pressurization as soon as an issue is noted.

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Truckers Describe the Creepiest Thing They've Seen

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A life on the road, hauling cargo from city to city, can be a lonely one. It can also be dangerous and, sometimes, downright terrifying. Take it from these truckers, who took to Reddit and shared some of their eeriest, most bizarre, and unexplainable experiences while traveling highways all over the world. Here is a compilation of the best of those tales, gathered from two separate discussion threads (here and here).
Truckers Describe the Creepiest Thing They've Seen,

The Beast
"There was a story on here a while back by a trucker... It was getting very late (and very dark) so he pulled into a rest area off the highway in the middle of nowhere. The place was totally empty, meaning there weren't any other vehicles or people there. While he was getting some shut eye inside his truck, he heard a faint sound of a barking dog that seemed to get louder and louder as time went by. Eventually the nasty barking sound was coming from right outside his driver side door. As he got up to look in the window, he didn't see a rabid dog but instead it was some crazy-eyed person looking directly at him, growling and trying to get in. He started the engine and got the heck out of there."
Mysterious Fireball
"Trucker here. A few years back, I was traveling through Ute native land in New Mexico on Highway 491. 491 used to be Route 666, but they changed it a few years back. I think people were stealing the signs. Anyways, I'm in the middle of the desert around midnight, no lights or civilization for miles, when up in the sky there's a huge, orange flash. The orange flash quickly 'inflated' into a giant ball, bigger than the sun. It even had a fiery looking texture to it. Suddenly, the orange ball disappeared, and the entire desert sky, horizon to horizon, flashed a bright yellow, lighting up the everything around me like it was daytime. Then everything went back to normal. This all happened within a few seconds, but it was definitely the weirdest thing I've seen on the road."
Found a Dollar
"Kent, TX, is another one. There's an old Chevron station I think it is, seems like FedEx drivers like stopping in there in droves. I'm guessing it's a popular drop and hook point for them or something. But I stop one day, and I need to take a piss. I don't know why I didn't stop in Van Horn. So I pull off, and I roll up to the empty lot across the street. Kent is an abandoned town. I walk up to the bush line and notice a makeshift fire pit. The wood is somewhat burned, but not all the way. The weird thing is that there's an unscathed dollar bill stuck in the wood. For a second I was like "Ooo piece of candy!" but then this sudden feeling of NOPE came over me. So I left it alone and pissed in the bush. As I'm walking back, I look over at it and get a real negative feeling. I look to the ground in front of me and bam, there's a rattlesnake looking right at me. I stop dead in my tracks, and walk carefully around it, and it keeps staring at me. I ran as fast as I could back to my truck feeling like somebody was behind me. I kicked up a lot of dust getting out of there, and have never stopped in Kent since."

"Missouri, I stopped at an off-ramp to stretch out and take a breather. As I'm smoking a cigarette, a little girl from some direction I couldn't figure out giggles and says 'Hi, mister!' My initial reaction was, 'The fuck is a little kid doing out here at this time?' so I talk back and say hi. She then responds with 'My mommy says you'll be ok, don't worry!' Now utterly confused, I ask her what she means. No response. Then suddenly I feel like somebody is standing next to me, but it doesn't feel negative or bad. Just feels like somebody is right there next to me. Since it didn't have a negative vibe to it, I just finished my cigarette and left. Later on down the road, I realize that I forgot to fuel up at my last stop when the warning light came on. So I scramble to look at my GPS and find the nearest truck stop, I find one and set the course. As I roll up to the truck stop, my truck starts sputtering and I barely make it to the fuel line before the truck starts dying. I ran out of fuel right as I got on the fuel line. It wasn't until I was fueling up that it occurred to me what the hell happened at my last stop."
The High Desert

"Driving from Albuquerque to Socorro. I was on a stretch with no lights. Perfectly dark. I notice someone standing on the side of the road. As I pass him, my lights fully illuminate his face. Nothing about this guy seemed natural. His posture was weird, he was wearing a gray suit... and his face. It just looked 'off', like a mask or something. For about half a second, we lock eyes, even with my headlights blinding him, it still felt like he was looking at me, not my truck. It really creeped me the fuck out. Shortly after this, my CB started picking up some odd chirps, but I was pretty close to the VLA. 
 

"The high desert is a weird place."

Disappearing War Hero
"My first couple years I was a night driver, so it was hard to see things sometimes. But the one in PA was me trying to follow a flatbedder who was haulin' serious ass through the mountains. At one point I start to fall back because I can feel the van starting to lean. It wasn't long after that I reach down to take a swig off the handy monster I had, and I look up, and there's a guy standing off to the shoulder just outside the tree line wearing in what appeared to be some type of soldier's uniform. Looked like Revolutionary War era, he had a musket as well. As I approach, I can see him staring right at me, and then he starts walking back into the tree line still looking at me. Before he manages to make it through the trees, he disappears. Like literally vanishes in thin air. I had my windows down, and the air in the area got real cold. After about a mile, the air warmed up again. I had a really sad feeling come over me for a while afterward. Needless to say, I didn't stop for the rest of my shift."
Punchlines Don't Take Away from the Creepy

"Ok I've told this to my friends several times but I guess I can share it here too.

"I was driving for Costco a few years back. It was around this time of year. We usually took extra toy shipments to various locations due to the holiday season. We got a call that one of our locations in rural Kentucky needed to restock their giant Spiderman dolls. They knew I was a fast driver so I was giving the last minute late-night duty. I loaded my truck and headed out on the 265. It was around 3am when I started to have this eerie feeling. I chalked it up to just being tired and popped a couple of NoDoz. About 15 min later the road started to fog up. I mean more so than any other time before or since. It got to the point where I had to pull off to the side and wait. There weren't any other cars on the road and I was ahead of time so I figured I could wait until it cleared up a bit. About five minutes of sitting still in silence, my truck goes dead. No lights, no engine, nothing. I try to crank it but it was like the battery was dead. I try my CB but cannot get anyone on. I check my cell phone and there is no signal. As I'm sitting there contemplating my next move I hear what sounds like a child crying. It slowly morphed into a woman crying. Or at least that's what it sounded like to me. Now I'm a big man, 6'3", 250 pounds, but I refused to exit my cab. I did roll down my window and asked if anybody needed help. At that point the crying stopped. Then I heard what sounded like a sinister laugh. At that point I felt like the laughter was directed at me. I rolled up my window and it seemed like the more scared I became the louder the laugh went. Then as soon as it started, it stopped. And just like that my truck started back up and the fog dissipated. I drove out of there like a bat out of hell. I get to the next truck stop and pull in. I run to the bathroom and pour water on my face and ask myself 'Did that really just happen? I go out to the diner and see this fella in a John Deer hat, red flannel, and blue jeans. I needed to know if anyone else experienced that, too. I go up to him and say 'Excuse me, are you a fellow trucker 'cause I just had one hell of an experience.' He says 'Not a trucker, but...'"

I Know

"Was driving north through the mountains of Colorado towards Pueblo, and it was my first time dealing with anything like the Rocky Mountains so I was taking it nice and slow with my hazards on and in the right lane. This was in the spring, and there wasn't much snow on the ground aside from a light dusting. 

"I remember passing another truck pulled to the shoulder on my way up, nothing out of the ordinary. However, as I was heading down the mountain (which can be scary as shit in an 18-wheeler, trust me) I saw the same truck I passed earlier FLY by me in the left hand lane. Now being passed on the left going DOWNHILL in the ROCKY MOUNTAINS by another TRACTOR TRAILER is crazy enough, but what really makes this story is this guy's trailer brakes were on fire. He was pulling a load (could tell because the trailer was sealed) and if you know anything about trucks you know there's only so much braking you're supposed to do before they overheat and, worst case, catch fire. 

"This guy's truck looked like a fucking comet as he sped down the mountain at what I thought was a surely to be deadly pace. 

"I grabbed the mic to the radio and called out to him, 'Hey Driver! Your brakes are on fire! I mean literally on fire!'

"After a few seconds of static, a rough and weathered sounding voice comes back over the speaker of my radio and says, cool as a cucumber, 'I know.'

"And he disappeared around a curve. 

"I never saw any wrecked truck, emergency crews, or even mention of an accident over the radio. 

"I did see a discarded fire extinguisher on the ground at the base of the mountain though. 

"Just one of many awesome stories."

Lost Time
"New Mexico, Nevada, and Utah are some states that to this day, I still see shit in the skies that I can't explain. Lights rapidly changing direction and taking off at blinding speeds, but no sound barrier being broken. I've seen lights hovering over the desert several miles off the interstate, then it suddenly takes off and the lights cut out. Various shapes and sizes from what I can make out (again, night driver). I know military aircraft pretty well, and some of them more than likely were, but some of them absolutely can not be any military aircraft currently in mainstream use. Conventional aircraft do not move like that. The most vivid one would be at an off-ramp in New Mexico, I stopped to take a piss. And decided to turn it into a 15-minute break since my ass was sore anyway. As I'm stargazing and admiring how clear the sky is, I saw what looked like a formation of lights in the shape of a triangle lift off from the desert floor, and then take off into the sky. I kept me eyes on it, and it just kept gaining altitude until the lights just disappeared. I look down at my watch and notice it's not ticking, so I pull out my phone and it's off. I turn my phone on, and according to the time on my phone, it had been 5 minutes since my watch stopped. I felt like whatever it was that just took off had something to do with it."
A Smile of Joy

"My brother is a trucker, and a while ago near where we live, a trucker he knew was driving down a two-lane rural road at night/late evening and got a call in on the CB about a guy purposefully driving towards oncoming traffic in an area near him, and to keep an eye out for him. Eventually, he sees a car coming towards him, sure enough, weaving in and out of traffic trying to run into people. The people are dodging him left and right, and right as he gets in front of the semi, the trucker saw the guy smiling in his headlights because he knew he was going to finally die. 

"The trucker was hurt bad (I think he lived through it, but I'm not 100% sure, now that I think about it. My brother told me this a few years ago), but the guy who ran into him for sure died. He'd been trying to kill himself that way for a while. Scary stuff."

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The Worst Things That Have Ever Happened During Sex

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Sex is awesome. We’re not going to lie and say that it’s just okay. You could offer us all the money in the world to say that sex is mediocre and we'd throw it in your face. Sometimes, though, sex can go wrong, like, super crazy wrong. For whatever reason, the worst things tend to happen during sex: animal attacks, broken genitals, death - you name it and it’s probably happened while people were gettin’ it on. Put the kids to bed, because this list of the worst things that have ever happened during sex is not for the faint of heart.

After reading through so many true sex stories for this list, we’ve come to a few conclusions. First of all, a lot of guys keep garbage in their rooms - real garbage that a garbage man takes away from the curb. Second, people like to live dangerously. They want to put weird things inside of themselves or have sex in moving cars, and that’s cool. But readers, please be safe. We don’t want to have to add you to this list of real life sex horror stories.

Vote up the most excruciating, worst things that have ever happened during sex. And feel free to share your nightmare sex story in the comments. Whatever happened to you is probably mild compared to the wacky stuff on here.
The Worst Things That Have Ever Happened During Sex,

A Midsummer Night's... Nightmare?
In Sweden they really go hard, especially a particular Reddit user who, after partying at the Midsummer festival (you know, the festival where you eat nothing but pickled fish) until the early in the morning went home with his girlfriend and began to 69, when his lady friend passed gas in his face. Keep in mind that this is gas that's been imbued with the power of pickled fish and also that our Swedish friend had been drinking vodka all day. Naturally, he threw up all over his girlfriend. Better luck next Midsummer Festival!
A Broken Penis Extension and a Broken Heart
After Grigory Toporov had penis extension surgery, he took his new toy home and wanted to try it out, but it broke mid-coitus. That would be bad enough, but his wife decided then and there that she wanted a divorce, leaving poor Grigory with nothing but a broken weiner.

Please, Please Don't Put Pop Rocks There
In 2014, a couple with an erotic sweet tooth found themselves in peril when they decided to put Pop Rocks in the woman's vagina. The adventurous woman's good time with fizzy candy began to sour when she noticed a “burning and itching" sensation in her genitals. The couple's trip to Candy Land was delayed when they had to make a pit stop at the ER. At least they didn't use Mentos. 
When Having Sex in a Castle, Don't Fall in the Moat and Die
A French couple decided to get it on, Medieval style, doing the deed on the walls of Vauban fortress. Unfortunately, they seem to have lost their balance, falling approximately 40 feet into the fort's moat. Their naked bodies, tragically deceased, were found in the moat, while their belongings were discovered atop the walls.
Never a Good Time for a Lion Attack
This story is almost too frightening to be true, not because we're likely to run into lions or anything, but because it's almost like this couple stumbled into a monster movie. While having sex in a "bushy area" in Zimbabwe, Sharai Mawera was mauled by a lion. Her naked boyfriend fled for his life, but the poor woman wasn't so lucky. Life lesson: keep it chaste anywhere lions could be prowling.

Side Piece Bites off Boss's Piece
In a reminder of the dangers of automotive hookups, a boss and his secretary in China were getting down to some car-based action in a park when their vehicle was struck by a van, causing the woman to bite off the man's penis. In a bizarre twist, this was all caught by a private detective that the man's wife hired to find out if he was cheating. He was, obviously, but not anymore!
Sexual Defenestration
What started as a very sexy afternoon ended in tragedy when a couple in the throes of passion on a hot day decided to make love against a window to keep cool. When the glass broke, they fell out of the window together and died on impact. We guess that's kind of romantic in a really morbid, awful way.

Sergei Never Could Turn Down a Bet
Sergey Tuganov, a Russian man with a lot of time and disposable income on his hands, took a bet with two women that he could satisfy them during a 12-hour sex marathon. In order to win, he did what any of us would do and chugged a bottle of Viagra. Well, the 28-year-old mechanic technically won the bet, except that he dropped dead of a heart attack immediately after.
Epileptic Woman Has a Mid-Sex Seizure
It's all in the title, but let's let this unnamed Reddit user explain it in her words: "I was having sex with a new boyfriend for the first time," she said. "I had a seizure.

He didn't realize what was happening at first and finished. To be fair, I hadn't had a seizure in years and he didn't know I had epilepsy."

Cursed "Penis Captivus" Draws a Huge Crowd
In early 2015, a massive crowd gathered to see a couple they believed had been locked together during sex by a witch's doctor's curse. See, a cheating wife and her young lover actually became stuck due to penis captivus, a condition in which the woman's vagina contracts too much and traps the penis. News quickly spread and by the time police arrived, over 2,000 people had swarmed onto the street outside the apartment block, eager to confirm the rumor that the woman's cuckolded husband cursed his wife's vagina.

13 Practical Jokes Gone Horribly Wrong

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All pranks are hilarious – until something goes wrong. This list of practical jokes gone wrong cites elaborate jokes that ended with illness, arrest, and even death. While most of them share a common element of teenage boys, another running theme is reckless stupidity. . . or, more likely, both of these things combined. Don't try these pranks at home.

What are some great pranks gone wrong? What are the worst cases of practical jokes gone horribly wrong? You may think it's funny to light farts and scare people (those go together, right?) but there happen to be some times that a funny joke went horribly wrong. These are the best of the worst prank results ever.
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Icelandic Teenager Calls George Bush's Private Number

16-year-old Vífill Atlason doesn't remember where he got the private phone number for the leader of the free world, but he had it for a few years before he made the call in 2007 to ask for a private meeting. A White House spokesperson insisted that he actually dialed the main switchboard for the West Wing, but – hold on to your hats – that turned out to be a big fat lie. Claiming to be real Icelandic President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, Vífill was passed through several levels of security, each quizzing him about his identity (questions he easily answered by consulting Wikipedia).

In the end, Bush's secretary told Vífill to expect a call from the President soon. Instead, the police showed up at his home, hauled him back to the station, and interrogated him for several hours under orders to find the source of "the leak." In a country none too enamored by George W., Vífill Atlason became a local hero.

So what did the teenager plan to say if he ever got Bush on the phone? "I just wanted to talk to him, have a chat, invite him to Iceland and see what he'd say," he said. Sounds like a pretty good strategy.
Vandalized Bus Fights Back
When a man in the Bronx threw something at a bus and shattered its window on Halloween night 2009, the bus said, "Nay. Nay. I do not have to take this." It mowed down Luis Rivera, 22, who died later that night. The driver wasn't charged.
Students Poison Teachers with Laxatives
If you work in an office, school, or other mind-numbing place that you have to go to every day for most of the day while the rest of the world goes on outside your beige walls having fun without you, you know how exciting it can be when someone brings in free food. In 2008, three jerk high school seniors in Brooklyn made delicious-looking homemade chocolate-iced Bundt cake dotted with some sort of red candy and dropped it off in their school office.

Educators and staff happily dug in, but almost immediately, five of them began to experience mouth numbness, chest tightness, and major tummy rumbles. The truth came out: Those little red chunks of candy were actually Dulcolax. Two victims went to the hospital, where doctors said their symptoms were consistent with those of insecticide poisoning.

"Nobody's died from a laxative," said a friend of one of the perpetrators. "He thought it was funny. I thought it was funny, too."
Boys Serve Teachers Pot-Laced Muffins, Nearly Kill Them
When you're in high school, one of the easiest ways to take out your teenage angst and frustration is to target the men and women who oppress you every day: your teachers. It almost never works. Joseph Tellini and Ian Walker, 18 year-old students in Dallas, TX, got their revenge by baking marijuana into brownies, which they then dropped off in their teachers' lounge. Either they didn't do it right or they had cheap terrible pot, because 19 of the staffers who ate the muffins got so sick, they ended up in the emergency room.

One teacher said, "It affected me for 10 days. I had never had marijuana before." 

The boys pleaded guilty to several charges and were sentenced to pay restitution and do volunteer work. In Walker's letter of apology, he promised, "I guarantee everyone that this experience has opened my eyes to the real world. ... I have learned a great deal from it and will never do anything remotely illegal again." Then he went to the University of Texas, which I hear is a dry campus.
Mischief-Maker Murdered for Egging a Car
Did you ever egg houses when you were a kid? Me neither – it seemed rude – but hey, diff'rent yolks for different folks. 14-year-old Danny Crawford and his buddies liked to throw eggs at cars late at night. A direct hit probably just tickled them pink. (Even though a splatter on a window would make the nicest mess, a hit on a car door would cause the most real damage – I don't know which of these results Crawford preferred.)

In Dec. 2006, the boys targeted the wrong car. As the driver of a grey Jeep barreled toward the boys, someone inside pulled a gun and fired multiple shots, hitting and killing Crawford. Talk about road rage.
Firefighter Dies Chasing Scoundrels
In Oct. 2010, five months after his wedding, 34-year-old fireman James Luther McRae heard a bunch of idiot kids making noise in the street outside his house. It was homecoming week in Flomaton, AL, and the students had to tendency to get a bit too rowdy. McRae called 911 to report a breaking-and-entering and followed the kids in his truck, trying to get a tag number for local deputies. He lost control of his truck on a curve and was ejected from his seat. He was pronounced dead at the scene. The kids, by the way, had been rolling a nearby yard with toilet paper.
Dude Kills Friend with Fake Gun
From the files of "You've Got to Be F*cking Kidding Me":

Two pals, Nicholas Bell (23) and Jeffrey Charbonneau (24), were staying in Vermont with the family of a third pal during Thanksgiving in 2010. Charbonneau was peacefully sleeping, so Bell did what any good friend would do: Picked up an unfamiliar air rifle, aimed at his buddy's chest, and fired. He was just trying to wake him up, so imagine his surprise when Charbonneau started spurting out blood. Poor guy was pronounced dead at the scene. Oops.

Bonus prank: A 2009 video on Charbonneau's Facebook page showed Bell shooting him with a BB gun while hysterically laughing. Well, at least Charbonneau doesn't have to hang out with him anymore.
Teens Cover Stop Sign, Kill Two Old Ladies
The teenaged male human isn't known for being at the height of his mental acuity, so it's hardly shocking when one does something really, really, really stupid. In August 2011, two comedic geniuses (18 and 19, both dudes) in a town near Columbus, OH, had the hot idea to wrap a stop sign with several layers of plastic wrap and petroleum jelly, effectively obscuring it from drivers.

The brilliant masterminds were so proud of their accomplishment that they bragged about it on Facebook. Many motorists made it past the hidden stop sign with no problems – after all, they drove through that intersection every day – but the uproarious laughter didn't last long. Around 4:00 in the afternoon, Jeanne Shea, 80, drove past the covered sign and into the intersection An oncoming vehicle hit Shea's car and killed her passenger – her sister Mary Spangler, 85. Shea was in critical condition for three weeks, her leg amputated above the knee, before she died in September. Nice job, fellas. The boys pleaded guilty to charges of reckless homicide.
High School Senior Charged with Felony for Playing with Dolls
On his last day of high school in June 2011, 18-year-old black student Tyell Morton zipped up his hoodie, pulled on some latex gloves, and snuck into the girls' bathroom with a mysterious package. Believing that he was trying to bomb the school via the ladies' locker room, officials evacuated the building and called in the Indiana State Police bomb squad and K9 force to dispose of the package. The cautious response cost the school over $8,000, but turned out to be a major overreaction – after all, all the box contained was a sex doll.

Still, the state wanted to make an example of Morton to deter any other fun-loving teens who might try to enjoy themselves or rouse rabble in the future. Morton was arrested and charged with institutional criminal mischief, a felony that that carries a sentence of up to eight years in prison.
High School Senior Shot for Stealing Balloon
Every year, the seniors at Service High School in Anchorage, AK, took part in an elaborate scavenger hunt that led them around the city. As part of the game in 1992, Clyde Thompson, 18, sneaked onto the lot of a furniture store and tried to steal the advertising balloon it had floating outside. The owner of the store ran out with a gun, which he claimed he shot into the air to try to scare the kids. Somehow, a bullet fell onto Thompson's body, killing him and ruining graduation for everyone.

REAL Mummies That Were Found Out There in the World

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Are mummies real? Sadly, when a person with no family dies, their body is often left unnoticed for days or weeks - sometimes, this can last for years. However, if the conditions are right, the body can be preserved, leading to a real mummy. The modern mummy stories on this list are tragic, usually involving people who die and rot for years, with nobody checking on them or even removing the body.

Real mummies have included the recent discovery of a German sailor in a yacht, left dead for years; a woman found in a San Francisco hoarder house that later sold for over a million dollars; a suicide victim found by a young boy; and a woman who sat dead in front of a TV for over 40 years, while neighbors squabbled about what to do with her apartment.

Here are some real cases of mummified people found years after their death.

REAL Mummies That Were Found Out There in the World,

Ohio Mummy Found Hanging by Young Boy
In 2014, a boy in Dayton, OH walked into a seemingly abandoned house to find a shocking discovery in a closet: a mummified man hanging by the neck from a belt. Police later determined the man was Edward Brunton. He had apparently hanged himself in 2009, but his body was  perfectly preserved by the warm climate and lack of moisture.

The Mummified Children's Book Author
In May 2013, the mummified remains of Chicana author, activist, and teacher Barbara Salinas-Norman were found inside her Santa Fe, NM home. Authorities and family members believe that the body may have been inside the home for over a year. While once a renowned children's book author and civil rights activist, Salinas had become reclusive and suffered from financial and cognitive problems.

After two years of nobody in her family hearing from her, her brother-in-law entered the home and found her mummified remains. A preliminary autopsy revealed that Salinas had likely died of natural causes.
Mummified German Sailor Found in Yacht in the Philippines
Filipino police were shocked to find a mummified corpse sitting at a desk in a yacht drifting off the coast of the island of Barobo. The man was later identified as German sailor Manfred Fritz Bajorat, who had been missing since 2009. Bajorat was found with his hand just inches from a radio, indicating that he died attempting to call for help, possibly while having a heart attack.

Elderly Hoarder Found Mummified Body in Bed in Arizona
The mummified body of a 98-year-old woman was found in the bedroom of her Arizona hoarder house, still clutching a blanket. The woman had been dead for four years, and was left there by her daughter, Janet Dellatorre. Dellatorre apparently thought the police would believe she had killed her mother, so she simply left her where she found her, telling other family members she had her buried in the family plot in Chicago. The deception was found by a realtor looking at the house and thinking it was a foreclosure.

Mummified San Francisco Hoarder Found in Million Dollar House
A foreclosed house became a nightmarish find for a San Francisco tax official when he discovered the mummified body of an elderly hoarder inside. Police in oxygen masks entered the home, and found the worst case of hoarding they'd ever seen, including giant piles of rotting garbage, rats, and hundreds of bottles of urine. The woman's corpse, dead for five years, was found in the bedroom of the decrepit house, where, incredibly, her daughter lived as well. The daughter was removed from the house, and it was completely cleaned and remodeled.

In a sure sign of the insanity of the San Francisco real estate market, the house, in the popular Lake District, went back on the market - and sold for $1.56 million.

The Woman Who Drove Around with a Mummy in Her Car
A Costa Mesa, CA woman drove for months with a dead mummified body in her passenger seat before the corpse was discovered by police. After finding the car parked in a high-end neighborhood, police found the former real estate agent, who wasn't identified, in the driver's seat, along with the mummy. The corpse was determined to be a transient named Signe Margit, a woman who had two master's degrees and had founded a non-profit before vanishing.

The driver, who was using her sick father's car, told police she was afraid she'd be blamed for the woman's death, so she simply piled clothes on it and waited for it to mummify.

Woman Found Mummified in a Detroit Garage
Detroit resident Pia Farrenkopf had all of her bills set to autopay, had no family near her, traveled constantly, tended to go in and out of contact, and had recently left her job. So when she died in her car, parked in her garage, nobody noticed. It wasn't until her checking account ran out of money that authorities came by - to put the house in foreclosure.

Her mummified corpse was found in the backseat of her Jeep in 2014, with no signs of either suicide or foul play. It's believed she died some time in 2009.

Carved Up Mummy Man Found Beside a Road in Spain
A Spanish truck driver stopped along the side of a rural road, and found a mummified body that was missing an arm and part of its torso. Spanish police said the man, who was never identified, had been dead about two months.

The Croatian Woman Who Sat Dead for Four Decades
Hedviga Golik was a longtime resident of Zagreb, including the four decades during which she sat dead in her apartment. The woman was last seen in 1966, at which time she made tea and settled in to watch television. Nobody disturbed her until 2008, when her mummified corpse was found in an apartment that had otherwise been untouched. Neighbors believed she had moved out, and the ownership of the apartment was in dispute, meaning nobody saw fit to actually check on her.

Tokyo's Oldest Man, Mummified for 30 Years
Tokyo resident Sogen Kato was thought to be the city's oldest citizen, born in 1899 and living well into the 21st century. Or at least he was until police discovered his mummified body in his house, lying there since some time in 1978.

Ironically, it was local officials attempting to give the man an award on Respect for the Aged Day that led to the grisly find. Kato's family was prosecuted for collecting his benefits for decades without telling authorities about his death.

Zoo Attacks: 17 Idiots Who Climbed the Fence at the Zoo

October 17, 2012, 5:22 am

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Nothing good is going to come of a situation that involves being in a cage with a wild animal at the zoo. Nothing. And yet, people keep putting themselves in situations where – despite warnings from the zoo and others around them – they come face to face with lions, tigers, and bears (oh, my). Some of these people died with a caged animal, others were injured or maimed by a captive wild beast. Obviously, these people weren't rocket scientists or else they wouldn't have ended up in such a precarious predicament.

These are 13 of the dumbest, most idiotic, and sometimes drunkest people to ever jump the fence at a zoo. Some of them have lived to tell the tale, others not so much. 


Zoo Attacks: 17 Idiots Who Climbed the Fence at the Zoo,

Tiger Mauls Lady's Hand in Stupid Halloween Prank
A drunk woman at the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha, Nebraska got her hand bitten by a tiger when she stupidly disobeyed zoo rules and reached in to it's cage to give it a pet on Halloween night, 2015. The 18-year-old Malayan tiger thought the 33-year-old would make a great midnight snack, and the woman was rushed to the hospital after the tiger's bite caused "severe trauma to her hand." No word on weather she was dressed as a delicious steak.

Woman Jumps Into Polar Bear Moat
As a “curvy” lady, I myself have tried my fair share of extreme diets; juice cleanses, Atkins, Jell-O, etc. have all provided temporary results for my permanent huge ass problem. Well, this lady decided, at age 32, that dieting the safe way was not enough and enlisted the help of a team of Polar Bears to help with her weight loss. This is probably why she did this. It was no accident and a reason was never released to the press, but I seriously can't think of any other reason to go into a Polar Bear habitat other than to, I don't know... snuggle them? 


She JUMPED FROM A WALL INTO A MOAT AND SWAM UP TO A GROUP OF POLAR BEARS. Willingly. Onlookers say she even looked excited as she swam up to one of the behemoth bears.
 

 


Yeah, so the polar bears mauled the hell out of this lady. In fact, afterward, she changed her mind and started shouting for someone to get her out the moat, the bears continued to pursue the intruder, tearing her from the rescue rings thrown by zookeepers to try and remove her to safety. She was eventually hoisted to safety and underwent surgery to repair the damage done by giant bear bites.
 

She probably lost about 5 lbs in flesh, though.

So you know. There's that.
 
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Man-Bites-Panda-Bites-Man (Again)


Gu Gu the Panda is one mean bastard with a taste for human flesh. In 2007, a 15-year-old jumped into the Panda enclosure at the Beijing Zoo looking to get a hug from his sweet, furry friend, forgetting to take into account that Pandas are F@*#ING BEARS. 

The kid extended his arms for a hug, got bit instead, and then bit Gu Gu back.
It’s no surprise, then, that this Panda bastard was looking for revenge when 28-year-old Zhang Zhio fell into the bear enclosure, trying to catch something his son was throwing at him. 

Was it dad’s wallet, you ask? His mother’s wedding ring? An iphone 5? No, it was a toy. Some small, stupid toy they could have replaced at the gift shop on the way out. 

Ugh. Anyway, Zhio is in the pen thinking, “it’s a panda, what’s it gonna do, eat some bamboo and smile at me?” and ends up getting bit on both legs before the zookeepers arrive with tools to pry open Gu Gu’s jaws. As previously mentioned, this was a “been there, done that” sitch for the zookeepers who knew they weren’t just going to be able to tickle the panda’s chin to get him to release the man’s leg; they brought the mother loving jaws (removing) of life to free Zhio.
 



Despite the fact that Gu Gu is a repeat offender (this was his third foray into biting intruders), the zoo has neither raised the fence around his enclosure nor done anything in the way of punishment to the panda, who happens to be one of China’s national animals. In fact, it is Zhio who will likely face charges for the disturbance.


Woman Loses Fingers/Buzz to Bears



Tracy Weiler, a 47-year-old woman, decided to get drunk with her boyfriend and take a three-year-old child to the zoo for a visit with some wildlife they weren’t related to. 

The trio was visiting the Lincoln Park Zoo in Manitowoc, WI when Weiler decided the bears weren’t getting enough to eat and that she should be the one to feed them. She crossed several barriers and ignored multiple warning signs to stay away from the bears before extending her food offerings to the bears, who ignored whatever snack shop fare the woman was offering and ate her fingers for lunch instead. The boyfriend tried to intervene and was bitten, but didn’t lose any digits. 

Did I mention this all happened at 11:30am? If getting drunk and losing at least two of your fingers to a bear before noon is your idea of a productive Friday, this lady could probably be one of your role models.

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Man Loses Arm Trying to Get Better Pictures of Tigers
So, this is kind of a given in a list about stupid people that jump the fence to horrendous results, but when you go to a zoo to look at animals, there are fences and barriers for a reason. They’re not there to keep you from getting cool pictures of animals, they’re there to keep you from getting eaten. 

Well, Jai Prakash Bezbaruah, a 50-year-old man who was on the last stop of his vacation with his wife and two children, must have really thought the zoo was out to protect the animals from being photographed at a bad angle (everybody knows the left side is a tiger’s “bad” side) because he snuck down to the inner enclosure of the Guwahati Zoo to snap some artsy photos when a female lion came over grabbed hold of his arm.

Several zookeepers had been trying to stop Bezbaruah from being as close as he was to the deadly animals, but before they could stop him or aid him in rescue, a male tiger appeared and aided the female in ripping the man’s left arm off. 

Bezbaruah was transported immediately to the hospital but died of his injuries before he arrived. Unlike Jude Law, Govardhan, and Divya, the tigers responsible for the attack were not hit with charges for attacking the paparazzi.

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Zoo Officials Kill Lions to Save Man
Chilean zoo officials had to shoot and kill two lions after a suicidal man got naked and climbed into their enclosure. According to onlookers, he was taunting the cats and chanting “very apocalyptic, very religious” proverbs. Officials later found what they thought was a suicide note with his clothes, but the paper mostly had very Christian messaging and drawings of lions. Officials they were forced to kill the lions in order to save him. Crowds watched as the two cats were put down.

Man Savaged by Monkeys Trying to Retrieve Cell Phone

A monkey at the zoo steals your cell phone. Do you wait in line at AT&T for an iPhone 5 or risk being attacked by monkeys?

Silly question. The monkey attack, obviously. 

Zheng Dong was taking pictures of a bunch of macaque monkeys at the Fuzhou Zoo in China when one of the wily monkeys snatched his phone away. Zheng, who must have had some amazing sexts he didn’t want to lose track of, jumped the fence to retrieve the phone when three of the monkeys surrounded him and scratched at him until several zookeepers came to his rescue and removed him from the cage. 

While Dong made it out alive, his cell phone was chewed up beyond repair. Instead of thanking the zookeepers profusely for saving him from being eaten by a bunch of monkeys, he sought compensation from the zoo for a new phone. That Dong is a real dick. 


Man Loses Kung Fu Fight With Lion

In 1989, 32-year-old Australian man Ellie Quo decided to seek out a martial arts matchup that would test his awesome new skills in Kung Fu. 
 
Told by his instructor that he had reached a level in his training where "you can kill wild animals with your bare hands," the misguided student decided to follow his instructor’s words to the letter and sought a fight with a lion at the Melbourne Zoo. 
 
In the middle of the night, he snuck into the zoo and in true ninja stealth style, scaled the lion enclosure and surveyed the pen to see which of the mighty warriors would die by his hands. Thing is, there were a whole lot of lions to choose from, and rather than let this one tiny scrap of human get in a single punch, they all ganged up on the guy and ripped him to shreds. Literally. 
 
The next morning, zoo keepers found Quo’s fists of fury – and nothing more – in the lions’ enclosure. In his cold, dead hands were tufts of red fur, proving that gingers in the animal kingdom do in fact have souls (because they eat them).

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Two Men Mauled While Trying to Honor Tiger

Sooo, people tend to give nice, cuddly animals you’d want to pet nice, cuddly names like “Squiggles,” “Mittens”, and “Gumdrop.” These are cute little critters you can walk up to, pet, and get comfortable with. 

Shiva the Destroyer: this is not an animal whose face you want to be anywhere near. Shiva, a 13-year-old Bengal Tiger, was minding his own business at the Calcutta Zoo when Prakesh Tiwari and Suresh Rai decided they didn’t want to exclude anybody from their New Year’s festivities, especially a deadly tiger separated from zoo patrons by a moat. 

A moat. A method of protection to guard castles from invaders in medieval times is what these two tiger worshipping followers of the goddess Durga crossed to get into Shiva’s enclosure so that they might present him with a marigold flower garland to welcome the New Year.

Not surprisingly, this male Bengal Tiger did not take kindly to these men trying to outfit him with a necklace and promptly attacked Rai as he threw the garland around Shiva’s neck. Tiwari intervened by KICKING THE TIGER IN THE FACE. That actually sounds pretty badass until you learn that the tiger diverted its attention to mauling Tiwari who was killed in the attack. Rai survived to present garlands to other dieties.
 
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Barefoot Man Wants a Bear Hug
A 32-year-old barefoot man wandered into the bear enclosure at the Warsaw zoo and got into a fight with a female bear named Sabina. Witnesses found blood around the enclosure and alerted police, who had to rescue the shoe-less, shorts-wearing man from the cage. He managed to survive the fight with only a bite to the arm and a fine for "provoking the animal into aggression."

The Worst Condom Horror Stories to Ever Happen

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The worst things about condoms are that they're prone to failure, breaking, and misuse. Most people know how to put them on and use them correctly, but if you don't, trouble can follow. How often do condoms break? As often as you use them incorrectly. Even so, some of the worst stories aren't about when a condom broke, but about people who are just really stupid and probably shouldn't be procreating.

Goofing around with them, not getting rid of them properly (or at all), using them for pranks or to get high... there are plenty of ways to have a really bad time with condoms. Not to mention that most depraved practice of them all - poking holes in them.

Here are some of the worst (or at least most embarrassing) condom stories out there. Some involve condoms breaking, and some just involve people who should never have children.

The Worst Condom Horror Stories to Ever Happen,

Tradition! Tradition!
From BuzzFeed reader "angievalentine":

“After my first time, my boyfriend thought he’d be goofy…by slapping me in the face with the used condom. In his dead grandmother’s Subaru. In the mall parking lot.
 

We did get breakfast foods afterward and watched Fiddler on the Roof so…all good…?”

Just like they did in the old country.

What Would Bob Marley Do?
From UK Spectator travel writer Mark Palmer:

"While courting my (second) wife, I lured her to Jamaica and we checked into a trendy hotel high above Kingston owned by Chris Blackwell, the man who discovered Bob Marley. After being shown to our room — a rickety set-up just on the right side of rustic — the future Mrs P opened a drawer in the bedside table and there to greet her was a condom. No need to labour the point. Suffice it to say that the condom in question had seen some recent action. We checked out immediately."

No used condom in the drawer, no cry.

Oh, What a Nice Parting Gift OH MY GOD!!!
From Jezebel reader "Jack B. Hates" (edited for length)

My first trip away with my husband we stayed in a cute little B&B in the west of Ireland run by a little old widow. And we were using condoms, but the septic tank would not have been able to cope with flushing them down the toilet, and we didn't want to leave them for the little old widow lady to see, so my not-husband-then put them in a paisley-patterned paper bag that we'd got in a shop somewhere. It looked kind of gift-y. I can still see it. He'd sling in the used condom and fold over the top. It didn't seem TOO gross to want to throw them all away in one go rather than sneaking them out past the sweet little old widow. 

When we packed on the last day, we put it on the bed with our bags, ready to sneak out to the car. On the handmade, brightly coloured quilt, that was purple toned like the bag.

Yeah. We left the bag behind. It must have looked exactly like a gift we'd left our sweet little old B&B proprietor. A thank-you present. A f*ckton of used condoms.

We've never been back.

And the little old widow lady is fine with that.

NOT LOVING IT
In March 2013, Chicago resident Anishi Spencer took her children to a McDonald's in the area, where her two-year-old son found a condom in the Play Place. Being two, he decided to eat it. The mom only found out because the child proceeded to cough up the contraceptive.
 

Spencer filed a $50,000 lawsuit against McDonald's Corporation and the individual restaurant for failing to keep "hazardous materials from areas open to children [...] as well as failing to use surveillance or inspection to detect deviant activities."

Pretty Sure This is Actually a Crime
From "ectomorph9" on forum.bodybuilding.com, and also probably an episode of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit:

"-kid was planning on breaking off the relationship with his gf
-gf found out
-gf wasn't happy, and wanted to stay together
-gf pokes holes and doesn't tell him
-hopes the baby will make him reconsider
-kid still broke it off, but raises the 2 year old by himself"

CLANG CLANG!

Hey Man, There's a Phone Here!
From an anonymous Cosmo.uk reader, recounting a roommate horror story:

"She woke me up at 2 am totally wasted, kicked me out so she could have sex with some guy, shagged him in my bed, and left a huge wet spot. They dropped the used condom on top of my phone."

That phone had only one more day until retirement.

You're in Flavor Country - It's a Big Country
From BuzzFeed reader Emily Hosies:

“In sixth grade I went to school in Toronto, right near a busy entertainment district. One of my friends came back from lunch and said these guys were giving out free chewing gum down the street and it was awesome. He said it was different and the texture wasn’t like traditional gum…well, it was different all right. Turns out when he pulled out the wrapper to show us, he was actually chewing on an green apple flavored condom!”

Another reason to question the existence of flavored condoms.

"Snap On My Rod"
From "Willoughby" on forum.bodybuilding.com, in all its (sic) glory:

"Had one explode on me once, i was just humping away missionary style and i felt somthing snap on my rod, like a rubber band.

So i pulled out and it looked like a fire cracker had went off in the rubber, there were little peices everywhere, whats worse is when you gotta dig for the damn things in a girl.

Her expression was priceless though.
 
 "Uh oh"
 uh oh what???
 "Uh-Oh..."
 what happen?!?!?It fcking exploded
 "brix shatting"

Brix shatting, indeed.

Wait, the Bar Has a Playground?
A mom in Belfast rushed her three-year-old son to the hospital after he found a used condom on the ground in a playground outside their local pub, and put the rubber in his mouth. While there's no chance of the boy catching HIV from the condom, he was given three hepatitis B injections just in case. Also, the pub offered vouchers for free food to the mom. Because you know she's super excited to go back.

Guy Puts Condom on Head, Huffs Nitrous, Dies Happy
31-year-old Brighton, England resident Gary Ashbrook was found dead by his roommate, after apparently killing himself huffing nitrous oxide while wearing a condom pulled over his head. Oh, and he was naked. Sadly, Ashbrook had been disowned by his family for being gay and HIV positive, which likely led him down the path to dangerous sadomasochism.