Authorities in New York have shut down an 80-year-old taxi driver who says he offered free rides in his vintage Checker cab. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

...and the dogs died from heatstroke.

San Diego and Phoenix...You would think they'd remember their beloved canine partners. picked by suebe 3 weeks ago

At that point, the communications major said she tried to unlatch the squirrel by beating it against the bench. picked by Bornbad 2 years ago

Frantic police smashed a window to rescue a seemingly unconscious baby from a locked vehicle in Queensland last week only to find it was an extremely lifelike doll. picked by AutumnLotus 2 months ago

A Native Hawaiian group that advocates sovereignty locked the gates of a historic palace in downtown Honolulu on Wednesday, saying it would carry out the business of what it considers the legitimate government of the island picked by 2manyusernames 4 months ago

Forget going on a hunger strike. In Colombia, an unemployed man has sewn shut his mouth and locked himself behind an iron mask to demand the government attend to his family's desperate economic plight. picked by AutumnLotus 11 months ago

An Italian woman whose family kept her locked in a room for almost two decades after she was accused of becoming pregnant out of wedlock has been freed by police, authorities and media reports said. picked by aclister 3 months ago

So I guess this is OK but it's not OK to walk 30 feet from your locked, alarmed car for less than 1 minute. picked by moe 6 months ago

Item#: SCP-173

Special Containment Procedures: Item SPC-173 is to be kept in a locked container at all times. When personnel must enter SCP-173's container, no fewer than 3 may enter at any time and the door is to be relocked behind them. At all times, two persons must maintain direct eye contact with SCP-173 until all personnel have vacated and relocked the container. picked by jLoSsDh 3 months ago

Fell on the large butcher knife which he was going to use to pry open the car’s window. picked by tigertony 2 weeks ago

Astronomers are baffled after finding an exotic type of star called a pulsar apparently locked in an elongated orbit around a star much like the sun -- an arrangement defying what had been known about such objects. picked by AutumnLotus 4 months ago

Not only are these guys locked into the pedals, They are all on fixed gear bikes. (for those that don't know: fixed gear means one gear with no freespin- constant movement!) Ouch!
A velodrome is a sporting arena for track cycling. Modern velodromes feature steeply banked oval tracks, consisting of two 180-degree circular bends. picked by willster09 9 months ago

U.S prisons hold 1.5 million prisoners, and when you add in local jails, it's 2.3 million —1 in 100 American adults. Since the 1980s, we've sat by as the numbers inched higher and our prison system ballooned, swallowing up a larger portion of the citizenry. What does it take for us to do something about this? picked by funkfrost 1 month ago

Reversing decades of tough-on-crime policies, including mandatory minimum prison sentences for some drug offenders, many cash-strapped states are embracing a view once dismissed as dangerously naive: It costs far less to let some felons go free than to keep them locked up. picked by dollyllama 4 months ago

There is tremendous energy locked up in even the gentlest of waves. Harnessing that energy has been wrought with problems. A new and simple device invented in the UK make make it a lot easier and lot less expensive to utilize that boundless energy. picked by 2manyusernames 2 months ago

Imagine lying inert, unmoving, totally paralyzed -- and your only way of telling people "I'm not dead!" is the tiny blink of one eye. Imagine hearing the doctors call you a vegetable, and you can't even whisper back, "I'm still here." picked by jhordie 6 months ago

In a jail cell at an immigration detention center in Arizona sits a man who is not charged with a crime, not suspected of a crime, not considered a danger to society.

But he has been in custody for five years. picked by tlovesd 2 years ago

You’re nearly at the airport, suddenly: “Who locked the front door?” “Can the neighbours get in to feed the budgie?” “Are the prescription tablets still on the hall table?”

Forget your worries with the ultimate holiday checklist picked by KEROberos32 3 months ago

Jay Whitmarsh said he walked through the HSBC bank's unlocked door Saturday, thinking the abandoned building's employees had temporarily stepped outside, but realized something else was afoot when the door latched behind him and wouldn't reopen, The Daily Mail reported Monday. picked by dollyllama 6 months ago

Jail officials have denied a Des Moines, Iowa, woman's request to be locked up so she can force herself to quit smoking. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago