Terry Childs was going to be fired from his computer engineer job with San Francisco. He disabled all the admin passwords but his own and refuses to divulge the pw. The city fears that he may have a 3rd party access the system and delete 1000's of highly sensitive documents. picked by bernardblack 2 months ago

For nearly 26 years, the affidavit was sealed in an envelope and stored in a locked box, tucked away with the lawyer's passport and will. Sometimes he stashed the box in his bedroom closet, other times under his bed. picked by mutil8or 5 months ago

A woman arrived at her child's daycare center to find the building closed with her 14-month-old daughter locked inside alone. picked by AutumnLotus 11 months ago

This is so frightening... I hope the creep is locked up for good this time. picked by gnikgnok 12 months ago

Now the blondestar joke that went around a few years ago seems just more funny. Sorry if repost, did not find it earlier picked by Shortrib 3 months ago

Family members say the baby was locked in a customs room by immigration officers with his mother and a nurse when he died. The baby had come to Hawaii for emergency heart surgery.
*Theme pic unrelated. picked by MandolinOrange 7 months ago

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 2 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 1 month 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 10 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 5 days 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 8 months ago

Josef Smith, 8, died in 2003 on the day he was whipped with foot-long glue sticks, locked in a closet and told to pray to a picture of Jesus. Ex-members of the church say the punishments were in line with the discipline advice they heard while attending Remnant Fellowship Church. picked by kissmenow 2 years ago

From the Tonight Show, tapes of stupid 911 calls.
(One woman called because she got locked in her car!) picked by Kitsune86 1 year ago