A JetBlue pilot forced a Manhattan man to sit on the toilet for three hours during a cross-country flight to free up his seat for a stewardess picked by coldbladed 2 months ago

A 23-year-old man was arrested for burglary Friday night just 15 hours following his release from jail for two other burglaries, police said. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

An Illinois man spent 85 hours on a stationary bike to break a world record, but inconsistencies in record logbooks prevented him from earning a title. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

A striking collection of gorgeous nighttime & low-light photographs, and eerie, beautiful pictures of modern ruins. picked by VooDooPeacock 1 year ago

The sloth's popular image as a lazy creature that sleeps for most of the day has been called into question.

Rather than snoozing for more than 16 hours a day, as observed in captivity, sloths in the wild doze for less than 10 hours, research suggests. picked by AutumnLotus 2 months ago

A businessman was arrested and held for eight hours after making a 12-year-old litter lout pick up the rubbish he had just dropped. picked by AutumnLotus 9 months ago

A cancer patient says she was left alone in a CT scanner for hours after a technician apparently forget about her picked by DemureArt 10 months ago

Denver police say a very patient burglar has stolen narcotics from three pharmacies by walking in during business hours, climbing into the space above the ceiling and hiding there for at least eight hours until the store closes. picked by AutumnLotus 11 months ago

In the four hours it took Alaska State Troopers to arrive at the Eskimo village of Nunam Iqua, a man choked and raped his 13-year-old stepdaughter in front of three younger children...in the remote, frozen reaches of Alaska, scores of native villages have no full-fledged police officers at all. picked by DemureArt 6 months ago

URUMQI, China - The rosy-cheeked infant swaddled in a blanket snuggled tenderly next to her mother in their hospital bed, hours after her birth Wednesday.

A little over a month ago, Zhang Xiaoyan lay in the rubble of her earthquake-shattered apartment building. Trapped for more than 50 hours, she prayed for the life of her unborn child. picked by bevissimo 1 month ago

A woman who killed herself and her sister's two small children by walking into oncoming interstate traffic had a minor car accident and State Police cited her just hours before the double murder-suicide.

Update to: picked by bevissimo 6 months ago

This week in the New Yorker, Nick Paumgarten writes about the lives of elevators, and tells the story of Nicholas White, who was trapped in an elevator in New York City’s McGraw-Hill building for forty-one hours. Here is a condensed look at White’s ordeal, as captured by the building’s security- Read the article detailing his story here picked by NIMBLEBIMBLE 3 months ago

CANBERRA, Australia — A shrimp fisherman who swam 12 hours to shore to get help after his trawler sank, leaving him and his two crewmates clinging to flotsam, was hailed as a hero today. picked by mutil8or 5 months ago

A Japanese labor bureau has ruled that one of Toyota's top car engineers died from working too many hours, the latest in a string of such findings in a nation where extraordinarily long hours for some employees has long been the norm. picked by 2longdogs 2 weeks ago

A French cook has prepared the world's largest barbecue - spit-roasting a 550kg camel for 15 hours at a seaside Moroccan town south of Rabat. picked by AutumnLotus 8 months ago

LOS ANGELES -- Dane Cook broke a Laugh Factory endurance record set less than a month ago by Dave Chappelle.

In what is becoming a heated battle between the two comedians, Cook told jokes at the Sunset Strip comedy club for 7 hours, beating the record Chappelle, 34, set at 6 hours and 12 minutes in December. picked by bevissimo 7 months ago

"He was absolutely amazing, for six hours making people laugh," the club's owner, Jamie Masada, said Tuesday. picked by punthe 1 year ago

A man who jumped from a cruise ship off Florida's coast early Friday was rescued about eight hours later by the Coast Guard, officials said.

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Administrators at a high school where eight students died in a tornado were warned about severe weather nearly three hours before the twister struck. picked by MaskedWriter 1 year ago

A fugitive mouse delayed the departure of a Japan-bound airliner for more than four hours Sunday as technicians hunted down the potential threat. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago