Steven Jay Russell impersonated a prison guard to simply walk out of prison. Upon recapture Russell lowered and paid his bail by pretending to be a judge, escaped his next capture by impersonating a doctor, and did so AGAIN by faking his death, eventually landing him a 144yr sentence.
A Chicago man once robbed a Subway and then crossed the street…
A Chicago man once robbed a Subway and then crossed the street to buy a Potbelly sandwich with the money.
The founder of Alcoholics Anonymous demanded alcohol during…
The founder of Alcoholics Anonymous demanded alcohol during the last few days of his life.
Two Chicago men once tried to rob a restaurant with a squirt gun, but the owner…
Two Chicago men once tried to rob a restaurant with a squirt gun, but the owner told them he was too busy right now and to come back in an hour. They did. And the police were waiting for them.
When Alexander the Great asked the philosopher Diogenes why he was…
When Alexander the Great asked the philosopher Diogenes why he was sifting through the garbage, Diogenes responded,”I am looking for the bones of your father but I cannot distinguish them from the bones of his slaves.”
Rather than building up, millionaires in central London are building down…
Rather than building up, millionaires in central London are building down, creating mega-basements. Nicknamed “iceberg homes” because there’s more square footage under the ground than above.
MIT students must pass a swim test to graduate. The director of phys…
MIT students must pass a swim test to graduate. The director of phys ed said swimming is “…a self-survival skill. Research shows that most drownings occur in families where parents don’t know how to swim.” The test requires you to swim 100 yards. It used to be 200 yards, the width of the Charles River, […]
Two white brothers took the Boston firefighters test claiming…
Two white brothers took the Boston firefighters test claiming to be black so they would pass at the lower requirements. They worked for 10 years before being discovered.
Scientists attached stilts to the legs of ants to prove that ants…
Scientists attached stilts to the legs of ants to prove that ants return to their nests by counting their steps. The ants with stilts overshot their nest by roughly 50% due to the new length of their steps.
An Orthodox Jewish school in NJ, which forbids its students from using…
An Orthodox Jewish school in NJ, which forbids its students from using the internet, received a $700k federal grant for classroom computers. A total of five computers were found on campus. In a school of 1,025 students.