The feds have a new crime-fighting tool: Urban Dictionary.
When a man in a weapons case sent a threatening note to a victim, investigators didn’t know he had committed a crime until they checked the online hipster dictionary.
The man said he wanted “to murk” his victim, which Urban Dictionary says means “to beat so badly the victim dies.”
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A Miami charter school is teaching the three R’s: reading, writing and raving.
Parents at the Balare Language Academy are outraged after finding ads for a wild DJ party called “Push It To Da Limit” to be held at the school on a Saturday.
The school claimed to know nothing about the after-hours rave-ups, but parents say the fliers explain why the school smells like smoke and there are beer bottles in the playground.
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Two teenage girls who visited the grave of a “vampire” in Exeter, RI, died a short time later in a car crash on a street called Purgatory Road.
The young women went to the burial spot of Mercy Brown, an alleged vampire from the 1800s whose life is said to have inspired Bram Stoker’s “Dracula.”
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The United Arab Emirates would be a good place to film “COPS: 13th Century edition.”
Detectives there got Medieval this week when they ruled a violent car wreck was caused by “magic.”
Officers said the key clue was some human hair and nail clippings found wrapped in a cloth under a seat, which they thought was part of a spell.
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In Germany, the hookers are now being taxed via vending machines.
Before starting each shift, German prostitutes must buy a $10 tax stamp from a curbside machine that resembles a muni-meter.
Germany is known for big government, but this sure sounds like socialized pimping.