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Granted, losing $20,000 of a drug cartel's money is fairly panic inducing. That said, you do have to wonder what Demarco Alonzo Thomas was thinking when he called the police for a note excusing him from delivering $20,000.

Starbucks debuted an etched metal gift card for the hardest of the hardcore coffee drinkers yesterday. And it sold out in seconds.

Early Tuesday morning, a 911 operator in Springtown, Texas, got a call from Lindy Gerow, who reported a burglar had just entered into her home. "You better come quick," she said, "or my husband's going to shoot him." It the operator had any doubt about the severity of the situation it was confirmed by a concurrent call. This one from the home invader himself.

Verizon has recently patented a cable DVR box that will use audio and video to record and analyze what's going on in your living room so that they can provide targeted ads in real time on the TV to suit what's going on. Um, Big Brother much?

Even though we're huge fans of Christmas, the holiday season can be super stressful at times. This is particularly true when it comes to buying presents. Most people are difficult to shop for, which puts tons of pressure on us to try and decode their present preference. Will our friend like that potpourri centerpiece we're re-gifting from grandma? Probably not. What about the awful Christmas sweat

When Chris Burd was 13-years-old he went to the mall in Maplewood, Minn during Christmas time. He was with his three-year-old sister, and to appease her he also sat on the lap of the mall's Santa Claus and asked for gifts. Fast forward 13 years. Chris had recently become engaged when he got a call from his mother who tells him she had made an interesting discovery while going through a batch of ol

If Nicolas Cage is, indeed, a vampire, as the internet says, it is entirely possible that he also at least posed for a portrait of the Virgin Mary at some point. Why would this photo of a Virgin Mary/Nic Cage lookalike that surfaced on Imgur surprise anyone...

On Tuesday, Bessie Cooper of Georgia died at the age of 116. She was the world's oldest person, and her passing opened the door for somebody else to grab that distinction. Enter Dina Manfredini of Johnston, Iowa. At 115 years and 245 days old, she was born before anybody else who's walking around on planet earth...

Things got a little crazy at Lamar Fleming Middle School in Houston, Texas Tuesday morning when what has been described as a "mean old goat' wandered onto campus.

Thanks to Imagination Games, fans of E.L. James' hit series of erotic novels can now indulge their Inner Goddess with the new 'Fifty Shades of Grey' board game. Yes, this is a real thing that is happening.

We spent the first 15 seconds of this video trying to figure out if it was a trick or not. Then the narrator actually says "this isn't a trick."

Most people have never actually seen the movie 'Snakes On A Plane.' But thanks to its descriptive name and an aggressive ad campaign based around star Samuel L. Jackson's proclivity for profanity, we all know the bad things that can happen if the slithery reptiles get loose on an aircraft.

The White House receives nutty online petitions all the time, but here's one we can really get behind -- a request for the federal government to build a space station based upon the Death Star from 'Star Wars' by 2016. Get on that right away, Obama. But don't fall behind schedule or the Emperor will be furious.

What's worse than a news anchor blabbing on live TV that Santa isn't real? How about a Texas kindergarten teacher revealing the terrible truth about Saint Nick to her entire class of five-year-olds? Yep, that actually happened.

Fact: everybody who isn't a monster loves the smell of pizza. But that doesn't mean that Pizza Hut should be making a pizza-scented perfume. Especially because their pizza is exempt from the "everybody loves the smell of pizza" clause. But they're doing it anyway.