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It’s been an exciting week for hot dog enthusiasts: A man sold unfiltered hot dog water—which is exactly what it sounds like—for nearly $38 per bottle at a festival in Vancouver, and the age-old debate of whether a hot dog is really a sandwich is solved by a sandwich expert from the Food Network.

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As the European Union/Brexit debate continues across the Atlantic, no one is left unaffected—even cows. According to Slavorum, a pregnant cow that crossed the border between Bulgaria and Serbia, a non-EU country, was sentenced to death by the Bulgarian government for breaking rules surrounding her reentry into the EU.

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If dogs pee on things to establish dominance, what do humans do? Forget yelling or fighting — apparently, they fart in people’s personal space and pinch the nipples of their subordinates. According to the Sacramento Bee, Brett Bland, a car salesman in Texas, is suing Jeremy Pratt—his former boss—and AutoNation, the parent company of the dealership where he works, for creating a “sexually hostile” workplace environment that included Pratt “regularly entering [employees’] enclosed offices, intentionally passing gas, and then laughing as they were forced to breathe soiled air.”

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Ever wish you could make money just by complaining? One man in England has figured it out. According to The Sun, Chris Owen, 39, estimates he makes £1,000 a year just by complaining about the presence of mayonnaise on his burgers, among other injustices. Aside his hatred for the condiment, he also makes money in the form of discounts, coupons, and free meals or services by complaining about things like too many red pepper flakes on his pizza or a marble tabletop damaged upon delivery.

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The mother of a two-year-old in Sweden is preparing herself for a difficult conversation with her son once he’s old enough to ask where his name came from. Johanna Sandstrom thought she was getting a simple tattoo of her children’s names, but realized after she got home that the artist had misspelled “Kevin.” Since laser tattoo removal is expensive, painful, and time-consuming, there was virtually no way to rectify the mistake… unless her son’s name was changed to the misspelling. And that’s what happened.

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A woman was cited by police after using a microwave in a 7-Eleven to heat up urine. The report states that Angelique Sanchez, 26, allegedly entered the gas station in Aurora, Colorado, and placed a plastic bottle into the microwave. The cashier heard a loud bang a short while later and saw a yellow liquid pouring out of the microwave.

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After staff from Holmdel High School in New Jersey found human feces near its football field and track daily, surveillance cameras were set up to nab the culprit. What they didn’t anticipate was catching another district’s school superintendent in the act at 5:50 a.m.

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People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sued wildlife photographer David Slater in 2015 for posting photos that a crested macaque in Indonesia had taken with his camera, the Huffington Post reports. But PETA claimed the macaque was a victim of copyright infringement. They argued that Slater was violating the macaque’s rights by posting the photos and claiming ownership of the monkey’s intellectual property. 

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WBZ-TV in Boston reported that four-year-old Julia Hartwell came home from Pentucket Workshop Preschool in Georgetown, Massachusetts, acting upset. When her mother Christine asked why, she said she had been told she wasn't allowed to say she had a "best friend" by one of the teachers that day. After Hartwell contacted the school about the incident, the school defended its stance on the phrase, saying, "The term 'best friend' can lead other children to feel excluded."

Awkward Faces at the Races
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Awkward Faces at the Races

Our photographers Jeff Kardas and Rich Shepherd capture every major moment of the races each weekend, but also wind up with a fair amount of not-so-major photos at the end of the day. Riders have to deal with mud spatter, untucked jerseys, pit stains, and even worse—helmet hair—after each race, and some of their less-than-photogenic moments were bound to end up in our archives.

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We regretfully break the first rule of Fight Club to bring you this week's headline. A substitute math teacher was filmed encouraging male students to slap each other at Montville High School in Connecticut, according to the Hartford Courant. Ryan Avery Fish, 23, claimed he wanted to befriend students by encouraging horseplay. He was arrested April 12 and charged with two counts of risk of injury to a minor, one count of breach of peace, and four counts of second-degree reckless endangerment.

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Our second headline comes not from the press, but a YouTube video from TMZ. Marvel Comics mastermind Stan Lee and a former business associate had some bad blood between them (pun intended). The associate was able receive samples of Stan’s blood from his personal nurse through forged consent forms, which were supposedly meant to be infused with pen ink and sold to fans.