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    http://www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/4-more-viral-news-stories-you-thought-were-true/

    #2. A Man Did Not Successfully Sue His Wife for Ugly Children

    The curse of the "man in China" story strikes again! Apparently one asshole in China has sued his wife over producing a batch of butt-ugly children -- the revelation being that she once had cosmetic surgery to conceal her barfy DNA. The judge sympathized with his awful situation and awarded him $120,000.

    voiceofrussia.com
    He would have made more had they not measured in metric ugly.

    The story already made the rounds last year on the Huffington Post, Yahoo, and various ABC and Fox affiliates ... and guess what, it was as imaginary then as it is now. Most of those sites took the story back, and the only thing any of the sites reporting it this time around had to do was an image search to get this hard-hitting development:

    en.rocketnews24.com

    The family photo is a plastic surgery ad from Taiwan. The caption reads, "The only thing you have to worry about is explaining it to your children" -- on the other hand, there's probably a website in China reporting "TALKING GECKOS AND A BALD MUSCULAR MAN WITH OCD TERRORIZE AMERICA."
     

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    Fint

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    Aug 13, 2010
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    I find it more disturbing that they use kids in this way in a legit commercial :p
    They ought to be thankful, at least they were the first out their mother's birth passage before the state stepped in and blocked their brother or sister from popping out anytime after.
     

    Cuti

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    “I want to die like Scarface,” Pace had told his terrified girlfriend at the time.
    In court, Yanika Abdilla had recounted an extraordinary story of how drugs, sex, violence and shooting were a typical day for her and Mr Pace.
    Ms Abdilla described herself as more like a slave than a girlfriend to him and he had forbidden her from leaving the place. She was essentially a maid who would get paid in cocaine.
    Such was his utter disregard for those close to him that on the day before the incident, on Valentine’s Day, he had locked her up in the kitchen while he had sex with Kelly Micallef, a girl who had just moved in with them.
    The day in question started as any other, with the couple taking a vodka-and-cocaine breakfast together with Mr Vella and Ms Micallef.
    He left, as he did normally, for some three hours and returned with a supply of cocaine. Then, at about 6.30 p.m., Mr Pace’s mother, Giovanna, who was 53 years old at the time, phoned her son. When they ended their conversation, however, she failed to say goodbye to him.
    At that he flew into a rage and marched over to her house armed with a hammer ready to smash the door down. To make matters worse, his father was standing in the balcony and dropped a Heineken bottle into the street out of fear, Ms Abdilla said.
    His anger reaching a new intensity, he went back to his house, fetched a shotgun, walked over to his parents’ house and shot at the door. It was then his mother called the police.
    He then returned to his own place and the police made a series of calls on his mobile phone, which he ordered the women and Mr Vella to answer. He also instructed them to threaten the police.
    He told Mr Vella to say he was standing next to gas cylinders and would put a bullet in them to blow everyone to kingdom come.
    At one point the police fired tear gas into the house but Mr Pace, sitting on a bed, carried on smoking cocaine as Ms Abdilla ran around the house with wet towels and blankets trying to seal up the windows and doors.
    He ordered her to go into the kitchen for a soup ladle used for cooking cocaine and all this while the room was full of tear gas, she said.
    When it became unbearable inside, they all went up on the roof and she helped Mr Vella through a window.
    She climbed to the highest part of the roof, overlooking the main street where police were stationed, and shouted out that Mr Pace was going to throw her off the roof.
    The other three were at the lower end of the house nearest to the Mrieħel flyover, with Mr Pace holding the machine gun, Ms Micallef behind him handing him bullets and Mr Vella crouched behind her.
    She could recall Mr Pace firing a shot at the flyover in what she described as a “fearful show”.
    They moved back inside and Ms Micallef swallowed some pills and fell asleep. Mr Pace started smoking cocaine again and Mr Vella sat at the end of the bed not knowing what to do.
    Ms Abdilla said the police managed to get into the house from the roof and arrested them. She also claimed they beat Mr Vella.
    http://www.timesofmalta.com/article...ormi-shootout-with-police.495233#.UotUPMTryPA

    :lol2:
     

    piotrr

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    I want more fakt! @piotrr
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    Hard drive worth $7.5 million is buried in a UK dump

    A British man who threw away a hard drive containing bitcoins worth $7.5 million has started searching his local landfill in an attempt to find it again. James Howells amassed 7,500 bitcoins in 2009, but disposed of the hard drive they were stored on earlier in 2013 after it sat unused in a drawer for three years.

    A bitcoin is now worth $1,000, but Howells' 7,500 were obtained at a time when they were nearly worthless. Howells — who says he'd "never thrown a hard drive out before" — had dismantled the computer he'd used to collect them after spilling a drink on it, eventually disposing of the drive in a "clearout of old IT equipment." Shortly afterwards, Howells says his curiosity was piqued after reading stories about the virtual currency, including one about a Norwegian man, Kristoffer Koch, who'd bought $27 of bitcoin at the same time as he had. Koch's investment was worth $886,000; Howells' is worth much more, but can't be reached without access to wallet file on the hard drive.

    Howells isn't optimistic about his chances of recovering his bitcoins. According to BBC News, he was told by the dump's manager that his million dollar drive "could be three to five feet deep" in the landfill the size of a soccer field. Officials who search the landfill for evidence in criminal cases do so "with 15 to 20 people in full protective gear with diggers and dogs as well." Howells says he hasn't got the means to dig into the potentially hazardous waste "without a definite pay check at the end of it."
    http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/29/5156246/7-5-million-bitcoins-on-hard-drive-thrown-away-in-uk
     

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