Offbeats

Florida man Jean Oliver has been arrested for allegedly throwing furniture off the 20th floor of a New York City building. The incident happened on Friday in Midtown and was caught on camera by several shocked onlookers. Footage shows a…

A three-bedroom home in San Francisco is on the market for just under half-a-million dollars...but you can’t move in until 2053. The Zillow listing says that a tenant is living in the three-bedroom home, and the new buyer has to…

A mime who has entertained SeaWorld visitors for 36 years was let go after a dispute with a security guard. Lynn The Mime claims he was scolded by a security guard for riding his bike, which he had done many…

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo was supposed to swim in the River Seine to prove the water was clean enough for the Olympics, but she has rescheduled her dip for July. President Emmanuel Macron has also said he would take a…

Jack Allen Blakeslee had his law license suspended after admitting to throwing a Pringles potato chip container filled with feces onto the property of a crime-victim advocacy center. The Ohio Supreme Court has recently reinstated Blakeslee’s license. Blakeslee claimed that…

100,000 tech workers have been laid off in the first half of 2024. This continues an overall downsizing trend that began in 2020. According to Layoffs.fyi data analyzing 3,544 tech company layoffs since the start of the pandemic, Google saw…

A women’s basketball tournament that was supposed to take place in a New Jersey school next month has been canceled for its raunchy theme. The “Nothing But [expletive] Celebrity Baddies Basketball contest, according to the promo video, would have featured…

Some suspended X users are getting their accounts back by claiming they were mass reported by leftists. User @ronmexicuh lost access to the social platform for two months, and then sent an appeal saying he was a conservative activist who…

New Yorker Steve Nahama tried to flush a snake down the toilet, and ended up bitten instead. The Brooklynite found the serpent in his bathtub on June 19th, and first through it was a worm. However, when he tried to…

Visitors to Herculaneum can now walk along the beach of the Roman town for the first time in 2,000 years. The ancient site was destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD79. Through conversation work, the beach now contains…

Former Republican Representative George Santos announced a new platform to try his luck on: OnlyFans. The New Yorker announced his new endeavor on his X account, stating: “The moment you’ve all been waiting for! Only on #OnlyFans will you get…

Activists supporting the group Just Stop Oil sprayed the historic Stonehenge site with an orange paint powder on Wednesday. The group demands that the next U.K. government commit to phasing out fossil fuels by 2030. Wiltshire Police arrested two people…

A hard-working man unknowingly terrified an Indian village by falling asleep in a pond after a hard day’s work. People in Reddypuram Kovelakunta called authorities when they found a man’s body motionless in the shallow end of a pond. While…

An Englishman is suing Apple after his wife found messages between him and a sex worker on the family iMac. Because the man had deleted the messages from his iPhone, he believed they had been removed from all devices. However,…

Five years ago, Anna Lee Dozier bought a vase at a Maryland thrift store for $3.99. “It looked old-ish, but I thought maybe 20, 30 years old and some kind of tourist reproduction thing,” Dozier said. However, during a trip…