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Guy Already Camping Out for iPhone 5

Evann Gastaldo — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 17:48:05 CDT

Rob Shoesmith is currently camped outside London's Covent Garden Apple store in a tent, awaiting the release of the iPhone 5. Not all that weird, except of course that the iPhone 5 hasn't even been announced yet. Why is he doing it? As a "marketing and PR experiment," of course,...

For $10K, You Can Hunt This Unemployed Man

Kevin Spak — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 12:43:05 CDT

Could the recession turn The Most Dangerous Game into reality? Mork Encino hopes so. The 28-year-old unemployed Utah man is offering “hearty gentlemen who fancy themselves sportsmen” the chance to hunt him down and even kill him for $10,000. “I am a new breed of prey with thick pelt...

Spanish Village Goes Blue for Smurfs Movie

Mark Russell — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 06:47:55 CDT

What the Smurf? Everything—and we mean everything —has been painted bright blue in Júzcar, a small town in the south of Spain, as part of Sony's marketing campaign for the new Smurfs movie, reports the Huffington Post . It took a dozen painters more than 1,000 gallons of blue...

Hip-Hop Group Blocks LA Freeway

Evann Gastaldo — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 08:40:33 CDT

A hip-hop band certainly got the attention it wanted when it blocked a California freeway yesterday, backing up traffic for miles. Members of the group Imperial Stars parked their truck across three lanes of the 101, then started performing atop it. Three people were arrested, the Orange County Register reports....

Spencer Pratt Has Completely Lost His Flipping ... Er, Beard

Evann Gastaldo — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 10:56:00 CDT

Never a bastion of stability, Spencer Pratt has officially gone off the deep end. His latest publicity stunt: shaving that godawful thing growing on his godawful face. On YouTube , for the world to see, of course. With a big ol’ knife. In a video that also involves him calling himself...

10 Stupid Publicity Stunts

Evann Gastaldo — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 13:29:54 CDT

So Heidi Montag’s separation from Spencer Pratt was a publicity stunt…was anyone surprised? Olivia Allin lists nine other similarly lame stunts, on The Frisky : Jon Gosselin : Turns out he really was lying when he accused ex Hailey Glassman of stealing his TV. How do we know? Because the genius sent...

Sarah Silverman: Fox Is a 24-Hour 'Racism Machine'

Rob Quinn — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 05:18:38 CDT

Racists in today's mainstream media don't go around praising the Klan, they appear on Fox News saying President Obama was born in Africa, according to Sarah Silverman. "The entire Fox News Channel is a 24-hour-a-day racism engine, but it’s all coded, all implied," she writes in her new book, Bedwetter...

Runaway Calif. Prius Driver Has Sketchy Past

Harry Kimball — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:56:26 CST

The driver of the Toyota Prius he says went haywire and took him on a 94mph terror ride earlier this week has a checkered past that leads some to doubt his story. “Immediately I thought this guy has an angle here,” a dissatisfied client of real estate agent James Sikes...

CNN Duped by 140-Year-Old Hot Dog

Harry Kimball — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:08:50 CST

CNN happily ran a story recently on a 140-year-old hot dog and bun discovered intact, encased in ice, during demolition of the restaurant where the first hot dog was supposedly made. But the news network apparently forgetting that not everything is as it seems on Coney Island. The “1 st...