Bad Cop Blotter: Stop Tasering Us, Police Bros
Image via Flickr user Rébus Early in the morning of August 6, Miami Beach police fired a Taser burst into the chest of Israel Hernandez, an 18-year-old artist and skater who was running from a half...
View ArticlePen Pals: Phone Calls from Jail Are Criminally Expensive
Photo via Flickr user KOMUNews Sometimes phones are a pain in the dick even in the real world. I remember when cell phones turned into a necessity and you could no longer fall off the grid every day...
View ArticleThe Godfather of Mexican Drug Trafficking Has Disappeared
On Friday, August 9, at the unseemly hour of two o'clock in the morning, the main gate of Puente Grande prison opened, and a godfather in the Mexican narcotics trade walked out into the darkness a...
View ArticleWhat Happens When Hundreds of People Retweet Child Porn?
What Happens When Hundreds of People Retweet Child Porn?
View ArticleThis Palestinian Taxidermist's Stuffed Animal Zoo Is Kind of Heartbreaking
A fearsome lion towers over its prey. Okay sure, so somebody stuffed Napoleon's horse, but in general, no one pays too much attention to the animal victims of war. No one except Dr Sami Khader, that...
View ArticleQuestion of the Day: What's the Worst Thing You've Ever Done to an Ex?
Photo via. What’s not to love about West Virginia? The state has coal mining, the Hatfields, Appalachian music and a giant named Kevin Pittsnogle. It also has Mingo County Circuit Judge Michael...
View ArticleThese Guys Hacked a Car and Now They Want to Show You How to Do It Too
The Michael Hastings crash, which some have described as a possible car cyber attack. Screenshot via. It's been less than a month since hacker extraordinaire Barnaby Jack was found dead in strange...
View ArticlePhotographer Tony Fouhse Collaborated with a Heroin Addict
Drug addicts seem to be the go-to subjects for raw-emotion-seeking photographers looking to try their hand at documentary photography. The problem is that most photo series featuring drug addicts...
View ArticleFurious Buddhists Are Making Life Hell for Sri Lanka's Muslims
Muslims are under attack in Sri Lanka. Recent reports indicate that gangs of Buddhists have been roaming the streets, administering bloody mob beatings and attacking places where Muslims work and...
View ArticleThe Magician's Retreat
Illustrations By: Cahill Wessel Montreal-based writer and former VICE editor Adam Leith Gollner is one of those seemingly regular Joes who continually finds himself in strange, almost unbelievable...
View ArticleLibya Is Getting Better and Better for Teenage Arms Dealers
Teenage gun dealers on Ar Rashid Street. The gun sellers on Tripoli's Al Rashid Street are doing a brisk trade. They’re chatting and laughing and all look like they’re about 17 years old. Younger boys...
View ArticleThe Absurdity of Destroying a Hard Drive to Conceal the Truth
The Absurdity of Destroying a Hard Drive to Conceal the Truth
View ArticleI'm a Journalist in Cairo Being Hounded by Spies and Thugs
Four journalists have been shot dead in Egypt this week. Dozens of others have been arrested, and I myself – a relatively young reporter – have received death threats. I am now being followed. Since...
View ArticleI Went to Corey Feldman's Birthday Party
DISCLAIMER: I was only allowed to attend Corey's birthday party under the condition that he have final edit of whatever I write. Below is the text approved by Corey Feldman: You probably know Corey...
View ArticleAnti-Fracking Protesters Are Still Having a Pretty Torrid Time in Balcombe
Let's get the obligatory gags out of the way early doors. For decades, nothing really happened in Balcombe. But now it's happening endlessly and all over the news. Yes, fracking has finally put...
View ArticleQuestion of the Day: What's the Hardest You've Ever Worked?
We've all been up against an impossible deadline, but normally you just go and cry in your boss's small room and they go all stiff and awkward and let you have an extension. Occasionally we will push...
View ArticleBradley Manning Gets 35 Years for Exposing the Truth
Bradley Manning Gets 35 Years for Exposing the Truth
View ArticleSome Credible Scientists Believe Humanity Is Irreparably Close to Destruction
Presumably painted by a Near Term Extinctionist. via Flickr. If you were to zoom out and take a comparative look back at our planet during the 1950s from some sort of cosmic time-travelling orbiter...
View ArticleBig Night Out: Psytrance Rave in a Forest
In the second episode of the new Big Night Out video series, Clive Martin ventures into the little-understood world of Psytrance. He stumbles across a forest rave deep in the English countryside, and...
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