The camera-wielding hiker fell 8 meters, but luckily no one in their party reported any serious injuries.
Announcement of the Day: A Couple Reveals More than They Meant to in a Facebook Engagement Photo
Crop your photos, people.
This couple thought they were letting people into their personal lives by announcing their engagement over Facebook.
But there was more to the photo than initially met the eye and their family was quick on the uptake.
Break found the slip up:
After bride-to-be Miranda announced that her man had finally popped the question, it seemed that their world could be nothing short of a fairy tale. I mean, everyone woman lives to announce their engagement on facebook it seems. Hilariously enough, that magical moment didn’t really seem to be the case because Miranda had already accidentally tipped off her friends to look a little closer at the photo. She stated that her boyfriend didn’t give her an actual ring, assuring everyone it will come later, which did nothing other than make people lean in a little too close to check out that ring.
And that’s when everyone also started noticing the weird box in the corner.
Yeah, that box? It was a pregnancy test.
The scene played out over Facebook comments and you can easily imagine the happy bride-to-be put the pieces together.
And then, the admission.
Congratulations to the happy couple!
As Halloween Approaches Behold This Monstrous List of Web Comics
As you get older, you may become beholden to the fact that monsters from the stories we were exposed to as children don’t exist. Instead the monsters often come within, but try convincing a child that they may be the monster may be some facet of their being. But enough of that psychobabble, let’s check out these web comics.
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WTF of the Day: Woman Blinds Herself Because She Felt it was 'Who She was Supposed to Be'
Jewel Shuping purposefully blinded herself with drain cleaner because she had yearned to be blind since she was six years old.
She suffers from Body Integrity Identity Disorder or BIID, which is usually associated with believing that one’s limbs doesn’t belong to one’s self and manifests in a desire to lose that limb.
“I really feel this is the way I was supposed to be born, that I should have been blind from birth,” the 30-year-old Shuping said.
Shuping’s case is made even stranger by the fact that she worked with a psychiatrist to blind herself, presumably under the assumption that it was a treatment.
Even though she doesn’t regret her decision, in fact now saying that she’s never been happier, Shuping is trying to create awareness of BIID so that people don’t take the route she did.
“Don’t go blind the way I did. I know there is a need, but perhaps someday there will be treatment for it,” Shuping said. “People with BIID get trains to run over their legs, freeze dry their legs or fall off cliffs to try to paralyze themselves.
“It’s very dangerous. And they need professional help.”
Wonderfully Baffling Story of the Day: Man Breaks into Home, Feeds Cat, Makes Dinner, Writes in Diary
This right here is great.
Thirty three-year-old Christopher Hiscock seems like a pretty normal guy according to the National Post.
Except of course for the fact that he stole a truck to drive west, broke into a ranch and spent the day living comfortably in its confines before the resident came home and found Hiscock.
“She found the accused in her home watching TV,” Crown lawyer Mike Wong said.
“He had started a fire in the fireplace and prepared himself a meal. He said he had been driving by and the door was open, so he came in.
…”The accused appears to have done some laundry. He also fed the cats and put out some hay for the horses,” Wong said. “He used (the residents’) toothbrush and shaver, he had taken some meat out of the freezer to thaw and he had written in their diary.”
Yes. That’s right. He even found the residents’ diary and wrote in it.
In beautiful proof that the law can sometimes work for the people, the court released his one diary entry.
“Today was my first full day at the ranch,” he wrote in the diary. “I fed the cats and horses. So much I can do here I have to remind myself to just relax and take my time.
“I don’t feel alone here, I guess with 2 cats and 3 horses it’s kinda hard to be alone. Last night I had a fire in the house. It was so (peaceful). I slept like a little baby.
I saw a picture in the basement on the wall of a man holding and weighing fish on a boat. Looking at him I realized we look a lot alike, but I think I’m more handsome.”
They did not release either a picture of Hiscock or a the picture of the man weighing the fish, so we cannot confirm or deny whether Hiscock is more handsome. Although that question will keep us awake at night.
The story has a kind of happy ending, since he was only given probation by the judge.
Hiscock, who has no prior criminal record, apologized in court.
“I made a lot of mistakes,” he said. “There’s really no excuses for it.”
He was still beaming about his brief stay at the ranch.
“Beautiful ranch,” he said. “Gorgeous. I was driving and I just turned in. Beautiful place.”
Judge Chris Cleaveley placed Hiscock on a one-year probation term with orders barring him from contacting the residents of the ranch and the owner of the Ontario truck.
But his future prospects look less than ideal.
“I really have nowhere to go,” he said… “The woods is a good place, I suppose. There’s a lot of fish out there.”
Never stop dreaming, folks.
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Nightmare App of the Day: Peeple Will Allow Everyone to Review Everyone Like Amazon Products — This Should End Well
I can’t see how this would go wrong at all.
Peeple, an app launching this November, will invite you to rate everyone else like there were restaurants on Yelp. ‘Personally, professionally and romantically’, founders Julia Cordray and Nicole McCullough think it’s going to provide a whole lot of benefit for letting you know who’s in your life.
As their website says:
Peeple will enhance your online reputation for access to better quality networks, top job opportunities, and promote more informed decision making about people.
Authentic and relevant information about you and others you interact with is paramount to our vision for this app. Users will require a Facebook account to access the application, to verify and validate the minimum age requirement. To prevent multiple and fake profiles users will also need to validate that they are a real person with their cell phone number which will then text them a pin to login with.
Not everyone is liking this idea. For the obvious reasons you are thinking.
It began trending on Twitter Oct. 1 and the reactions were expected, but still pretty humorous.
my thoughts on the #Peeple app pic.twitter.com/hfAXQTCb3A
— Rita Meade (@ScrewyDecimal) October 1, 2015
The backlash has been felt by the creators (who are still getting publicity out of the bad press) and they wrote up this reply, which doesn’t at all come off as smug and self-satisfied.
An Ode to Courage: Innovators are often put down because people are scared and they don’t understand. We are bold innovators and sending big waves into motion and we will not apologize for that because we love you enough to give you this gift.
It is very much worth mentioning that the show Community had an episode dedicated to an app exactly like this. It was called Meow Meow Beenz. And it was hilarious.
It will only be a matter of time before society devolves into a caste system, where the five-star rated among us will wear togas and play theremins on the reg.
Old People Who Take Facebook Too Seriously
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You Can Take Away My License, But Not My Imagination
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