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By Jordan Valinsky 5/15 3:44pm

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Three Men Arrested for Facebook IPO Scam (So At Least Somebody Made Money Off of It)

Three men in New Jersey were arrested yesterday for allegedly swindling nearly $7 million from an investor by claiming that they had “special access” to shares of Facebook prior to it going public last May.

Federal prosecutors arrested Aaron Muschel, 63, of Brooklyn, and Alex Schleider, 47 and Eliyahu Weinstein, 37, of Lakewood, N.J. and charged them with wire fraud conspiracy. Bloomberg reports that they offered a New Zealand investor “blocks of Facebook shares” even though the men had no access to them. They preyed off the near deafening buzz, that seemed to promise Great Gatsby-like riches, to those who cash in on the site’s IPO. Read More

By Jordan Valinsky 4/22 10:06am

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Pixie Porn Habit Lands Man in Jail

Poor Ronald Clark. All he wanted to do was, relax, crack open a Mountain Dew and watch some downloaded videos of elves, pixies, and “other fantasy creatures” doing it. Instead, the New Zealand man landed in jail.

A court in Auckland ruled that Mr. Clark’s pixie porn qualifies as “objectionable material,” sparking a debate in the country regarding whether or not content can be considered indecent if the animated characters appear underage. Mr. Clark said his interest in pixie and elf porn was all in good fun, and that he was simply enjoying the films based on their “artistic merit.” Read More

By Jessica Roy 3/26 9:17am

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Student Breaks Into Woman’s House to Browse Facebook, Pee on Her Couch

There are many ways to obtain Internet access, particularly as a college student in the United States. If you don’t have a laptop, you can always go to the university library, or borrow a friend’s computer. Or, if you’re an unidentified 18-year-old University of Georgia student, you can break into a woman’s house in order to chill on her couch and browse Facebook on her laptop. Read More

By Jessica Roy 1/31 10:05am

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Aww, Man: No-Fun Mississippi House Bill Seeks to Outlaw Animal-Human Hybrids

Look, nobody expected Mississippi to be this shining bastion of liberalism, lovingly welcoming every transhumanist-animal-hybrid-Singulatarian to cross its borders. But unfortunately, in its quest to further criminalize and stigmatize abortion by explicitly defining personhood, Mississippi may have gone one step too far: House Bill 819, the Protection of the Human Person Act (PDF), would outlaw human-animal hybrids like animorphs, which should strike outrage in the heart of every ’90s kid who loved the sci fi series. Read More

By Jessica Roy 1/25 11:22am

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Woman Sues Match.com for Matching Her with a Murder Suspect Who Assaulted Her

A woman in Las Vegas has filed a lawsuit against online dating service Match.com after a man she had gone on a date with through the service brutally attacked her in 2010. Mary Kay Beckman is seeking $10 million in damages after her match, Wade Ridley, hid in her garage and then stabbed her ten times before kicking her in the head. Ms. Beckman has had to have several corrective surgeries following the attack. Read More

By Jessica Roy 1/17 1:43pm

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Scat Porn Producer Sentenced to 4 Years in Jail for Grossing Everyone Out [Updated]

“2 girls 1 cup,” the notorious gross-out video that spawned a million YouTube reactions, was a 2007 viral sensation that brought scat porn into the mainstream. The video, which was a trailer for the longer film Hungry Bitches, purported to show two women puking into each other’s mouths and eating each other’s poop. (Does it make you feel less nauseous if we tell you the “poop” was actually just peanut butter and chocolate?) Read More