Ah, the thrill of competitive eating—the wind gusting through your hair as your shovel ungodly amounts of calories down your gullet, the public waiting for that glorious moment when you finally puke—it's the stuff of great novels and riveting reality television. Unless, instead of glory, you end up in the hospital after a disastrous spicy curry-eating contest for charity.
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Competitive Eaters Hospitalized After "Killer" Curry Contest
Lawyer Says "Mentally Incompetent" Cop Killer Too Dumb For Death Penalty
The man who was previously found guilty and sentenced to death for the 2003 murder of two undercover police officers in Staten Island has a new defense strategy to avoid the death penalty during his "penalty phase" retrial next year. The lawyer for Ronnell Wilson called him "mentally incompetent" during a hearing in Brooklyn federal court, and argued that he may not be eligible for the death penalty as a result.
Lars Von Trier Says He's A Nazi, Understands Hitler, Finds Israel A Pain In The Ass (Then Apologizes)
Provocative Danish filmmaker Lars Von Trier usually lets his art house films push people's buttons, but today at the Cannes Film Festival, he decided to push them during a press conference. Von Trier was discussing his new film Melancholia before he said, "I really wanted to be a Jew, and then I found out that I was really a Nazi, because, you know, my family was German, which also gave me some pleasure."
Driving and Smoking Crack Is Bad, MMMkay?
We all know that smoking crack and driving is just a bad combination, right? Because if it isn't the "coke bugs" crawling all over you that distracts you from the terrifying hallucinations flying around your car driving, then it'll probably be the argument you get into due to your extreme paranoia and irritability...as one Long Island woman learned the hard way.
The Maury Povich Show Only Leads To Jail Time
An Ohio resident recently learned the hard way that maybe one shouldn't always accept fully-paid trips to NYC to appear on The Maury Povich Show (check out the video below). April Davis, who was on probation for drug trafficking, left Ohio with her 58-year-old boyfriend to appear on the episode 'Girls Who Date Older Men,' and wound up behind bars.
New Study: NYC's Not Very Smart
New York City, our brainpower index is only 0.771. We don't even know what that number means, but according to this Portfolio study, someone in Boulder, Colorado may be able to enlighten us—their brainpower index is 3.941! Basically, Portfolio made up some silly list and put it into a stupid PDF and posted it online and it says that we aren't even in the top 25 brainiest cities in the country. We come in at #36 (of 200), behind places like Trenton, New Jersey and Provo, Utah! La la la, we're just going to ignore this sham study and go with the one that came out in October that ranked us at #10. [via the Hairpin]
Driver Ran From His Overturned Asbestos Truck
Exactly what every other driver wants: A truck carrying asbestos to overturn, spill its contents, and its driver running away from the scene. That's what happened yesterday afternoon with an asbestos truck on the Clearview Expressway hit a divided and flipped over.
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