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  • Uber Driver Threatens to Cut Woman’s Neck in Crazy Voicemail

    A London Uber driver overreacted, a bit, to a customer who canceled her ride. He threatened to slit her throat.

    28-year-old Anne Kealey says that she called an Uber at about 11am, but was forced to cancel the ride when it was a few minutes from her location – as people have to do from time to time. According to BuzzFeed, Kealey said she felt a panic attack coming on and simply decided it best to walk to brunch instead of taking the Uber.

    Well, this doesn’t appear to have sat well with her Uber driver, who called and left an insane voicemail wherein he threatens to “cut her neck.”

    “Don’t do that again,” he screams over and over. You can listen to the craziness below:

    Uber was quick to respond, to its credit.

    Uber has suspended the driver and said it is cooperating with authorities.

    “We have spoken to the rider to ensure they are OK and encouraged them to report this the police. The driver has been immediately suspended, as is our policy, and we are investigating fully,” said the company in a statement.

    Every time a story like this pops up, Uber’s business model comes into question. The company’s employees contractors go through a background check, which Uber calls rigorous. But that check has let plenty of bad apple get through. Of course, it can’t be perfect. That’s an unrealistic goal. But Uber has made multiple promises to make the service safer. With every driver harming or threatening to harm someone, it calls into question whether of not it’s really capable.

  • Hostage Asks for Help via Pizza Hut App: ‘Get 911 to me’

    In Florida (where else), a quick-thinking woman and her children are safe after she placed the most important pizza order of her life.

    According to the Highlands County Sheriff’s Office, Cheryl Treadway used the ‘additional comments’ section inside the Pizza Hut app to order up some assistance.

    “Please help. Get 911 to me,” she typed. “911hostage help!”

    When the strange order came through to Pizza Hut, the employees recognized her as a frequent customer and called the police.

    “Deputies responded to the Pizza Hut and to the delivery location for the order. Upon arrival at the home, deputies were greeted by a female, Cheryl Treadway, carrying a small child in her arms. She related to deputies that her boyfriend, Ethan Nickerson, was in the home armed with a knife and that her other two children were also in the home with him. After she was escorted to safety, deputies approached the home. Lieutenant Curtis Ludden began to speak with Mr. Nickerson through the closed door of the home. After about 20 minutes, Lieutenant Ludden was able to talk him into coming out peacefully. The other two children were then removed from the home, unharmed,” says a report from the Sheriff’s department.

    Apparently, Treadway and Nickerson had been arguing. When Treadway tried to leave, Nickerson allegedly took her phone and threatened her with a “large knife”. At one point, Treadway convinced him to let her order a pizza.

    WFLA says that police think Nickerson was high on meth. Again, it is Florida.

    Treadway’s quick thinking may have saved her life, and thank god the kids are safe. Nickerson has been charged with aggravated assault, battery, and false imprisonment. No word on whether the pizza was ever delivered.

    Image via WFLA

  • Racist Woman Poised for Viral Infamy After Insane, Almost Unbelievable Rant

    I’d like to start this off by saying that this woman be crazy. This woman be so crazy she’s almost a little too crazy. This woman be so crazy that it makes me question the authenticity of this video, simply based on the fact that even crazy people are rarely this crazy.

    But if we take this video, uploaded Thursday, as genuine, we have quite the viral star on our hands! Congrats lady – like this racist stripper before you, you’re now a candidate for the racists caught on camera hall of fame. Take a bow.

    It appears that the crazy person was involved in a minor accident with our cameraman. This did not make her happy, and his appearance seems to tip her over the edge. Here is a sample of some of the crazy exhibited by our soon-to-be viral star.

    “F*ck you, if I had a gun I would shoot you dead.”

    “I’m gonna goddamn kill your kids and your mother.”

    “You f*ckin Muslim.”

    “You blow up school bus children, you goddamn son of a n*gger-lovin atheist bitch.”

    That last one was a doozy, huh?

    Here’s the thing. The video, which has amassed nearly 350,000 views, was uploaded to a comedy channel and let’s be honest, seems almost unbelievable. It’s probably real, because people are insane – but I’m going to hope, for the sake of humanity, that this is some sort of bit.

    Image via YouTube screenshot

  • Comcast Customer Pulls Gun on Repair Man

    In ooooh-she-mad news, A 48-year-old Bernalillo County, New Mexico woman has been charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after she pulled a handgun on a Comcast employee.

    Gloria Baca-Lucero was arrested after demanding that a Comcast service rep leave her property – the I’ve got a gun type of demanding. Here’s the best thing about the whole story – Baca-Lucero doesn’t deny it. In fact, her and the rep’s stories are pretty much identical.

    According to the criminal complaint, both parties can agree on a set of facts. The rep, hereafter referred to as Ratliff, went to Baca-Lucero’s house to make some repairs. Upon learning that the repairs would cost money and she would have to sign a consent form before Ratliff could begin work, Baca-Lucero became perturbed. She then dialed Comcast customer service, who confirmed that the repairs would indeed cost a fee.

    Baca-Lucero refused to sign the forms, and Ratliff began to go on his way.

    Both parties then agree that Baca-Lucero took one of Ratliff’s tool bags, and placed it inside the home. When Ratliff said um, gimme my bag, Baca-Lucero refused, saying that his supervisor would have to come get it and he needed to get off her lawn.

    The accounts begin to veer apart at this point – but not that much. Baca-Lucero says Ratliff was standing in her driveway refusing to leave. Ratliff says he had just walked off the porch. Either way, both say that Baca-Lucero then pulled a gun out of her pocket.

    Huh. So from that account, it appears that the only difference of opinion here revolves around whether or not it was a-ok to just steal a bag of tools. Which it’s not, if you were wondering.

    The Albuquerque Journal reports that when police arrived on scene, they found a Glock and the repairman’s bag.

    Lady, I understand your frustration – but this is pretty much the worst way possible way to go about expressing said frustration (apart from actually shooting someone). Also, blaming some poor repairman for arguably bullshit Comcast fees is kind of like bitching at your waiter because the clam chowder is too expensive. Focus your energy a little higher up the chain, and next time focus it without the help of a 9mm.

    Comcast is a terrible, soul-depleting monster, capable a reducing even the most composed individual to a screechy, rabid asylum escapee. This is inarguable. But just say no to tool ransom and firearm brandishing.

    h/t CNET

  • Chinese Military Takes Hot Potato Way Too Seriously

    Chinese Military Takes Hot Potato Way Too Seriously

    Remind me never to join the People’s Liberation Army of China.

    Footage revealed last weekend on YouTube shows a training exercise from the PLA where soldiers pass around a live grenade to have it thrown into a hole. The soldiers then leap out of the way before it explodes. It’s a dangerous game of hot potato that I have no interest in.

    The video description outlines the training exercise in more detail by saying that each soldier must take the live explosive by both hands, then hand it off to the next soldier while visibly twisting their torso. The last soldier then has to throw it into the hole and make sure it lands inside correctly.

    The video description goes on to say, “As with militaries across the world, the PLA instill their soldiers with specialised skills and advanced training.” Let me know if I’m wrong, but I’m pretty sure no other military in the world has their soldiers playing hot potato with a live grenade as “training.”

    I don’t think I need to add the disclaimer, “Don’t try this at home,” but seriously, please don’t try this at home.

  • You Can Now Brew Coffee With Your iPhone, iPad

    In what can only be described as the apotheosis of living in the most industrialized and pampered era that has ever existed, now there is this: gourmet coffee shop-style beverages that you brew from a control panel on your iOS device. Like so:

    Yes. If grinding beans or measuring out coffee grounds or inserting a filter inside of your Mr. Coffee brewer has become far too arduous of a task within your morning routine, you can now invest your coffee enjoyment into a new machine called TopBrewer. Manufactured by Denmark-based company Scanomat, the suped-up coffee brewer can be easily controlled from your iPhone or iPad. All you have to do is put in your order using the app (yes, you must treat this coffee-making machine like it’s your personal barista and “put in an order”). The app gives you a pretty staggering array of control over what kind of drink you want, ranging from what temperature you want your drink to selecting which type of espresso drink you’d like to have.

    For a full scope of what the TopBrewer can do, engorge your eyes in the espresso-porn video provided by Scanomat:

    The app is alleged to be available already in Apple’s iTunes Store but I couldn’t find it. Luckily, an iOS device isn’t explicitly required since you can still control TopBrewer through the archaic method of pressing buttons on the actual device. Despite my previous ravings above about the TopBrewer, it is a very pretty piece of equipment and actually does you one better by cleaning itself (the world’s first house-broken coffee brewer!). Scanomatic also boasts that the TopBrewer contains “the smallest milk foamer in the world,” which they patented, and can be built to fit into any countertop.

    In addition to the sleek, IKEA showroom-ready design and completely silent brewing process, it also claims to filter brew a cup of coffee in ridiculously fast 15 seconds. In a mere 25 seconds, you can have a cup of “perfectly brewed” espresso. I don’t even get out of bed that quickly in the morning, but at least the coffee would be ready for me by the time I peeled myself out of grogginess.

    Scanomat’s website doesn’t even list a price for the TopBrewer, which only leads me to assume that the cost of this device would probably be enough to pay off my student loans (and my student loans are steep). Still. This is Future Coffee with brand new Future Taste; like something George Jetson would have designed except for the fact that TopBrewer actually functions correctly. So supposing that the money you’d put into this device wasn’t also enough to offset the national debt, would you ever consider getting one of these machines? Please comment below if you would (or why you wouldn’t). I’m really curious what people think about this.

  • Harold Camping Rapture Prediction: October 21 is the Day, Folks

    I regret to inform you all that life as we know it will cease to exist this Friday, October 21st.

    That’s when the part time biblical numerologist and full time resident of batshitville Harold Camping has predicted as the end of days, the completion of God’s final judgment – the rapture.

    Of course, if you remember correctly, this is the second date this year that Camping has pegged for the apocalypse. The original end of the world was supposed to have taken place on May 21st , but as you’re undoubtedly aware, that day came and went with no incident.

    Shortly after his first prediction failed, Camping went into hiding for a couple of days. When he emerged, he had an explanation for why we were all still there. He said that May 21st was sort of a rapture soft opening, with some souls being taken to heaven and the rest of the world left to slog around in some post-apocalyptic hell-on-Earth for a few months. He said that it would no longer happen that way and set October 21st as the hard date for the end of times.

    Now we are a couple of days away from that date and Camping has clarified what actually happened on May 21st.

    Apparently that day started “God’s final judgment,” which is, from what I can tell, a period meant to scare the hell out of everyone. Camping says that nobody has been able to get saved since May 21st. Civilizations’ Apple Care protection plan ran out on that day and we’ve all been screwed for a few months now.

    And now it’s all over on Friday. He released an audio message on his Family Radio website, and here’s what you can get out of the incoherent ramblings:

    I do believe that were getting very near the very end, we’ve not known, we’ve learned that there’s a lot of things we didn’t have quite right, and that’s God’s good provision. If he had not kept us from knowing everything that we didn’t know, we would not have been able to be used of him to bring about the tremendous event that occurred on May 21 of this year, which probably will be finished out on October 21.

    It looks like it will be the final end of everything.

    There will be no big display of any kind, the end is going to come very very quietly.

    No big display? Sounds like a let down. It’s so much cooler in movies.

    Much like last time, Twitter is a little bit skeptical of Camping’s predictions:

    @TheBillWalton
    The Bill Walton Trip    Not 1, not 2, this is the 3rd Rapture prediction for Harold Camping. When he gets proven wrong again, perhaps he will retire down in Miami. 27 minutes ago via web · powered by @socialditto

    @someecards
    someecards    At least if the Rapture does happen this week, we’ll be spared a Rangers-Cardinals World Series. http://t.co/JJKEYqv0 4 hours ago via Tweet Button · powered by @socialditto

    @Youthguy07
    Carl Jones    If Harold Camping is right about Oct. 21, then Thanksgiving this year will feature leftovers- both food and house guests. #RaptureHumor 8 minutes ago via web · powered by @socialditto

    @JustinOtherinch
    Michael Smooth    I bet every time Harold Camping announces a Rapture date, Debbie Harry smiles and cashes another residuals check. 21 minutes ago via web · powered by @socialditto

    And New York City is getting prepared for the rapture, as the site NYC Rapture Readiness has begun to issue these end of days tips –

    I wasn’t sure that I believed this whole rapture thing until I realized that October 21st is Kim Kardashian’s birthday. It all makes sense…