Public restrooms are an interesting thing. It's a public place designed to facilitate the most private moments of day-to-day life. The latent tension and long list of expectations in a public restroom make them inherently funny places. Understandably, strange things happen in public restrooms. The artists and laymen who create bathroom graffiti are the unsung poets of our age.
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A busy subway car can be like a living room that everyone has to commute in. Sometimes you're forced into strange situations, like the time the NYC subway banned dogs unless they could fit into bags. The fact remains, you're packed in with so many people from different backgrounds trying to get to such different destinations that you're bound to see some wild stuff.
Life can be boring when every social interaction is so planned out and expected. Why not throw a wrench in people's social expectations and give their brains a what-for? If you wanted to alienate strangers and potential friends, here are some ideas. For the prank-minded, here are some long cons for April fools.
If there's any time to be caught in a compromising position, a huge book store is not a good place for it. Sometimes people can just be victims of terrible timing. It's anyone's nightmare to be publicly called out for a crime, especially one that could get you on a registry somewhere.
It's always uncomfortable watching a fully-grown adult lose complete composure in public. Whether it's a neckbeard having a meltdown over a game or a soccer mom screaming at an employee, it can be one of the most bewildering experiences you can have as a bystander.
Inevitably you're going to witness a few of these scenes in your lifetime. If you're lucky, they won't be as bad as these.
Via @kflorish
National Health Services (NHS) worker Kara Florish took to Twitter to document receiving a body-image shaming business card on London's Underground.
The card, which states to be from a group called "Overweight Haters Ltd", reads "fat" in large letters on one side. The other side contains a paragraph with a description of the "organization".
Writer Sean Thomas Knox witnessed a similar, separate body-shaming card incident, and tweeted about it's authenticity.
British Transport Police on Twitter are asking anyone with any information to get in touch with them.
Via essaalroc
The same chain-letter based hoax that floated around 2012 is back and scaring your family.
You might have noticed a flurry of action on your Facebook feed yesterday as people began copy and pasting what they believed was a legal notice, protecting the privacy of their profile data.
Stuff that looked like this:
As of September 27th , 2015 at 01:16 a.m. Eastern standard time, I do not give Facebook or any entities associated with...
Posted by Ines Ligron on Monday, September 28, 2015
Now it's official! It has been published in the media. Facebook has just released the entry price: $5.99 to keep the...
Posted by Stephani Victor on Monday, September 28, 2015
So, that's totally incorrect. Facebook has not threatened to make public the data contained in profiles and no mention has been made to charge for an upgraded privacy setting. Trust us. Their making a killing just doing what their doing.
And even if they were, please do not believe that a status update will serve as a legally binding request to keep a business away from data that users are voluntarily putting on its servers. That's not how things work.
Luckily, not everyone took it seriously.
While there may be water on Mars, don't believe everything you read on the internet today. Facebook is free and it...
The messaging became so widespread that the company itself had to come out and warn users not to believe the hype.
So, there you go. Your stuff won't be made public and status updates aren't binding legal statements.
Have a lovely day.
Via Gawker
For whatever reason, a couple in Norfolk, VA decided to express their physical love in a public parking lot in broad daylight.
Kimberly Jackson, 36, was arrested for being drunk in public. Police found her boyfriend, Earl Palmer, unresponsive and passed out, so they took him to a hospital.
Love.
For whatever further reason, they decided to talk about it with the local news channel.
The results are pretty magnificent.
The best part of this whole weird affair is when the reporter asks whether something like this will happen again.
You've got to credit the guy for his honesty.
