Hot Mess

Loneliness can be a terrible thing. It drives some people to drink or drugs. Others, like 65-year-old Georgia man Freddie Wadsworth, turn to animals for companionship and love. Unfortunately, the animal Wadsworth turned to was a goat, and the...

Two miserly burglars were busted after they allegedly stiffed the taxi driver that took them to and from a house they robbed, prompting the driver to report them to the police. The Associated Press reports that, according to police, Kenneth Burke,...

If you are currently enjoying lunch or any other meal, you may want to stop eating for a minute to consider this unfortunate bit of news: A 57-year-old amateur doctor in Australia pleaded guilty recently to cutting off an...

By the time authorities cleared the area, nothing but wet ground and broken glass. They tried to barricade the area, but it was too late. Let he who wouldn't absolutely love for this to happen on their commute cast the...

Wasp Swarms And Poop: August 1 was a weird day for Wolverhampton, UK. A woman called the West Midlands Police to report a shitty situation: Someone was leaving steamy presents in her yard. "I don't know whether I'm making a big...

Ain't no party like a bathtub brisket party. At least, apparently, in Tennessee. The Knoxville Fire Department recently responded to a woman who’d tried to barbeque brisket over an open fire in her fiberglass bathtub, thus melting the tub and...

If you live in Davis, California and frequent the Wells Fargo, beware of the turkey known as Downtown Tom, who hangs out in the bank’s parking lot. The gobbling bird has, as KCRA reports, been chasing after, aggressively circling,...

On Thursday, WPLG’s Glenna Milberg was reporting live from a neighborhood in Miami when a local kid riding his bike in the background lost his front tire, causing him to eat it face first. The accident happened as Milberg was...

Welcome back to the Week in Hot Messes, your weekly roundup of the strangest, most shocking stories of the the past seven days. Sometimes we’re able to draw together a loose theme for the week, whether it be international...

It happens to the best of us: Last week, police say a Florida man who left a strip club at about 2:15 am managed to drive over his own leg with his pickup truck before the then-driverless vehicle crashed into...