Hot Mess

A heroic guy who loves to party was arrested last week after he allegedly took acid and broke into a neighbor’s house to rescue a dog from a fire that didn’t exist. New York State troopers told WNYT that Michael...

Meet Ted Barrus. He's a budtender at Dean Greenz in Portland, and kind of a masochist, it seems. His YouTube stunts include reviewing absurd fast food items, talking to himself in cars, and rubbing hot peppers into his eyes. For this installment of...

It’s fitting that animals doing wild shit dominated Hot Mess the week the trailer for Planet Earth II was released. Of course, we shouldn’t let the messes of our furry friends distract us from the messes of our fellow...

Nature is filled with beautiful things—mountains and rivers, majestic animals, cool trees—that rejuvenate and inspire us after we've been cooped up in the restrictive indoors. It’s also jam-packed with creatures that will absolutely fuck you up, like angry bears who were...

Yes, there's been many other YYYYUUUUUGGGGGGEEEEE hot messes over the entire sweep of humanity. Humanity is very old, after all! But this one right here? (Up there, in the photo. That guy.) Yeah, sure is hard to top in...

An artist who had an exhibit at Gracie Square Art Show in Carl Schurz Park stepped in dog poop at the park earlier this month. Shit, as they say, happens, but the outraged artist, Baltimore-based Christos Palios, demanded that NYC Parks...

Ken Bone’s amazing week has ended, predictably, in scandal. Last night, the red sweatered star of Sunday night’s presidential debate held an an AMA on reddit, where he’s been an active user for years. The only problem is Bone...

Chaos rumbled through the London Zoo this afternoon when a gorilla escaped from his enclosure. The gorilla has since been tranquillized and captured, according to London Police. The BBC reports the animal escaped sometime around 5:10 pm local time, when zoo...

We'll take Dunking On Contestants for 200, Alex. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1486668957285-1'); }); Just watch it before you scroll any farther: The venerable host of "Jeopardy!" can, apparently, only be forced to give so many fucks in a day. On this day, Alex...

Edibles are fine and good, as long as they’re being served to a responsible adult who asked for them and not, as an Ohio mother alleges happened yesterday, to an unsuspecting toddler who just wanted to eat some fries...