Hot Mess

I didn’t remember there being garbage in my room. And yet, there it was. Scattered about the room in a circle, surrounding a spot conspicuously large enough for exactly one uninvited human to sleep. Thankfully, the human was not...

If hitching a ride with a manatee in the Florida Keys sounds like it’d be good, harmless fun, consider the story of James Roy Massengale Jr. as a warning: This past Friday, the 47-year-old went swimming near Islamorada Library...

This weekend, I was very excited to experience my first ever ride on Amtrak. From New York City to Albany, a scenic ride along side the beautiful Hudson River. I got up, went to work, then took the subway...

There are very few good excuses for crashing your car in a ditch. “Driving away from bad guys and losing control” is one. Another is “swerving to avoid hitting an animal or child.” A third is “panicking because a...

Thanks to the people at Estately, we now know the lewdest-sounding town names in each state. The rudest states, in no particular order, are Wisconsin (Dick), Iowa (Balltown), South Carolina (Sugar Tit), California (Rough & Ready), and Ohio (Pee...

A Canadian high school teacher has been suspended and faces possible termination this week for allegedly berating students with questions like, “Why don’t you lick me where I fart?” Jennifer Elizabeth Green-Johnson teaches 10th and 12th grade English at Ontario’s...

It's hard to get away with vandalism when you're covered in the evidence. It's even harder when the evidence is a “sticky white food substance." "Man covered in marshmallow creme-like stuff arrested for vandalism at Voodoo Donuts" the Register-Guard reports out...

Here at The Fresh Toast we publish all sorts of posts. We write about movies, food, music, celebrities, drinks, and—most importantly—cannabis. But we also have a section called Hot Mess, which is where we share weird crime news and...

Gilberto “Cannibal Cop” Valle, the former NYPD officer who was once convicted of planning to cook and eat his wife, says dozens of women have reached out to him in the two years since he was released from prison. Valle...

Sometimes when you visit a Sunglass Hut in a New Jersey mall, you walk out with a cool pair of new shades. Other times your freakin' vape pen explodes in your fancy-ass, Louis Vuitton purse and you leave with a...