Kid With The Perfect Bracket Loses His Glory After Syracuse Loss

This was definitely amazing while it lasted. A 17-year-old boy from Glenbrook South High School in Chicago had been one of only a small number of people to still have a perfect bracket after all of the ridiculous, buzzer-beating moments in this year’s NCAA men’s basketball tourney. But unfortunately Alex Herrmann‘s bracket met the same fiery demise as most of the country’s NCAA picks last night after Butler pulled out an upset against Syracuse. While some believe that Alex and his family might have switched some of their picks after the games started to make it seem as if they have a perfect bracket, the insisted that wasn’t the case and that their son merely picked the winners.

While the likelihood of picking some of these upsets was really, really improbable, I’m inclined to think that Alex simply went with his gut on some of these pulled the winners out of thin air. Don’t hate on this kid since you’re out about $200 bucks in pool fees (or at least I am). Check out one of the reasons we all got screwed by the tourney after the jump.

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Horse Racing Is Cool When There's Free Beer Involved

What do you get when you mix gambling, horses and free beer? Utter awesomeness, that’s what! After a considerable drop in attendance last year, the fine folks overseeing the festivities at the Preakness are offering horse racing enthusiasts all they can drink beer. Yes horse racing suddenly became that much cooler. More after the jump.

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President Obama Delivers On Beer Bet With Canada's Prime Minister

Just another reason while you have to admit, regardless of your political leanings, that our president is pretty awesome. President Barack Obama is an avid sports fan, so he just couldn’t shy away from making a friendly wager with Canada’s Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, over the US-Canada gold medal hockey game in Vancouver. Well by now you all know that thanks to Sidney Crosby and company, the US lost. So with his tail tucked partially between his legs, the Commander-in-Chief fulfilled his end of the bet, sending along some beer up North. A case of Molson Canadian beer was personally delivered by U.S. Ambassador to Canada David Jacobson. In goodwill gesture, the Prez also threw in the beer that he would have scored had the US taken the gold: a case of Yuengling.

The fact that Obama can still have some fun even though he has the weight of the world (or at least this nation) on his shoulders is pretty awesome.

I can’t wait to see what he has to pony up if his NCAA tourney bracket starts taking a nosedive.

Via: NBC Washington

Throwing Poop at the Jury Somehow Fails To Win a Not Guilty Verdict

The insanity defense is really the American legal system’s equivalent of trying to win Dancing With the Stars by being fat, clumsy, and involved in computers.  It is the “I am doing such a bad job at this defense that it is impossible I could even be serious, and therefore I should win” defense.  It’s also a pretty all-in move: when it fails, it proverbially falls on the proverbial dance floor and breaks multiple limbs and is put to death via lethal injection for doing such a bad job.  What I’m trying to say is, don’t throw poop at the jurors.  Really, do not bank on that working.  One Weusi McGowan, a home intruder and robber out of San Diego, found this out the hard way.

McGowan, who attorneys say suffers from mental illness, had asked for a mistrial because he believed jurors had seen him in restraints when he entered the courtroom.

Several days after his request was denied, McGowan pulled out a bag of excrement he had hidden in his clothing, rubbed it on his lawyer and tossed it at the jury, hitting one juror’s computer case.

The jury responded by throwing the book (not literally) at McGowan…  

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Lottery Winner at 16, Broke at 22

British person Callie Rodgers was the second-youngest individual in that country to win the lottery, at age 16.  1.9 million pounds was her payout (which is, I don’t know, maybe $4 mil?) and she successfully spent it all in only six years.

“My life is a shambles and hopefully now it has all gone I can find some happiness. It’s brought me nothing but unhappiness. It’s ruined my life.”

Indeed, she’s attempted suicide twice.  How did she blast her cash?  In the same way you or I would, of course: houses, cars, plastic surgery, and “partying” (drugs).  

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Joe Francis Gone Wild in Court

That Joe Francis!  He sure does know how to live it up at his many, many court trials.  He has a few of them in the mix right now, including one from Las Vegas’s Wynn Casino, which alleges that he owes them $2 million in gambling debts, and another from a group of girls who felt they had been exploited into going wild on Girls Gone Wild.  (Do people still watch those?  I feel like I haven’t seen a “Warning: This Commercial Is Not Suitable for Children” ad in awhile.)

Francis is known for his courtroom antics, but during a 2007 trial, his lawyer said that “he has put a lot of this foolish behavior behind him.”  He went back and grabbed it for this year’s trial, though.  Some of his more ridiculous misbehavior in court, after the jump.

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The Dangers of Throwing Money Out of Your Car on the L.A. Freeway

Hilarious prank, psychological experiment, or just a crazy guy doing crazy guy stuff?  A man in L.A. drove down the freeway throwing money from his car.

About ten people ran into the street to grab it because, cash flying everywhere!  It’s a magic day!  They caused a traffic jam.  And yet it was the driver/rainmaker who was committed to a mental hospital, not the people who ran onto the Los Angeles freeway.  On the other hand, he was tossing out Serious Money…  

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Theme Park "Where Dinosaurs and the Bible Meet" Seized by IRS

Dinosaur Adventure Land: The Place Where Dinosaurs and the Bible Meet!  That is their slogan, in point of fact, but sadly, it’s about to be the place where dinosaurs and the Bible met. Because the Lord has decided to work in mysterious ways once again by allowing the IRS to seize the park, whose proprietor, Kent Hovind, did not believe in paying taxes to mortal authorities.  Hovind was imprisoned for our sins, plus also tax evasion.

The conviction culminated 17 years of Hovind sparring with the IRS. Saying he was employed by God and his ministers were not subject to payroll taxes, he claimed no income or property.

Learn more about the joyful mission of Dinosaur Adventure Land through this video, after the jump.  

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People From Santa Cruz Are Out Of Their Mind!

Whoa, holy sheet!  I CANNOT BELIEVE WHAT I’VE BEEN HEARING.  After listening to an entire city counsil meeting in Santa Cruz I am ready to agree that everyone in that city is out of their frign’ mind and I haven’t ben there longer than a few days.  You’d agree with me if you’d have seen this insane video of real people attending Santa Cruz City Counsel meetings.

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The Quarterlife Crisis Is A Real Epidemic

An interesting phenomenon has been identified and it’s not even Swine Flu, which one of my friends contracted!  Actually, it’s called The Quarterlife Crisis and afflicts many overindulgent, self intitled brats in their mid-to-late twenties and early thirities.  These people have most things in life, but find that they are entirely unhappy because they want to be able to have the financial and career their parents and grandparent’s had while living the life of a rock star celebutant!

To hear more about it keep reading after the jump>>>

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