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The 10 Most Epic Psychic Scams

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It's hard to conclusively say "all psychics are fakers." After all, the world is a lot more complex and strange than we know, and it's certainly possible that the waves of energy created by human brains can be detected outside them. On the other hand, most people who claim to be psychics -- and take money for their services -- are con artists through and through. In this feature, we'll spotlight ten amazing stories of mind-readers who pulled huge scams on their customers.

$40 Million From Tourists
If you've ever walked the streets of New York City, you know that fortune-tellers and palm readers are a dime a dozen there. The Big Apple welcomes hordes of tourists each year, and inevitably some of them get sucked into these places and spend some money. Nancy Marks was Gotham's top scammer, enticing customers into handing over massive amounts of money and valuables in exchange for "removing curses" that were keeping them back. In 2011, cops busted Nancy and several members of her family for extortion, money laundering and fraud. (Photo Credit: American Gypsy)

$136,000 to Lift a Curse

Let's get this out of the way right off the bat: "Peaches Stevens" isn't the kind of name that makes us think of mental powers beyond those of mortal men. But for a woman named Priti Mahalanobis, Stevens was her one way out of a host of personal problems -- until she wasn't. Mahalanobis responded to a junk mail ad for $20 readings, but after a consultation with Stevens she learned that there was a curse on her family that needed to be lifted. Stevens told her mark to perform numerous costly actions, including purchasing seven $19,000 tabernacles and lots of expensive jewelry, to lift the curse. Mahalanobis was driven deep into debt and lost her ownership of a Quizno's franchise before she went to the cops. (Photo Credit: Britt Reints via Flickr CC)

The Devil's Egg

Psychic scams aren't a recent invention. Hustlers have been bilking the gullible since the dawn of time, and here's a particularly juicy one from the mid-1950s. Volga Adams was one of New York's most successful storefront fortune-tellers, and when she was visited by wealthy widow Frances Friedman in 1956 she instinctively knew that she had a big fish on the line. Adams told Friedman to bring her an egg from her house, and when she did the phony psychic palmed it and replaced it with one that she'd prepared in advance with a plastic devil's head inside. After cracking it open, the widow was convinced she was under a spell and handed over $108,273 to Adams (a fortune in those days). Over the next few years, the fortune-teller continued to bilk the widow until the police tracked her down in Florida. (Photo Credit: Darwin Bell via Flickr CC)

The $14,000 Rock

One of the trickiest things about running psychic scams is that you don't have any physical merchandise that you can hand over in exchange for huge amounts of cash. So when Upper East Side psychic Betty Vlado wanted to up her extortion game, she had a brilliant idea: rocks. Vlado convinced several clients that their "auras were dirty" and sold them plain old rocks that she claimed were fragments of meteorites provided her by people at NASA. The charge for these hunks of stone? $14,000. Cops busted Vlado in 2013 and she took a plea deal and promised to pay all of the money back. (Photo Credit: Richardson Rock Ranch via Flickr CC)

The Planted Skeleton

Police turning to "psychics" to find lost people and dead bodies never works out, but mendacious mediums still put themselves forward as the supernatural answer to "Law & Order." Let's head south of the border for a truly weird twist on the formula. In 1997, Mexican psychic Francisca Zetina, who calls herself "La Paca," led cops to a buried body in the yard of Raul Salinas, the brother of the country's former President. The corpse was alleged to be the remains of a Congressman that Raul had beaten to death. Under interrogation, however, Zetina admitted they were from one of her in-laws, who she had exhumed and reburied on Salinas' property as part of a convoluted scam. (Photo Credit: Dave Pearson via Flickr CC)

$220,000 From a Senior Citizen

You have to be a particularly scummy swindler to bilk a retiree out of nearly a quarter of a million dollars. Anna Marie Adams was a Los Angeles psychic who met an elderly woman from Florida in the spring of 2013. The fraudulent medium made a big impression on her mark, and offered consultations by phone and text message. The price for those consultations was high -- Adams eventually took over $220,000 in payment. But that wasn't good enough for this psychic fraud, as she also stole the woman's personal information and used it to buy a BMW 640i. (Photo Credit: Sparkle Glow Plug via Flickr CC)

$900,000 for True Love

If you have a million dollars to throw away on psychics, you shouldn't have problems finding a girl. But for a man named Bryan James in Tarzana, California, the quest for love took a detour into the spirit world. In 2011, the dispirited James walked into a local psychic business owned by a woman named April Lee looking for help with love, career and health. Whatever they told him must have resonated, because Lee bought into the idea that he needed to "cleanse his life" before he could find a lady love. The psychic started charging him more and more for her services, and by 2013 he'd borrowed almost a million bucks from friends and family to pay her, never telling them where the money was going. (Photo Credit: Morag Riddell via Flickr CC)

Miss Cleo's Psychic Hotline

The advent of 1-900 numbers in the early 1990s changed the psychic scam game completely. Now you didn't have to wait for some rube to stumble into your storefront. Instead, a cheap ad in the back of a magazine brought customers from all over the world, billed by the minute. The queen of psychic phone scams was Miss Cleo and the Psychic Friends Network. This corporation took in over $100 million a year in profit, with "readings" delivered by bored suburban teenagers delivering lines from scripts. The company went into bankruptcy in 1998 and in 2002 the FTC nailed them for deceptive advertising. (Photo Credit: Youtube)

$700,000 Love Affair

One of the most flabbergasting psychic scams we've ever heard of comes out of the mean streets of New York City. A man from Brooklyn walked into a Times Square fortunetelling parlor in 2013, despondent about a long-distance relationship with a woman from Arizona that wasn't working out. The psychic, Priscilla Delmaro, knew she had a ripe one. First she charged him $2,500, then made him buy diamond rings, a gold Rolex and hand over increasingly large sums of cash to build a "bridge of gold" that would lure the spirit keeping him and the woman apart away. After 20 months, the total take was over $700,000. After discovering that his dream girl had actually died unexpectedly without the psychic saying anything, things got weird and he went to the cops. (Photo Credit: via Flickr CC)

$12 Million Property Scam

Let's close this out with the biggest-money psychic scam we've ever heard of. Over the course of a decade, an Oregon woman named Rachel Lee used her supernatural powers to get in the good graces of a tree farmer from Gaston and convince him to sign over $12 million in property to her. Lee finagled a job as a home health care nurse to the man's ailing father, and then brought in her daughter as a woman from England who needed to marry for a green card. The lonely farmer took her up on it, and the scam continued with the pair convincing him he'd fathered a child named Giorgio Armani by her (he hadn't) and had to sell off his farm to pay his inheritance tax. The women used the cash on fancy automobiles, luxury trips and other pleasures until the IRS intervened. (Photo Credit: Gaston County Police Department)

 

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15 Situations Anyone With A Sibling Can Relate To

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I'm sure the majority of us that have siblings enjoy having siblings, but it's tough not to remind them that they are adopted anytime you have to deal with some of the stunts they pull on you. Here are some situations that anyone with a sibling can relate to.

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Funny, Sibling Life, Having A Sibling

Via Izismile

 

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Alex Trebek Just Rapped The 'Fresh Prince' Theme Song

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Alex Trebek has done "Jeopardy" for so long, and has had to deal with so many question-answers, that you can't fault the man for having a little fun. So let's all enjoy listening to Alex rap the "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" theme song.

 

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21 U.S. Presidents Before and After Their Terms

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You don't have to be a historian to notice the physical toll that a term (or two) as President of the United States takes on a person. It's practically written all over their faces. And hair. They tend to develop a lot more gray hair. While we're not sure whether the older presidents coped any better with stress due to their portraits being painted rather than photographed, we can only assume that most of them wound up looking just as haggard as the following list of POTUSes did once their four to eight years were up. And just to make thinks a little more fun, we decided to put our list in order from least visibly aged to most. We have a feeling things aren't going to bode well for FDR, but there's still time for Obama to pass him up.

Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States
US presidents before and after term, dwight d eisenhower
Term: January 20, 1953 - January 20, 1961

Bill Clinton, 42nd President of the United States
US presidents before and after term, bill clinton
Term: January 20, 1993 - January 20, 2001

Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States
US presidents before and after term, jimmy carter
Term: January 20, 1977 - January 20, 1981

John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States
US presidents before and after term, john f kennedy
Term: January 20, 1961 - November 22, 1963

Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President of the United States
US presidents before and after term, lyndon b johnson
Term: November 22, 1963 - January 20, 1969

George H. W. Bush, 41st President of the United States
US presidents before and after term, george h w bush
Term: January 20, 1989 - January 20, 1993

Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United States
US presidents before and after term, calvin coolidge
Term: August 2, 1923 - March 4, 1929

Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the United States
US presidents before and after term, herbert hoover
Term: March 4, 1929 - March 4, 1933

George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States
US presidents before and after term, george w bush
Term: January 20, 2001 - January 20, 2009

Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the United States
US presidents before and after term, ulysses s grant
Term: March 4, 1869 - March 4, 1877

Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States
US presidents before and after term, richard nixon
Term: January 20, 1969 - August 9, 1974

Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States
US presidents before and after term, woodrow wilson
Term: March 4, 1913 - March 4, 1921

Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States
US presidents before and after term, ronald reagan
Term: January 20, 1981 - January 20, 1989

Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States
US presidents before and after term, theodore roosevelt
Term: September 14, 1901 - March 4, 1909

Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States
US presidents before and after term, barack obama
Term: January 20th, 2009 - January 20th, 2016

Gerald Ford, 38th President of the United States
US presidents before and after term, gerald ford
Term: August 9, 1974 - January 20, 1977

Harry S. Truman, 33rd President of the United States
US presidents before and after term, harry s truman
Term: April 12, 1945 - January 20, 1953

Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States
US presidents before and after term, abraham lincoln
Term: March 4, 1861 - April 15, 1865

Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States
US presidents before and after term, franklin d roosevelt
Term: March 4, 1933 - April 12, 1945

OK, so we threw in a couple of those really old Presidents just for kicks. As you can see, it doesn't look like they were much better off back then, even as paintings.

James K. Polk, 11th President of the United States
US presidents before and after term, james k polk
Term: March 4, 1845 - March 4, 1849

George Washington, 1st President of the United States
US presidents before and after term, george washington
Term: April 30, 1789 - March 4, 1797

 

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Dads Embarrassing Their Kids On Facebook

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Dads have a knack of embarrassing their kids, because they're dads and that's what they do. It only becomes a serious issue when they start embarrassing you on Facebook for all your friends, classmates you haven't talked to in ten years, strangers you met at that party one time and that one English teacher you had freshmen year of high school to see. Here are some dads humiliating their kids on Facebook.

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Poor dad thought he was sending a private message. What a piece of shit loser.

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Poor dad shared an image of the video instead of the video itself. Bet it was a great video though.

Via Distractify

 

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Guy Who Caught A-Rod's 3000th Hit Hung Out With Porn Star Lisa Ann

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Zack Hample, the guy who caught Alex Rodriguez's 3000th hit, is still out there being an incredible douche, but at least he's being a douche while stuffing his face hole with Lisa Ann as company.


Zack has been annoying us, telling everyone he wasn't giving up the ball and then saying he might give it up, but besides that, he's been making himself feel important too. And what better way to do than to hang with a porn star?



And here's Lisa Ann holding the baseball as if it's the Holy Grail.


At least Zack can tell his friends that Lisa Ann held his balls.

Via Bro Bible

 

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Celebrities Who Look Like They Smell Bad

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You can't judge a book by its cover, but you can judge a celebrity's odor from a photo. At least I can. And here are the results. So here I present my totally scientific analysis of what these celebrities (probably) smell like. (Do I know that these celebrities smell this bad? Of course not. But come on, look at them. Of course they stink.)

Courtney Love
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Probably smells like: morning breath after coffee and a cigarette

Charlie Sheen
Charlie Sheen
Probably smells like: a urinal cake at a Planet Hollywood, Orlando

Dave Matthews
dave matthews
Probably smells like: burnt quinoa

Fergie
fergie
Probably smells like: your underwear after working out at the gym

Madonna
Madonna
Probably smells like: a totally full vacuum cleaner bag

Paris Hilton
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Probably smells like: used lube

Gary Busey
gary busey
Probably smells like: old cabbage

Johnny Depp
johnny depp
Probably smells like: the storage room in a pop-up Halloween costume shop

Kirstie Alley
kirstie alley
Probably smells like: an unopened, melted chocolate bar that you left in the car by accident during a hot summer day

Robin Thicke
robin thicke
Probably smells like: a stripper's thong at the end of a Saturday night

Chris Brown
chris brown
Probably smells like: shit (because he's a piece of shit)

 

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Guy Gets Butt Plug From Mother-In-Law. Sort Of.

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It's nice when a mother gets along with her son-in-law, but the man below may have a mother-in-law that is a tad too friendly, made evident by the birthday gift he thought he received at first.

Funny, Guy Gets Butt Plug From Mother In Law
Upon closer inspection, that was just one part of his gift.

Funny, Guy Gets Butt Plug From Mother In Law
So it's not what he originally thought it was, although I guess he can still use it.

Via Metro

 

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Here's What Happens When a Dog Accidentally Eats Marijuana

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Don't worry, Loki. The same thing happens to humans when we eat it on purpose.

According to the LAD Bible, a Siberian Husky named Loki was rummaging through one of his owner's friend's bags recently and found what looked like a delicious Rice Krispies treat, so he scarfed it down.

But it turned out to be one of those Rice Krispies treats that you take before a Roger Waters concert, and shit got real soon afterward.


The man who uploaded the video to YouTube said that he and Loki's owner contacted their veterinarian friends and were told they just had to wait it out, so they did just that for the next 20 hours.

"The next morning he was still high and able to walk," Tony Costa said. "By that evening, he was back to normal and running around. And today he is back to getting into things again, so I guess he didn't learn his lesson."

No word if they reimbursed their friend for his stolen Rice Krispies treat, but let's hope so, as those things aren't cheap. Or so we've heard.

Probably the greatest letter ever written: Oregon Man Mocks Marijuana Ordinance With Letter Asking to Ban Fart Smells

 

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Awkward Nerd Brings the House Down at School Dance-Off

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Kid Pulls Off Unexpected Dance Moves at School

This is the kind of video that will make you stand up and cheer ... and then try to pull off the awesome dance moves the kid did yourself.

At a recent end-of-the-year impromptu dance-off in the school cafeteria, a group of young lads were showing off their moves while also teasing the nerd who was awkwardly standing near the circle. Then, around the 35-second mark, awkward nerd decided to step in and show them all up, much to the delight of the crowd. Another angle was posted on Twitter with the caption, "Killed him." Indeed he did.

 

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What Kind Of Porn Are Porn Stars Watching?

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Instead of enjoying yourself, take a break and check out the video below to find out what some of your favorite porn stars watch when they are enjoying themselves.



Some notes I gathered: hentai is popular, Mick Blue sounds like a villain in a Bond movie, "cock-truck" is something people say, and "I masturbate to life" is a real quote.

 

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Pizza Hut Employee Fired After Drive-Thru Customer Takes Photo of Him Masturbating

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Looks like having a secret recipe isn't always a good thing.

According to Gawker, a man working at a Pizza Hut in Kentucky was recently photographed "playing with himself" by a teenage girl and her friend who were waiting in line for their pizza.

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Sandy Brentlinger went on Pizza Hut's Facebook page Sunday "to vent" because she couldn't reach anyone about what her daughter and friend saw at the time:

"who do I contact to let corporate know about an issue? My daughter and her friend were in line waiting on our Pizza and the guy there kept his hand down his pants playing with himself the whole time.. The girls actually took pictures while that sat there.. they called to ask for a manager to let him know what occurred and spoke to a Zack, who informed them he was the manager and he'd speak with the other guy. The girls are pretty certain that he was the same guy they sat and watched fondle himself the whole time. I pray that he is NOT making the pizza! We did NOT eat the pizza, in fear that he did fondle himself and obviously he's NOT washing his hands. Im just appalled that my child and her friend had to witness this! We have more photos and would like to be contacted by some ASAP! This was the Boston Road Location! Please list a name and number that I may call please!"

Forget "NOT making the pizza." We'd be disgusted if he was just handing us our Coke Zero, giving us change or refilling the Parmesan after seeing that picture.

The good news for anybody who orders extra cheese on their pies from this Lexington Pizza Hut location in the future is that it will be just the cheese you asked for, because the dude has since been fired.

Here's a convenience store that might want to think about changing its name to avoid confusion: Man Seen Masturbating Outside Kum & Go Convenience Store Still on the Loose

 

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This 365-Foot Frisbee Golf Hole-In-One Might Be The Most Amazing Thing We've Ever Seen

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Well, other than Kate Upton getting out of a pool, of course.

According to SB Nation, frisbee golf has developed into something more than a couple of potheads getting outside to chuck a few discs around. In fact, they have their own tournaments and everything these days.

One of those tournaments is the Maple Hill Open, and this year's took place over the weekend in what looks like the middle of nowhere Massachusetts. And while David Feldberg didn't take home the green jacket (or gold jacket, who gives a shit?), he did manage to provide what might be one of the most astonishing shots in the history of sports when he hit this hole-in-one from 365 feet away.


Sadly, Feldberg basically canceled out that amazing shot thanks to a double bogey two holes later. Still, we're sure that hole-in-one will get him laid sometime in the near future if it hasn't already.

Imagine if this traditional golf fan would have seen the hole-in-one: Listen to This Golf Fan Go Nuts After a Brilliant Shot

 

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Film Crew Pranks Models With Boner Wielding Lighting Assistant

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Weberz Way Films recently hired four models (Laci Kay Somers, Jessica Reinhardt, Rachel Erin and Elena Marshall) to do a spoof of Shia LeBeouf's motivational green screen speech, but the girls were in for a surprise at the end that was probably not part of their agreement.


For what it's worth, you can also watch these four lovely ladies in action in the Shia speech spoof below, but their reactions to the awkward boner are way better.

 

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Laci Kay Somers Gives Off the Summertime Sexiness

Here's What Happens When You Try to Slice a Watermelon With a Sword

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To be honest, that table looked like it sucked anyway.

Some dude in what looks like a town known for its meth trade recently tried to slice a watermelon in half with a sword that looks like it could be worth more than the average house on his block.

It didn't go so well.


"Like a boss" indeed, good sir.

The good news is that he should have no problem finding a brand new table at his local Walmart if he can find a way to come up with about 40 bucks. If not, there's always Craigslist, buddy.

h/t Huffington Post

Giving a drunk guy a sword is almost as good of an idea as going to church on acid: This Is What Happens When You Give Drunk People A Sword

 

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You Probably Won't See a Backflop Like This the Rest of Summer

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Damn! But hey, minus the broken back, how much fun does that look like?

According to ABC News, BSR Cable Park in Waco, Texas has a water slide they're calling the "Royal Flush," and to be honest, it looks like the best thing to ever happen to Waco, Texas.


Now based on what we just saw in that video, we wouldn't be surprised if millions of people across the country hopped in their cars tomorrow and made their way for Waco. But the woman in the first video would probably tell you to pump the brakes.

Based on everybody's reaction, we assume the backflopping woman made it out of the water without sustaining any major injuries. She just might want to think about stopping by a CVS on the way home and grabbing a bottle of Advil Extra Strength.

On second thought, better make it two.

​You probably won't see a bear jumping into a swimming pool anymore this summer either: This Bear Taking A Dive In A Swimming Pool Is Happier Than You

 

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Here's a Pretty Solid Reminder to Wear Sunscreen This Weekend

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Let's be honest: If somebody pats this dude on the back, he might turn around and kill them.

According to Metro, a redditor who goes by the name "kneedeepinpoop" recently posted this picture of his or her brother-in-law, who ironically really is knee deep in poop after he suffered one of the worst cases of sunburn we have ever seen.

Dude got himself a really bad sunburn

Perhaps nobody summed it up better than redditor Mercernary07, who said, "Welcome to not being able to shower. Or sit. Or wear clothing comfortably."

It's unknown exactly where the man was when he forgot to apply sunscreen, but by the looks of things, odds are he passed out face-first on some asphalt for a few hours.

With the holiday weekend quickly approaching here in the States, this poor bastard is a great reminder to bring a bottle or two of sunscreen when you head out for the festivities. It's also a great reminder that sunburn photos are hysterical, especially when they're not of you.

Keep laughing, baby: Laughing at Pain: 13 Hilarious Sunburn Photos

 

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