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HIV levels! Generic Lipitor! Arsenic grandmothers! Low B12! Stressed parents! Hospital food! Fire surgery! Foster drugs! And Europeans are a bunch of nasty motherfuckers! It's your Friday Health Watch, where we watch your health—to death! More »
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At least 19 fire companies from Long Island have responded to a blaze at the Pavilion and LaFountaine buildings on Fire Island Pines, the social hub of the legendary gay beach community. The fire began around 9:15 p.m. The complex was sold in 2010 to FIP Ventures, and encompasses the Pavilion nightclub, the Blue Whale and Bay Bar restaurants, the Hotel Ciel, a grocery store and gym. Word from the scene is that firefighters have the blaze under control, and that it hasn't spread to any residences or rental properties. No cause has yet been determined. We'll have more on this story as it develops. [Photo credit: The Fire Island Pines Historical Preservation Society/Facebook] More »
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This glowing fireball is not the coming of Harold Camping's apocalypse but the aftermath of a collision between a tanker carrying 8,500 gallons of gas and a minivan, which took place on the New Jersey Turnpike last night. Citizen journalist @MelissaJoann was there and filmed what she saw; this image is a still from her crazy-looking video. More »
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Community college student Marc Bechtol says he was pulled out of class and then banned from campus all because he disparaged his school's stupid branded debit cards on his Facebook. Marc Bechtol deserves a failing grade in Campus Brand Ambassadorship 101, otherwise known as An Introduction to Selling Out. More »
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Australopithecus sediba! Wildfire science! Real jetpacks! Persuasion methods! Solar properties Petrified forest! Heavenly metals! Anger cooperation! And Hummingbird mating techniques that drive lady hummingbirds bazonga! It's your Thursday Health Watch, where we watch your health—voodoo, doo doo, woo hoo! More »
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Proud residents of the 46th Worst State in America, California, got a little full of themselves yesterday after the devastating East Coast earthquake and the reactions that followed. Well, a train car carrying 29,000 gallons of propane burst into flames yesterday in Lincoln and now some 4,800 homes have been evacuated. Overreact much? Jeez. More »
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Matt-Dillion Shannon celebrated his 17th birthday in Hastings, New Zealand by watching a friend run through his house engulfed in flames: More »
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Think you can escape the heat by going swimming? Think again! Following a "catastrophic fire that shut down one of the city's largest sewage treatment plants," New York City is awash in poop. Millions of gallons of untreated sewage poured into the Hudson and Harlem Rivers this week, tainting beaches as far as Brooklyn and Staten Island. Basically, New York is a big, hot Port-a-Potty today. A festering cauldron of fecal matter. A fetid puddle of poo. [NYT, image via Flickr] More »
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A Virginia man accidentally set his house on fire while trying to cremate Thor, his dead Rottweiler, in his backyard. More »
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Firefighters rushed to Courtney Love's $27,000-a-month West Village town house early Thursday morning, after an emergency call was placed to 911 saying a fire had broken out, the Times reports. More »
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An hour into the opening of a show featuring West Virginia artist Peter Kephart's "fire paintings" last night at Zenith Gallery in Manhattan, a fire broke out. But not for the reason you'd think! More »
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After a fight with his pregnant girlfriend, a Staten Island man went to her house, stripped naked in the elevator, and took a crap. He then wiped the crap on her door and used his clothes to set the poop and her door on fire. What a shitty thing to do! More »
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Here's a local news interview featuring Tommy, a Hazelton, Pennsylvania resident whose house had just burned down. That's sad! Tommy's insane—and I mean insane, child—level of drunkenness, however? Well, that's just plain hilarious. "I'm gonna get racial!" More »
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[Pro-Mubarak forces (reportedly hired by Egypt's president to cause chaos) clash with anti-government protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square. At least three died and 639 were injured during Wednesday's surprisingly violent protests. Photo via AP] More »
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Scary video of a yellow cab exploding in Manhattan made the rounds yesterday. Here's a new video from the outer boroughs: Watch this cab get engulfed in Williamsburg on Wednesday due to the snow. More »
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Watch as a wedding celebration is interrupted when a gazebo roof goes up in flames. Luckily the bridal party takes it all in stride, sipping champagne and taking an awesome set of wedding photos. More »
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Mt. Etna's been busy! The largest active volcano in Europe erupted on Wednesday night, sending lava down its ridge. The eruption only lasted an hour, and didn't pose a threat, but boy did it make for some pretty visuals. More »
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Do you have some kerosene, birthday candles and a water gun sitting around your house? Did you ever want to make your own flamethrower? Then watch this video to see how—with absolutely engulfing results! (Don't really do it.) More »
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One year and two months after drunkenly torching a 9/11 memorial on Halloween, Harvard Law grad Brian Schroeder pleaded guilty to three charges. "I cannot explain why I acted the way I did," he explained. "I drank many alcoholic beverages." More »
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Thanks to some brilliant teenagers, we now have the answer. Watch a fireball nearly burn off a young man's hair after the jump! More »
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Berlinda Dixon-Newbold is charged with aggravated assault for lighting the crotch of her boyfriend's pants on fire while he slept. She did it because she wanted more attention, not because he's a "liar, liar." His "family jewels" survived the blaze. More »
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All seemed totally normal during Diddy's Ustream party last night, just a couple of guys hanging with some chicks in a hot tub. Then, things got a little crazy when a candle ignited a woman's hair. More »
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A woman's car burst into flames following a highway accident. Somehow a cop managed to remove her from the burning vehicle by shooting the passenger window and dragging her limp body to safety. Footage of the rescue inside. More »
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A fire in a 28-story high-rise in China's largest city has killed an early estimate of 42 people. A section of the building was under renovation when the blaze started. The fire is out now, but search-and-rescue efforts continue. More »
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A public housing cleaner found a mattress she feared had bedbugs. She dragged it into the hallway, lit it on fire, and ran away. Now she has been charged with arson. (N.B. "Call an exterminator" is the correct response.) More »
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James Franco hates bloggers, and hair is highly flammable. These were the lessons from James Franco's book party, where he angrily told me to "go away." Then he grabbed and threw a reporter's phone. Then someone's hair lit on fire. More »
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The FBI videotaped themselves blowing up a Nissan Pathfinder in order to demonstrate how big the explosion would have been if attempted terrorist Faisal Shahzad's Times Square car bomb had actually worked. So, how big? Pretty big! More »
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Monday's SportsNation featured this astounding clip of stuntman Ted Batchelor burning his way into the record books. Minor-league baseball parks are infamous for their publicity stunts, but this remarkable trot around the bases is hardly "Holly Madison Bobblehead Night." More »
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This is pretty much unimaginably frightening. As we told you this weekend, Russia is currently being consumed by a group of uncontrollable wildfires. In this shocking video, a group of men desperately attempt to flee the inferno in their car. More »
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In a country with over twenty volcanoes, it's a tradition in El Salvador to throw flaming balls of fire at each other to show their respect for them. Check it out, CNN even gives you the recipe for the fireballs! More »
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A large fire has broken out in a building at the corner of Houston Street and Avenue A in downtown Manhattan. Pic: joshspear Update: Looks like it's out! More »
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[Fires blaze on a mountain in Rio de Janeiro early Sunday morning. They must have been good luck—Brazil thrashed Cote D'Ivoire 3-1 in a World Cup match a few hours later. Pic via AP.] More »
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[A clown in El Salvador protests bandits dressing up like clowns to rob and kill people by spitting a huge ball of fire into the air. Image via AP] More »
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This Gulf of Mexico oil slick business is becoming more and more like a Mission: Impossible movie. Robots failed to halt the leak. Now the Coast Guard is considering setting the thing on fire. Did you guys try lasers? [CNN] More »
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As the man behind the camera moves around this room, the symbols made with candles seem to change shape. These kind of illusions are called anamorphic illusions and require the viewer to change vantage point. More »
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Lots of activity on Twitter and blogs tonight about a huge fire at 285 Grand Street in Chinatown. According to the Times at least ten people were injured in the fire, which spread to three buildings. Video and photos inside. More »
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This kid somehow manages to set half of his camp site aflame, but it's the crazed laughter of everyone present that seems to suggest that the lawn chairs aren't the only ones getting blazed at this campout. More »
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A sex toy dealer invites you to play with fire, slides and a stripper pole in his loft… for $15. A Burning Man version of Mike's Apartment, Dmitri's Apartment has attracted "partygoers clad in spikes and rubber." And the cops. More »
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