A United Airlines passenger was stung by a creature believed to be a scorpion on a flight from Houston to Calgary Wednesday. According to the Washington Post, a passenger by the name of Richard Bell opened the overhead cabin during the flight, and a scorpion fell out and landed on his hair. He shook it …
A Texas woman is among the most recent targets of a ‘virtual kidnapping’ scam that demands ransom for so-called kidnapping victims, who the scammers claim will be killed. According to KWTX, Kimberly Garcia of Temple, Texas was having coffee with her husband Sunday morning when she got an ominous text message, claiming that a loved …
If an unknown caller asks if you can hear them, do not say “yes.” The Chicago Sun Times reports that Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan’s issued a statement that her office has received an increase in complaints from residents about “Can you hear me?” phone calls from scammers. As previously reported by Crime Online, scammers have …
A broken pool heater caused a carbon monoxide leak that killed one child and injured several others at a Michigan hotel. According to ABC News, a hotel staffer found six children, ages 12 to 14, lying unconscious in an indoor pool area at a Quality Inn in Niles, Michigan, on Saturday. They were all believed …
A link has been found between breast implants and a rare form of cancer, which has killed at least nine people, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced Tuesday. The cancer, called anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL), is a rare type of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma involving cells in the immune system that can develop following …
A McDonald’s worker deserves a break today after an angry customer crawled through the drive-thru window to attack him. In an undated video captured on the store’s CCTV camera and posted on LiveLeak, a man is seen leaning into the drive-thru windows at a McDonald’s, appearing to be upset about something, as he making obscene …
The deaths — if definitively linked to the two-wheeled, battery-powered scooter — would be the first in the United States caused by a hoverboard fire.
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The mother smuggled $2.4 million in cash in diapers
A Friday altercation in an El Cajon, California, store, caught on cellphone video by a customer who posted the fight on Facebook, went viral. ABC 15 reports that Ibrahim Ahmed was buying lottery tickets at the El Cajon Safeway store when a female customer and what looks to be a store employee started arguing. The customer, …
An escalator ride turned tragic for a British family when their 5-year-old boy lost his big toe while wearing the popular rubber Crocs footwear. His mother, Helen Wood, said her son Stanley sustained “life changing injuries” when his shoe was caught a moving escalator, and she wants to warn parents that the children’s footwear is …
Police in North Texas are warning teenagers to stop stealing the little plastic table tents they hand out when you place your order at a Whataburger chain restaurant. Officers with the Northeast Police Department in Denton County recently recovered a “large number” of the little orange and white order numbers, reports, the Star Telegram. Whataburger requires …
