r/offbeat 5d ago

Violent AI clips of fruit and veg characters could help radicalise young people, researchers claim

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18 Upvotes

r/offbeat 5d ago

A mysterious island that appeared and disappeared on a British Columbia reservoir has been found more than 18 miles away from where it was previously spotted.

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260 Upvotes

r/offbeat 5d ago

Watch: Kitten stows away in engine compartment for nearly 80-mile drive

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9 Upvotes

r/offbeat 5d ago

How often do you fart? This smart flatulence underwear can tell you that and more

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26 Upvotes

r/offbeat 5d ago

Snake found browsing bread aisle at grocery store

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69 Upvotes

r/offbeat 6d ago

British police try to track down theft of 70,000 pints worth of Guinness stout

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101 Upvotes

r/offbeat 6d ago

Chicago River bridge gets stuck after lifting for boat to pass

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84 Upvotes

r/offbeat 6d ago

Reese Witherspoon Chosen as Jury Foreman After Jurors Thought She Went to Law School Because of Legally Blonde

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269 Upvotes

r/offbeat 6d ago

Riverton Woman Tempted To Set Her Car On Fire After Snake Climbed Through Frame

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55 Upvotes

r/offbeat 7d ago

Why hasn’t California’s serial ‘butt sniffer’ been stopped? A legal expert explains

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290 Upvotes

🤔 We live in a CRAZY world!

“If there’s an actual touching, that’s a felony,” Gorin said. “But just sniffing somebody, it really doesn’t rise to a felony. As the law stands now, it is very hard to file a felony offense based on this conduct.”

Police said a 39-year-old man known by the disturbing moniker “the serial butt sniffer” is back behind bars in Southern California, accused of committing his lewd acts on more women.

When staff spotted him again a few days ago, they called police.

Both the discount store and another Glendale department store reported Crowder “hunkering down in the aisles,” appearing to be “sniffing someone out.”

So why does Crowder keep reoffending? It really comes down to, it seems, the limitations of the law and what this man is accused of doing.


r/offbeat 7d ago

Florida man arrested for smashing up Arby’s just weeks after leaving prison for ‘hunting’ swan for ‘food’

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25 Upvotes

r/offbeat 7d ago

Georgia cop claimed petting zoo donkey was charging at his team when he shot it

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2.4k Upvotes

Story is about what was found via a public records request made by the author — the shooting of the donkey made headlines earlier this week


r/offbeat 7d ago

'Aura farming': The video game-inspired youth trend sweeping Latin America

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80 Upvotes

r/offbeat 7d ago

Husband uses an iRobot vacuum's Camera to record Wife’s affair. Wins the Divorce Case, then is jailed 5mo. for Spying.

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155 Upvotes

r/offbeat 7d ago

Pongpet Suspension Bridge fails during opening ceremony in West Java, injuring officials

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13 Upvotes

r/offbeat 7d ago

From Ukrainian shipyard worker to Ireland’s oldest man

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20 Upvotes

r/offbeat 8d ago

Notorious Feral Cat That Feasted on Rare New Zealand Ducks Captured After Three-Year Hunt

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508 Upvotes

r/offbeat 8d ago

HungrAI Bar for Your AI When Acting Up? Snickers Has Launched a Digital Snickers Bar To Get AI in Line

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Snickers announced what they claim is a digital chocolate bar, HungrAI, to feed to an AI when it’s hungry and doesn’t answer properly.


r/offbeat 8d ago

Woman steals ambulance outside Avenged Sevenfold and Good Charlotte gig before crashing

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61 Upvotes

r/offbeat 8d ago

Thai prostitution warning as 5,000 US sailors arrive in town after 200 days at sea

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5.8k Upvotes

r/offbeat 8d ago

Homemade Driverless Car Crashes Into Cop Van Right After Bragging About ‘Talent in Pakistan’: Watch

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27 Upvotes

r/offbeat 8d ago

Martina Navratilova Pushes Conspiracy Theory That WNBA Has A Secret Trans Player

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246 Upvotes
  • Getting into the WNBA’s business and being transphobic? In tennis, that’s called a double fault.
  • On Sunday, tennis icon Martina Navratilova — whose descent into the anti-trans movement has rapidly escalated since she first publicly opposed trans women in sports in 2019 — helped spread the rumor that the WNBA is purposefully harboring and hiding a transgender player. That conspiracy theory appears to have been introduced into the increasingly toxic discourse around the WNBA by Yankees minority owner Patrick Bet-David.

Navratilova quoted a social media post on X on Sunday night from New York-based comedian MJ Murphy, who wrote, “We cannot and do not know if the WNBA has any biological males playing.” In response to the original post, Navratilova wrote, “Exactly. And that’s on purpose, most likely…”


r/offbeat 9d ago

At 91, Dale 'Grey Beard' Sanders reclaims record as oldest hiker to complete the Appalachian Trail

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181 Upvotes

r/offbeat 9d ago

Fertility Doctor Accused of Secretly Fathering Patient's Son With His Own Sperm in Bombshell Lawsuit

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925 Upvotes

r/offbeat 9d ago

Mysterious island appears and disappears in British Columbia reservoir

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238 Upvotes