Jesus Crab or bin Laden Crab?

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photo by John Canfield

By Caity Weaver (Gawker.com, 7/19/2012)

Last weekend, a family in Washington state captured this crab whose markings 100% resemble a sharpie drawing of former head of al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden.

This image was taken from a video the family shot as they unloaded a pot of crab into their boat.

The radio station that first received the hot tip about the crab that looks exactly like Osama bin Laden, 97.3 KIRO FM, is trying to sell it as a Jesus look alike.

Unfortunately for KIRO FM, no one is buying it. If ever a crab has looked not like Jesus and instead like Osama bin Laden, it is this crab.

Curiously, much of the Osama crab’s introductory post on the KIRO FM website focuses not on the crab that looks exactly like one of the most infamous terrorists in history, but rather on the family who discovered it: The Canfields.

Continue reading at Gawker.com.

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Can Ya Toss A Roll?

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Facebook fail via BroBible.

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Residents Demand Name Change For Racially Offensive Street

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Residents demand a street name change

ELLICOTT CITY, Md. (WMAR) – The residents of Oakland Mills Village of Columbia currently live on a street named Coon Hunt Court and are striving to change the name of that street.

This effort began when the disruption in the community of racial connotations offended people which led to the street sign being stolen over the years.

Continue reading at ABC 2 News.

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Essex Nodders


Image via The City That Breeds and That Guy’s on Heroin.

Are they junkies or are they simply worn out from the Baltimore heat wave of 2012? These two dudes look a little under the weather at the bus stop on Stemmers Run Road, in front of Village Thrift in Essex.

(At first we called “fake” on this photo but Wayne Gower put his special Kojak skills to use and sent us a link to the actual bus stop.)


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