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When Personal Decisions Become Public Embarasments

By Buck Wolf, About.com

Why do so many people stash firearms and fireworks in their oven?

Man Bungee Jumps With Condoms

At least he used protection.

Teenage Mom Throws Baby at Social Worker

An 18-year-old mother, known only as "G," did something that makes us all ask, "Why?"

Train Hits Man Peeing on Track

As they say, when you've got to go, you've got to go.

April Fools' Day Death Notice

A photo of Edward M. Gabriel -- a former (and still living) U.S. ambassador to Morocco -- was placed in an "in memoriam" ad in the Washington Post's April 1. A day later, J. Peter Segall, paid for the retraction, telling the paper, "I engaged in a very stupid and ultimately cruel April Fools' joke against a man that has been my best friend for 30 years."

Two Boys Hurt From Gun in the Oven

Is there a worse place to hide a gun than your oven?

Waterboarding Fails as Company Team-Building Exercise

A salesman from Provo, Utah says that his supervisor used waterboarding as a team-building exercise. In a lawsuit, the man also claims his managers allowed the supervisor to draw mustaches on employees' faces, take away their chairs, and beat on their desks with a wooden paddle.

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