These “working” girls are working to make Detroiters’ lives better.
A knitting group known as The Happy Hookers has been crocheting a 150-foot-long scarf to raise awareness of the plight of the homeless in Motown.
The mass of knitted wool will be wrapped around a local statue of a nude woman in a ballet pose.
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This was one crappy Christmas present.
A boy who received a $100 bill from a family member for the holidays learned the hard way that the C-note was counterfeit.
The child asked a clerk at a gas station in Lincoln Park, Mich., to break the Benjamin, but a UV-light detector determined that the bill was phony, and the kid ended up being interrogated by cops.
Police are working to trace the bill to its source.
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These Florida slot machines will take you for a ride.
They give users a lift with hydraulic seats that offer a bumpy, up-and-down experience to match the action on the video slots’ screens.
Surely the geriatric crowd will get a kick out of that.
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An Icelandic teenager has been identified as “Stulka,” or “girl,” on government documents because the name her mom chose for her doesn’t appear on the country’s strict list of official, acceptable names parents can choose for their offspring.
The 15-year-old’s mom says no one told her that “Blaer,” her daughter’s given name, was unacceptable, and now the family is in court challenging the ruling.
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A Swedish artist unhappy with the photograph that had been snapped for his driver’s license painted his own image on the application, and the Swedish Transport Agency gave the artwork the OK.
Fredrik Saker, 29, said he decided to take matters into his own hands because in the original picture his face was flushed and he was “having a bad-hair day.”