4 d. ago 'Drunk' raccoon 'breaks into' liquor store, smashes booze and passes out in toilet

An unusual break-in at a Virginia liquor store saw an raccoon crash through the ceiling, ransack the shop and pass out in the bathroom - leaving behind smashed bottles and a heavy stench of spirits

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5 d. ago Moment drunk driver three times the limit crashes his van into a house, narrowly missing three children

Mike Turner drove his van through Gloucester despite being three times the drink-drive limit, before hitting and destroying a home with a family inside.

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6 d. ago How cyclones and monsoon rains combined to devastate parts of Asia – visual guide

Extreme weather has killed nearly 1,000 people across southern and south-eastern Asia as cyclones turbocharged rain systems across the regionTropical cyclones have combined with heavy monsoon rains to lay waste to swathes of Asia, killing close to 1,000 people and leaving many more homeless.Parts of the Indonesian archipelago have been particularly hard hit, with the death toll reaching 442 following flooding that began about a week ago, a number that is expected to rise. Nearly 300,000 people have been displaced and nearly 3,000 houses damaged, including 827 that were flattened or swept away. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Moment man who killed his girlfriend’s brother on night they first met is arrested by cops sobbing ‘I’m terrified’

THIS is the moment a man who killed his girlfriend's brother on the first night they met is snared by cops. Drunk driver Stephen Bates sobbed "I'm going to prison" as officers arrested him on April 18 this year. CCTV footage shows the tragic moment the 42-year-old speeds down a residential street in Woolton, Liverpool....

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8 d. ago 'I know what I've done': Drunk driver who murdered former Flintshire man at party jailed

Stephen Bates, 42, 'deliberately' mowed down Martin O'Donovan, 47, after a drunken birthday party brawl

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1 week ago Driver's catastrophic decision decapitated his best friend as they drove home from night out

A 21-year-old killed his friend in a freak accident as he was driving drunk and his friend's head was hanging out of the window and was decapitated by a telephone pole

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1 week ago Amazing pictures as woman 3 times over limit crashes Range Rover into bushes

A drunk driver will be off the road for 30 months after taking her Range Roader spectacularly off the road into bushes while three times over the alcohol limit, she was also hit with a strict curfew

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1 week ago Drunk driver crashes Range Rover into bushes after careering off road

Andrea Williams, 53, was more than three times the legal limit after the crash on September 9 this year.

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2 w. ago Speeding driver who was 'really drunk' killed grandad in horror 91mph crash

Callum Fox, 29, had six or seven drinks at a cocktail bar in Paisley when he struck Jim Paterson as he crossed the road.

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3 w. ago Drink driver found four times over the limit has sentencing delayed after turning up to court drunk

Neil Horner, 49, was due to be sentenced at the Isle of Wight Magistrates' Court for getting behind the wheel while nearly four times the drink drive limit - but it was delayed after he turned up intoxicated.

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3 w. ago ‘Drunk driver’ lays waste to Ulta Beauty store after crashing into it then trying repeatedly to escape

Police dashcam footage captures the moment a ‘drunk driver’ drives into an Ulta Beauty store, then tries repeatedly to escape, causing further damage.

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3 w. ago Alleged drunk driver charged with killing NHL star Johnny Gaudreau and his brother suffers major setback in court

The alleged drunk driver accused of killing NHL star Johnny Gaudreau and his younger brother Matthew with his car has lost a major court battle in his ongoing trial in New Jersey.

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3 w. ago ‘A Ukrainian witch kicks the crap out of Russian soldiers’: the new wave of horror films taking on Putin’s army

Homegrown, female-driven scary movies in which witches and zombies lay waste to invading troops are proving popular in Ukraine. But why seek out horror on screen if you have so much of it in real life?When Ukrainian horror movie The Witch: Revenge started filming in late 2023, the costumes for the Russian soldiers were sourced straight from the battlefield. “They were real Russian uniforms. The captured soldiers or the dead soldiers, they just took those uniforms and cleaned them, and we used them,” the film’s producer, Iryna Kostyuk, says, speaking from Kyiv. Having cleaned the uniforms, the film-makers then had to dirty them up again so they looked suitably lived-in. Some of the vests still had names written in them – and several had names crossed out, presumably because Russian soldiers had filched them themselves from fallen comrades. “It was quite a challenge for the [Ukrainian] actors to wear them,” the producer says.The movie, also known as The Konotop Witch, is about a witch...

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3 w. ago Drunk driver passed out at the wheel and crashed into traffic island

David McLindon, who miraculously escaped serious injury, was so intoxicated that witnesses and police officers couldn't rouse him.

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3 w. ago Drunk Cadillac driver admits killing Scots dad and two pals after crashing into golf buggy in Texas

Fraser Anderson, 37, died following the accident in Cypress, near Houston, in August 2023

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3 w. ago LEO MCKINSTRY: Though Parkinson's is laying waste to my body, I refuse to stop working. And I feel only disdain for all those who say their mental health comes first

LEO MCKINSTRY: A sense of relief washes over me. The shaking in my legs and right arm has stopped.

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3 w. ago Cab driver jailed for extorting drunk passengers with ‘fake vomit’ scheme

Scam unravels after driver tries to extort undercover police officer posing as passenger

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