7-year-old steals car

I was obliged to join the choir at age seven. I went to choir practice twice a week and church twice on Sunday. I may have hated it but I never stole my dad’s car and made a dash for it. This kid has bigger balls.

Ben Konop booed

A single heckler destroys Toledo mayor candidate Ben Konop’s press conference with incessant booing.

‘Fantastic Mr. Fox’ trailer

Wes Anderson has taken Roald Dahl’s 1970 children’s novel and produced a stop-motion animation film featuring the voices of Meryl Streep, Bill Murray, and George Clooney.

‘A Serious Man’ trailer

New black comedy from the Coen brothers hits the screens October 2. A Serious Man is set in 1967 and revolves around a Midwestern professor who, surprise, surprise, has a few problems – his wife is leaving him and his useless brother won’t move out of his house.

Everyday reddit

Reddit’s robot photographed every day for four years and edited together.

Mark Mclead

A 53-year-old man, thought to be a Miley Cyrus stalker, was arrested by police in Tybee Island, Georgia. Mark Mclead told the booking officer he was Miley Cyrus’s boyfriend. He was booked on two misdemeanor charges but released 24 hours later on condition he turns up to court on September 1, 2009.

Baghdad bank robbery

A major bank heist in Baghdad saw a vicious group of robbers armed with silenced weapons steal local currency worth $6.5 million.

Glenn Beck: ‘Obama is a racist’

Deep thinker Glenn Beck tells it like it is.

How not to pitch a film

National Lampoon’s Matt Zaller attempts to pitch his idea for a movie called Beer and Chicks. Epic fail.

William Shatner reads Palin’s farewell speech

As it was intended to be heard. For many, this will be a religious experience.

Virgin Mary bird poop

“As soon as I looked at it I got chills all over my body.” Shit on a car will do that to a person.

Leif Olson hole-in-one

Leif Olson gets a highly lucrative hole in one at the 2009 Canadian Open.  A total four players – Olson, Casey Wittenberg, Briny Baird and Arjun Atwal – all accepted BMW Z4 Roadsters for hole-in-one shots at the 15th hole at Glen Abbey golf course. BMZ have now stopped that particular incentive…

Octopus Project: ‘Wet Gold’ video

Pink flags, green blanket monsters, a white dinghy, hand claps. Not entirely sure what the Austin-based indietronica outfit are up to here.

Otty Sanchez

A mentally ill San Antonio, Texas, woman decapitated her baby claiming the devil made her do it. Otty Sanchez was charged with the capital murder of her 3 1/2-week-old son Scott Wesley Buchholtz-Sanchez. 

Sarah Palin farewell speech

So farewell then, brave savior of truth. Palin is officially out but sensible Americans are still terrified of Palin run in 2012.