A guy is being charged with obstruction of a highway after stopping traffic to propose to his fiancée.

Vidal Valladares Navas proposed in the middle of the I-45 Freeway near downtown Houston on Sunday, stopping traffic to romance his girlfriend and inconvenience everyone else. There are many other ways to go viral without halting ambulances—he should have just went with kids or puppies instead of a traffic jam.

As you can see, the romance was hilariously overtaken by angry honks.

One of the people Valladares inconvenienced just so happened to be an off-duty cop, who gave the testimony needed to press charges. Valladares ended up having to turn himself in to the police, and could possibly face six months in jail, or a fine that will likely be the size of their entire wedding fund.

Houston's ABC 13 posted the video to its Facebook page, leading locals to get into a heated debate as to whether or not this proposal was as romantic as it was reckless.

Some found it sweet:

Others are calling for justice:

And this lady wishes there were more poo involved:

If you've been blessed to walk across this earth as a woman, you have definitely had some weird as hell interactions with men in public. And private. They're everywhere. Reddit user wotheli posed the question, "Girls: What is the most awkward thing a guy has ever said to you?" and the ladies really delivered. Some of these stories are funny, some are just WTF, and a couple are creepy enough to make you stay in this weekend. Read them all, then back away slowly.

1. The guy who thought of himself as a big fruit.

2. The guy who said, "Insert boob here."

3. The guy with a very off-putting super power.

4. The guy who needs therapy.

5. The guy who gets so many blow jobs he can't keep track of them!

6. The guy who eats too much lasagna before bed.

7. The guy who is actually really scary, holy sh*t.

8. The guy with a very specific fetish.

9. The guy with his own form of threatening birth control.

10. The guy who should not BE a therapist.

11. The guy who is probably weird at a pool party.

12. The guy who thinks he's a sex leprechaun.

13. The guy who is always auditioning you.

14. The guy everyone met in high school.

15. The guy who walks that kidnapper line.

16. The guy who loves carbs a little too much.

17. The guy who doesn't get the hint.

DJ Khaled, the producer and DJ behind songs like "I'm On One," got lost at sea on a jet ski after leaving Rick Ross's house on Monday night, and he Snapchatted the whole thing. How did Khaled get lost? Was he tempted by a siren's song, or the sexy flippers of a slippery selkie? Did the kraken itself ensnare the acclaimed producer in his slinking tentacles? That's still unclear, but the DJ is, at least, now home safe.

"The key is to make it," Khaled says, driving his jet ski through the pitch black night, the sea wind dulling his senses. "The key is to make it." He calls upon God to help him, but the only god on the sea is Neptune, and he answers to no man. "The key is not to drive your jet ski in the dark," Khaled adds, while shooting down an albatross with a crossbow. 

Luckily, he lived to jet ski once again.

A man named Mike Pothoff from Muscatine, Iowa has become a viral sensation after his nephew posted a picture of him shaming panhandlers in his neighborhood on Saturday. Apparently, Pothoff offered them some unspecified "honest" work, and they refused and continued panhandling after explaining they were just passing through town. Dissatisfied with this answer, the hard-working man decided to take a day off work himself to make their lives even more difficult:

He stood beside them with a sign reading, "Offered these guys a job they said no don't give money." The photo of this brave act has been shared over 25,000 times on Facebook, and everyone is absolutely delighted by how Pothoff has exposed these guys as unwilling or unable to settle down in Muscatine and do whatever some strange man says in exchange for minimum wage earnings. The story even made it to Fox & Friends where, shockingly, contributor Laura Ingraham actually thought this guy went too far:

She says:

I don’t know if this guy[the panhandler] has mental health issues. But for the grace of God go I. I mean, about 50 yards from where I am right now, there are about 75, 80 people lined up to get in to have breakfast. Homeless people. Right in the shadow of the U.S. Capitol. I don’t know their backstories. I’m not about shaming them. I mean, I see the point, you know, we want people to get jobs. But, it might not be, in every individual circumstance, as simple as that. So, maybe I’m a softy but I’m not sure I would have done that.

Mediaite actually reached out to Pothoff to ask him how Internet fame is treating him, and he seems mostly concerned by insinuations that he was offering these guys $15 a piece for blow jobs.

Now there’s people saying really bad things about me, like I was offering them sexual shit, so now, I just want people to hear exactly what I did.

Not only that, but he goes out of his way to make sure we know he's not even interested in their weird sex stuff. He says:

Here’s my thing, I work hard for my money...The younger kid, the one guy said, ‘I’m a sex offender,’ I said, ‘That’s alright, come on down, I’ll hire ya, I’ll give you a chance,’ so he said, ‘Well, I’m also on SSI,’ so I said ‘Okay, let’s cancel that and let’s go to work.

Apparently, he also taped himself harassing a completely different panhandler on Sunday, although he hasn't yet released this explosive (sad) footage:

I said, ‘I’ll give you a job right now, cash, and I’ll let you sit down down at the car wash,’ and he said, ‘No, man, my friend is in the McDonald’s,’ his friend was panhandling in the McDonald’s...He can stand out there panhandling for eight hours, but he can’t sit down and work?

If this was an 80 year-old person or a 60 year-old person, and they couldn’t work, I totally understand...There’s people on some sites saying I offered them fifteen dollars for a blowjob,

Some might argue that Pothoff seems more obsessed with making homeless people miserable than aiding them with opportunities, but it's hard to say for sure. You'd have to corner him with lots of angry questioning about his personal life, mental health and morality before you could make an accurate poster board to follow him around with.

Anything can happen on live TV. Just ask Adam Sallet, a reporter for KMIT News who had his midday broadcast interrupted yesterday by an alleged bank robber. Sallet was reporting in front of the Sterling State Bank in Rochester, Minnesota about a robbery that had taken place there the day before. Little did he know that while he was filing this report, the suspect was back inside the bank robbing it again. Yes, fans of dumb criminals, you read that right. The bank robber came back to the same bank to rob it again for the second day in a row. Wow. What happened next was funny, awkward, and played out on live TV.

Sallet had barely begun his report when an employee of the bank ran up behind him, pointed off camera and said "that's the robber." As confusing as it must have been to see the robber he was just talking about fleeing the scene, Sallet is chill af throughout. He laughs at his unusual situation and signs off with, "I gotta go, here, and call 9-1-1. I'll talk to you later."

Police were eventually able to catch up to the suspect, and have since arrested 36-year-old Ryan Liskow, of Rochester, for robbing the Sterling State Bank two days in a row. There is no word yet on whether KIMT will assign Sallet his own cameraman now so someone can pan over the next time a bank robbery happens live.

Larycia Alaine Hawkins, a tenured professor at Wheaton College, a private evangelical Christian college in the Chicago suburbs, was suspended for wearing a traditional hijab headscarf to show solidarity with Muslims. While the college supported her humanist gesture, some of her wording did not sit well with the college's evangelical leadership. In order to understand just how conservative the college is, here's their policy on dancing from the student handbook:

The Community Covenant codifies the official dance policy of Wheaton College when it states: “Campus dances will take place only with official college sponsorship. All members of the Wheaton College community will take care to avoid any entertainment or behavior, on or off campus, which may be immodest, sinfully erotic, or harmfully violent. (Eph. 4:1-2, 17-24; 1 Tim. 5:2; Gal. 5:22-23)”

Hawkins posted pictures of herself wearing the hijab to demonstrate that it would be difficult to wrongly discriminate against Muslim women if non-Muslims wore headscarves:

I don't love my Muslim neighbor because s/he is American.

I love my Muslim neighbor because s/he deserves love by virtue of her/his human dignity.

I stand in human solidarity with my Muslim neighbor because we are formed of the same primordial clay, descendants of the same cradle of humankind--a cave in Sterkfontein, South Africa that I had the privilege to descend into to plumb the depths of our common humanity in 2014.

I stand in religious solidarity with Muslims because they, like me, a Christian, are people of the book. And as Pope Francis stated last week, we worship the same God.

But as I tell my students, theoretical solidarity is not solidarity at all. Thus, beginning tonight, my solidarity has become embodied solidarity.

As part of my Advent Worship, I will wear the hijab to work at Wheaton College, to play in Chi-town, in the airport and on the airplane to my home state that initiated one of the first anti-Sharia laws (read: unconstitutional and Islamophobic), and at church.

I invite all women into the narrative that is embodied, hijab-wearing solidarity with our Muslim sisters--for whatever reason. A large scale movement of Women in Solidarity with Hijabs is my Christmas ‪#‎wish‬ this year.

Perhaps you are a Muslim who does not wear the veil normally. Perhaps you are an atheist or agnostic who finds religion silly or inexplicable. Perhaps you are a Catholic or Protestant Christian like me. Perhaps you already cover your head as part of your religious worship, but not a hijab.

***I would like to add that I have sought the advice and blessing of one of the preeminent Muslim organizations in the United States, the Council on American Islamic Relations, ‪#‎CAIR‬, where I have a friend and Board colleague on staff. I asked whether a non-Muslim wearing the hijab was haram (forbidden), patronizing, or otherwise offensive to Muslims. I was assured by my friends at CAIR-Chicago that they welcomed the gesture. So please do not fear joining this embodied narrative of actual as opposed to theoretical unity; human solidarity as opposed to mere nationalistic, sentimentality.

Document your own experiences of Women in Solidarity with Hijabs #wish.

Shalom friends.

Wheaton College did not denounce her showing of solidarity, but rather hoped she'd discussed her plans in an official capacity before doing it:

Wheaton College faculty and staff make a commitment to accept and model our institution's faith foundations with integrity, compassion and theological clarity. As they participate in various causes, it is essential that faculty and staff engage in and speak about public issues in ways that faithfully represent the college's evangelical Statement of Faith.

Specifically it was her wording about the similarity of Christianity and Islam that rubbed some the wrong way: 

While Islam and Christianity are both monotheistic, we believe there are fundamental differences between the two faiths, including what they teach about God's revelation to humanity, the nature of God, the path to salvation and the life of prayer.

It's not surprising that the college is trying to strike a balance between being tolerant and espousing their evangelical ideals. Students from Wheaton College recently condemned a speech by Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. in which he suggested students armed with guns can "end those Muslims." He was referring to radical extremists, but the comments obviously sounded intolerant, and it's commendable that members of the Wheaton community took a stand against such remarks.

As for Hawkins, she had this to say about the college's response to her effort:

I do care about my Christian brothers and sisters, and I didn't set out to offend them. My position has been held for centuries.

Hopefully her efforts continue to be noticed and do not put her position as a professor in jeopardy. It's pretty clear she considers everyone a brother and sister, regardless of their race, religion, or creed.

From Michael Jackson calling his son Blanket to Gwyneth Paltrow naming her kid Apple, celebrities have been naming their kids strange things for years. But somehow, celebrity baby names keep getting weirder. So here they are: This year's fine harvest of off-the-wall celebrity baby names.

1. Elsie Otter.

The couple: Zooey Deschanel and Jacob Pechenik.

The explanation: Deschanel likes otters.

2. Briar Rose.

The couple: Rachel Bilson and Hayden Christensen.

The explanation: They're Disney fans.

3. Jagger Snow Ross.

The couple: Ashlee Simpson and Evan Ross.

The explanation: Unclear.

4. Spurgeon Elliot Seewald.

The couple: Jessa Duggar Seewald and Ben Seewald.

The explanation: They named him after a famous Baptist minister since they are very Christian.

5. Sno FilmOn Dot Com Cozart.

The couple: Chief Keef and someone.

The explanation: He's advertising his new album and business venture with a Greek billionaire.

6. Arlo Day Brody. 

The couple: Adam Brody and Leighton Meester.

The explanation: No one really knows, since they are a pretty secretive couple. People think it might have something to do with their love of folk music, though.

7. Saint West. 

The couple: Kim Kardashian and Kanye West.

The explanation: Kim had a tough time conceiving, the baby was like a saint to them. Also, they're Kim and Kanye.

After Mondays's premiere of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, HitFix's Drew McWeeny noticed two names in the end credits that are sending comedy nerds across the Internet into "Ewok party" levels of excitement. Among the many actors, crew members, and bajillions of animators, two names were listed next to "BB-8 Vocal Consultant:" Bill Hader and Ben Schwartz.

That's right: Bill Hader of SNL/Trainwreck/Stefon fame, and Ben Schwartz, beloved for his role as Jean-Ralphio on Parks and Recreation. As far as comedy heavy hitters go, these two are a couple of Death Stars. McWeeny reached out to Hader for comment, who explained what his role as a "vocal consultant" was:

JJ f**king around with this sound effects app on his iPad that was attached to a talk box operated by me. It looked ridiculous but it made BB-8's voice. At first I tried doing a voice, but we all agreed it sounded too human.

Schwartz was less laid-back in his reaction, bursting with joy on Twitter to finally be able to share the news:

BB-8, for anyone who has been really successful at avoiding Star Wars spoilers, is the ball-shaped droid who has been capturing nerd hearts since he was first glimpsed in the film's trailer. Watch this gif and try not to fall in love:

Hader's description, while interesting, leaves a lot unknown about exactly how the two comedians' voices were incorporated into the droid's on-screen noises. However, it can be presumed that it's similar to how R2D2's voice has been created since 1977: a digital combination of synthesized sounds and human ones. R2, of course, was "voiced" by the legendary sound designer of all the Star Wars films, Ben Burtt.

Here's a short feature of Burtt explaining how he created R2's voice. Watch this and imagine it being done by a combination of Stefon and Jean-Ralphio. Yeah, this movie's going to be good.

People have been waiting with bated breath for a response from Anna Duggar ever since her husband Josh Duggar was widely publicized as a hypocritical cheat on every dating website known to Horny Man. After the website Ashley Madison (which targets married people looking for affairs) got hacked, Josh (the Christian activist and former star of 19 Kids and Counting) was discovered to be one of its users. After that, dedicated Internet sleuths turned up his profiles on OkCupid and Facebook, and at least one woman came forward to say he'd paid her for sex.

Many people were very worried about Anna, including her brother. Even some of Josh's sisters seemed be turning their backs on him. Now, TLC has released a clip from an upcoming episode of Jill and Jessa: Counting On, the newest iteration of the Duggars' reality show empire. In it, Anna finally speaks about her experience. Surprise surprise, it's mostly about God:

She says:

How could this happen in our marriage? Josh was my first love, he's my one and only...But I knew that my only hope was to cling to my faith, because I know that if I went off of what I was feeling, I would turn a mess into a disaster.

It is such a betrayal for a spouse to go through what we're walking through, and it was hard...It was hard to realize that it was such a public thing, and so not only was it a betrayal against me, but it was also a betrayal for those that call themselves Christians, because here we were as a Christian couple, everyone was able to see us get married and to vow before God to be loyal to each other, and that loyalty was broken.

That's very chill, considering what she's been through. There's no sign of Josh in the promo, so he's probably still laying low at an uncertified Christian "clinic" somewhere. Even if Anna Duggar isn't going to go self-righteously ballistic on camera, hopefully she's at least raking in enough cash to leave him for good.

Malala Yousafzai, the youngest-ever winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and a campaigner for girls' education, has some strong words for Donald Trump. Trump, you may recall, recently proposed a Muslim ban so extensive, it could even stop someone like Yousafzai from entering the United States even though she won the Nobel Peace Prize. In an interview with the UK's Channel 4, Malala articulately explained how Trump's fascist, anti-Muslim rhetoric is likely to create more terrorism, because it provokes extreme reactions. She explained:

It's important that whatever politicians say, whatever the media say, they should be really, really careful about it. If your intention is to stop terrorism, do not try to blame the whole population of Muslims for it because it cannot stop terrorism. It will radicalise more terrorists.

Trump could learn a lot from her. As she said on The Daily Show in 2013:

In the same interview, Malala discussed the huge impact Emma Watson had on her feminism, and why feminism and Islam are not mutually exclusive:

At the Republican debate last night hosted by CNN, Chris Christie talked about defending "four dicks" from being attacked in his state of New Jersey, according to the same Internet commenters who think Taylor Swift knows a lot of "Starbucks lovers" and Jimi Hendrix wants you to excuse him while he goes and kisses "this guy." Actually, as sources like BuzzFeed are reporting (along with anyone who was sentient in 2007), Christie said "Fort Dix." It is still true, however, that Christie has to defend himself against way more than four dicks at every Republican presidential debate.

Here he is, again, not actually saying "four dicks."

As with every viral content story, it comes with a Patton Oswalt tweet: 

He's referring to prosecuting people who allegedly planned to attack the Fort Dix military compound in New Jersey, by the way. 

What's lame about this is that there are actual times when politicians have cursed like a sailor: Joe Biden's "this is a big f*cking deal" after Obamacare was signed into law, Dick Cheney's evil yet kind of badass "go f*ck yourself" to a senator criticizing Halliburton, and Donald Trump in a truly astonishing number of speeches. So, since this is an accidental swear, can anyone really even give four dicks about it?

Many kids—maybe even most kids—are adorable and special and kindhearted and lovable, yes yes yes. Et cetera. But they also are kind of dumb. They can't even read! Some of them even wet the bed and throw temper tantrums in the middle of the supermarket just because you wouldn't let them get Froot Loops! 

These nine kids aren't like that. These kids know what's up, and were working to right wrongs and speak truth to power all throughout 2015. Learn from them, people!

1. The girl who asked her divorced parents to be friends.

"If I can be nice, I think all of us can be nice too," she said, while wearing cartoon bunny pajamas. "If we live in a world where everyone is being mean, everyone is going to be a monster in the future."

2. The 8-year-old boy who wrote an open letter to his school asking his classmates not to bully.

"I wanted to touch the bully's heart," he said, when asked about why he wrote the letter, which was read over the loudspeaker at school.

3. The girl who spoke out against criticism about her two dads.

"This is none of your business," she told One Million Moms after they criticized AmericanGirl magazine for featuring the family. Her dads spoke out against this, too. "This is our family and it works for us," they said. "And you know what? We have four amazing kids that we adopted out of foster care."

4. The black student who wrote heartbreakingly honest answers in an assignment about her ancestors.

Because not everyone came here on the Mayflower. The school should have realized that.

5. The teen who used profanity to make a pro-condom point.

"I don't have a condom with me." "I don't have my vagina with me." The girl who wrote these answers on a sex ed class assignment was suspended for them, which shows how dumb adults are sometimes.

6. The 15-year-old boy who wisely recognized that slaves aren't "workers."

"We was real hard workers wasn't we,"​ the child wisely snarked in a text to his mom. Her complaint eventually succeeded in getting the textbook corrected. 

7. The student body president who complained about her school's dress code.

For an incredibly conservative outfit. It sounds like her school has bigger problems than a few inches of exposed thigh.

8. The girl who criticized her school's dress code by writing a letter to her principal.

Just for wearing a long halter top dress that she felt comfortable in, Lauren Wiggins got detention. So she wrote a letter to her principal decrying what she felt was a sexist dress code. 

9. And of course, the kid who made a clock and rightly criticized the school after they mistook it for a bomb.

It was a pretty cool-looking clock, too. Good job, Ahmed Mohamed.

Quentin Tarantino, talking on The Howard Stern Show, unleashed his famous rage against Disney after a bitter squabble over theater space. See, Disney's latest cash cow, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, opens on December 18, and Tarantino's newest film, the Western epic The Hateful Eight, opens just a week later on Christmas. Despite the fact that both movies are getting wide releases (one wider than the other), they're squabbling over one particular theater.

Tarantino had made a deal for his movie to play at Los Angeles's iconic Cinerama Dome. Star Wars was scheduled to play on the dome's single screen before The Hateful Eight's opening, but with all the good press coming in, Disney decided to extend their run through the holidays, forcing Tarantino's movie out entirely. When ArcLight, the Cinerama Dome's parent company, declined that offer in favor of honoring Tarantino's contract, Disney issued an ultimatum: do what we say, or you don't get Star Wars at any of your theaters. Now that's a Darth Vader move.

Although he briefly considered staying silent (for the first time), Tarantino vented about the betrayal on Wednesday's episode of The Howard Stern Show. And he didn't hold back either—he used as many off-color words as a character in one of his pottymouth films:

Tarantino pointed out that movies of his like Kill Bill and Pulp Fiction were technically made for Disney, and made them a lot of money. He railed against the entertainment behemoth's actions, telling Stern, “It’s vindictive, it’s mean, and it’s extortion.”

In the end, Stern himself made a personal plea to Disney CEO Bob Iger to withdraw The Mouse's demands and allow The Hateful Eight to screen at the Cinerama Dome. Will it work? Probably not. It's Disney. They don't give a f**k.

You're never too old to do something for the first time, as long as you're in your twenties. Kidding! Any age is a great time to become proficient, at least to a non-professional degree, at some arbitrary skill. This 24-year-old girl went from not playing the violin at all to being completely, undeniably able to play the violin after just two years of torturing her neighbors with its ungodly sound. Check it out:

She's pretty good! And now on her deathbed she can say, "I can play the violin." Time for you to get to work on something you've given up on. 

Redditor Diabla_Diabla_Diabla, a fan of the Harry Potter series named her dog after the character Dobby—and one look at him explains why. It's impressive, because anyone can be a celebrity look-alike, but it's much harder to pull off looking like the most famous member of a fictional species. Here are two photos, one of the dog and one of the character. Can you pick out the house elf from the pretender?

Okay, the .gif and the circa-2002 CGI pretty much give it away. But come to think of it, dogs are kind of like the fictional versions of house elves—they're loyal and brave and kind and also basically slaves to an uncomfortable degree.

Pharmaceutical CEO Martin Shkreli would like to bail Brooklyn rapper Bobby $hmurda out of jail. $hmurda was arrested in December 2014 for allegedly being a member of a gang affiliated with the Crips. As part of a 15-person indictment, he was charged with conspiracy to commit murder, weapons possession, and reckless endangerment. The rapper rose to fame in July 2014 after a video for one of his songs went viral and put him on the BillboardHot 100.

Enter Shkreli. In addition to being famous for drastically hiking the price of drugs, he recently combined his love of wealth and rap music by purchasing the sole copy of a Wu-Tang album at the hefty price tag of $2 million dollars. Like $hmurda, Shkreli grew up in Brooklyn and told HipHopDX he would like to bail the rapper out of jail:

I’m a fan and I’m a business man. Look, the guy’s going to have to record for me if he comes out. I’ll just come out and say it… I’m not going to do this for free.

He's now made it a sport to have rap music that no one else can have, and he's proud of it:

Taunting all rap fans by hoarding music is not going help his popularity problem. And making rappers with alleged connections to the Crips owe you favors sounds a bit risky. Since Crips wear blue, Shkreli is going to have an even tougher time walking around with the big red target he constantly has on his back.

Google just released their "Year In Search" video for 2015, and it will show you just how much has happened in the past 12 months. As the world enters the calendar's home stretch, a lot of the negative things are dominating the headlines—terrorist attacks, mass shootings, refugee crises, civil wars, and growing civil anger—but this was also a year of progress and a year of people reaching out to help. Take a look and see how you feel about humanity's chances for next year on this big rock muddling its way through time and space:

As you may have noticed, the video used Caitlyn Jenner's ESPYs speech as a narration of sorts, a reminder of this summer when the US Supreme Court legalized gay marriage, and America, at least, felt like it was riding a wave of good feelings. Ireland seemed pretty happy about it, too. As the Paris attacks and other tragedies began to darken the outlook as the days got shorter, the year stopped looking so promising. But this is a good reminder that the long arc of history trends towards justice, even if it doesn't move in that direction every day. Here's a look at 2014 if you want to keep the time warp going: