She's the little one who's looking off-camera over at trouble. (via Getty)
5. Former Destiny's Child member Farrah Franklin, who terrified NFL players into calling the cops. Although she played it off the next day on Instagram by posting an inspirational quote (yes, to a picture-sharing site) and a comment about the "dumb media," a former member of the hit group Destiny's Child had a very exciting weekend. The singer, who was in the group with Beyonce Knowles, Michelle Williams and Kelly Rowland back in 2000, was flown out to Myrtle Beach, SC by NFL player Daquan Bowers (of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers) to party with himself and fellow NFLer Ricky Sapp. When the three went back to Sapp's house, Franklin became belligerent, "yelling, slamming doors and refused to stop when asked." The panicked football players called the cops, who arrived to find Franklin in a neighbor's yard, "planning on sleeping in the woods."
.
4. Cory Tschogl, who rented her house on Airbnb to two brothers who are now trying to legally steal it. Cory Tscogl bought a small property in Palm Springs, CA to try and make extra money using it as a rental unit on Airbnb. After fixing it up with her sister and father, she rented it out to two brothers from Texas for 44 days. On day 30, they stopped paying. When she said they had 24 hours to leave, they sued her for all sorts of damages and refused to leave, based on California's lenient squatters' rights laws, which give them rights after 30 days of residency. They have also threatened to sue her for thousands of dollars a day if she shuts off the electricity because they claim they need it for their business which generates "$1,000 to $7,000 a day." Meanwhile, Airbnb's customer service has been noticeably absent on the issue, only replying to Tschogl by email every 48 hours or so while thousands in legal fees add up. She should have just taken the easy route and started a brothel.
.
3. The creator of the world's largest and unluckiest rubber ducky. Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman created the Rubber Duck, a huge, inflatable version of the universal bath toy that travels around the world making people happy. Its most recent stop was Guiyang, the capital of China's southwestern Guizhou province. Unfortunately, heavy rains caused flooding on the Nanming River. According to local duck co-ordinator Yan Jianxin, "the duck flopped over and was flushed away really quickly." All this despite the fact that "the duck itself weighted around one ton, together with its over 10-ton floating metal platform, and several steel wires fixing it to the bottom of the river." This comes just a few months after the duck exploded in Taiwan following an eagle attack.
.
2. Kim Jong-Un, who is starring in the latest viral video hit. Unfortunately for him, he doesn't want to be. Kim is trying to get the Chinese government to scrub a satirical video featuring a CGI version of the North Korean dictator from the Internet. Even the Chinese, however, recognize that governmental power has limits when it comes to retrieving things from the tar-lined quicksand pit that is the Internet, and the interest that Kim's wrath has generated means that now the video has spread to major sites worldwide...sites like ours.
.
1. Parents and infants in Yolo County (for real) who are worried about Whooping Cough. If you know someone who opposes vaccines, take this opportunity to hit them upside the head (or, if possible, quietly sterilize them). The unfortunately-named Yolo County in California has seen 80 cases of pertussis, aka Whooping Cough, in the past month, an absolute explosion in the disease that has sadly included two infant deaths. Vaccines are available for pertussis, however infants are too fragile to be fully immunized. While pregnant women can get a vaccine in the third trimester that will improve an infant's defenses against whooping cough, essentially any infant that gets the disease can directly blame some a-hole adult who is suspicious of vaccines. These nutjobs have caused cases of pertussis to hit 5,400 in California as a whole in 2014 so far...compared to 2,372 for all of 2013.
(by Johnny McNulty)