So let me get this straight: law enforcement doesn't dare fight Clive Bundy and his thugs, but unarmed protesters and journalists get the full armed brigade treatment.

I had one of those tables once, the guy complained that weren't enough sun dried tomatoes in his pasta. I offered to take it back and have it re-tossed. Nope. I offered to bring him out some extra on the side. Nope. I eventually just flat out asked "Sir, I am trying to fix this for you. What would you like me to do?"
He…

I have written before about my Favorite Manager Ever. We had a woman come in one weekend, order the tilapia, sent it back 3 times, then settled on a steak and raised enough fuss that the manager on duty ended up comping her meal and giving her a free dessert just to make her stfu. The problem was that it validated her…

There was a couple who used to come into my job and order the same steaks and they were never, ever, cooked to their liking. Ever. They always sent them back and always complained to a manager.
One day I was managing and a server told me that the "steak people" were here and that they wanted to talk to me. I went over…

There's a point to Kinja? Because it's failing miserably. Comments around here were 200x better a couple years ago. Old articles popping up make it all too obvious.

For what it's worth, I want to apologize to our readers who are forced to interact with these violent gifs regularly. The point of Kinja is to create a better platform for discussion and those discussions CANNOT happen when you're inundated by such traumatizing material. It's this person's goal to shutdown…

Right??? He was so serious about it too. I was milling around the pesticide aisle trying to figure out something I hadn't tried before when I saw him. I tell him the problem, and he's like "Oh no, you need to pour gas down there and light it on fire." I'm like, um, well, this flower bed is right next to the house…

I've dealt with various small animals (squirrels, raccoons) finding a way into my eaves over the years, but the final time took the cake. I had long since repaired any possible method of ingress for the little fuckers when I had my entire house re-sided. The contractor was very professional and they did a great job.…

I have several, but let's start with the happy one.

My housemates have a couple of cats. They're indoor outdoor cats but they're nice enough cats. One night, I was working my way through a bottle of white wine, a joint, and a box of twinkies. (I was coming off a nasty break up, ok? Don't judge me.) I was, in a rare…

When we lived in West Berlin, I took a trip to the Grunewald with the family and wandered off. Was walking around by myself, enjoying the shit out of it, when I heard the noise of an extremely pissed wild boar. Coming at me. So I ran like a motherfucker and managed to scramble up a tree. Where I spent the next two…

Ahhh I have a skunk story. This happened a couple of years ago and it was my first encounter with a skunk ever in my life. Because of this occurrence and the two times my dogs have been sprayed by them, I loathe skunks. I think they're horrid little animals.

Hey, if you can't tell a mosquito from a tennis ball I don't think you're made to cut it as a bat.

I think what was worse was that my neighbours were having a fancy BBQ next door and I screamed in disbelief: "THAT BIRD JUST TOOK MY SOCK"...to no one in particular. And everyone like 20 feet away looked at me in my laundry day clothes and mad looking hair holding one sock.

A few years back, I was doing field research in a tiny village in Guatemala. I was staying with a very friendly Mayan family, settling in very nicely, but there was one major problem: Culito the rooster. Culito had no concept of time, and was very possibly suffering from some avian neurological disorder, because he…

So I used to live in Juneau, AK for the summers when I was in college, and worked at a helicopter company giving tours to people coming through on cruise ships. On my day off, a few friends and I decided to take a hike up to the Eagle Glacier, which is about a 7 hour round trip hike that runs adjacent to the Eagle…

A few years ago, in my free-wheeling salad days, I spent a few months backpacking through China before travelling down into northern Pakistan to teach English for six months. It was such a great adventure. I spoke about ten words of Mandarin, but man, I had fun. I especially loved Xinjiang, in the far west of China,…

This won't win the pissing contest because it's only partially about a crazy animal, but it's a cute story.

Please note from the outset of this story that my family LOVES squirrels. I even had one as a pet as a kid, but that's another story.

I've had weird experiences with moose in North America. I got treed by a bull moose and then he started charging the tree, trying to knock it over. But luckily he gave up after awhile. After that situation, a friend gave me a moose antler hat as a joke. After a night of drinking, I passed out in his camper wearing the…

This story is only 'insane' because it features so many random freeway drivers who actually gave a crap about saving a dog. I was on highway 80 south in Oakland and suddenly in front of me, the cars had slowed way down and the highway ahead was practically empty. A few cars were slowly passing by on the right most…