Humor

A mom has filed a $100 claim against the city of Norwalk, Connecticut, after her one-year-old son stepped in dog feces on city property.

A lot of power comes with the title of County Surveyor. Lucky for the people of Wayne County, Maryland, elected county surveyor Robert Pelaski vows not to let this awesome power get to his head.

A newspaper beer columnist writes that a good local bar is not just a place for drinks and socializing, it can attract business too.

After noticing a illegally parked police car, a Portland, Oregon lawyer made use of a state law provision that allows private citizens to issue parking tickets.

From mile-high skyscrapers and floating cities, a look back at some of of the impractical and unrealized dreams of architects and planners.

These two videos show the downside of high public transit ridership.

142 years after it was first proposed and with $235 million spent with nothing to show for it, the unrealized link between Sicily and the Italian mainland might be planning at its worst.

The nation's gentrified neighborhoods are threatened by new trend.

This video from Slate looks at the "stupidest bike lane" -- a stretch of painted bicycling road that runs for less than one block.

This Onion TV news segment highlights Chinese pride in the country's status as the world's top producer of air pollution

The town of Slough gets no respect, but it's trying.

Assuming everything is fine in its long-time relationship with America, the car comes home to an unhappy surprise in this cartoon from Streetsblog.

More and more people are injuring themselves by walking into poles while looking down at their cell phones. This video from ITN News looks at an effort in England to make the streets safer for walking texters.

The Onion reports on an innovative new infrastructure plan from DOT: self-cleaning special lanes for reckless drivers.

TV network officials have issued a formal apology for its tongue-in-cheek suggested mispronunciation of the name of the Massachusetts town of Athol in a recent ad.

In this article from The Onion a New York man wandering through town suddenly finds himself in a very Chinese part of town.

This post from The Mish Mash shows pictures of some of the worst neighbors to have.

Cats be zonin'.

The Onion reports on the miraculous transformation of a run-down neighborhood in Detroit, thanks to the installation of a towel-sized, $150.00 plot of grass.

A farmer in England secretly built a mock-Tudor castle on his property and kept it out of view for years by hiding it behind a 40-foot stack of hay bales.