Oh noz, it looks like Florida Man did it again. Back in January, an undercover IRS informant met up with a South Florida couple for a fancy dinner at a steakhouse, during which they handed him a flash drive allegedly containing more than 50,000 stolen identities that could be used to file fraudulent tax returns. Upon examining the drive, the IRS was able to recover about 50 stolen identities and trace its footprint to a man named "Troy Maye." Now, catching a thief red-handed is no cakewalk, but in this case, it literally turned out to be as easy as running a Google search. After finding Maye's now-private Instagram account via Google search, the authorities were surprised to find a geotagged photo of his delicious steak dinner (shown above) from the same night he had met up with the informant. And the rest is history--the couple were promptly arrested by IRS agents and they are now facing up to 12 years in federal prison and serious fines.
Last Friday, the FBI surrounded the home of Saudi student Talal al Rouki after his neighbor tipped off the authorities that he has been seen around the residential area with a pressure cooker, a household kitchenware that recently made the headlines after it was used by the Boston Marathon terrorists to set their deadly bombs off in April. When questioned by the FBI, the frightened Michigan resident showed FBI agents the cooking apparatus, informing them he had used it to make the Saudi Arabian rice dish kabsah before taking it over to a friend's house, to which they replied "You need to be more careful moving around with such things, Sir." ...Welcome to 'Murica, Talal!
Extremely Decent, the LA-based comedy sketch group behind "The First Honest Cable Company" parody ad, explores what it would be like if Facebook brought about sweeping changes beyond your social networking profile page to your home in real life.
Eddie King and Tyler Marshall of the YouTube duo TeddieFilms reenact the many ways Star Wars characters eat in this parody of How Animals Eat Their Food.
As part of its upcoming Star Wars Weekends campaign (May 17th through June 9th), Disney's Hollywood Studios has unveiled a 3D printing station where you can create a Stormtrooper figurine with your own face on it for $99.95. Not feeling like a soldier? There's also an option to have your face cast in carbonite instead.
Allie Brosh, the artist behind the popular webcomic Hyperbole and a Half broke silence from her indefinite leave to release the second part of Adventures in Depression, which chronicles the author's personal struggle with clinical depression over the recent years. The latest issue, which comes after more than year and a half of silence, has already garnered raving feedback in the webcomic community as an accurate representation of the debilitating mental illness and how it can affect relationships with others. To catch up on the first part, click here.
If there is anything that today's websites are lacking, it is fart noises. Yesterday afternoon, The Onion released the fartscroll.js script on Github, which can be installed on any web page to produce gassy noises while you're scrolling up and down the browser. For more of a completely immersive experience, you can download the Chrome browser extension for cruise control on every webpage.
