8. Mattress Misstep

The warning here will come before the story. First off, don’t grab a mattress at a curbside find (it’s likely to be full of bed bugs), and secondly, if you do decide to grab an infested mattress, either put it inside the vehicle, or strap it to the top. The reason this warning exists is because 20-year-old Sidney, from Virginia, decided on a different way of keeping hold of the mattress. Grabbing a curb-side mattress, Sidney decided it would make the most sense to throw it onto the roof of the vehicle, and then lay atop it to hold it down as she and her friend drove home. Her notion of uncommon sense? Deciding that the laws of physics do not somehow apply to her. Obviously she and the mattress flew off the top of the vehicle. One bounced right back, and the other… well Sidney did not make it. The moral of the story (feeling it needs to be reiterated) is not to attempt to defy the laws of physics: strap the damn mattress down.
7. Playing Homeless For Column Inches

A Newcastle journalist, deciding he was going to get a real inside scoop on the state of homelessness in the area, took to the streets with no food or money, dressed as a bag man. Lee, 26, stated “I will sleep rough, scrounge for my food, interact with as many homeless people as possible, and immerse myself in that lifestyle as deeply as I can.” These are the last words the general public heard from this journalist. Lee, after only three days of living the street life, was found frozen to death in a boarded up hostel. Now given that there are an estimated 2300 homeless people out and about on those streets each night, imagine how many corpses must be found throughout the Winter. Granted, this was a previously pampered journalist who hadn’t had a chance to acclimatize, but still. Take a lesson from Lee: it’s not nice being homeless. It’s dangerous, and evidently deadly. There’s a reason why there are homeless shelters.

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