San Francisco Sheriff's Captain Kevin Paulson stands in a huddle with a group of inmates at the San Francisco County Jail.Getting out of jail means freedom. And freedom means the liberty to review your experience online, alongside restaurants and hotels, on a website such as Yelp.

There's a growing number of helpful reviews of this sort, for those who like to plan their accommodations, legally obligatory or not. Consider the Lew Sterrett Justice Center in Dallas, Texas.

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You wouldn't want to be missing crucial information before your stay at this facility, like the importance of hoarding toilet paper, would you? No. Thankfully, the former residents of Lew Sterrett headed straight home to ensure everyone was duly informed.

In fact, they might have done a few other things first, we don't know. But thanks to them and probably a few jokesters pretending to have been inmates, we do know that jail isn't a lot of fun. For example, Zachary K. felt it was dirty.

I have been here twice(last time was November 06, and I would like to say the accomodations

He was a little early for April Fool's Day, but a pet parrot in Brockville, Ontario duped police into forcing their way into an apartment on Sunday, according to the Brockville Recorder and Times.

When police burst through the door to help who they thought was a screaming woman, they discovered the victim was none other than Gobbler the macaw parrot.

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The bird's owner, Mary Brown, had accidentally left the intercom in her apartment on, broadcasting Gobbler's squawking into the lobby and outside, where someone mistook it for screams of distress and called the police, according to the story.

Brown told the newspaper she had gone to sleep after a night shift at a health centre where she works as a nurse and she didn't respond to police, so they broke through the door.

Brown said she was terrified, while police said they were relieved to find out there was no medical emergency, only a bothersome bird. It was an

Stuart Mactier, a 19-year-old agriculture student in Galloway, Scotland, was using a digger to recover the sheep he and his family lost to a huge 10-foot snow drift when he discovered that some of them were still alive — even after being stuck under the snow for 11 days.

"We actually pulled out four on Monday night and two were alive. But one didn't pull through. Surprisingly, this one was the liveliest out of any we had freed," Mactier said of the lone survivor, an "absolutely fine" and heavily pregnant ewe.

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Watch the "miracle sheep" below:

The Galloway Gazette reported that "a heavily pregnant ewe was found alive and well" on Monday.

Mactier wrapped the sheep in a blanket and fed her a special energy drink, the Scottish Sun reported.

“We put a jacket on it and covered it with a blanket," Mactier told the paper.

”I couldn’t believe it and the most amazing thing is she was absolutely fine. Bright-eyed. The others on top of her were all dead

Baskin-Robbins also holds the record for most ice cream cones prepared in a minute and the world's largest ice cream scoop pyramid.There might be tense talks about the nuclear program taking place in Iran this week, according to Reuters, but behind the scenes, there's another struggle ensuing — it's the battle for the world's largest carton of ice cream.

The station PressTV showed on Monday the enormous tub built by the company Choopan Dairy, which the organizers claim weighed in at 5 tonnes, despite an error in the text copy of the story, which says "5,000 tons." Now that would be a lot of ice cream.

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The mass of ice cream cost Choopan Dairy $30,000 to make, according to the Associated Press. It measured 1.6 metres by two metres.

The company claims it broke the world record set in 2005 by Baskin-Robbins, with a cup of ice cream weighing slightly more than 4 tonnes. However, no representatives from Guinness World Records have confirmed the claim and the website still shows Baskin-Robbins as the record holder.

Let's hope all that sweet ice

Remember year-end pop music mashups? I realize more than three months have passed since anyone has posted a new one and considering today’s attention span this may require a bit of memory jogging.

So for the goldfish among us: mashups are essentially long music tracks comprised of a bunch of different songs that have been seamlessly melded together into one composition. This feat is often achieved by putting the vocal of one song over the instrumental track of another. When done with skill, mashups can be downright glorious. Well, to everyone but copyright litigation teams. Then they’re glorious for a different reason.

One of the best examples of a year-end mashup comes from Vancouver’s own Daniel Kim, who virtuosically strung together more than 50 of the most popular songs of 2012 and even produced an accompanying music video.

But while this mashup format works brilliantly with certain artistic genres, a pair of Dutch artists has stretched the boundary of what people actually want to

It was probably already a bad day for a man in Urbana, Illinois on Tuesday when he prepared to appear in court on charges of driving under the influence of alcohol, according to a local report from the News-Gazette.

But there's always room for things to get worse.

When 28-year-old Boblue Dagbe stepped into his car to drive himself to the courthouse, he broke another law, according to the story. And when he pulled into the parking spot reserved Judge Heidi Ladd, his bad day was more or less sealed.

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Dagbe's license had been suspended, meaning he shouldn't have been driving at all, much less to a court house — where he pleaded guilty, by the way.

And when the judge called security to find out who had taken her parking spot, an officer became suspicious about the man who had driven the purple Honda, in no small part because he was standing in court at the time, on a recent DUI charge.

It doesn't take a law degree to see

Business at a B.C. hydroponics company is smokin' thanks to the legalization of marijuana possession in Washington state and Colorado.Licensed medical pot dealers in Colorado might be wishing they lived in a state where their trade was still illegal right now, because it might be less complicated to avoid the police than to file their taxes.

Medical marijuana has been legal for more than a decade in the state, according to the Department of Public Health and Environment. In Nov. 2012, the state voted in a referendum to legalize limited recreational marijuana use.

Even so, medical dispensaries are facing a familiar headache this month — a headache known as income tax.

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The woes of drug dealers continue, according to National Public Radio, because of a mess of tax code that's hazier than the cloud of smoke their customers produce.

The law can leave sellers paying exorbitant taxes on their sales without being able to claim the same deductions as other businesses, the story says.

The public broadcaster reports that income tax on pot sales can reach up to 70 per

Forget planking, the newest hobby among Saudi Arabians appears to be driving on highways while balancing a car on two wheels.

YouTube videos have been appearing that show cars tilted onto two wheels, speeding down roads with passengers standing on the car or hanging out of windows.

New York Daily News reports the videos emerged from Saudi Arabia, where stunts from action films have prompted this terrifying trend.

There's no need to tell you this is dangerous.

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A video uploaded in February shows a passenger changing all four tires of a car while it speeds down a road on two wheels. The passenger leans out the open door to replace the tires by hand. The car is tilted so far sideways the viewer can see its entire underside.

However, commenters on YouTube point out the video was somehow altered, because at the 1:15 mark, a truck appears to disappear from the background.

An earlier video, posted in 2011, shows several people