A man in Scotland has admitted committing an act of public indecency after a witness reported seeing him thrusting toward a trash bin with his jeans around his ankles, then eating cardboard from the same bin moments later. It is one of those stories that somehow gets worse in the second sentence. Prefer to listen?

A former Chick-fil-A employee in Texas is accused of pulling off an $80,000 refund scam by allegedly ringing up hundreds of macaroni and cheese tray orders and sending the refunds to his own credit cards. It is the kind of fraud that only works if you assume nobody will notice 800 trays of mac and

A new wireless service pitching itself as a Christian-friendly alternative is entering the U.S. market with a blunt promise: fewer temptations, tighter filters, and a phone experience scrubbed of porn, LGBTQ-related material, and other content its founders say conflicts with biblical teaching. Prefer to listen? Play the latest episode of Distorted View Daily below. Plenty

A U.S. Secret Service officer assigned to a South Florida security trip connected to President Donald Trump was arrested after hotel guests reported that he followed them and was later found allegedly masturbating outside a guest room in a Miami-area hotel. Prefer to listen? Play the latest episode of Distorted View Daily below. There are

A Baltimore student who passed only three classes in four years but was still advanced through the system has become the face of a familiar public-school failure, one with plenty of blame to go around and almost none of it comforting. Prefer to listen? Play the latest episode of Distorted View Daily below. By the

A Palm Coast woman is facing child neglect charges after deputies say she dropped off her three children at a hospital, drove away, and blamed them for the death of one of her dogs, a case that only became uglier once investigators reached the house. Prefer to listen? Play the latest episode of Distorted View

A public vote in Fort Wayne pushed one name far ahead of the pack for the city’s new government building, but the leading choice came with an obvious problem: the proposed name was Harry Balls Government Center. Prefer to listen? Play the latest episode of Distorted View Daily below. That was not a prank name

A Florida man was arrested after police said he tried to use his shoe as a phone while officers were attempting to help him contact a family member, a detail so complete on its own that it almost makes the rest of the arrest report feel unnecessary. Prefer to listen? Play the latest episode of

A seaside town in Belgium has built an annual event around one of the least romantic sounds in coastal life, with dozens of competitors dressing as seagulls and shrieking at each other in a pub while judges score realism, performance, and physical resemblance to the bird. Prefer to listen? Play the latest episode of Distorted

A confrontation inside a Walmart escalated from a routine request not to film into a loud, ugly argument about religion, America, and imagined rights, leaving behind the familiar wreckage of modern public life: phones out, facts ignored, and a woman performing persecution while standing next to a clearance rack. Prefer to listen? Play the latest