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Nassau County, New York District Attorney Madeline Singas announced that a 25-year-old man from the area is facing jail time because he tried to forge his death certificate to avoid serving another jail sentence. The prosecutor said he might have been successful if not for the typos in the document.…

Millions of new Australian $50 bills contain an embarrassing typographical error that was overlooked before the bills were printed and circulated. The bills are most widely circulated in Australia and makes up about half of the total value of banknotes in use. The new note was introduced in October 2018…

Painstakingly centered on the bricks of the entry into a parking garage in a Maldon, England are the words “NO ENRY.” The craftsman left out the “T” of the word entry. The Maldon District Council said the error would soon be corrected, but added, "If you're having a bad day... just know that someone…

When the bridge opened, officials inadvertently dropped a “z” from the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge resulting in 96 signs having the misspelled name. In 2018, New York Governor Cuomo signed a bill allowing the addition of the dropped “z” to the signs, correcting the error. Why make the change after all…

The chef for the Norwegian Olympic Team said he had to work hard to come up with things he could make with eggs after the team made a typo in their food order. Chef Tore Ovrebo said the eggs were more a misunderstanding than something they needed because of 1,500, they ordered 15,000. Ovrebo said the…

Laura Linham’s driver’s license has a typo—it says she is from the “Unityed Kingdom” instead of United Kingdom. Commenting on the error, Linham said, "It also makes me wish the photo on the card was better, so I could be less embarrassed when I whip it out and show everyone the typo."—Jim L. Wilson http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/motorist-given-driving-licence-embarrassing-9115252…

In the 1995 movie Clueless, Alicia Silverstone plays Cher Horowitz, or does she? As it turns out, an earlier version of the script had the character’s name as Cher Hamilton, but the production team changed it. However, they failed to catch a report card used in one scene with the surname “Hamilton.”—Jim…

It took a couple of months for someone to discover the typo, but was quickly corrected when it was discovered. The $500.00 rug outside the Pinellas County Sheriff’s office in Florida was supposed to say, ‘in God we trust,’ but the rug manufacturer mistyped the word God, rearranging the letters so that…

When Ira Karmiol paid his $278.00 electric bill online, he mistakenly entered an extra digit and paid The Public Service Company of New Mexico $2,787.00. He didn’t notice the error for a few days. When he discovered the error, he contacted the company who said they would act on his refund request in…

A Florida college student conducting a casual search on Google found out that he was wanted for murder. Zachary Garcia is a University of Florida student who works at a sandwich shop. The other Zachery Garcia (spelled with an “e” instead of an “a” before the ry) is a Florida teen accused of murder. After…

Wordless Prayers I don't know if it is the "deer in the headlights look," the nervous twitch, the way they shift their weight or shuffle their feet, but I can usually tell when my children are lying to me. Speech communication theorists call it "lack of congruency in the nonverbal cues and the verbal…

ROME — Officials say a Swedish couple looking for the pristine waters of the popular island of Capri ended some 400 miles (660 kilometers) away in the northern industrial town of Carpi after misspelling the destination on their car's GPS.* Angelo Giovannini, a spokesman for the Carpi town hall, near…

GOD’S WORD Army Captain Jeff Ryals serves as an intelligence officer with the 3rd Squadron, 7th Calvary Regiment of the Army’s 3rd Infantry Division. While he served in Iraq, he carried a family heirloom and a symbol of his faith with him in his shirt pocket. Ryals carried a small steel-covered Bible…

We are imperfect people leading imperfect lives in an imperfect world. We see evidence of this imperfection everyday in the mirror: whether it’s a receding hairline, wrinkles on our face, or the five pounds we’ve wanted to lose. We are reminded of this imperfection periodically on the roadways: we get…