Archive for the ‘WTF?!’ Category

Bathroom you’d best steer clear of: McDonald’s in Adams Morgan

‘IMG_8493′ courtesy of ‘pterjan’ We’ve all been there, out on the town when the urge strikes.  You can hold it, you can hope for a bathroom nearby, or you can run along home.  Today, we bring you the story of Chele, who tried to used the ladies’ room at McDonald’s in Adams Morgan in the [...]

Lesbians can’t keep their hands off the Ravens’ cups

‘Go Long’ courtesy of ‘Mylar Bono’ The Huffington Post and Washington Blade are reporting that during the Ravens’ September 26th game, a lesbian couple was unfairly thrown out of M&T Bank Stadium. There are mixed reports as to why the couple was ejected from the stadium. The Ravens claim that the couple was asked to [...]

AU Student gets probation for faking diplomatic license & decal

”courtesy of ‘Chris Rief aka Spodie Odie’ Nicholas Marino did something brave, but deeply, deeply stupid.  He paid a Georgia novelty company to make him fake State Department license plates, and he faked a license decal for his drivers’ license.  This didn’t go over too well during a recent traffic stop, and the cops hauled [...]

100 Arrested at White House in Coal Protests

’95/365′courtesy of ‘Danilo.Lewis|Fotography’ 100 people were arrested at the White House this afternoon as part of a civil disobedience protest concerning coal mining.  They had protested at Freedom Plaza, and then headed from Freedom Plaza to the White House, stopping traffic and disobeying pedestrian restrictions, according to WAMU.  The group was given the chance to [...]

Fictional character Colbert testifies before Congress DC isn’t represented in

The Difficulty with Parking Meters

‘New DC Parking Meters’courtesy of ‘Mr. T in DC’ Let’s get something out there from the get-go.  I hate parking meters. I hate them a lot.  I cackle when I see them broken, I chuckle when the little display blinks “FAIL” and I grin when I read a story about a guy with a reciprocating [...]

Metro station names to change?

‘SBB CFF FFS LOL OMG BBQ WTF TLA’courtesy of ‘Mike Knell’ Navy Yard and Waterfront/SEU are the latest stations about to go through the giant renaming dance.  According to JDLand, they may well become much longer.  Aaron Morrissey, intrepid editor of DCist, has an editorial in the Post today, crafted from his DCist post on [...]

Doing Burnouts on Vermont Avenue with Landon Cassill

It’s not every day you catch a NASCAR driver burning rubber on Vermont Avenue just a block from the White House. Today, as part of an event to promote the Post-9/11 GI Bill, 71-car driver Landon Cassill got to do a burnout in front of the Veterans’ Administration building on Vermont Ave. The 71-car will [...]

Metro pulls 99 buses from service after morning fire

Fenty Accused of Buying Votes

An Open Letter to Mr. Metro Music Lover

‘Day 309, Project 365 – 8.29.10′ courtesy of ‘@thewtb’ At first I can only hear a faint scratchy sound, while I’m perusing my morning Express, peacefully on my way to work. Then it becomes a louder sound. One that registers… it sounds vaguely familiar…is that…no…it can’t be… Miley Cyrus? I look around, expecting to see [...]

Talkin’ Transit: On the Tube

I’ll wait while you watch that video, possibly for the second (or third time). After seeing yesterday’s video for Metro’s new Train Arrivals by Phone service, I figured I’d go look through some of the video that Metro has posted over the last few years to YouTube. Below the fold, my favorites, including gems made [...]

PEPCO Continues to Suck

” courtesy of ‘Chris Rief aka Spodie Odie’ According to a tipster, readers on South Capitol and 2nd St SW may be without power from 8pm to 7:30am tonight due to transformer repairs in the area.  This is all well and good, except that PEPCO neglected to notify customers in the neighborhood that they would [...]

So it begins…

‘Northrop Grumman MQ-8 Fire Scout’ courtesy of ‘gpjt’ The NYT reports that on August 2, Navy personnel at Patuxent Naval Air Station lost control of an unmanned drone which promptly b-lined for DC, making its way into the restricted air space over the city before operators regained control.  The DoD blames the loss of control [...]

New SmarTrip rules to make faregate delays even worse

And For Mayor, We Endorse…

‘Mayoralty elections (LOC)’ courtesy of ‘The Library of Congress’ As the countdown to voting day continues, many have asked us here at WeLoveDC just who we’re going to endorse for Mayor of the District. We’ve had a long and exhausting debate on our author email list, and quite frankly, we couldn’t come up with a [...]

Our DC has superheroes too.

I know what you’re thinking. You want to volunteer in your community, to be a good citizen, but you ALSO want to dress up in perhaps a mask or tights without your fellow volunteers judging your or edging slowly away to the other end of the senior center community room. Fortunately, there is a solution [...]

Woman loses beer to foul ball

And now a video of a woman getting owned by a foul ball at the Nats game last Thursday.  Thank God she wasn’t hurt, but major fail for leaving the beer in harm’s way. Be the first to like. Like Unlike

“Threatening display of magazines” at Vince Gray’s home

‘Architecte’ courtesy of ‘Kevin H.’ Just when I thought any mention of Ron Moten, Peaceoholics, and the DC mayoral race couldn’t get any weirder or more childish comes this report in the Examiner that on Thursday night, Vince Gray arrived home to find four copies of the Peaceoholics’ magazine on his storm door in the [...]

DHS Warns of Terror Threat to Metro

” courtesy of ‘erin m’ NBC4 reports that the DHS warned WMATA on Sunday of a potential terror threat to the Metro system. According to a DHS memo, an  individual obtained a Turkish visa to come to the States and perpetrate a bombing on a Metro station.  The memo stated that this information has “low [...]