“Celebrate the independence of your nation by blowing up a small part of it,” a wise man once advised. What more American way to do so than by botching the job completely? Whether it’s a professional ...

In 1971, Daryl Thiele was working at Boulevard Lanes. He and a couple coworkers noticed that business was a little slower in the summer and started brainstorming ways to make a little money in their ...

"Crazy" Mike Knight looked over the stacks of cakes in his small shop and expressed his admiration for the way they explode. "There’s 200-gram cakes, and they’ll surprise you too," Knight said, ...