Criminally Dumb Criminal of the Day: Dustin McCombs didn’t appreciate being named ”Creep of the Week” by the Jefferson County (AL) Sheriff’s Office, so he stopped by their Facebook page to give them a piece of his mind.

McCombs was recently charged with “rape by force,” and a warrant for his arrest was issued in neighboring Shelby County. This apparently did not deter him from taunting local authorities on Facebook.

After someone at the Sheriff’s Office responded to McCombs’ claim that he was out of the state, some back-and-forth ensued, with family members and friends trying to persuade McCombs to turn himself in.

Eventually, realizing that Facebook might not be the best place to discuss the merits of an arrest warrant with a rape suspect, the Sheriff’s Office rep finally told McCombs to shut the hell up.

The comments, however, are still up, and make for some surreal reading.

No word on Dustin McCombs’ current whereabouts, but if I had to venture a guess, I’d say he’s probably on Facebook.

[thanks mike!]

Then And Now of the Day: After reuniting at last year’s Just For Laughs Festival, Canadian hip hop group Organized Rhyme — AKA Tom “MC Bones” Green & Greg “Pin the Chameleon” Campbell — hit the streets of Montreal to loosely recreate the 1993 music video for their hit single, “Check The O.R.”

Compare with the original below:

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Remember This Guy? of the Day: Stephen Tobolowsky sent Reddit a bing big, wet Goundhog Day kiss in the form of a homage to his most memorable movie character, Ned Ryerson (AKA Needlenose Ned, AKA Ned the Head).

After the Jump: The obligatory Groundhog Day supercut of all the Ned scenes in Groundhog Day.

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Spinning POV of the Day: “Ever wondered what it would be like to be a hula hoop?” Who hasn’t! Wanting to put an end to wonderment, YouTuber theoriginalhelski attached a GoPro HD Hero camera to her hula and hooped away.

Caution: If getting dizzy isn’t your thing, don’t press play.

[geekologie.]

Ticklish Achilles’ Heel of the Day: Have you ever been tickled so hard that you passed out?

[barstool.]

Sick Juggling Skills of the Day: Joe Showers took home the Best Juggling Trick award at the 2010 RIT Spring Juggle-In by turning a near-blunder into a pitch-perfect save.

[dpaf.]

Afternoon Snack: Donkeyotee the donkey tries to sing along to his owner’s fiddling, makes a total ass of himself.

[bunnyfood.]

Worst Luck Ever of the Day: A man in the small Spanish village of Sodeto is giving “bad luck” a whole new meaning after each of the community’s 70 households won the Spanish Christmas Lottery jackpot except for him.

It seems Costis Mitsotakis was accidentally passed over by the homemakers’ association, which every year knocks on doors in Sodeto collecting money for a collective lottery buy-in.

Wouldn’t you know it, this year was the town’s year, and each resident took home a fat slice of the “El Gordo” pie — some $950 million dollars in all.

Believe it or not, Mr. Mitsotakis isn’t too upset about the whole being-the-only-one-in-town-without-at-least-$130,000-in-his-pocket thing.

The Greek filmmaker is hoping the extra money his neighbors made will help him make some of his own bank selling a strip of land he’d previously had a hard time unloading.

After the lottery, two residents immediately expressed interest in the plot. Refusing to take advantage of the situation, Mitsotakis wouldn’t allow a bidding war. “This is a small village,” he is quoted as saying. “You don’t want bad feelings.”

[nyt / newsfeed.]

Follow Up of the Day: Crafty hackers last night managed to hijack the official website of embattled breast-cancer charity Susan G. Komen for the Cure, and express their dismay at the organization’s politically expedient decision to pull Planned Parenthood grants funding breast-cancer screenings for uninsured and underinsured low-income patients.

The switch was simple, but the message was clear: A banner previously calling women to join a run aimed at ridding the world of breast cancer now read “help us run over poor women on our way to the bank.”

The hack, which briefly redirected www.komen.org visitors to ww5.komen.org, was only the first in a series of notable developments that have taken place since the charity announced its controversial grant withdrawal on Tuesday.

Planned Parenthood, which called out Komen for bowing to “political pressure,” has managed to raise nearly $1 million from online donations and generous contributions from deep-pocketed supporters such as NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

That number, which is continuing to rise, is nearly as much as Komen gave the nonprofit in 2010 and 2011 combined.

Pressure on Komen to reverse its decision is also mounting. 22 Democratic Senators have reportedly signed a strongly worded letter calling on Komen to resume its partnership with Planned Parenthood.

Additionally, Komen’s top public health official, Mollie Williams, has resigned to protest her employer’s defunding decision. The executive director of Komen’s Los Angeles County chapter has also stated her intention to resign.

For its part, Komen continues to deny anti-abortion links to its decision, despite their anti-choice SVP Karen Handel’s well-established goal to defund Planned Parenthood. (Handel recently retweeted a remark critical of Planned Parenthood that concluded with the phrase “cry me a freaking river.” The retweet was soon deleted.)

The organization is further denying its deletion of pro-Planned Parenthood comments from its Facebook page and message board, claiming it only removes comments for profanity.

One poignant comment Komen couldn’t delete was left by award-winning author Judy Blume on her Twitter feed: ”Susan Komen would not give in to bullies or to fear. Too bad the foundation bearing her name did. Support @PPact. Save lives.”

When even Judy Blume is calling you out, you should probably stop and listen.

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Tags To Riches of the Day: Graffiti artist David Choe is no slouch when it comes to getting his hands dirty for big names: His artwork covers Jay-Z and Linkin Park’s Collision Course; he’s provided set decorations for Juno; and a portrait of Obama he painted is hanging in the White House.

But it’s his contribution to Facebook that might be Choe’s magnum opus.

The L.A. native was compensated for mural work he did at Facebook’s Palo Alto HQ in 2005 with company shares in lieu of a few thousand dollars. In light of yesterday’s IPO filing, Choe’s shares may now be worth upwards of $200 million.

Best part? He once called Facebook’s concept “ridiculous and pointless.”

Watch the artist at work below:

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