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Evan V. Symon

I am a contributor, PE team writer, and the Interview finder for the Personal Experience Team here on Cracked. If you have an interesting/awesome personal experience, let me know!

So far I have traveled to Washington D.C., Iowa, Maryland, Cleveland, Las Vegas, Arizona, Calgary, Los Angeles, Detroit, Cape Town, Ho Chi Minh City, Namibia, Berlin, Hamburg, North Korea, Pennsylvania, Austria, Switzerland, Slovakia and South Dakota for Personal Experience Interviews.

Feel free to send me a message or e-mail me at evanvsymon@gmail.com if you have an experience for a personal experience article or if you need help with a pitch. I'm also available on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/evan.v.symon

If you need help with translating German, Slovak, Afrikaans or French, just tell me and I can help out. I also know some Spanish, Russian, Swahili, Latin and (almost) Mandarin conversationally if help is needed there.

The 5 Saddest Attempts to Take Over a Country

When we hear about a rebellion in Egypt or Libya or elsewhere, we instinctively want to root for the scrappy kids trying to fight back against The Man. Of course, a lot of coup attempts aren't all that inspirational. Some, in fact, border on slapstick comedy.

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The 6 Most Ridiculous Abuses of Diplomatic Immunity

Immunity is granted to keep diplomats from being harassed while they do their work in unfriendly nations. It makes sense, but as you can suspect, people abuse the living hell out of it, often to a hilarious and/or terrifying degree.

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5 Rulers Whose Idiot Siblings Nearly Screwed the World

No comedy would be complete without the Wacky Screwup Brother, the Zach Galifianakis in The Hangover-type who is there to throw a wrench in everything with some sort of stupid scheme (also see: Gob Bluth from Arrested Development). It's not so funny in real life.

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6 Famous People Whose Identities We Still Don't Know

We live in a culture that doesn't exactly value anonymity. It's difficult to grab lunch at a drive-through without having to check in on at least three social media sites, for example. To get an idea of how much things have changed, there are some people who have become world-famous icons, but whose names no one knows.

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