As always, it’s been a pleasure bringing you the best and brightest Lehigh Valley has to offer throughout this past year, and since 2008.

Obviously, we wouldn’t still be publishing stories if we didn’t have perverse dedicated readers such as yourself.

Believe it or not, we get more than a half a million unique views per year, which is a lot when your traffic model consists of Craigslist Missed Connections and tweets 12-year-olds would love.

But, really, we had 428 posts in 2014 alone.

Sit back, clear your schedule for a bit, and, please, as always, share with your friends because that’s how we’ll get to another “Top 10” list next year.

So, here’s what you came here for, the Top 10 Lehigh Valley with Love Stories of 2014 based on web traffic.

Begin.

10: Is Vegan Treats NOT Vegan? Read These Emails and Decide For Yourself!

We found out that Vegan Treats, the popular “vegan-esque” store in Bethlehem, knowingly wasn’t using vegan products. The owner denied it and people got mad at us.

But, we know the truth, yo.

Total conspiracy land.

9. Bethlehem School Superintendent Joseph Roy Gets Ornery on Twitter (And It’s Awesome)

We love seeing more and more pillars of the community embracing social media for the informational expressway that it is.

We especially love when Bethlehem Superintendent, Joseph Roy, admonished someone online after he announced a snow day.

8. Man Slaps Police Horse at Musikfest (FACEBOOK PROFILE)

It should be noted that this guy eventually had his charges dropped, but, c'mon, don’t put yourself in the position of being a smartass with the horse cops anymore.

It’s so 2010.

7. Brother Attacks Mom-to-Be Sister at Her Baby Shower in Catasauqua (FACEBOOK PROFILE)

It’s not every day you find Facebook gold this, well, golden. Pretty much everyone likes a good family party train wreck and this delivered with more than enough extra curricular reading material online.

6. North Catasauqua Lady Wins “Trashy Lady of the Week” Award (FACEBOOK PROFILE)

If you’re noticing a trend of posts that have the “(FACEBOOK PROFILE)” tag in the headline, you’re not alone.

This particular story had some pretty feisty comments and shares.

5. Mother of Pen Argyl Student Who Committed Suicide Mad at School (Superintendent Says ‘Bullying’ Just a ‘Buzz Word’)

Almost as a rule, Lehigh Valley with Love tries to stay away from murder or suicide if possible.

The mainstream news sites usually do a good job reporting what needs to be said. (Not a joke.)

However, in the case of a Pen Argyl mother who was pretty pissed over the Superintendent’s choice of words, it was more than worthy of publishing.

4. DeSales Scumbag Students Assault Special Needs Employee, Laugh About It

This was easily the story of the year that produced the most outrage online. Simply mix some misguided college students with some really misguided socially media posts and sprinkle in one person who emailed us and, well, can of worms opened hard.

We had more than 50 emails come in for this one. Most, obviously, were against this guys and just wanted to see how “expelled” they got.

End story? I’m not sure. If someone can wrap it up for us, we’d be open to listening.

3. Ex-Girlfriend Texts Photos to Ex-Boyfriend of Stuff She Stole From Him (FACEBOOK PROFILE)

I have to be honest, this is the story I’m most surprised with due to the amount of hits.

Apparently, this woman was well known by the online community and it went viral pretty quickly.

Well more than 100 local shares later, the comments were equal parts damning and hilarious.

2. Lehigh Valley Hospital Patient Flees from Cops Across I-78 in Hospital Gown (FACEBOOK PROFILE)

Do you know how many Facebook shares of this story had a comment similar to “Wow, that guy looks like Jason Statham”? Yeah, like a billion.

Sometimes we use photos from the interwebs if there are no directly attributable photos available. No matter.

The story was crazy enough that it reached number two on our list this year, especially since many people saw this happen in real time.

And, before we get to number one, an honorable mention!

Honorable Mention: Woman ‘Shows Her Privates’ to People at Musikfest

While this story ended up just outside of the top ten in terms of unique hits this year, it was one of the most fun because the woman in question decided it was time to hit up the comments section to give her side of the story.

What a side it was :)

And, our number one story of 2014 is….

1. Lady Parks in Guy’s Spot in Bethlehem, So He Snows Her In

Our most popular post of the year, bringing in JUST under 100,000 unique views, was the freakin’ lady who got her car snowed in by the guy who originally shoveled out the parking spot she parked in.

Please note that this post almost got us sued TWICE, has resulted in some comments not always being available beneath the article itself, and, well, pretty much internet infamy.

So, thank you to the person who originally sent this photo to us and gave us the story. That’s how the best stuff usually pans out.

Thank you for the best, and most viewed, year for Lehigh Valley with Love. We plan on continuing to bring you the funniest local happenings.

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