It is always a good idea to teach a kid the value of money but this is going a tad bit too far! A Bonita Springs woman is accused of skipping out on a restaurant bill, leaving her 12-year-old daughter behind and then calling the Sheriff’s Office to say her daughter was kidnapped. Melissa Ashley [...]
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More Bad Parenting
February 19th, 2011 · 3 Comments
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Those Romantic Canucks
February 19th, 2011 · 3 Comments
Those crazy Canadians were saying “be my valentine, Valentine” on Valentines Day! It seems Canadians have a romantic soft spot when it comes to names, genealogical experts say. Digging up census results from 1861, Ancestry.ca officials discovered 580 people had the first name Valentine, and 100 others shared the surname. They also found 14 people [...]
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Lighter Side of Getting Canned
February 15th, 2011 · 3 Comments
After burning through 10 jobs in 10 years Franklin Scheinder decided to make a living telling his crummy job story! Schneider has skimmed money off token sales at a mall arcade, manned the cash register overnight at a XXX video store, harassed people during dinner as a telemarketer, worked at a failed start-up and shredded [...]
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Big Rewards to Catch Smokers
February 1st, 2011 · 3 Comments
Ratting on neighbours who light up in secret can be lucrative in Sweden, where a landlords’ association said it would offer a nice reward for turning in people who violate a strict smoking ban in a residential building. “I have decided to offer a reward of 5,000 kronor (560 euros, 740 dollars) to our tenants [...]
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Weird Looking Coin is a Fail
January 13th, 2011 · 4 Comments
This coin is horrible!
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Odd Statue
January 10th, 2011 · 3 Comments
I guess a Polish joke is not politically correct but they did spend $300,000 on this statue to commemorate a bear that apparently fought along side the army against the Nazis! The £200,000 monument is to commemorate the extraordinary life of Wojtek, a 6ft tall, 500 pound brown bear who served alongside Polish soldiers — [...]
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Winner of the Weird Disguise Award
January 9th, 2011 · 4 Comments
This guy spend $700 on this movie quality mask to disguise himself so he could rob banks. Now that he is going to jail I wonder how the black prision population will feel about this!
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Yogi Does Not Eat or Drink
January 6th, 2011 · 2 Comments
And I don’t mean the cartoon character Yogi the Bear! We are talking about the other kind of Yogi but this is obviously BS, or I think it is? Prahlad Jani, an 82-year-old Indian yogi, is making headlines by claims that for the past 70 years he has had nothing — not one calorie — [...]
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Crazy Dumb Question
January 1st, 2011 · 4 Comments
I really hope this woman is gorgeous because she definitely won’t get far with her brains.
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Can you Hold it In for a Week
December 29th, 2010 · 2 Comments
No wonder George Castanza didn’t go to the bathroom in India and it costs the country 54 Billion dollars a year! A lack of toilets and poor hygiene practices in India cost Asia’s third largest economy almost $54 billion every year, the World Bank said on Monday. Premature deaths, treatment for the sick, wasted time [...]
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