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• Commented on United Airlines Raises Prices As Much As $50
  Are prices up on the seats out on the wings too?...
• Commented on Customer Convicted For Shoving 75-Year-Old Walmart Receipt Checker
  "While an employee has no right to touch you" as true but this guy should not have been knocked down. The greeter needs to learn that a physical confrontation will most likely to end with a problem. He has the...
• Commented on Student Stripped Of Title, Suspended Over Contraband Candy Purchase
  Well, you know those Skittles can lead to smokin' the devil's weed, then onto the needle....
• Commented on Retail Gas Prices Hit Record, $4 A Gallon Coming
  It's already over $4 a gallon at several gas stations here in the San Francisco bay area....
• Commented on Update Your Will After Major Life Events
  Don't forget to change your will after a divorce either....
• Commented on Southwest Airlines Takes Flying Unsafe Planes Seriously
  PSA's spin that this is "not a safety of flight issue" is pure bullshit and an abuse of semantics. The goal of aircraft fuselage inspections is now and always has been to identify unsafe issues with that part of the...
• Commented on Senate Votes For Safer Products, Approves Consumer Product Safety Commission Overhaul
  It's too bad that this bill will most likely will die on the Smirking Chimp's desk. He will either kill it by not signing it, or sign it and attach a signing statement that effectively cancels it....
• Commented on This Sunbeam Heating Pad Is Maybe A Little <em>Too</em> Hot
  @engunneer: I think you've hit on the problem here. The warnings are clear on the product. The way they used it on a mattress indicates both surfaces were covered during use. I don't think this incident will win any court...
• Commented on Apple Demands ID With Credit Card Purchases, Violates Merchant Agreement
  All of this confusion about needing a photo ID for a credit/debit purchase would go away if the credit card companies required your picture to be on your credit/debit card... If you try to make a purchase and your face...
• Commented on Apple Demands ID With Credit Card Purchases, Violates Merchant Agreement
  All of this confusion about needing a photo ID for a credit/debit purchase would go away if the credit card companies required your picture to be on your credit/debit card....
• Commented on WaMu Doesn't Know How To Deal With Potentially Fraudulent Account?
  Put all of the marketing mail that you get from them into a large clear plastic bag then carry it into the nearest WAMU branch office and dump the bag onto the bank manager's desk and say that you will...
• Commented on Court Rules "World Yacht" Can Be Sued For Not Distributing Gratuities To Its Servers
  Bravo to the employees for being recognized and being made whole....
• Commented on Forever 21: No, You Can't Bring Your Kid Into The Dressing Room
  Forever 21 will have to make a policy adjustment when their sued after first kid gets kidnapped from one of their stores while being left unattended per their policy. This is typical of the corporate body count vs $$$$'s mentality...
• Commented on Gas Station Attendant Busted For Re-Using Customers' Credit Card Numbers
  Gee... such a major crime story has apparently qualified for cyberspace distribution on the Consumerist. I'll bet all the execs that are out there committing white collar crimes right now will love this distraction....
• Commented on Free Advice: Don't Deposit Bags Of Meth In The ATM
  I bet those bank employees have fun going through everybody's safe deposit boxes to see what kind of stashes they can find....
• Commented on What Do I Have To Do To Get My $600 Tax Credit?
  @ptkdude: "The next time you hear about how great "trickle-down economics" works, ask yourself why we've now had 2 economic stimulus rebate checks." The way "trickle-down economics" works is the same as feeding a bird by first giving a mule...
• Commented on Polaroid Instant Film Is Dead
  I remember when the Polaroid snapshots first came out. It was a big deal then to be able to see a picture develop within a couple minutes of it being shot. Everyone would hang around whoever was holding the film,...
• Commented on What Do I Have To Do To Get My $600 Tax Credit?
  I don't trust my mail deliveries anymore. Will the Government do a direct deposit of this check into my bank/checking account?...
• Commented on $7 Million Lawsuit: Combining Crocs And Escalators May Result In Mangled Feet
  The spot where the escalator steps slide under the threshold has always been design flaw that has never been addressed to any effective solution. It seems that with the level of technical expertise that's able to get us beyond our...
• Commented on Delta Now Loses Urine Too
  None of these urine samples will qualify for test purposes now because the chain of custody of the samples was broken....
• Commented on 5 Airlines You Shouldn't Trust With Your Luggage
  Whenever I check-in a piece of luggage, on any airline, I certainly don't leave anything of value in it. I kind of look at it as though I'm leaving my bag alongside of a busy street curb in a densely...
• Commented on Comcast Apologizes For 4th Quarter SuperBowl Outage
  What's this...Comcast has actually apologized for something as is trying do do the right thing? Company execs must have resorted to taking copious amounts of pain killers to get through all this public expression of humility....
• Commented on Aetna Doesn't Want To Cover Colonoscopy Anaesthesia
  @coolkiwilivin: "Insurance companies are bad enough but at least they can respond to public pressure." The efforts of the insurance companies' lobbyists will continue to trump any public pressure results and their bean counters will continue to make those medical...
• Commented on Tiger Direct Sales Contest Thinks Pimps Are Funny
  Given their marketing scheme here, my guess is that Tigerdirect's marketing guys would have no problem when their 15 year old daughters come home some evening in a pimpmobile and announce that they've found a great job and will now...
• Commented on United Airlines To Charge $25 For Checking 2 Bags
  It's getting close to the edge here, where a weight-based decision will have to be made, at the airlines' check-in counters, as to whether or not any particular customer will actually have to be put in the cargo hold during...
• Commented on Aetna Doesn't Want To Cover Colonoscopy Anaesthesia
  I'd be willing to bet that Aetna's removing the anesthesia from this rectal video ramming procedure will be just the first step. After they're able to get away with doing that a few times, next to go will be the...
• Commented on United Airlines To Charge $25 For Checking 2 Bags
  @uricmu: said..."Also, a lot of people coming internationally with connections are now going to get screwed because your other flight allows you to check in two bags." The article actually said: "New fees apply to trips within the U.S. and...
• Commented on United Airlines To Charge $25 For Checking 2 Bags
  Oh what fun!... Now they'll actually be able to charge you in advance to lose that bag. If that bag doesn't show up at the baggage pick-up they'd better be ready to return that extra fee on the spot. Also,...
• Commented on 5 Things Airlines Don't Want You To Know About Weather Delays
  Wouldn't it have made more sense for airlines to have made their major transfer hubs at locations that aren't so often affected by bad weather? O'Hare, at Chicago is a prime example of a place that you know is gonna...
• Commented on Walmart Ignores Widow's Letter Asking Why It Took Employees 9 Hours To Find Her Husband's Body In A Bathroom Stall
  Honestly.....nybody out there, what the hell else would you expect from Walmart? Would you really expect such a large entinty to respond with any respect or sympathy? Get real!...