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• Commented on Wannabe Supervillain Who Claimed He Poisoned Baby Food Is Arrested
  Broadcasting desperate pleas for attention from a shower stall -- while that's definitely odd (and pathetic!) it's not insane :)...
• Commented on Tampa Woman Tries To Collect Loan Made By Her Great-Grandfather During Civil War
  @edosan: That would probably cost a lot more than just paying it off :D @Buran: As a northerner who recently moved to the South, let me assure you, not everybody down here thinks so......
• Commented on Verizon Doesn't Care That Someone Hijacked Your Account While You Were Serving Overseas
  This is at least the second Consumerist story about members of US armed forces trying to put accounts on hold, and Verizon screwing that up in some way. Getting accused of fraud is worse than just losing your old number,...
• Commented on Philadelphia Cafe Keeping Server's Tips For Themselves?
  Whether or not the servers were in on the deal when they were hired, who knows. But I really doubt this was ever explained to the average customer -- who paid a 15%-20% surcharge on the listed menu price to...
• Commented on Spreadshirt Inc. Spares Frat From Dressing Like Girly Men
  Wow, very nice, Spreadshirt. @dh86sj: I'm not sure how "gay" and "Fortune 500 excutive or elected representative" are mutually exclusive, or how you defended the hetero-nature of fraternity brothers (some of whom are gay)....
• Commented on UPS Breaks, Steals Computer
  @MyPetFly: The Pony Express was never affiliated with the US Postal Service. It was a separate company that was contracted to carry US mail on its ponies. Either way, I wouldn't trust Pony Express to ship my computer overseas :)...
• Commented on NYT Editorial Board: Hey Congress, Textbooks Are Too Expensive!
  I got my textbooks for relatively low price by checking them out of the school library (which always had its own copy, frequently copies, of textbooks for the upcoming semester); anything I wanted/needed, I photocopied. That was because I was...
• Commented on Drunk Dell Tech Repairs Laptop With Hammer
  Have pity on poor Joel. When you're drunk, it's hard to distinguish between a hammer and a wee little screwdriver. Seriously, though, his behavior was wrong on so many levels, and Dell's lack of motivation to make up for it...
• Commented on Skyy Tastelessly Tries To Capitalize On Absolut's Mexican Gaffe
  @aphex242: I thought lots of Texans were married to Mexican-Americans, how unique can you be?...
• Commented on Skyy Tastelessly Tries To Capitalize On Absolut's Mexican Gaffe
  Skyy is just pandering to anti-immigration activists. There were a lot of effects beyond "changing mailing addresses" for the residents of those now-states, and anyone with half a clue about history is aware of that. Guess they don't want to...
• Commented on Are Starbucks Baristas Forgetting To Give You Your Free Refills?
  @ceriphim: More accurately, the manager either was not informed, or did not bother to inform his staff, of the change. The key problem: if a national chain is going to roll out a national promotion, every store should know how...
• Commented on Conde Nast Will Never Stop Emailing You. <i>Never.</i> Stop Asking.
  Cracker Barrel did the same to me, for years, despite clicking removal links, calling them three times... each time I was assured my email was removed, each time I got another promotional email. Now, they're simply routed straight to delete,...
• Commented on Universal Music Group: Throwing Away Promotional CDs Is An "Unauthorized Distribution"
  Hrm. At the college newspaper, we got hundreds of free CD's. We held contests regularly to see who could most creatively destroy them. I wonder if that violates the rules......
• Commented on Sears Takes Customer Account Security 80% Seriously
  @midwestkel: Oddly, I know a Donna Robinson, and she may well have a Sears card. I must ask her about this :D...
• Commented on Old Wal-Mart Man Attacks Older Wal-Mart Man With Pricegun
  @Sucko-T: Thank you, that was an excellent laugh :D...
• Commented on Citibank Will Apply Your "No Interest Financing" Payments Anyway It Wants
  @Fist-o: Not exactly that terminology, but I do keep a couple thousand minimum in a savings account. I know how much a safety margin is critical sometimes after experiencing unemployment....
• Commented on Round 19: Dell vs Home Depot
  Haven't you biased this a bit by running a Dell Laptop Covered In Pubic Hair story today? ;)...
• Commented on Citibank Will Apply Your "No Interest Financing" Payments Anyway It Wants
  We had something similar with a Circuit City card (either Citibank or Chase, I don't recall) several years ago. We bought a new computer; while we had the money needed to buy it, we let ourselves be talked into the...
• Commented on Shipping Is Getting Expensive
  A number like that looks like an eBay bug. If it was intentional, it'd be $5,999,999.99 so it didn't look inflated 8-)...
• Commented on Security Sticker Defeats Product Key In Showdown Of Annoying Security Devices
  @backbroken: Actually Microsoft is quite generous with new product keys. I've gotten them multiple times for the same (8-year-old!) copy of XP. Most recently, it was because I upgraded my motherboard and the piracy protection thingy insisted I was on...
• Commented on Round 5: Exxon vs Crocs
  I feel soooooo much better about humanity now that I see Crocs isn't winning! Stupid shoes, no question, but more evil than Exxon is quite a stretch....
• Commented on Doctors Remove Wrong Kidney
  Fingers crossed that the "possibly cancerous" organ turns out to be definitively "not cancerous instead!...
• Commented on Wanna See The Red Sox Play The Reds? You Must Also Buy Tickets To Three Other Games
  I grew up in Cincinnati. (And, coincidentally, later moved to Boston, but that's not the point here.) I grew up liking the Reds. Not really obsessed with, I mean they kinda sucked (and Marge Schott turned out to be a...
• Commented on Jack In The Box: That'll Be A $30 Minimum Charge For Credit Or Debit, Please
  There are a few small businesses around me that have $5 minimums for paying with a card. I personally don't mind this; for a small business, merchant fees can take a big bite out of their profit. I'd rather give...
• Commented on Circuit City's AA Battery Packaging Is Remarkably Sturdy
  @greensmurf: Yes, with batteries plus loose metal objects like that, you'd have a chance to form a circuit. But with only batteries, I don't see how they're going to line up properly....
• Commented on Circuit City's AA Battery Packaging Is Remarkably Sturdy
  @special4k4: How could they possibly form a circuit? I don't think having batteries jiggling around is good, but short circuiting doesn't seem physically possible....
• Commented on Circuit City's AA Battery Packaging Is Remarkably Sturdy
  That is crap packing. Lucky they were batteries and not something more fragile. It looks like the "easy open" slots at the back just couldn't take being bumped repeatedly by the other packs of batteries... @timsgm1418: Apparently he needed two...
• Commented on Dell Won't Stop Sending Me Catalogs So I'm Burning Them
  @Landru: Regardless, Dell should be able to take a name off the list. 99% of other companies are capable of doing it. Hickory Farms won't take my email address off their mailing list, despite 7 requests through various channels, so...
• Commented on Go Daddy Shuts Down RateMyCop Watchdog Site
  @lemur: yes, I've had GoDaddy pull a domain with no notice just because they didn't want to deal with complaints from non-customers. Lazy jerks lost my business because of that....
• Commented on Medical Records Sold As Scrap Paper
  On the plus side this sounds like a huge fluke that it was sold as scrap. I'm typically more worried about the medical records being tossed out back in the dumpster or something. Seems like the only safe option is...