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Trying To Cook Your Own Meal At Denny's Will Probably Get You Arrested
By Chris Morran on February 24, 2012 10:15 AM
32 Comments
If you're in the mood for making your own burgers, we suggest picking up ingredients at a grocery store and trying it at home. We certainly don't suggest what one Wisconsin man is accused of: Telling the staff at his local Denny's that he was the new boss and then going straight to work in the kitchen. More »
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Does Accepting A Better Fridge Than The One I Ordered Make Me A Bad Consumer?
By Chris Morran on December 5, 2011 3:15 PM
91 Comments
Last week, a reader wrote in wanting to hear from the Consumerist hive-mind if he'd been a Bad Consumer by badgering a carwash into giving him some wiper fluid for damage that might not have been the carwash's fault. Inspired by that post, another reader wants to hear your verdict — and this time it's a lot pricier than a bottle of wiper fluid. More »
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McDonald's Customer Eats Burger, Punches Cop, While Her Car Burns Up In The Parking Lot
By Chris Morran on November 17, 2011 12:15 PM
63 Comments
It's not exactly Nero fiddling while Rome burned, but when a Mississippi woman's car caught on fire at a McDonald's drive-thru, she stayed and ate her food — and then got arrested for allegedly punching a police officer. More »
Man Accused Of Tossing Molotov Cocktail At Taco Bell For Not Giving Him Enough Meat
By Ben Popken on October 28, 2011 10:00 AM
74 Comments
There's better ways to lodge a complaint against Taco Bell than by lofting a Molotov cocktail at the drive-thru window, but filling out a suggestion card wasn't the one this incensed Georgia customer chose at 5am. More »
Teen Freed From Coke Machine He Tried To Steal From
By Ben Popken on September 28, 2011 12:00 PM
68 Comments
The recession continues to inspire people to do stupid crap to avoid paying money. This week's case in point, the teen who got stuck in a Coke machine after he tried to get a free can of soda. More »
Extreme Couponer Arrested For Stealing 185 Newspapers
By Ben Popken on August 10, 2011 1:00 PM
126 Comments
A woman who "just loves to save money" is in legal trouble after surveillance cameras caught her stealing bags of unsold newspapers from newspaper boxes. Her goal was to snatch up as many coupon inserts as possible. More »
Extreme Couponer Arrested For Stealing Coupon Inserts
By Ben Popken on July 1, 2011 11:00 AM
170 Comments
Some people really don't even deserve the label "extreme couponer." We should just call 'em "jerks." The Denton Record-Chronicle reports that a woman in Texas was arrested for buying just one newspaper from the vending machine but then taking all the coupon inserts from all the newspapers inside. More »
Woman Calls 911 Because Her Chinese Food Order Was Wrong
By Ben Popken on June 15, 2011 3:00 PM
110 Comments
Savannah police have released the recording of a call a woman made to report that she got the wrong food in her Chinese food delivery. They published the call as a reminder to the public that it's a misdemeanor to call 911 unless there's an actual emergency. Here is a transcript and the audio of the call: More »
Alleged Walmart Shoplifter Goes On Violent Rampage After Being Asked For Receipt
By Laura Northrup on May 27, 2011 9:30 AM
108 Comments
This is a textbook example of how not to behave when asked for your receipt at a store's exit. According to the Bradenton, Florida police, a 22-year-old woman tried to leave a Walmart with 43 items she hadn't paid for, worth a total of $211. When asked for her receipt, she went on a destructive rampage, causing more than $1,000 worth of damage to merchandise. She also punched and spat on store employees, and hit a manager with a bar stool from inside her cart. Police officers discovered marijuana in her purse, and she has been charged with, among other things, aggravated assault and battery. More »
Before Taking That Hotel Towel Home, Check For An RFID Chip
By Ben Popken on April 18, 2011 4:00 PM
108 Comments
If one of your favorite parts about staying in a hotel is loading up on all the free towels, you may want to take a pause before stuffing your suitcase next time. A few hotels, which don't want to be named, have started to use a new washable RFID chip that can be sewn into towels, robes and bedsheets. More »
SWAT Called, Gunman Pissed Over Price Of Taco Bell Burritos
By Ben Popken on March 21, 2011 2:30 PM
56 Comments
A SWAT team was called in to deal with a gunman who was enraged the price of Taco Bell Beefy Crunch Burritos had risen from their promotional price of $.99 to $1.49. More »
Woman Goes On Destructive Rampage At Liquor Store After Being Denied Use Of Bathroom
By Mary Beth Quirk on March 7, 2011 11:15 AM
68 Comments
We don't know about you, but when you can't use the bathroom, the urge to lay waste to whatever is around, be it a liquor store or anything else, inevitably sets in. Such was the case when a woman was denied bathroom privileges in a liquor store in Nyack, NY, last week. More »
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Even After Bankruptcy, Couple Continues To Splurge
By Ben Popken on February 25, 2011 11:08 AM
126 Comments
This couple filed for bankruptcy but still kept going on vacations on at exotic four-star hotels, despite not paying their mortgage since September. A financial planner helps them get a grip on reality. More »
Waiter Thwarts Dine And Dashers By Leaping Onto Their Speeding Car
By Ben Popken on January 25, 2011 3:00 PM
92 Comments
A brave waiter threw himself onto a customer's SUV as it sped away from the restaurant. They had tried to run out without paying their $51 bill. The 24-year old jumped on as the car pulled out of the parking lot, grabbing onto the roofrack and planting his feet on the running board. Listen, you just don't mess with a waiter's tips. More »
Dine And Dashers On The Rise, Wearing Ties
By Ben Popken on January 12, 2011 12:00 PM
80 Comments
In the last year the NYPD says there was a 20% increase in the number of "chew and screwers" - customers who run up a restaurant or bar tab and then duck out before paying it. And it's not just the usual "live fast die young crowd," entire families and guys with Monopoly mustaches are getting in on the action. More »
Man Sues Restaurant For Not Stopping Him From Eating An Entire Artichoke
By Ben Popken on December 23, 2010 11:00 AM
178 Comments
A doctor has sued the Houston's restaurant in Miami after he ate a complete artichoke that he ordered, including the spiny and sharp exterior leaves. He subsequently suffered "severe abdominal pain and discomfort," and a "exploratory laparotomy" showed that the artichoke leaves were jammed in his "small bowel." His lawsuit claims that he had "never seen nor heard of previously" an artichoke and that it was the restaurant's fault for not teaching him how to eat it. More »
Man Throws Dead Squirrel Through Drive-In
By Ben Popken on December 13, 2010 12:00 PM
40 Comments
A 26-year old Illinois man faces a misdemeanor charge for disorderly conduct after chucking a dead squirrel through a drive-through window in a macabre prank this weekend. More »
Woman Saves Prime Black Friday Parking Space By Sitting In It
By Ben Popken on December 7, 2010 2:00 PM
179 Comments
Last week one woman took staking out an early Black Friday claim even further by sitting down in a prime parking space right at the front sidewalk. More »
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Customer Forgets Doggie Bag, Demands Gift Certificate
By Laura Northrup on November 5, 2010 11:45 AM
109 Comments
If you left a busy restaurant without your doggie bag, what would you do? (A) Shrug and think about the delicious lunch of leftovers that will never be? (B) Go back to the restaurant to see if it was still there? Or would it be (C) Call the restaurant and demand a gift certificate in compensation? A customer of a Boston restaurant attempted option (C) recently, and the restaurant took to social media to share their... surprise? confusion? More »
While The Children Ran For Ice Cream, She Reached For Her Bleach
By Ben Popken on September 16, 2010 11:00 AM
40 Comments
From the disproportionate reaction file comes a Sacramento, California woman arrested for tossing bleach all over an ice cream man. Were they out of Huckleberry Fudge Swirl? Nope, she thought the ice cream man had shortchanged her a week ago. More »
