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Pizza Hut Is Sorry It Baked A Cockroach Into Your Pizza, Got Fined $35,000
Here's a lovely little story from our friends down in Bellbowrie, Australia. It seems that they have a Pizza Hut in Bellbowrie, and that Pizza Hut has cockroaches. Lots of cockroaches. So many cockroaches, in fact, that it baked one alive into a meatlovers pizza. More »
public health
There Are Bed Bugs On The Subway Benches. Yes, Really.
Bedbugs are usually thought of as something that only hotel guests have to worry about, but apparently New Yorkers who like to sit on benches while they wait for the subway should be concerned about the bloodsuckers as well. More »
used equipment
Maybe Time Warner needs to include a decontamination protocol when it transfers reusable equipment between customers. Natalie writes:
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Time Warner Delivers Modem, Cockroaches
Maybe Time Warner needs to include a decontamination protocol when it transfers reusable equipment between customers. Natalie writes:On Tuesday, April 15, 2008 a Time Warner representative came to our home to install the digital telephone modem which would also provide our internet service.
My husband observed an insect walking on the modem box and asked what it was and the employee seemed dazed and confused.
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tragic
Hey, Thanks For The Bed Bugs!
Sarah is experiencing every traveler's worst nightmare. Bed bugs!I just started reading The Consumerist. I did a search on bedbugs to see if you had any posts, and then thought I'd tell you my own story after reading about the people who found bedbugs in a Santa Monica hotel. In August of last year, I stayed at the Holiday Inn in Santa Monica.More »
food
Restaurant Gives 25% Discount To Birthday Diners, Writes "Bug On Food" For Reason On Check
A restaurant in Dubai gave a 25% discount to a party of birthday diners after they found four bugs in their food. Says a restaurant official, "The guys thought being friendly and having a joke about the environment would relax the diners because it was a birthday, but unfortunately it didn't." We sort of think after the second or third bug, you should probably just comp the meal—and then shut down the restaurant for fumigation. More »
domestic spying
Whistleblower Confirms He Worked On Warrantless Wiretapping Program For "A Large Wireless Company"
Another person has stepped forward to allege that a "major wireless carrier" may have aided the FBI's warrantless wiretapping program. He claims he was brought in to work with the company on something called the Quantico Circuit, "a high-speed line from the wireless carrier to an unnamed third party. Quantico, Va., is the site of a U.S. intelligence and military base.""The circuit was tied to the organization's core network," Pasdar stated in the affidavit. "It had access to the billing system, text messaging, fraud detection, Web site, and pretty much all the systems in the data center without restrictions."More »
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I'm not sure what's more disgusting, the dead bugs, or paying $4.00 for a paper cup of freeze-dried pea soup. Elaine writes:
Dead Bugs Found In Health Valley Soup
I'm not sure what's more disgusting, the dead bugs, or paying $4.00 for a paper cup of freeze-dried pea soup. Elaine writes:More »
I bought a Health Valley split pea soup at Publix Supermarket in Miami, FL on Friday 01/11/08 in the morning before coming in to work. Around 12:30 or so when I finally felt ready to have lunch, I opened the soup only to find it infested with dead bugs.
uh oh
QuickBooks' Latest Update Destroyed Mac Users' Desktops
Here's one reason to use an online service to store financial data: no buggy updates to deal with.* Intuit's December update for 2006 and 2007 versions of QuickBooks Pro on the Mac platform wiped the user's Desktop folder and anything stored there. The company released a patch, but it didn't work if you launched QuickBooks while connected to a wireless hotspot, oops. The latest patch, so far as we can tell, simply disables any further updates to the application—on January 3rd the company "began automatically feeding a patch to Mac QuickBooks users that permanently switches off the program's upgrade mechanism to prevent a repetition of a data disaster." In the meantime, since they can't offer a way to fix the deleted Desktop folders, they're offering rebates to users who buy a copy of the data recovery program Data Rescue II. More »
christmas
Microsoft Releases Dirty Santa Chatbot On Unsuspecting Children!
Oh noes! The children! Microsoft released a Santa bot on its Windows Messenger network that had a surprising predilection for swinging the conversation to oral sex. More »
10:07 AM on Tue Dec 4 2007
By Chris Walters
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features
How To Repel Mosquitos Without Bleeding Your Wallet
If you, like me, are a mosquito magnet, summer weather brings with it a particular kind of dread. Though my Brooklyn neighborhood would hardly be confused with "nature," our wee outdoor space can feel like the Everglades. Since I tend to obsess about spending summer as bugless as possible, I thought I'd share a few tips for fellow urbanites. More »
2:12 PM on Mon Jun 18 2007
By Ben Popken
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Consumerist Ask Metafilter Round-Up
• What is the minimum annual tax that a one person LLC (Limited Liability Corporation) must pay in New York? [Link]• Is there a way to see (for free) the driving record information that car insurance companies use when setting their premiums? [Link]
• Please give advice on a purchasing a new washing machine and dryer. [Link]
• Six months ago, my 50-year-old mother had a serious stroke, and the nursing home that she's in now considers her recovered enough to move on to an assisted living or daily home health care situation. I'm trying to help my 75-year-old grandparents figure out what to do. [Link]
• What is the best website to use to get cheap airline tickets to Europe (specifically Amsterdam or Prague)? [Link]
• What software should I use/purchase to protect my privacy on the internet? [Link]
• What are some practical measures for minimizing bedbug exposure during domestic (US) hotel stays? [Link]
• Can bedbugs survive an airplane flight if they hitch a ride in your (checked) luggage? [Link]
money
Counterfeit Porn Euros
For those who haven't had a chance to play with it, European money is actually rather cool. Bills are colored fluorescently and each denomination has a different size, making it easy to distinguish a specific bill simply by blindly rooting in your pockets Each denomination also has radically different designs. But they are all very serious, and we mourn some of the bills that the euro replaced — such as a 50 franc bill with children's book character The Little Prince on the face of it. Yes, it was very much like having Bugs Bunny on the front of a $1 dollar bill. But our currency could only be improved by that. More »
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