Often, one of the perks of living in a dorm at college is the housekeeping, which dumps the trash, hoses down the bathroom and refills depleted toilet paper rolls in the stalls. But at Texas A&M, students in dorms may soon be responsible for having to supply their own TP. [More]
Score Free Coffee Grounds At Starbucks For Your Compost Heap
By July 19, 2010
Living in the big city and not having access to any sort of garden of my own, composting is the last thing on my mind when I step into a Starbucks. But for those of you who could use some material for your compost heap, the coffee giant will apparently hand over their used grounds free of charge. Just ask the 94-year-old man in Texas, who does this every single day. [More]
Stadium Light Poles Recalled Because They Could Spoil Your Game By Falling Over
By July 7, 2010
Nothing ruins a good game of slo-pitch softball with your buddies than when a 70-foot-tall light pole falls down and goes “splat” on your shortstop. Apparently this has happened enough with a particular brand of stadium light poles that the CPSC has decided to issue a recall on them. [More]
Find This Woman A Job, Get $1,000
By July 7, 2010
Know someone who’s hiring? It might be worth $1,000 to you. An unemployed woman in Texas is going to new lengths, offering the cash as a reward for finding her a steady job. [More]
BP Spill Now Spoiling All Gulf States As Tar Balls Hit Texas
By July 6, 2010
Congratulations to BP and all the others responsible for the Deepwater Horizon disaster. You’ve officially managed to screw up every U.S. state along the Gulf of Mexico. Texas had been the only of the five states bordering the greasy body of water to be untainted by the spill, but that changed over the weekend when the first batch of tar balls washed up on the shore of the Lone Star State. [More]
Southwest Airlines Intercepts Shipment Containing Human Heads
By June 17, 2010
An employee at Southwest Airlines pulled a package from its shipping list because it hadn’t been labeled properly. But wait, it gets better. Inside the package was a few dozen human heads and parts of human heads. [More]
See The Ikea Ad That Was Too Naughty For Texas TV
By June 11, 2010
For some reason, a few TV stations in the Houston area have a problem with the date of June 9, or at least the way Ikea decided to portray the date in a new ad promoting the reopening of their local store. [More]
Texas Sues Bally Total Fitness Over Fake Past Due Billing
By June 9, 2010
Texas’ Attorney General Greg Abbott is going after Bally Total Fitness for the fraudulent “past due” scheme it was using to trick former customers into re-upping with the gym. The AG office says that the gym mailed more than 11,000 fake notices to former customers between last summer and March 2010, and at least 1,000 Texans fell for it and paid the fees. [More]
Rapper Chamillionaire Lets Bank Foreclose On House Rather Than Pay Mortgage
By June 7, 2010
When you decide to go with a hip-hop moniker like Chamillionaire, it’s probably not the best PR move to let one of your houses go into foreclosure. But, says the rapper, it wasn’t because he was having money problems. Instead, he handed the manse back to the bank because he just didn’t feel like paying the mortgage on a house he never lived in. [More]
Postal Worker Pleads Guilty To Stealing Netflix Discs
By May 25, 2010
Being a Netflix customer requires a certain amount of trust in the US Postal Service — that they’ll deliver your movie promptly and without stomping on it and that they’ll return it in the same condition. But a former postal worker in Texas violated that trust, and has admitted to swiping Netflix discs before they got to their intended destinations. [More]
Texas Woman's House Demolished By Mistake
By April 27, 2010
A 69-year-old woman in Frisco, Texas, now has a pile of rubble to call home after a bulldozer operator screwed up and leveled her house instead of the one across the street that was supposed to be demolished. [More]
Man Spends 24 Hours In A Walmart, Lives To Tell The Tale
By April 20, 2010
Over at Zug.com, Bayan Rabbani shares all the details — good, bad, and ugly — of the 24 consecutive hours he spent wandering around — making friends, eating food, getting a manicure — in a Super Walmart in Texas “with absolutely no regard for my hygiene or sanity.” [More]
Whataburger And The "Cheeseburger Josh" Incident
By March 29, 2010
We have seen some fast food fights in our day, but never before have we seen anything like “Cheeseburger Josh.” [More]
PepsiCo Aims To Reduce Sodium With Sexy New "Designer Salt"
By March 22, 2010
While Kraft is embarking on a company-wide plan to reduce sodium in their food products, the mad scientists at PepsiCo are trying to do them one better. They’re about to start making a new “designer salt” for their Lay’s brand potato chips that they claim will reduce the amount of sodium you consume without losing any of that great sodium taste. [More]
Woman Attacked At Walmart, Says Security Didn't Stop Attacker
By March 12, 2010
A Houston woman says she was attacked by a man wielding a knife inside her local Walmart and that the store security did nothing to stop the incident or to apprehend the attacker. [More]
Walmart Refunds For Dead Frog Found In Salad
By November 6, 2009
“Oh my God, I see eyes!” screamed Carla Hill after opening a bag of greens from Walmart.
Attention: Deep Fried Butter Exists
By September 4, 2009
There’s hope for the continued survival of humanity past the point where we invent robots with the ability to exterminate us and built robots of their own. How do I know this? Because we’ve invented “deep fried butter.” If we can do that, the robots don’t stand a chance.
Dallas Cowboys' New Stadium Offers $90 Pizza With No Toppings
By August 5, 2009
If man were to dig a fancy pit that rich people would fight to throw money into, we suppose it would look a lot like the Dallas Cowboys‘ new $1.2 billion stadium. For only $800,000 you can rent a suite that doesn’t include tickets to the game — or food and drink.
