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Aer Lingus Accidentally Sells Transatlantic Flights For 5 Euros Each
Aer Lingus is apologizing to some 100 customers to whom it accidentally sold transatlantic tickets for a measly 5 Euros. More »
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Man Ejected From Flight Because He Wouldn't Sit Down And Stop Praying
Praying is nice but you should try not to disrupt the entire flight with your holiness. WNBC says an Orthodox Jewish man got up from his seat while passengers were still boarding, and walked to the back of the United Airlines flight where he began praying. His friend said the prayers lasted approximately 2 minutes. When flight attendants asked the man to return to his seat so the plane could take off, he ignored them. More »
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30 Years Of Confidential Walmart Videos For Sale
The Wall Street Journal says that a video production company that earned 90% of its revenue from taping Walmart's internal meetings over the past 30 years has lost the Walmart account—but retained the rights to the video library. More »
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Nickelodeon Is Channel 33, Comcast Adult On Demand Is 333
Michael writes in with an unfortunate coincidence:I discovered last night that my Comcast Adult on Demand channel is 333. Easy buttons for a child to accidently press, particularly when Nickelodeon is 33. That's right, one extra push, and my five year old gets the Playboy listings instead of Spongebob.It's nice that you have such a good sense of humor about it. We imagine that eventually Comcast is bound to get some calls from parents who aren't so pleasant to deal with. More »
Yeah, I blocked Adult on Demand, but I only found it in the first place because I was searching the hinterlands of Showtime en español.
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Jim Cramer Told Viewers "Don't Move Your Money From Bear! That's Just Being Silly!"
Jim Cramer, host of CNBC's Mad Money is now something of a laughingstock, after telling viewers on March 11th not to "move" their "money" from Bear Stearns. More »
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Passengers Watch With Disbelief As Their Allegiant Air Flight Leaves Without Them
Over 20 passengers watched in horror as their Allegiant Air flight from Huntsville to Fort Lauderdale took off without them. The passengers had lined up at the gate, tickets in hand, when the plane pushed back. Apparently, the single ticketing agent had struggled to handle everyone on time and didn't tell the plane to wait. Passengers called the airline once they realized they were stranded as kids shouted, "We want to go to Disney World!""So, everybody calls Allegiant Air," Rigas said. "Three people got hung up on."More »
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California Hospital Takes Botched Operations Seriously
WHO: St. Joseph Hospital in Orange County.
WHAT: The California Department of Public Health is investigating St. Joseph for conducting three 'wrong site' operations since January 2006. Botched surgeries include operating on a patient's good knee and making an incision on the wrong side of a patient's head.
WHERE: Orange hospital under investigation for operating room error [L.A. Times]
THE QUOTE: "Members of the clinical team involved in these cases have been deeply affected, and as a hospital we take this very seriously and regret that it happened," [Dr. Raymond Casciari, St. Joseph's chief medical officer] said.
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Stranded After AirTran Never Bothered To Announce The Flight
Reader Thomas was waiting for his delayed AirTran flight.... and waiting... and waiting. Turns out that AirTrain never made an annoucement that the delayed flight had arrived and it left without Thomas and a few other passengers. More »
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NY Governor Eliot Spitzer Resigns Due To Predilection For Pricey Whores
NY Governor and former star Attorney General, Eliot Spitzer, has resigned today after his predilection for pricey whores caught up with him. More »
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NY Governor and Former AG Apparently Quite Fond Of Whores
Current NY Governor and former NY Attorney General Eliot Spitzer is fond of pricey whores says the New York Times. Spitzer, who busted several prostitution rings while serving as AG, apologized this afternoon:"I have acted in a way that violates my obligation to my family and violates my or any sense of right or wrong," said Mr. Spitzer, who appeared with his wife Silda at his Manhattan office. "I apologize first and most importantly to my family. I apologize to the public to whom I promised better."More »
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Verizon Customer Service Number Rings A Phone Sex Line
I'm currently on hold with Verizon regarding a rebate for my dad's business DSL account that he never received. While that's not notable in itself, what is notable is that the first number I called about this, which is currently listed on Verizon's website, led me to a phone sex line.More »
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22,000 People Died As Bayer Reaped Profits, Withheld Key Study From FDA
The FDA yanked the heart surgery drug Trasylol off the market last November, but a medical researcher now claims that 22,000 lives could have been saved if Bayer AG hadn't withheld the results of an earlier internal study proving the drug's danger. An FDA committee held hearings in September 2006 to determine Trasylol's safety, but three of the committee members had a financial interest in Bayer, and the drug maker had underwritten the committee chairman's research. More »
A 'computer glitch' has left 740,000 Verizon customers in California without access to their voicemail for the past two days. Messages left for affected customers after February 4 are gone forever. [Bloomberg]
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Comcast Apologizes For 4th Quarter SuperBowl Outage
Comcast has apologized and is offering credits to customers in New Mexico who lost their cable signal during the 4th quarter of the SuperBowl.More »
Comcast is working to make things right after 8,000 customers in the North Valley lost their signal in the fourth quarter of the Super Bowl.
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Coffee Shop Accidentally Forwards Embarassing Internal Emails To Customer
Reader X sends us an internal email chain that was accidentally forwarded by some executives at Beaner's Coffee.
The customer was writing in to inquire as to when trans fats would be eliminated from Beaner's products. In addition to a cheerful reply, said customer was also treated to the internal email chain instructing the Vice President of Operations on how to "sidestep the question."
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Motorola may stop making cellphones after all its customers bought iPhones and Samsung phones. [Bloomberg]
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Woman Finds Thumbtack In Snack Wrap, McDonald's "Takes It Very Seriously"
WHO: Stephani Ann Carpenter was finishing off the last bite of her snack wrap when she bit into something hard that pierced her tongue.
WHAT: Stephani had bitten into a thumbtack. Sheriffs investigated and determined that the tack had probably fallen from a cork board that was located above where the snack wraps were made.
WHERE: Port Charlotte woman: pin in McDonald's snack [Herald Tribune] (Thanks, Cory!)
THE QUOTE: "Nothing is more important than the safety of our customers," said Paul Van Sickle, director of operations for McDonald's Florida Region. "This was an isolated incident which we take very seriously. We always strive to give our customers an enjoyable and pleasant restaurant experience in a clean and safe environment."
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