There are bad consumers, and then there are bad consumers who might do one bad thing but are still very punctual. Not that being on time for work will earn you any brownie points if you’re accused of trying to rob said workplace. [More]
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Radio Shack Worker Accused Of Trying To Rob The Store Then Shows Up On Time For His Shift
By 2.14.14
Reminder: Do Not Attack The Mail Carrier If The Check You’re Expecting Hasn’t Arrived Yet
By 2.12.14
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: Just because the mail carrier is the one who brings you your mail, he or she is not the one sending it. So if you haven’t gotten a check you’ve been expecting, attacking the mailman isn’t going to bring it to you any faster. It just isn’t. [More]
Delta Flight Makes Unplanned Stop To Drop Off “Unruly” Passenger Accused Of Getting Grabby
By 2.10.14
If there are two things that don’t mix it’s alcohol and close quarters. Okay, three — it’s even trickier when you’re in mid-flight and your fellow passenger gets a bit unruly after a few too many cocktails. A woman who was allegedly intoxicated on a Delta flight from Baltimore to Salt Lake City prompted the pilot to make an unplanned stop to drop her off with authorities in Minneapolis. [More]
McDonald’s Customer Gets Wrong Burger Twice, Fires Gun Into Window
By 2.10.14
Yes, it can be deeply disappointing when a fast-food joint doesn’t prepare your burger exactly how you ordered it. There are many ways to deal with that situation: ask for a manager, complain to corporate, demand that they re-make your meal immediately…or fire a pistol into the window of the restaurant. You could do that, too. [More]
Thieves Try To Sell Woman’s Stuff Back To Her While She’s Waiting For The Cops To Arrive
By 2.7.14
There must be some great cosmic force that serves entirely to reunite people with their stolen belongings by way of an unwitting accomplice — the thief or thieves that did the stealing in the first place. One woman had the good fortune to run into her recently purloined belongings while waiting for the police to show up. [More]
Pet Store Owner Accused Of Torching Shop With 27 Puppies Inside (Spoiler Alert: They Survived!)
By 2.7.14
If my heart had eyes it would be sobbing loudly over what could have been a fiery fate for 27 puppies in Las Vegas. A pet store owner accused of torching her shop while the puppies were inside has been jailed for arson — and yes, firefighters were able to rescue the puppies. Sigh, there go my heart eyes again. [More]
Why Would Anyone Steal $342 In Cat Food? To Sell To A Friend With 300 Cats, Obviously
By 2.7.14
There are always going to be bad consumers out there doing bad things, like stealing from Walmart. Awful. But not all bad consumers have reasons for thieving that can make us start laughing uncontrollably, then in starts and fits every time we think about it again. Presenting: The guy who stole $342 worth in cat food so he could sell it to his friend who has 300 cats. [More]
Man Posing As Walmart Worker Rewarded With A Swift Hit In The Junk After Flashing Customer
By 2.4.14
Listen, if you’re going to go around pretending you work for Walmart when really you’re just set on flashing your naughty bits at unsuspecting customers, you better believe you’ve got some pain heading your way. Because no one wants to see that, sir. [More]
It’s Not A High-Speed Police Chase Until Deep Fryers Come Flying Out Of The Escape Vehicle
By 1.31.14
You might’ve think you’ve heard about an intense, high-speed police chase, but you’d be wrong. Or at least you thought you knew what intense was, before reading that one particular police showdown had deep fryers flying out the back of a suspect’s truck. Deep fryers! Flying! [More]
When The “Toy” In A Happy Meal Is Actually Heroin… Well, You See Where This Is Going
By 1.30.14
It seems it must be somewhat irresistible to use fast food as a fast way to deliver drugs to customers. In yet another tale of heroin at McDonald’s, a worker in Pennsylvania was arrested and accused of selling heroin in Happy Meals. Customers simply had to say, “I’d like to order a toy.” [More]
Pizza Hut Manager Accused Of Serving Spitty Pizza To Cop Who Arrested Her For Drunk Driving
By 1.30.14
Some memories are best forgotten: A Pizza Hut manager, who was arrested for drunk-driving in 2013 after knowingly letting an intoxicated person drive her car, happened to recognize a customer at her restaurant — the officer who’d busted her — and allegedly retaliated with an extra topping of saliva on his order. [More]
Asking Police If You Can Do Heroin After You’re Arrested For Shoplifting Will Prove Troublesome
By 1.29.14
It’s one thing to get in hot water for shoplifting but you might as well just jump into a lake of boiling water if you follow that by asking police if you can do a little heroin while under arrest. Cops in Minnesota stopped a woman suspected of shoplifting at Walmart and subsequently faced an odd request for someone in handcuffs: Mind if I do some drugs? [More]
Officials Bust Two Men Accused Of Peddling Fake Premium Super Bowl Tickets
By 1.29.14
Whenever there’s a big event in town, people are going to start looking for any kind of deal they can score to get in. And when those people go searching, inevitably scammers find them and try to sell unsuspecting fans fake tickets. This year’s Super Bowl is no different, as officials say two men have been accused of shilling bogus tickets to the big game and fake passes for cushy parties in New York. [More]
Woman Busted For Fake $100 Bills Because “Moe Money” Isn’t In Charge Of Signing Currency
By 1.23.14
While for most consumers an attempt to pay with fake money probably amounts to joking “Ha ha, you don’t accept old Blockbuster cards as payment, do you? (wink!)” there are others out there who’ll go to great lengths to pull a fast one on retailers with counterfeit bills. That being said, having Moe Money’s signature on your $100 bills isn’t going to convince anyone that thing is anything but a fakety fake fake. [More]
Greyhound Driver Brings Bus To A Stop While Defending Himself Against Passenger Attack
By 1.23.14
It can’t be easy to be the driver of a bus going long distances. Those things are huge, after all, and there you are speeding down the interstate with a bus full of passengers who just want to be anywhere other than on a bus, sitting near the bathroom, trying to work out a persistent leg cramp. And when one of those passengers attacks you, well, driving gets even trickier. [More]
Bad Consumer Hurls Fry At McDonald’s Cashier, Lacerates Other Customer’s Cornea
By 1.22.14
Anything can be used as a weapon if deployed in just the right way. That’s what a customer at a McDonald’s in Bordeaux, France learned when she was hit in the eye with a fry while waiting in line at a restaurant. A doctor diagnosed her with a lacerated cornea and told her to take ten days off work. [More]
Robber Calls Ahead So Gamestop Workers Can Set Aside The Xbox One He’d Like To Steal
By 1.22.14
Let’s get this straight: In no way is robbing a store ever something we would praise. But it does take a certain amount of chutzpah to actually call the location you’re intending to rob and ask employees to set aside the items you’d like to steal later. So in the box labeled “critical thinking skills,” one bad consumer in Nashville would at least get a check mark for thinking something like this might work. Because it did. [More]
If Walmart Won’t Accept Returns Without A Receipt, Pointing A BB Gun Is Not The Answer
By 1.21.14
On the one hand, it might’ve been a relief to a Walmart worker in Baltimore to find out that the weapon pointed at her recently at his workplace wasn’t in fact, a machine gun. But on the other hand, it’s still not a pleasing prospect to face an angry customer with a CO2-powered BB gun. [More]
