UPDATE: This could be a case of self-sticking, reports indicate. Investigators now suspect that the woman who was stuck to the toilet seat did it to herself. Sigh, I repeat, sigh. [More]
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Home Depot Shopper Won’t Sit On Store Toilet Seats Without Checking For Glue From Now On
By 12.10.13
Coffee Shop Workers Start A Food Drive For Man Who Stole From Their Tip Jar
By 12.6.13
A pretty common reaction to someone stealing your tips that you’ve worked hard to earn might be, “Grr, that person stinks and I do not like him. Call the authorities!” But instead, workers at a coffee shop near Cleveland started a food drive after a man was caught on camera pilfering from their tip jar. [More]
Waitress Who Claims She Got Anti-Gay Receipt May Not Have Donated Money As Promised
By 12.5.13
The saga continues for the New Jersey waitress who became Internet-famous when she claimed she’d been stiffed on a tip by diners who voiced disapproval of her sexual orientation on their receipt, an allegation that has subsequently been discredited. Now comes news that the waitress, an ex-Marine, may not have made good on her promise to donate the money she received from supporters to the Wounded Warrior Project. [More]
Topless Woman Who Chased Peeping Tom Through Kohl’s Is A Hero, A Gosh Darn Hero
By 12.5.13
When you see something, you should say something. But one woman took that to great, heroic lengths when she noticed a man with his phone under her dressing room door, filming her while she was trying on bras at Kohl’s. She started screaming and chased him through the store — all while topless. [More]
4 Things To Do Instead Of Pulling A Gun When You Can’t Get The Parking Spot You Want
By 12.4.13
There are things in this world worth fighting over. And while for many a prime parking spot a the grocery store might be one such reason, that doesn’t mean you should pull a shotgun on your fellow shopper for a below par parking job. We’ve got some other ideas on how to handle such a situation. [More]
Mugger Finds Victim On Facebook 35 Years After Stealing His Bus Pass, Apologizes
By 12.2.13
The world can feel so tiny sometimes, especially now that social media’s tentacles are thoroughly suctioned on to every aspect of life. That shrinking universe is what led a former mugger to his victim of 35 years ago, when he stole a guy’s bus pass as part of a gang initiation. Facebook reunited them recently in an altogether heartwarming way. [More]
Restaurant Manager Fired For Making Food While Barefoot In Plain View Of Customers
By 12.2.13
Everywhere you turn it seems there’s a cell phone waiting to capture your every move, whether it’s your roommate chronicling the epic blob of food on your face or a savvy customer catching a restaurant worker in the act of doing something that’s just plain gross. To wit: A cellphone pic of a taco restaurant manager in Iowa preparing food while barefoot is causing quite the stir. [More]
Cops Shoot Alleged Thanksgiving Night Shoplifter Dragging Officer With Car
By 11.29.13
Some Black Friday shoppers brawl over discounted junk, and some people aren’t interested in paying those discounted prices at all. Not because they’re staying home: don’t be ridiculous. Brown Thursday turned dangerous in Illinois when a police officer shot an accused shoplifter. For shoplifting? No, for dragging a fellow officer whose arm was stuck in his car door. [More]
Mall Santa Accused Of Groping Elf Co-Worker Due In Court Christmas Eve
By 11.26.13
In a story that seems to be ripped from the North Pole’s headlines, a mall Santa Claus has been ordered to stay away from his place of seasonal employment after allegations that he groped a coworker over the weekend. According to some reports, it appears that the 18-year-old woman he’s accused of harassing was playing an elf. [More]
Waitress Says She Was Fired For Not Covering Customers’ $96 Bill After Dine-And-Dash
By 11.25.13
As we’ve looked into in the past, while there are many employers who might hold servers accountable for an unpaid bill (this side-eye glance is for you, dine-and-dashers) those that do are are often in violation of the Department of Labor’s rules regarding wage deductions. But that didn’t stop one Brooklyn waitress from getting the boot, she says, after she refused to fork over her the cash to cover customers who dined and dashed on a $96 meal. [More]
Robbing A Bank Is Much Trickier If You Show Up After Business Hours Are Over
By 11.22.13
Dark ski mask? Check. Empty bags decorated with dollar signs Check. Willingness to commit a crime for your own selfish purposes? Check. Any would-be bank robber probably knows the basics of trying to perform such a dastardly deed, but there’s another item that should be taken care of before attempting a bank robbery: Make sure the place is actually open when you’re planning to pull it off. [More]
‘Tis The Season To Use A Frozen Turkey As A Weapon During Grocery Store Brawl
By 11.20.13
We understand that the holiday season can get anyone’s duff up — it’s jungle out there, what with a shortage of Butterball frozen turkeys and all. So sure, maybe tempers were running high at a grocery store meat counter in Madison, Wis., but that’s no reason to start a food fight and use victuals as weapons. [More]
Police: Parents Took Their 7 Kids Along For Toys ‘R’ Us Shoplifting Spree
By 11.18.13
It’s bad enough to go around taking things off store shelves and then not paying for them, but bringing along all seven of your children to help you shoplift is a whole new level of bad consumering. Yes, consumering. [More]
Waitress Says Customer Denied Her A Tip Because She Disagreed With Her Lifestyle
By 11.15.13
We don’t like how it’s apparently becoming a trend for customers to choose to not only stiff their servers on tips, but to then explain that it’s because of how they “live their lifestyle” which translates to, “because you’re gay and I disagree with that, you don’t get a tip.” A waitress in New Jersey says that’s what just happened to her on a $93.55 bill. [More]
Police Set Up A Sting To Catch Guy Impersonating A Cop To Get Discounted Donuts
By 11.13.13
It might seem like a giggle and a half to pretend you’re a police offer to get a discount on donuts, but rest assured, cops take it very seriously. Not donuts, impersonating the police. Well okay, also probably donuts but they’re delicious so who can blame’em? [More]
Someone Cutting You In The Chick-Fil-A Drive-Thru Line Is No Reason To Shoot At Their Car
By 11.7.13
When did the humble fast food drive-thru morph from a quick way to pick up some grub to the hot spot for bad consumer activity? In the latest case of inappropriate drive-thru behavior, police in Florida say a customer was so mad at the driver of another car that cut in front of him that he opened fire on the vehicle. [More]
Police Arrest Woman Who Called 9-1-1 Six Times To Complain About Bar Full Of Drunk People
By 11.6.13
There is a certain expectation when you enter a certain kind of establishment that serves alcohol: People will be drinking alochol. Shocking, we know. Especially for one woman who allegedly called 9-1-1 six times to complain about people consuming booze at a bar and demanding that cops come and arrest everyone inside the joint. For drinking. [More]
Faking Seizures To Get Out Of Paying The Tab Makes Man Unpopular At Local Restaurants
By 10.30.13
First of all: I am not a medical professional and cannot say whether or not a Baltimore man is actually faking seizures. But local restaurants are irked at the fellow, saying he’s been pretending to have seizures and going limp so he doesn’t have to pay for his meals.
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