Usually the problem is your bags get lost between here and there, but in the case of 30 suitcases filled with cocaine, the bags made it just fine — it was the fact that they weren’t assigned to any passengers on an Air France flight that tipped authorities off. There’s just something fishy about ownerless bags, you see. [More]
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Forget To Join Your 30 Cocaine-Filled Suitcases On A Flight To Paris? Police Would Like A Word
By 9.23.13
Waitress Has A Few Questions For Customer Who Left Her A Bogus $200,000 Tip
By 9.16.13
It’s a beautiful day when someone gives you a lump of money — the sun is suddenly shining brightly and little birds come swooping out of the heavens to trill a melodious tune in your ears! But while one waitress in St. Louis thought she had received her happy financial ending in the form of a $200,000 tip, the reality is she was only left with questions. Number one on that list: Why would you give someone a tip that amounts to nothing? [More]
Red Lobster Server Briefly Suspended After Posting Photo Of Receipt With Racial Slur
By 9.13.13
Upon hearing the news that Red Lobster suspended the server who posted a photo of a receipt with a racial slur written on it, your first reaction might be “Whoa, hold up — that is supremely unfair and I am very angry and shaking my fist at Red Lobster!” But while it’s true that she was temporarily suspended, she’s now back at work with Red Lobster’s blessing. [More]
Cops: Woman Flushed Investors’ Hopes Down The Drain In $100K Toilet Fan Scam
By 9.12.13
A good rule to live by: If someone asks you for money to fund a scheme involving toilets, your cash will probably just be flushed down the drain (unless it’s some kind of magical talking toilet that gives out great advice and also cleans your entire house while singing a delightful ditty*). [More]
McDonald’s Manager Accused Of Robbing His Own Restaurant At Gunpoint
By 9.12.13
There are rough days at work, and then there are the rough days at work where your manager climbs through the drive-thru window and orders everyone into the freezer while he robs the joint. Law enforcement in California’s Bay Area say a McDonald’s manager used a gun to rob his own restaurant and another in the area. [More]
Police: Mom Used Her Kids As Tiny Minions In $100,000 Jewelry Heist
By 9.11.13
With tiny hands and heads that don’t come up much higher than a store’s counter, sure, kids are kind of the perfect size for making mischief at a jewelry store. But cops in St. Louis say a 6- and an 8-year-old weren’t playing “Swipe the Necklace” on their own — but that their very own mother set her children on the path to lawbreaking in a $100,000 jewelry heist. [More]
Blogger Admits He Maybe Overreacted By Calling 9-1-1 To Report Cell Phone Use In Theater
By 9.10.13
Your head is on fire. A spaceship spewing bug-eyed aliens just landed in the backyard, and they look mean. Someone in the movie theater is using a cell phone, but the staff doesn’t seem to care. The neighbors have turned into ravenous zombies intent on noshing on your brains. Three of the aforementioned scenarios are all emergency situations and thus warrant calling 9-1-1 for help, while one is not. Let’s take a guess which is an inappropriate reason to get emergency responders involved. [More]
Snacking On The Receipt Of A Forged Credit Card Is One Way To Get Your Fiber (And Also Arrested)
By 9.10.13
Remember, kids: Mastication won’t cover your tracks if you’ve forged a credit card. Because now that you just spent a few glorious moments chewing up receipt paper, you’re still going to need to prove you purchased those items lawfully. Here’s where one Florida man charged with theft apparently didn’t think things through. [More]
Man Accused Of Changing Address So Wrecking Crew Would Demolish Neighbor’s House Instead
By 9.9.13
Sometimes it’s not the wrecking crew’s fault for destroying the wrong house: Authorities are accusing a Michigan man of intentionally switching his address with that of his next-door neighbor so he could save his house from demolition. Guess that means he won’t be too popular at the next block party. [More]
Kmart Frowns Upon Customers Using A Closed Store As A Personal Huffing Haven For The Night
By 9.4.13
Sometimes you don’t want to go home, and perhaps sometimes you just don’t have enough money to splash out on a hotel or motel room. But that doesn’t mean Kmart will take kindly to customers snuggling up inside a closed store like a ne’er-do-well stowaway intent on huffing numerous canisters of air duster. [More]
Home Depot Frowns Upon Customers Having Sex In Display Sheds Despite “You Can Do It” Line
By 8.29.13
Home improvement aficionados might recall Home Depot’s old tag line, “You can do it. We can help.” That marketing message appears to have worked wonders for one couple, who allegedly took help in the form of a shed at Home Depot to well, do it. And by it we mean, you know (nudge nudge, wink wink), sexual relations. [More]
Someone Please Send Man That Check He’s Expecting So He Stops Chasing Mail Carriers
By 8.23.13
The difference between a dog running after the mail carrier and a human hounding the same worker is that we, as a species, have the power of higher reasoning. A dog isn’t going after a mail carrier because he or she didn’t bring an expected piece of mail as dogs operate on instinct and also because dogs don’t usually get mail. The point is: It’s not your mail carrier’s fault if that check hasn’t arrived yet, so use the human power of logic and chill out. [More]
Caramel In Your Coffee Instead Of Vanilla Is Not A Reason To Assault A Dunkin’ Donuts Worker
By 8.23.13
Because we here at Consumerist want the world to be a place full of smooth sailing and breezy smiles all around, here is some actionable advice: If something is wrong with your order at Dunkin’ Donuts, or any other food establishment, the first thing to do is say, “Pardon me, but there appears to be a mistake. This isn’t what I ordered, could you please redo it?” Do not, under any circumstances, get violent. [More]
Man Throws Himself A Little Pants-Off Dance-Off Party On German Chancellor’s Jet
By 8.22.13
Let’s make this clear: In no way are we saying it’s okay to break into an empty government jet. But at least one man accused of boarding the plane, often used by Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel, sounds like he had a pretty darn fantastic party all by himself, one he (and anyone who reads about it) isn’t likely to forget anytime soon. [More]
You’ll Need A Very Large Freezer Or Fast Getaway Car If You Plan On Stealing $1K In Ice Cream
By 8.21.13
Not everyone can be George Clooney and Brad Pitt in Ocean’s 11-37. But just because you’re not wearing a slick suit, with just the right amount of gray dappling your furrowed, handsome brow doesn’t mean you can’t plan at least a little bit ahead. Like maybe some kind of cooling device to keep all that pilfered ice cream from melting? But hey, people do bad things and it’s a lot easier if they get caught hilariously than not caught at all.
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Driving Around & Stealing From Ronald McDonald Charity Boxes Is Just Plain Mean
By 8.21.13
A donation box bandit is allegedly ripping off Ronald McDonald House collection boxes from the drive-thru windows of at two Tampa McDonald’s, and cops aren’t pleased about it. They’re calling the suspect brazen, cold, cocky and cowardly. Because who else would waltz in front of surveillance cameras without covering his face to steal from charity? [More]
Store Clerk Injured Trying To Prevent David Hasselhoff Sign Heist
By 8.21.13
Whoever you are out there that’s responsible for harming an innocent store clerk in your dastardly quest to steal two signs featuring David Hasselhoff, we hope you feel the weight of your deep, deep shame. Cardboard representations of the Knight Rider and Baywatch star and late-night cheeseburger eater are not worth hurting anyone over. [More]
Coffee Shop Owner: Limiting Laptop Squatters Has Boosted My Sales
By 8.19.13
Ever since the advent of the whole coffee-shop-as-satellite-office thing, some have operated under the notion that java joints should do what they can to cater to and keep customers sitting in seats for hours on end while they toil on their laptops. But one store owner says his business has actually seen an increase in sales after he decided to put limits on the laptop-lugging squatters. [More]
