Set your cringe muscles on “active” and stick in those earbuds, because we’re about to steer you into a very NSFW 8-minute video journey into the land of Consumers Behaving Badly. Just to remind you all once again, that there’s a whole lot of language in here that is not meant for polite company — including racial slurs toward the very end — so view with caution. [More]
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Man Rents Computer From Rent-A-Center, Immediately Pawns It
By 6.7.13
When you need cash quickly, selling or pawning something that you own can be a good option. Generally, though, you want to make sure that it’s something you actually own, and not something that you just got from Rent-A-Center. [More]
Shirtless Customer Walks Into Dunkin’ Donuts, Rips Shirt Off Employee’s Back
By 6.4.13
Police in Berks County, PA, are on the lookout for a Dunkin’ Donuts customer who strode into the store without a shirt on and then helped himself to a shirt that was being worn by a DD employee at the time. [More]
It’s Not A Test Drive If You Don’t Ever Bring The Car Back
By 6.3.13
You’re cruising along, enjoying the sights from the driver’s seat of your new-top-you set of wheels, and everything is just perfect. Except that it’s not exactly your set of wheels if you just drive a vehicle off the dealership lot for a test drive and don’t bring it back. That’s exactly the scenario that got one 67-year-old man in Florida arrested. [More]
Man Accused Of Filming Tween Girls In Gap Changing Room With His iPhone
By 5.31.13
According to police, a 24-year-old Minnesota man went on a voyeuristic rampage at a local mall in April, slipping his iPhone under the door of a Gap changing room, up a shopper’s skirt, and into a ladies’ room stall. Surveillance camera footage and information from a Gap worker who happened to have attended high school with the suspect led to his arrest. [More]
Man Sentenced To 50 Years In Prison For Stealing Rack Of Ribs
By 5.30.13
Listen, we’re not about kicking people when they’re down, even if they are being horrible, terrible, no good, very bad consumers. But we’ve gotta say, we really hope the rack of ribs a man in Waco, Texas stole were of the very juiciest, delectable kind, because he’s just been sentenced to 50 years in jail for that crime. [More]
Airports Say More Travelers Are Faking Need For Wheelchairs Just To Get Through Lines Faster
By 5.30.13
The law requires that airlines provide free wheelchair assistance to anyone who requests it; no documentation or evidence of injury required. And a growing number of unscrupulous travelers are taking advantage of this system, faking injuries and disabilities to get preferential treatment at security checkpoints and at the gate. [More]
El Pollo Loco Customer Drops $2,200 In Parking Lot; Second Man Pockets Cash, Eats While Watching Frantic Search
By 5.30.13 — Updated: 6.7.13
Dry Ice Blast In Trash Can Freaks Everyone Out At Disneyland’s Toontown
By 5.29.13
Visitors to the happiest place on earth had a bit of a scare yesterday afternoon when a dry-ice device exploded in a trashcan in Disneyland’s Toontown. It’s one of the most popular areas of the amusement park, but cops had to hustle everyone out and close the area at around 5:30 because no one wants to be, or should be around when things are bursting in trash cans. [More]
Trying To Exit The Plane In Mid-Air Earns Man Improvised Shoelace Shackles
By 5.28.13
There’s a certain sort of unspoken pact among airplane passengers when it comes to obeying the rules. For example, I’m not going to tattle on you for keeping your iPad on during takeoff (although I’ve got a wicked side-eye) but if you try to use the emergency exit in mid-flight, people are gonna stop you. Or at least, they should. [More]
Guy Using The Last Name “Disney” Caught Giving Stolen Disneyland Tickets To Charity
By 5.23.13 — Updated: 5.24.13
Listen, if you want to go around and tell people, “Yeah, I’m related to Walt Disney,” even if it isn’t true, that’s up to you. But one man allegedly impersonating a Disney heir took that delusion to another level when he, again, allegedly, passed off stolen Disneyland tickets as the real deal. [More]
Theft Of A $37 Walmart Printer Turns Into High-Speed Chase With Meth Flying Everywhere
By 5.22.13
We live in a world where the desire for a $37 printer can lead to a scene straight out of an action movie, complete with a high-speed police chase and drugs flying out the car windows. Police say a couple was spotted lifting a printer from a Walmart in Louisiana and tried to make a run for it. And it was all downhill (super fast) from there. [More]
Man Who Stole $624,000 From Walmart Is Ruining It For The Rest Of Us
By 5.21.13
Ever wonder why stores are so strict about receipt-checking and returns? It’s not simply because they hate consumers — they might, but it’s not the sole reason — it’s because there are people out there like the South Carolina man accused of using forged receipts and counterfeit goods to steal at least $624,000 from Walmart over the last few years. [More]
Papa John’s Delivery Guy In Trouble Because Cocaine Is Not A Legal Pizza Topping
By 5.17.13
Sometimes when you order a pizza there are add-ons and specials, like a large pizza with two toppings and a two-liter of Coca-Cola. But one delivery man was allegedly offering another add-on — coke and a pizza. And by coke, we mean cocaine, and by pizza, we mean sometimes people didn’t even order a pizza, and he just allegedly used the insulated bags to tote his haul anyway. [More]
Man Uses $530K Of Insurance Money Meant To Pay For Wife’s Dialysis To Buy Trucks, Skid Loader
By 5.16.13
When a loved one’s health is hanging in the balance, one might think that a husband would do anything in his power to help his wife. One might think that, but in the case of a man who was sentenced to 18 months in prison for stealing more than $530,000 in health insurance payments, he used that money on things like cars and a skid loader instead of paying for his wife’s kidney dialysis. [More]
Man Arrested For Overnight Grocery Store Feast Of Whipped Cream, Steak, Shrimp, And Beer
By 5.15.13
According to police, a Kentucky man held the best overnight grocery store campout ever in the wee hours of Monday morning. Employees knew that something was up when they found 57 cans of Reddi-Whip brand whipped cream in the store’s trash. The whipped cream cans use nitrous oxide as a propellant, see. Oh, but the festivities didn’t stop there. [More]
Woman Booted From Flight Because No One Asked For Her Best Whitney Houston Impression
By 5.13.13
Just because the song “I Will Always Love” you (as written by Dolly Parton and sung by the late Whitney Houston) implies an unflagging dedication, belting it out on an airplane didn’t bring one passenger any love from an American Airlines flight crew. She was ejected from the plane for disrupting the flight, in part because she was warbling her karaoke-night best. [More]
Punching A Sandwich Maker Is Not An Acceptable Response To Too Many Pickles
By 5.13.13
The beauty of language is that you can use words to express yourself, instead of say, punching someone in the face when your sandwich is not up your standards. Police say a Massachusetts woman ditched her words and instead used her fists on a Nathan’s Famous Hot Dogs worker because there were allegedly too many pickles on her sandwich. [More]
