Jeremy Clarkson, a British TV star, wrote an editorial describing privacy activism as “palaver,” and just to prove how safe we all are, included his bank account number. Soon afterwards someone snagged £500 from the Top Gear host’s account. “I was wrong and I have been punished for my mistake,” the presenter later told reporters. Needless to say, you should never share your bank account information with anyone who doesn’t need it, for instance, millions of faceless readers.
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TV Star Includes Bank Account In Editorial Saying Identity Theft Is No Big Deal, Gets Defrauded
By 1.8.08
Liquor Store Refuses To Sell Booze To Man Who May Be 12 or 74, Who Can Say?
By 9.27.07
A shop in England refused to sell two bottles of wine to a white-haired, balding grandfather—you know, the kind with wrinkles on his face—because he balked when the cashier asked him to prove he was over 21. The man, being ornery in that way that old folks just naturally embrace, refused: “I felt like saying ‘What do I look like? Are you a fool?'”
United Airlines: Sorry We Lost Your Cat in the Cargo Hold For 3 Weeks
By 1.18.07
- A 12-year-old orange tabby cat named “Pumpkin” is said to be doing well, after going three weeks without food or water in the cargo hold of a passenger jet that flew from England to Germany.
Finder Of Apple Porn On His Daughter’s Laptop Interviewed
By 12.2.06
UPDATE: Imran works as a system administrator at Orange, the mobile arm of France Telecom.
Women Like Skinny Models?
By 9.25.06
Here’s a suspect little piece of reporting from The Sun claiming that women prefer skinny models:
Consumers Protest Exorbitant Text Message Prices
By 3.17.06
Here in America, we’re in the digital stone age, at least as far as how widespread the adoption of some cool new technologies are. There’s not universal broadband (which the US Government paid the telcos to implement; instead they built up more DSL because there’s more money to be made on it), wi-fi coverage is intermittent and text message use is a lot less pervasive than in most European countries. In Italy they have tons of teenagers showing up in hospitals with repetive stress injuries directly resulting from punching out reams of text messages.
