• Can bedbugs survive an airplane flight if they hitch a ride in your (checked) luggage? [Link]
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Let’s Hear Some Juicy HMO and Insurance Stories
By 8.9.06
And that’s about all we have to say. This post could end right here. But we want to expand our editorial horizons and that means whipping you into giving up the ghost we parasitically digest and regurgitate in the form of helpful and entertaining information.
Wikicars Helps You Know A Salesman’s Bullshit When You Hear It
By 8.4.06
Spotted over at our darling sister site Lifehacker, the most excellent automobile resource Wikicars.
Carmel Partners Sticks Flood Bill to Tenant
By 7.20.06
“Though I have doubts about whether or not this will appear as anything of importance to anyone but myself, I still feel inclined to at least attempt to get this information out there. “
The News; Uniquely Toxic and Loving It
By 7.19.06
• Apparently, Florida is at a bit of a risk for grapefruit bruising. [CT] “State Farm to hike Florida rates 53%”
USAA Continues to Rule
By 5.31.06
In all the the various shenanigans and nightmare-drenched, neo-Kafka retellings of financial institution experiences, one company swoops to the top among Consumerist readers.
The News is Tasty Like a Taser
By 5.25.06
• School doesn’t like student complaining on Xanga that the school is a bully, proves him wrong with a 10 day suspension. [Sun Times]
Killer Grannies Played Insurance Game To The Death
By 5.23.06
The schlock thickens in the case of a pair of twisted sisters-in-crime who befriended homeless men, took out insurance policies on them naming themselves as beneficiaries, and then ran the men over with cars for the insurance money.
New Homeless Sign: Will Die for Food
By 5.19.06
A Double Indemnity for the skid row set, a pair of golden grannies have been arrested in a homeless life insurance scam nothing short of diabolical. You won’t wash the taste of this one out your mouth with a bottle of discount lighter fluid anytime soon.
Enterprise’s Cheat Sheet For Snookering You Into Car Insurance
By 5.4.06
What’s Enterprise hiding under that big brown bag their cars are wrapped in? According to this report, it could be their intent to humiliate you into buying car insurance.
Aetna Loses Laptop With 38,000 User’s Personal Info
By 4.27.06
month not to leave our laptops in the car. Also, we have to sign the “Code of Conduct” every year, part of which says ‘I promise not to leave my company laptop in the car.’ “
Collection Agencies Add Insult to Snowboard Injury
By 4.27.06
Grant had the misfortune to get into a snowboarding accident. Then he had the further misfortune of living in America where it’s nigh impossible to get a bruise removed from your credit report.
All-State Ad Irks
By 4.19.06
This is from a full-page ad in Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal, pointed to us by the inimitable Copyranter. The headline above it reads, “If San Francisco had the same size quake as in 1906, it could cost $400 billion to rebuild.“
