Lubbock County farmer, Kelly Kelsey contacted the Lubbock County Sheriff’s office, when he discovered this pile of boxes on his land Tuesday evening while he was working in the field.
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Texas Sues Sprint For Deceptive Billing Practices
By 2.8.07
The Texas Attorney General today filed suit against Sprint over their false and misleading billing practices.
True Tales From The Inside: "I Used To Do Collections For USAA"
By 1.29.07
Yesterday’s post “USAA Lets You Remotely Deposit Checks” provoked a reader comment from a former USAA collections agent so interesting that we gave it its own post.
Boy, 9, Sneaks On A Plane to Texas
By 1.18.07
- Police in Lakewood, Washington, say the boy (Semaj Booker) has a history of stealing cars and running away from home. He was apparently trying to get to Dallas, where his grandfather lives, and where the boy himself used to live. But he came up short, only getting as far as San Antonio after hopping two separate flights.
Lost Luggage Found In Dumpster
By 12.27.06
The dumpster near the George Bush Intercontinental Airport contained dozens upon dozens of suitcases. Many were rifled through and missing valuables, including presents, camcorders and computers.
McDonald’s Re-Gifts A Burger
By 12.27.06
Yes, they handed Joel some cheese in a box. Joel, being a sane person, refused cheese in a box. “I handed her the box of cheese, and the one bite missing burger, and asked if you could please remake it…Another minute passes, the lady comes back and hands me a very very hot box with a Home style burger in it, I hand it to the girlfriend and …She opened the box and guess what! It’s her exact same burger! With the bite missing. What they did was take the spare piece of cheese, slap it on the burger, and nuke it for about a minute.”
Sabotage! AT&T Claims Time-Warner is Cutting Their Cables
By 12.19.06
“AT&T filed a lawsuit Dec. 8 in a district court in Bexar County, Texas, against Time Warner Cable’s San Antonio division, alleging that the cable operator engaged in “a methodical invasion of facilities owned, operated and controlled by AT&T Texas” while installing voice service at apartments and other multiple-dwelling units in and around the city. In its lawsuit against Time Warner Cable in San Antonio, AT&T alleges that: “Cable technicians trespassed on AT&T facilities and cut or disconnected wires in network interface devices.”
Cellphone Dealers Won’t Sell Nice Phones To Less Profitable Customers
By 12.15.06
Cellphone dealers will sometimes hold new and limited quantity cellphones from existing customers, preferring to sell them to more profitable new customers or contract upgrades, members of HowardForums allege.
New Home Buyer Beware
By 12.14.06
What to look out for when buying a new home: predatory lenders, kickbacks to title insurance companies and super-fun undisclosed terms.
Anti-Gay Landscaper Comes Out Of The Proverbial Closet
By 11.9.06
The story of a Houston landscaping company that refused to work for a local gay couple finally percolated to the AP newswire. There, the AP reporters achieved the heretofore impossible, an actual quote from the Farbers, owners of the Garden Guy company.
Garden Guy Homophobia Applauded By Area Newspaper
By 10.20.06
The rumble in the jungle over a landscaper refusing to do work for homosexuals has made its way from internet dustup to ithe Houston Chronicle. Columnist Rick Casey does an excellent job of summarizing the event’s details.
Maybe Worse Than WaMu Snookery
By 10.4.06
After showing “WaMu Snookers With Scary Letter” to consumer expert Edgar Dworsky, he told us something potentially more frightening than just the letter being a well-disguised solicitation.
WaMu Snookers With Scary Letter
By 10.4.06
For a direct marketer, nothing is infra dig as long as it gets a sale.
We Reprimand a WalMart Manager
By 8.18.06
Somehow we got on the fast track as the go-to guys for Southern Walmart complaints. The latest comes courtesy of Tiffany-Anne Everett who thinks we somehow have the power to fire a Walmart manager.
