Posted in Astonishing, Caught, Impressive, Lost & Found, Money, Oddly, Shocking, Wow, You've GOT to be Kidding on Monday, 21 July, 2008 | No Comments »
$20,000 Diamond Earrings Found In NYC Landfill
NEW YORK (AP) ― Diamonds in the rough? Try a $20,000 pair of the glinting gems in a reeking truckload of trash.
A Staten Island jeweler got her 3-carat diamond earrings back after she, her husband and city sanitation employees sorted through a heap of garbage.
“It’s a miracle [...]
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Posted in Astonishing, Caught, Crime, International, Lost & Found, Money, Morons, Oddly, Weird, Wow, You've GOT to be Kidding on Monday, 21 July, 2008 | No Comments »
A package of baby diapers yielded an unlikely load in Mexico on Friday, according to the defense ministry: nearly half a million dollars in cash.Soldiers conducting a routine check “found in a tractor-trailer a packet of diapers containing 490,300 dollars,” the ministry said in a statement.
It said that the cash was likely a stash of [...]
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Guests at an Israeli wedding hall can now insert a credit card into a machine at its entrance, tap in a sum and leave a gift for the bride and groom.
“It’s new in Israel and the world,” Aya Alon Kaufman of the Gan Oranim hall in Tel Aviv said on Israel’s Channel [...]
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Posted in Alert, Astonishing, Banking & Finance, Business, Government, Lost & Found, Money, Terrible, To Ponder, Wealth, Wow, You've GOT to be Kidding on Friday, 11 July, 2008 | 1 Comment »
NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street sank further into a bear market Friday as investors dumped stocks in response to troubles at mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and oil’s continuing climb into record territory. The Dow Jones industrials fell more than 200 points and slid below the 11,000 mark for the first time [...]
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Posted in Caught, Crime, Investigation, Law Enforcement, Lost & Found, Money, Morons, Scams & Scandals, Terrible, Wow on Wednesday, 2 July, 2008 | No Comments »
NEW YORK — A fugitive hedge-fund swindler who had been on the lam for nearly a month since a faked suicide on a Hudson River bridge surrendered Wednesday in Massachusetts, the U.S. attorney’s office said.
Samuel Israel turned himself into Southwick, Mass., police between 9:15 and 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, said Suzanne Anderson, police Chief Mark Krynicki’s [...]
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SEATTLE — Starbucks Corp. said Tuesday it will close 600 company-operated stores in the next year, up dramatically from its previous plan for 100 closures, a sign the coffee shop operator is still feeling the pain from the faltering U.S. economy.
Starbucks said in a statement that 70 percent of the stores to be closed were [...]
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - An unused life jacket from the doomed Titanic ship sold for $68,500 in New York on Wednesday, Christie’s auction house said.
The cork-filled life preserver — still largely intact, but stained and torn in parts — was thought to have been found by farmer John James Dunbar on the Halifax shoreline after [...]
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Posted in Astonishing, Caught, Crime, Decision, Dictators, Horrific, Hypocrisy, Investigation, Law Enforcement, Money, Morons, Ranting, Shocking, Terrible, Wellness, Wow, You've GOT to be Kidding on Friday, 27 June, 2008 | 4 Comments »
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. — A millionaire who inflicted years of abuse on two Indonesian housekeepers held as virtual slaves in her Long Island mansion was sentenced Thursday to 11 years in prison.
Varsha Sabhnani, 46, was convicted with her husband in December on a 12-count federal indictment that included forced labor, conspiracy, involuntary servitude and harboring [...]
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Posted in Alert, Banking & Finance, Business, Caught, Communication, Decision, Government, Impressive, International, Money, Wow on Tuesday, 24 June, 2008 | No Comments »
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - European Union nations have approved new sanctions against Iran, including an assets freeze of the country’s biggest bank.
EU officials say Iran’s Bank Melli has been blacklisted by the decision, which was formally adopted without debate at EU talks in Luxembourg on Monday.
Western officials have accused Bank Melli of providing services to [...]
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SANFORD, Fla. — A gang of female bandits dressed in nursing costumes is stalking and targeting women and elderly shoppers at Central Florida businesses.
Investigators said the band of women has been active in several communities, with the latest attack happening at a Sanford Wal-Mart located on 17-92.
In the most recent case, a 74-year-old woman [...]
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Posted in Astonishing, Beauty & Fashion, Business, Clothing, Decision, Frivolous, Funny, Legal, Money, Morons, Oddly, To Ponder, Weird, Wellness, You've GOT to be Kidding on Wednesday, 18 June, 2008 | No Comments »
LOS ANGELES (thesmokinggun.com) - As she was attempting to put on a Victoria’s Secret thong, a Los Angeles woman claims that a decorative metallic piece flew off the garment and struck her in the eye, causing injuries and a new product liability lawsuit against the underwear giant.
Macrida Patterson, 52, alleges that she was hurt last [...]
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Posted in Alert, Astonishing, Business, Decision, Money, Signs of the Times, Transportation, Wow, You've GOT to be Kidding on Friday, 13 June, 2008 | 1 Comment »
CHICAGO (AP) — Baggage fees are fast becoming an unavoidable part of U.S. flying - three of the largest carriers now charge $15 for a first checked bag. No. 2 United Airlines and No. 7 US Airways announced their new fees on Thursday, three weeks after No. 1 American Airlines set the precedent for [...]
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Posted in Astonishing, Awards, Celebrities, Decision, Entertainment, Media, Money, Wealth, Wow on Thursday, 12 June, 2008 | No Comments »
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Talk show host Oprah Winfrey is the world’s most powerful celebrity for the second straight year and for the fifth time ever, according to the 2008 Forbes Celebrity 100 Power List released on Wednesday.
The annual list also included two couples among its top 10. Actress Angelina Jolie came in at No. [...]
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Posted in Alert, Astonishing, Banking & Finance, Buildings, Business, Decision, History, Hypocrisy, International, Middle East, Money, Oil & Gas, To Ponder, You've GOT to be Kidding on Wednesday, 11 June, 2008 | No Comments »
NEW YORK CITY - The latest Big Apple trophy being coveted by oil-rich sovereign wealth funds is the landmark Chrysler Building.
Sources say the su per-rich Abu Dhabi Investment Council is negotiating an $800 million deal for a 75 per cent stake in the Art Deco treasure that has defined the Midtown skyline since 1930.
The Chrysler [...]
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Posted in Astonishing, Caught, Crime, Decision, Lost & Found, Money, Morons, Oddly, Shocking, Wow, You've GOT to be Kidding on Monday, 9 June, 2008 | No Comments »
BELGRADE (Reuters) - A Serbian bank clerk who stole nearly 1.5 million euros from his bank left a note reading “I’m sorry,” buried the loot in a park and waited at a cafe for police to arrest him.
Aleksandar Spasic Saturday walked out of the Raiffeisen branch office in the central town of Kragujevac with the [...]
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Posted in Caught, Crime, Investigation, Law Enforcement, Lost & Found, Money, Oddly, Weird, You've GOT to be Kidding on Thursday, 5 June, 2008 | No Comments »
TAMPA, Florida - Sometimes hiring a sexy lady do the housework without her clothes on can cost a little more than the $100-an-hour you were expecting to pay. A 50-year-old man in Tampa, Fla., found this out the hard way when a woman allegedly came to his house, took her clothes off, did a little [...]
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Posted in Alert, Astonishing, Boats, Planes, Trains & Autos, Celebrities, Entertainment, Investigation, Money, Oddly, Television, Wealth, Weird, You've GOT to be Kidding on Wednesday, 4 June, 2008 | No Comments »
LOS ANGELES — Ed McMahon, who for decades appeared as Johnny Carson’s sidekick on “The Tonight Show,” is fighting to avoid foreclosure on his multimillion-dollar Beverly Hills home, according to published reports.
The former “Star Search” host was $644,000 behind on payments on $4.8 million in mortgage loans when a unit of Countrywide Financial Corp. filed [...]
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MILWAUKEE (AP) — Dan Deming had heard the rumors about the buried treasure on his central Wisconsin farm.
At first he made some halfhearted attempts to find it, and then searched in earnest for two or three years after receiving a metal detector for his birthday.
“I don’t know what I thought, if [...]
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Posted in Astonishing, Bad Reporters, Caught, Decision, Entertainment, Flip-Flop, Government, History, In Their Own Words, Media, Money, Morons, Political, Ranting, Relationships, Shocking, Terrible, Wow, Writings, You've GOT to be Kidding on Wednesday, 28 May, 2008 | No Comments »
WASHINGTON (Politico) - Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan writes in a surprisingly scathing memoir to be published next week that President Bush “veered terribly off course,” was not “open and forthright on Iraq,” and took a “permanent campaign approach” to governing at the expense of candor and competence.
Among the most explosive revelations in [...]
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Stimulus Payments are being issued on a schedule according to the last 2 digits of the primary social security number (SSN) shown on your 2007 tax return.
If filing or preparation fees were deducted from your 2007 Refund [...]
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Posted in Business, Decision, Entertainment, Funny, Government, Impressive, Legislation, Money, Sexual, Wow on Sunday, 25 May, 2008 | 1 Comment »
LOS ANGELES - California state lawmakers are considering an unusual idea to solve the state’s huge budget shortfall: Tax pornography.
The idea was proposed by a state assemblyman, and would impose a 25 percent tax on the production and sales of pornographic videos — the vast majority of which are made in southern California.
It is unknown, however, how seriously lawmakers [...]
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Posted in Astonishing, Bad Parents, Caught, Children, Computers & Technology, Crime, Decision, Investigation, Law Enforcement, Lost & Found, Money, Morons, Oddly, Shocking, Signs of the Times, Terrible, WWW, Weird, You've GOT to be Kidding on Saturday, 24 May, 2008 | 1 Comment »
BERLIN (AP) — Authorities in southern Germany said Saturday they have taken custody of a 7-month-old boy after his parents posted an ad on eBay offering to sell him for one euro, the equivalent of $1.57.
Peter Hieber, a spokesman for police in the Bavarian town of Krumbach, said the baby was placed in the care [...]
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Posted in Astonishing, Dictators, Investigation, Money, Oil & Gas, Scams & Scandals, Terrible, To Ponder, Wow, Writings, You've GOT to be Kidding on Saturday, 24 May, 2008 | No Comments »
Consider the game of chicken that plays out every day across Pennsylvania State Highway 441. In Marietta, where the road hugs the Susquehanna River, a Rutter’s Farm Store gas station stands on one side, a Sheetz gas station on the other.
Kelly Bosley, who manages Rutter’s, doesn’t even have to look across the highway to know [...]
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Posted in Astonishing, Caught, Celebrities, Decision, Entertainment, Family, In Their Own Words, Marriage & Divorce, Media, Money, Photography, Ranting, Relationships, Royal Family on Friday, 23 May, 2008 | No Comments »
LONGON - After criticism of a 59-page spread of her grandson’s wedding photos in a glossy magazine, Queen Elizabeth has reportedly banned the selling of press access to future Royal events.
The ban comes just days after Hello! magazine was granted unprecedented access to the Windsor Chapel during Saturday’s wedding of Peter Phillips and Canadian-born Autumn [...]
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