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Americans love to sue.
It’s not normal for 17 and 18 year old girls to decide to stay in at home and bake cookies for their neighbors as opposed to going out to a dance party. But that’s just what Taylor Ostergaard, at the time 17, and Lindsey Jo Zellitte, 18, decided to do. And their reason for this was because at the party, people might be swearing and *gasp* drinking.
They baked patches of cookies and put paper hearts on top wishing their neighbours a ‘good night’.
That’s it. Nothing else. They didn’t put poison in the cookies. They didn’t make them in the shape of little demons. It was all very innocent.
Someone still found a reason to sue them! I guess it’s feasible to have an anxiety attack after someone knocks on your door and when you answer it all you see is a place of freshly baked cookies. Ms. Young had to go to the hospital for said anxiety attack and sued the girls for the cost and tried to get compensatation as well.
In the end all she got was money to cover the court costs and her medical costs.
Better luck next time Ms. Young!
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http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=GRGWBDAEGH5UMCRBAEKSFFA?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=7545904Current Mood:  chipper |
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Feb. 4th, 2005 @ 11:23 am
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Tax Forms Are Funny
At least they should be. After all, we might as well have something to laugh at when we pay so much tax in to everything and anything.
Ohio’s City Tax Superintendent (say that ten times fast) was suspended for a week without pay after adding in some lines to the tax forms to try and make them more enjoyable.
Some of the lines she added, (and I love this line, it’s a shame they removed it), were:
"Free advice: if you don't have a profit in a five-year period, you might want to consider another line of work."
"If we can tax it, we will,"
So guess how much the taxpayers had to dish out to fix this mess and send out ‘non-funny’ forms to everyone. Only 5,500.
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http://abclocal.go.com/wls/news/strange/020405_ap_sn_taxjokes.htmlCurrent Mood: amused |
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Here is one more reason why you shouldn’t get a trailer home.
A Kirbyville, (how I like that name), family was robbed. The jewellery is gone, the stereo, all of their clothes, everything right down to the kitchen sink was taken. That’s because these savvy cat burglars (if you will) were smart enough (or dumb enough) to pull up in a truck, hook up the trailer and simply drive away. Leaving a family without a home.
It’s not everyday you can open a conversation with “Yah, today someone stole my home.”
I’m not curious as to why, or how this all happened. What I want to know is… were the neighbours all smoking pot? Maybe they were drunk and passed out? Living so close together you’d figure someone would have noticed strangers towing away your neighbours trailer during daylight and done something about it. Then again, maybe that’s just me.
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http://www.kbtv4.tv/news/default.asp?mode=shownews&id=7794Current Mood:  hungry |
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Yet another sale on eBay for body space advertising.
I just know I should get on this bandwagon before it ends. In the summer selling my boob space (or the space right near, I could wear a bikini all summer long) would bring in some well-needed cash. Well, yesterday Amber Rainey sold her pregnant belly space for a Casino’s Ad. She made $4,000 US.
Now I wonder if you are hardcore religious, and gambling is a sin.. Then what happens if you advertise for it on your womb? Maybe your unborn child will be cursed? Or worse!! The child may turn into a gambler at a young age after being shown images of his mommy with a gambling ad on her belly where the sweet darling resided for nine months.
Jesus must be frowning right about now.
My advice to anyone who reads this, get on this body ad space selling while you can! Hey why not?! If you can make some easy cash like this, go for it!!
Plus you’ll have the added bonus of being immortalized in my blog as another one of those crazy eBay people.
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Do you like McDonald’s food?
If you answered Yes maybe you shouldn’t read this next bit.
Me, personal, I hate the stuff. Even the smell makes me gag. Their salads are actually more fattening then the burgers! (Eat it without the dressing, and then you’ll be on a serious diet.)
I guess the good people of France don’t much care for McDonald’s either. In December of 2004 in Sete, France, 500 protestors were at the scene of a newly opened McDicks. Their means of protest involved a bonefied catapult and some of France’s own delicacies. Octopus.
That would have been some sight.
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Even though it happened a long time ago, I found this very interesting:
One night, probably in 1880, John Swinton, then the preeminent New York journalist, was the guest of honour at a banquet given him by the leaders of his craft. Someone who knew neither the press nor Swinton offered a toast to the independent press. Swinton outraged his colleagues by replying:
"There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it.
There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinion out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone.
"The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread.
You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press?
We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes."
(Source: Labor's Untold Story, by Richard O. Boyer and Herbert M. Morais, published by United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America, NY, 1955/1979.)
Feb. 2nd, 2005 @ 06:31 pm
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Explicit knowledge - the obvious knowledge found in manuals, documentation, files and other accessible sources;
Implicit, or tacit knowledge - found in the heads of an organization's employees. Far more difficult to access and use. Typically, an organization does not even know what this knowledge is. This knowledge is often lost when someone leaves the company.
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Knowledge exists in two forms-lifeless, stored in books, and alive in the conscience of men. The second form...is the essential one."
Albert Eisntein
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In relation to a past post about Korea going to war on long hair,.. does the more hair you have impeed your Explicit knowledge intake, or Implicit?
Feb. 2nd, 2005 @ 03:55 pm
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 MMmmm, Duff Beerrrr ~drool~
Ah, Yes. Homer Simpson at his finest.
Another eBay sale gets someone into trouble. (What is it with eBay and these stories?) A women (Tara Edith Woodford, 28, now immortalized in my blog) made $1,511 US total after selling cases of Duff Beer to some unlucky Australians, and failed to deliver the merchandise.
You know, there was a point when you could actually buy Duff Beer. In fact it happens to be Australians (two breweries no less) that brewed the infamous beer, back in mid 1990s to begin with. They were shut down shortly after. How sad.
You can’t buy this beer at any normal liquor store. FOX isn’t aloud to license anything that may turn their young Simpsons fans into alcoholics.
Now I ask the FOX network,
Where’s your sense of adventure?!
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http://www.boston.com/news/odd/articles/2005/02/02/woman_pleads_guilty_to_selling_fake_beer/
Feb. 2nd, 2005 @ 01:17 pm
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“Long hair hampers brain activity by taking oxygen away from nerves in the head.” At least that’s what Northern Korean’s are hearing from their government.
All you ladies out there, don’t you worry your pretty little heads. For some reason, long hair doesn’t affect your brain activity as it does men. Oh; And older men are aloud to have slightly longer hair to cover those unsightly bald spots.
No wonder North Korea declared “War on Long Hair”. It makes perfect sense. We wouldn’t want anyone working at a slower brain capacity, after all. If only they could see my hair, it’s a wonder I can even type this up.
If only Americans had this news prior to the elections!! Oh wait.. I guess it doesn’t matter, Bush has shorter hair than Kerry, so he must be smarter. Damn you Kerry! Get a hair cut and get a real job!
 
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http://www.boston.com/news/odd/articles/2005/02/01/north_korea_declares_war_on_long_hair/
Feb. 2nd, 2005 @ 12:42 pm
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Apparently body space isn’t the only thing you can sell on eBay. (Let’s not forget the girl who sold her virginity online.)
The British founder of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), has decided to sell her skin. She figures it’s the best way to raise awareness about skinning animals, keeping leather work and such. Not only that, but the proceeds will go to PETA to help them think of other crazy advertising ideas to throw at the public. All in the hope to stop animal cruelty, ofcourse.
Don’t worry, she’s only selling a small part of skin from her arm, and the lucky buyer wont get the goods until after she dies. If you ask me that sounds like an unreasonable purchase. She could raise so much more money and awareness if she delivered upon receipt of check, money order or straight up cash.
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http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=7499610
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