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Man Wins $5,000 Suing Debt Collectors, Thanks To Google Voice
Reader PJ sued a bunch of harassing debt collectors and won $5,000, and Google Voice made doing it really easy. Someone had put down his work cellphone number on their credit applications and ran up a...
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Video Of Home Depot Easy Button Ripoff In Action
Reader Ed went back to Home Depot and took a video of that Home Depot ripoff of the Staple’s “Easy Button” getting pressed. The mechanized voice released from inside says, “Don’t see the product you...
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Scammer Cracks Your Facebook Account, Live Chats With Your Friends That...
Last week we told you about a guy who thought his friend was mugged in London and trapped without cash and was hitting him up for help via Facebook IM. Turns out his friend’s Facebook account was...
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Man Who Paid $25 Bill In Pennies Is Proud
A man who made a scene when he voiced his dissatisfaction with a clinic’s billing department by paying a $25 disputed bill in all pennies is proud of what he did. “I would say that I had a legitimate...
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TCF Bank Figures Out How To Close $.05 Account
After reader DFCL’s story about how TCF Bank wouldn’t close his checking account with $.05 left in it, preferring to charge $149 in fees instead, went up on Consumerist, something good happened. They...
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Guy Arrested For Saggy Pants Plans To Sue US Airways
Yesterday, all charges were dropped against a University of New Mexico football player who was thrown off a plane and arrested by a US Airways pilot last month for wearing pj’s that sagged off his...
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How To Check Your Stats If Your Comcast Bandwidth Meter Is Broken
After reading the story about the guy whose internet was shut off for a year by Comcast as punishment for breaching their data cap, reader Brian tried to check out his Comcast bandwidth meter. He did...
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Judge Tosses Gorilla Coffee's Suit Against NYT For Posting Workers' Walkout...
A popular Brooklyn coffee shop’s lawsuit against the New York Times just got chucked. The paper’s City Room blog had reprinted the letter penned by eight employees who simultaneously quit over working...
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Changing Over Chipotle Signs To Show Pork In Pinto Beans Will Take A Few Months
In late July, Chipotle garnered kudos after CEO Steve Ells called up a fan who had been Tweeting his displeasure at discovering that Chipotle’s pinto beans were cooked with pork. Ells pledged that the...
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Jack The Cat Has Died
RIP Jack. Jack, the cat lost at JFK and then found two months later, has died. Jack’s owners had launched a campaign to find Jack, who got separated from his crate while traveling cargo on American...
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