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Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
« Reply #1125 on: September 21, 2017, 04:53:44 pm »
Greeneville, TN: Residents mistake Halloween decorations for an actual crime scene
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Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
« Reply #1126 on: September 23, 2017, 12:17:52 pm »
Hurricane victims call sex hotline after FEMA mistakenly tweets wrong number
POSTED 7:17 PM, SEPTEMBER 22, 2017, BY TRIBUNE MEDIA WIRE
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Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
« Reply #1127 on: September 23, 2017, 02:32:57 pm »
Hurricane victims call sex hotline after FEMA mistakenly tweets wrong number
So that's what FEMA employees have been doing!  :pondering:
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Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
« Reply #1128 on: September 23, 2017, 03:16:34 pm »
So that's what FEMA employees have been doing!  :pondering:

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Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
« Reply #1129 on: September 23, 2017, 05:25:43 pm »
That happened to me on a wellsite. I called an instrumentation company's tech support line and dialed "800" instead of "866"...and got a sex hotline. I just told the lady that was not the sort of technical support I was looking for...and got the number right the second try.
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Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
« Reply #1130 on: October 04, 2017, 07:52:45 pm »
Woman gets $400K package of oxycodone; wanted yoga mat
Tuesday, October 3rd 2017, 1:29 pm EDT    Tuesday, October 3rd 2017, 1:44 pm EDT
http://www.waff.com/story/36511109/woman-gets-400k-package-of-oxycodone-wanted-yoga-mat

ROCK HILL, SC (WSOC/CNN) - A woman walked out to meet her mail carrier, thinking a yoga mat she ordered had arrived. Instead, she was handed a heavy box filled with $400,000 worth of illegal oxycodone.

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"Most of this is counterfeit, and it comes from other countries. And it's being shipped in," York County drug agent Marvin Brown said.

It's likely the package was supposed to be sent to the woman's old apartment that's now vacant, and someone was supposed to watch the place and pick it up, he said. Instead, it was forwarded to the woman's new address, he said.

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Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
« Reply #1131 on: October 04, 2017, 09:41:17 pm »
FDA fines bakery for listing 'love' as one of the ingredients in its granola

ingredients “must be listed by their common or usual name. ‘Love’ is not a common or usual name of an ingredient, and is considered to be intervening material because it is not part of the common or usual name of the ingredient,” the FDA wrote.

http://wivb.com/2017/10/04/fda-love-is-not-a-real-ingredient-in-bakerys-granola/
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Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
« Reply #1132 on: October 04, 2017, 09:45:19 pm »
FDA fines bakery for listing 'love' as one of the ingredients in its granola

ingredients “must be listed by their common or usual name. ‘Love’ is not a common or usual name of an ingredient, and is considered to be intervening material because it is not part of the common or usual name of the ingredient,” the FDA wrote.

http://wivb.com/2017/10/04/fda-love-is-not-a-real-ingredient-in-bakerys-granola/
Just because their mommas didn't put love in any of their cookies when they were little, no doubt.
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Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
« Reply #1133 on: October 04, 2017, 09:53:34 pm »
FDA fines bakery for listing 'love' as one of the ingredients in its granola

ingredients “must be listed by their common or usual name. ‘Love’ is not a common or usual name of an ingredient, and is considered to be intervening material because it is not part of the common or usual name of the ingredient,” the FDA wrote.

http://wivb.com/2017/10/04/fda-love-is-not-a-real-ingredient-in-bakerys-granola/

I agree with the 'ridiculous' decision to fine them.

"ounces of Love"....tomorrow will see, "cup of tenderness", "commitment to perfection", and "angel's wings"

Ingredient labels are not supposed to be a marketing 'field'.   It's supposed to be a serious notice on the packaging.
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Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
« Reply #1134 on: October 04, 2017, 10:00:32 pm »
I agree with the 'ridiculous' decision to fine them.

"ounces of Love"....tomorrow will see, "cup of tenderness", "commitment to perfection", and "angel's wings"

Ingredient labels are not supposed to be a marketing 'field'.   It's supposed to be a serious notice on the packaging.
Maybe they were one of those outfits adding the 'special sauce' in the back...
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Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
« Reply #1135 on: October 04, 2017, 10:02:00 pm »
I agree with the 'ridiculous' decision to fine them.

"ounces of Love"....tomorrow will see, "cup of tenderness", "commitment to perfection", and "angel's wings"

Ingredient labels are not supposed to be a marketing 'field'.   It's supposed to be a serious notice on the packaging.

I'm with you on this.  I saw this story on Fox Business Channel this morning, and my wife said she thought FDA was being humorless.  I said, "So am I when it comes to ingredient labels.  It's difficult enough sifting through all the unpronounceable chemicals looking for the ones that will kill me without having to deal with the cutsie additions."
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Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
« Reply #1136 on: October 04, 2017, 10:14:31 pm »
I agree with the 'ridiculous' decision to fine them.

"ounces of Love"....tomorrow will see, "cup of tenderness", "commitment to perfection", and "angel's wings"

Ingredient labels are not supposed to be a marketing 'field'.   It's supposed to be a serious notice on the packaging.

Good thing there is no actual winery selling wine using this song for an ad.

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Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
« Reply #1137 on: October 05, 2017, 01:05:18 pm »
I agree with the 'ridiculous' decision to fine them.

"ounces of Love"....tomorrow will see, "cup of tenderness", "commitment to perfection", and "angel's wings"

Ingredient labels are not supposed to be a marketing 'field'.   It's supposed to be a serious notice on the packaging.

I am with you.  "Made with Love" is fine on the packaging.  Ingredients labels are not the place for marketing schemes.
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Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
« Reply #1138 on: October 11, 2017, 08:47:30 pm »
Deputies: Pinellas Park man Googled 'how to rob a bank' then robbed a bank
Times staff
Tuesday, October 10, 2017 12:14pm
http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/deputies-pinellas-park-man-googled-how-to-rob-a-bank-then-robbed-a-bank/2340560


William Joe Johnson, 26, stole an undisclosed amount of money from Achieva Credit Union at 10125 Ulmerton Road, according to the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office. [Pinellas County Jail]

PINELLAS PARK — Sheriff's deputies on Monday arrested a man accused of robbing a bank near Largo last week, then using the money on utilities, rent and a drug binge.

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After an investigation, deputies found him at the hotel. In an interview, detectives said Johnson told them he was in need of money and searched on Google "how to rob a bank."

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Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
« Reply #1139 on: October 11, 2017, 09:19:16 pm »
Deputies: Pinellas Park man Googled 'how to rob a bank' then robbed a bank
Times staff
Tuesday, October 10, 2017 12:14pm
http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/deputies-pinellas-park-man-googled-how-to-rob-a-bank-then-robbed-a-bank/2340560


William Joe Johnson, 26, stole an undisclosed amount of money from Achieva Credit Union at 10125 Ulmerton Road, according to the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office. [Pinellas County Jail]

PINELLAS PARK — Sheriff's deputies on Monday arrested a man accused of robbing a bank near Largo last week, then using the money on utilities, rent and a drug binge.

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After an investigation, deputies found him at the hotel. In an interview, detectives said Johnson told them he was in need of money and searched on Google "how to rob a bank."

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Shoulda used "Ipswitch."
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Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
« Reply #1140 on: October 12, 2017, 12:31:56 am »
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Johnson told them he was in need of money and searched on Google "how to rob a bank."
Should have googled "how to rob a bank but i'm really just kidding."
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Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
« Reply #1141 on: October 12, 2017, 02:03:52 am »
Should have googled "how to rob a bank but i'm really just kidding."
"Unsolved bank robberies" might be the best search term... :shrug:
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Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
« Reply #1142 on: October 13, 2017, 12:13:29 pm »
Another clever bank robber:
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Wilkinsburg Man Robs Bank, Stops To Buy Beer Nearby Minutes Later
October 12, 2017 6:52 PM By Julie Grant

WILKINSBURG (KDKA) — A suspected bank robber is behind bars Thursday after police caught him buying beer down the street minutes after the robbery.

Police say after he robbed the bank he was caught minutes later buying beer down the street. Police also say, this isn’t his first robbery.  ...
More at KDKA Pittsburgh.
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Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
« Reply #1143 on: October 15, 2017, 05:34:25 pm »
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Juvenile Prison Catches Worker Who Stole $1.2 Million Worth Of Fajitas

http://dailycaller.com/2017/10/15/juvenile-prison-catches-worker-who-stole-1-2-million-worth-of-fajitas/

Texas prosecutors have charged a former juvenile detention center employee with stealing $1.2 million worth of fajitas over a nine-year period in a Tex-Mex food trafficking scheme.

The scheme came to light when Gilberto Escaramilla, an employee of the Cameron County Juvenile Justice Department, took off work Aug. 7 and a delivery driver tried to drop of 800 pounds of fajitas. The detention center does not serve fajitas.

“If it wasn’t so serious, you’d think it was a Saturday Night Live skit. But this is the real thing,” Cameron County District Attorney Luis V. Saenz told the Valley Morning Star.


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« Reply #1144 on: October 15, 2017, 06:40:12 pm »
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Who wants to be a fajita millionaire?

He must have been very hungry. Or very high.
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« Reply #1145 on: October 15, 2017, 06:46:54 pm »
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« Reply #1146 on: October 15, 2017, 07:05:46 pm »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5rlbOqQq7w

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« Reply #1147 on: October 16, 2017, 10:38:47 pm »
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Who wants to be a fajita millionaire?

My brother dated a descendant of the inventor of the "fajita".  "Fajita" is actually a cut of beef, not the strips.  But it has become corrupted, so "fajita strips" are now called "fajitas" and the word is used for chicken, etc.  The latter infuriated the family, who insisted that "fajita strips" were beef, and the others were just "chicken strips", etc.
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Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
« Reply #1148 on: October 18, 2017, 10:53:00 am »
Heel Striker: Woman Sets Marathon Record in 3-Inch Stilettos
As if 26.2 miles wasn't hard enough, one woman took her race to the next level.
By McGee Nall Tuesday, October 17, 2017, 1:30 pm

While training for a marathon, some runners might test their endurance by wearing heavy backpacks, tackling steep inclines, or running in intense heat. Irene Sewell's tactic of choice? Wearing high heels for 26.2 miles at Sunday's 7 Bridges Marathon in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

The 27-year-old Blacksburg, Virginia native first got the idea when she heard about a London woman who attempted a Guinness World Record by running a marathon in heels a few years ago. Unfortunately, that woman was disqualified when she took off her shoes less than halfway through the course and finished the race barefoot. ...  Rest of story at Runners World

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Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
« Reply #1149 on: October 18, 2017, 11:27:24 am »
Heel Striker: Woman Sets Marathon Record in 3-Inch Stilettos
As if 26.2 miles wasn't hard enough, one woman took her race to the next level.
By McGee Nall Tuesday, October 17, 2017, 1:30 pm

While training for a marathon, some runners might test their endurance by wearing heavy backpacks, tackling steep inclines, or running in intense heat. Irene Sewell's tactic of choice? Wearing high heels for 26.2 miles at Sunday's 7 Bridges Marathon in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

The 27-year-old Blacksburg, Virginia native first got the idea when she heard about a London woman who attempted a Guinness World Record by running a marathon in heels a few years ago. Unfortunately, that woman was disqualified when she took off her shoes less than halfway through the course and finished the race barefoot. ...  Rest of story at Runners World



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