The Morning Call reports that a Lehigh University graduate is suing her former school for $1.3 million for being given a grade of a “C+”. According to the former student and her lawyer, this forced her out of a graduate program,… Read More ›
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Calling 9-1-1 To Ask Why Your Date Stood You Up Is Not A Good Idea, Unless You Consider Making The News For Doing That To Be A Good Idea.
QMI Agency reports that a man from Montreal, Quebec, phoned 9-1-1 after taking a bus to far-away Barrie, Ontario, where he was stood up for an online date. Specifically, the man became angry and demanded that police find out why… Read More ›
Water Into Wine = Miracle. Beer Made With Water Selling For A Lower Price Than Water = Super Miracle?
The Wall Street Journal reports that a beer controversy is “brewing” (their words, don’t judge us!) in the Czech Republic because a pint of water costs more than beer in pubs there, and the government wants to introduce a law… Read More ›
Oops… We Forgot A Title… If Only Google Could Suggest One Via Autocomplete!
Yahoo reports that a doctor in Australia has sued Google because he is apparently unhappy with what happened when people started typing his name in the search engine. Specifically, the autocomplete function of Google suggested the man’s name followed by… Read More ›
Insurance Company May Complain Life Is Not Fair
Yahoo Finance reports that AIG’s Board of Directors will consider whether joining a lawsuit tomorrow against the United States federal government in a claim alleging “the terms of the deal” bailing out AIG in 2008 were “unfair.” Under the suit,… Read More ›
Sprinklgeddon Case Resolved!
The Mail reports that a former McDonald’s employee in Britain received a £3,000 settlement after being fired for giving a co-worker too many sprinkles on a McFlurry. Really? The product is called a “McFlurry” not a “McPartly Cloudy With A Five Percent… Read More ›
Woman Ironically Brags To Media About Parking Her Smart Car Illegally
A woman from Halifax, Nova Scotia reportedly told the CBC that she found a “primo” place to regularly park her Smart Car for free. On the street, in front of the provincial legislature, in the tiny space between two legally parked… Read More ›
Drunkard Climbs In Stockholm Cop Car, Demands To Be Taken To Drunk Tank
According to a report in the Local, a drunk man in Stockholm, Sweden approached a cop car that was stopped at a traffic light, and demanded to be taken to the drunk tank. As far as drunks doing dumb things… Read More ›
3 Worse Things Than Getting Fired From Your Job Due To Your Religious Beliefs
We have selected our final entry to our challenge to readers to provide us with bad news, which comes from blogger List Of X, who recently wrote a funny entry on Mitt Romney math you should check out. List Of… Read More ›
3 Worse Things Than Having A Gun Pulled On You After You Pass Gas, Which Allegedly Happened To A NJ Man
NJ.com reports that a 72 year-old man from Teaneck, New Jersey was arrested after police say the elderly man heard his neighbor pass gas, and then allegedly pulled a gun on the neighbor. The elderly man was charged with aggravated… Read More ›