https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNDNIIZBdhk At the end of January 2024, the Country Bear Jamboree at Walt Disney World closed, to be rethemed into the Country Bear Musical Jamboree. This isn’t the first time, not counting the Vacation Hoedown and the Christmas Special that the act has changed. When the ride was closed in 2012, they cut 5 minutes…
A man performing at a Florida high school pep rally accidentally set himself on fire in front of a crowd of students, CBS News reports.
A soldier on patrol in Iraq had his life saved by this iPod. An insurgent fired at him at close range. and he was hit where his iPod was in his jacket pocket. It slowed the bullet down enough that it didn’t completely penetrate his body armor, and he escaped unharmed. More info and pictures…
Next Monday, the maker of Equal will take the maker of Splenda to Federal District court in Philadelphia. Since Splenda was introduced in 1999, it has replaced Equal as the Number 1 artificial sweetener in the United States with 62 percent of the market. The case centers on Splenda’s advertising, which states “Made from sugar,…
Someone placed a fake ad on Craigslist, inviting people to take whatever they wanted for free from a Tacoma, WA rental property. The owner, Laurie Raye, recently evicted her tenant and cleaned out the place. However, a phone call alerted her to the destruction caused. She found the outside trashed, the inside nearly gutted and…
Going to the Post Office is a pain in the neck. Our neighborhood is apparently so dangerous that they need thick plexiglass there. Some think it is to protect the postal workers from robberies…but we think it is to prevent angry customers from rushing the postal employees. The Associated Press recently reported that as part…
Oliver Desofi, a 77-year old retired bank executive, has won a battle with Cingular…thanks to the efforts of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. Cingular refused to remove more than $31,000 in roaming charges for calls that he said he never made. Desofi couldn’t have made these calls…as all the over 4,000 calls were made in Nicaragua…a place…