In 1979, after a stampeded at an Ohio concert by The Who killed 11 people, Providence, Rhode Island Mayor Buddy Cianci cancelled the upcoming The Who concert. Most fans, while disappointed, got their refunds. But a few lazy fans didn’t bother and kept the worthless piece of paper for 33 years. Now some of them…
Taking care of kids is such hard work. You have to wash them, wax them, change the filters, rotate the tires, make sure the fluids are full… Heather Ann Kaminsky of Palatka, Florida, was clearly not up to the task of caring for such a sophisticated creature. So instead, she decided to trade the baby…
It’s been a tough summer for 63 year old Everglades City airboat captain Wallace Weatherholt. On June 12, an alligator jumped out of the water as he dangled a fish, biting off his hand. Though wildlife officials were able to track and kill the 9 foot alligator, and removed the hand from its stomach, doctors…
It has been said that life is highway. For two twins born to Siobhan Anderson, the beginning of life is a highway. Mrs. Anderson and her husband were en route to the hospital, when the twins could wait no longer. The first was born on a stretcher on the side of the Southern State Parkway,…
What do you do when a customer keels over and dies in the middle of your fast food restaurant? If you’re the manager of a certain Croatian McDonald’s, the answer is apparently to cover her with a sheet and continue selling your heart-stopping Big Macs and french fries. The company denies the restaurant remained open,…
Kyle Wiens is the CEO of iFixit and founder of Dozuki. Wiens caught our attention this week due to a piece he wrote which appeared on a Harvard Business Review blog. Wiens gives all potential hires a mandatory grammar test, and rejects candidates who don’t pass. If you think an apostrophe was one of the…
Hell hath no fury like.. well.. a Casey James Fury anxious. Fury became anxious and wanted to leave work and as a result he will likely never have to worry about work again. The 24 year old Fury was working as a sandblaster and painter on the nuclear submarine USS Miami while it was in…
A quote in today’s Wall Street Journalabout mass murdering theater shooter James Egan Holmes reminded us of the classic Arlo Guthrie song, Alice’s Restaurant. In an attempt to get out of army service, Guthrie’s character presents himself to the psychiatrist as a crazy killer- which is apparently just what the army is looking for: And…
Over the last few years there has been ample reason to be bearish on Sears Holdings(SHLD). After all, the company has floundered under the control of hedge fund manager Eddie Lampert, under-investing in stores, and sales and profits have plummeted. The company has taken to breaking up into various pieces and closing stores- a sad…
There is no doubt that Joe Dimaggio was a great hitter. His 56 game hitting streak is often pointed to as the most unbreakable record in sports. Though Dimaggio got a hit in every one of those 56 games(and 2214 hits in all), he hit all of them from the right side. A big mistake, then, by the ever-embattled United States Postal Service. …