..for slightly interesting things that are not worthy of their own thread.

Woman junks mattress with fortune inside no extra info on link for this one

AN Israeli woman accidently threw out a mattress with more than $US1 million ($A1.25m) inside, setting off a frantic search through garbage at landfill sites.
The woman said she had purchased her elderly mother a new mattress as a surprise and threw out the old one, only to discover that her mother had hidden her life savings inside.
When she went to look for the mattress it had already been taken by garbage men, she said.
The woman searched several desposal sites but failed to recover the mattress.
Yitzhak Borba, the dump manager, said his staff  had helped the woman, saying she appeared "totally desperate".
He said he increased security at the site to deter would-be treasure hunters.
The woman said it could be worse.
"People have to take everything in proportion and thank God for the good and the bad," she said.

Japanese law lecturer jailed for mooning judge

A JAPANESE law lecturer who bared her bottom to a judge will apply for bail pending an appeal against her recent convictions for threatening to kill court officials.
Megumi Ogawa, 41, was sentenced in March to six months' jail after a Brisbane District Court jury found her guilty of two counts each of using a carriage service to harass and using a carriage service to threaten to kill Australian Federal Court officials in 2006.

Tourist Chad Vance clung to Ghan train for two hours

Mr Vance said when he caught up to the stopped train, he started frantically banging on the windows of the first class dining carriage. He said the passengers ignored him because they "probably thought I was some crazy kid" outside.

Gerrit Blank survives meteorite hit

A YOUNG boy will be his mates' hero for a long time after survivng a direct hit by a meteorite, travelling at nearly 50,000 kilometers per hour

Man dons drag to collect dead mum's welfare

Thomas Parkin, 49, and accomplice Mhilton Rimolo, 47, face a 47 count indictment for collecting social security benefits amounting to $US52,000 and $US65,000 in rental assistance, according to Brooklyn District Attorney Charles J Hynes.

Canadian kills women, feeds them to pigs

A Canadian farmer convicted of butchering women and feeding them to his pigs, who police say was the country's worst serial killer, will appeal his conviction, his lawyer said on Saturday.

Robert Pickton's lawyer Gil McKinnon said he will ask Canada's Supreme Court to decide if the former pig farmer had a fair trial.

http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/mp/5685708/canadian-kills-women-feeds-them-to-pigs/

Hahahahaha this subject was the plot of a Numb3rs episode recently.

updated 11:51 a.m. ET, Mon., June 29, 2009
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to allow victims of the Sept. 11 attacks to pursue lawsuits against Saudi Arabia and four Saudi princes over charitable donations allegedly funneled to al-Qaida.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31612811/ns/politics-white_house/

No surprise, but it's kind of shitty that you can't sue real state sponsors of terrorist orginizations, while we'll go to war over spurious claims of state sponsorship of terrorism/wmds/whatever.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26673132/

Aren't we in the middle of an "economic crisis?"  What the fuck is wrong with people.

Any parent that buys high heals for their baby should be beaten to death with said shoe and the babies should be drowned.

Any parent that buys high heals for their baby should be beaten to death with said shoe and the babies should be drowned.

The babies are guilty by association!

Any parent that buys high heals for their baby should be beaten to death with said shoe and the babies should be drowned.

The babies are guilty by association!

Genetics.

Nature over nurture.  Kill them when they're little and save doing it later.

Bonus for keeping them off the dole queue.

We should just drown people who don't use birth control. Problem solved.

So we get to drown all the Catholics?!?

I CAN'T WAIT FOR THE PARTY AT THE BEACH!

*hides*

Side note: I was CHRISTENED CATHOLIC; I'm HEATHEN now, believe you me!

*goes back to hiding*

You're not an idiot, you don't go around spreading your Davey gravy on every ovary you can get to. You will be spared when the revolution comes. Pun intended.

These are the geniuses who made an ugly mess of the core business of banking -- which is to make good loans. To make up for their huge losses in that business, bankers have essentially been reduced to flim-flam fee-scammers. Last year, assessment of consumer fees became the main business of banks, totaling 53 percent of the industry's income!

http://www.alternet.org/workplace/141192/big_bankers_mounting_sneak_attack_on_consumers/

I actually joined a credit union and closed all of my accounts at big banks precisely because of the fees they were charging.  Chevy Chase Bank was charging me $10 a month just to have an account there after I cancelled direct deposit.

Chevy Chase is such a dick.

On a serious note, I find it difficult to humor the notion that the fees free-for-all is a recent phenomena. It's been growing more and more outrageous for at least the last 12 years or more. The least offensive bank I've found so far was Commerce, now TD Bank. But really, how long will it be until they're absorbed by another bank that's putting the screws to the public?

Wachovia is pretty fee free. I've been with them for 5 years now and am pretty satisfied.

When I was a teenager and got my first checking account, they used to call you when you had insufficient funds in your account and give you an opportunity to come in and make a deposit to cover it.  

Now they just charge you $39 and send you a slip in the mail 3 days later.  If you happen to make a mistake, if the bank makes a mistake, or if a merchant double or triple authorizes your check card, you can really get fucked because you won't know for a few days if you're not checking your online balance all of the time.  The absolute worst is when the bank makes an error resulting in bounced checks and you've got to argue with them to get them to refund the fees that were only incurred because they fucked something up.  

Oh I totally agree. Steelie man and I go out for Thai, they swipe my card. It times out because during lunch rush credit card servers are overtaxed so they swipe it again. They double charge my card. Happens regularly. Wachovia usually resets the whole thing and refunds the overdraft fees. But yeah, the whole digitalization of the banking industry is supposed to make things faster and better.

I blame Mosh.

Wachovia is pretty fee free. I've been with them for 5 years now and am pretty satisfied.

Man, Wachovia fucked me so many times. The most craziest was when I had enough of their bullshit charges and decided to switch banks. Here's a shorthand version of the last time they fucked me:

They put a HOLD for no reason whatsoever on a $1500 check I deposited which then caused the following checks to bounce:

The check I used to open a new account at a competing bank
The checks I had written drawn on the new account
The checks I had written to the Wachovia account that I was waiting to clear before I closed the account.

All of the sudden all of my money was being stolen because of Wachovia's hold on this check that I had no idea about. When I went to the branch to find out what the fuck was going on they were all like, "There's been a hold placed on this check you deposited."

I was like, "For what? I've been banking here for years and I've never even heard of such a thing."

Their reply: "Sorry, but we reserve the option to place holds on checks whenever we feel it's required."

So, basicly, they saw that I was depositing a large check in my own name into another bank and decided to totally fuck me. Their little stunt cost me like three or four hundred dollars. How can they get away with such blatant theft?

It's also Wachovia's policy (and no, they're not alone) to process transactions in order from largest to smallest, thereby hitting you with as many fees as possible if you overdraw your account.

Example: You have 50 bucks in your account and the following transactions are posting today: -$15, -$30,  -$5, -$10, -$5.

Here's how they process it (regardless of what time of day or even DAY the transactions originally were created).

-30, -15, -10 (now you're overdrawn five bucks), -5, -5. They just hit you for THREE overdraft charges instead of one by processing the transactions this way.

Banks make me sick. They're another indication of what's wrong with this country.

Oh we definitely need reform. The problem is when you reform something to make it more consumer positive and less profit oriented, no one wants to do it and service suffers greatly. So you'll walk into a bank and the Guatemalan woman who was working at Hardees last week is now your bank teller.

Society should in general be less profit oriented.

In general, the only way you make huge profit margins is either by fucking someone over (banks & customer fees, for example) or redistributing costs (taxpayers subsidizing various industries, environmental and social costs being picked up by taxpayers, etc.).

Society should in general be less profit oriented.

In general, the only way you make huge profit margins is either by fucking someone over (banks & customer fees, or cutting benefits for your employees, for example) or redistributing costs (taxpayers subsidizing various industries, environmental and social costs being picked up by taxpayers, etc.).

I blame Mosh.

It is true. It's all my doing, mwhahahahahaha....

I closed my cheque account about a decade ago, and havent suffered for it at all. There's nothing I cant do electronically that I could do with a cheque.

Inflict paper cuts.

Ummmm paoper cuts

Had Tru been hitting the sauce?

posbaly

Only in Florida
Council employee fired over porn star wife

Just shows that porn is bad for people with the porn star as one of the people in the relationship, and bad for people's relationships where one of the partners watches porn.

So porn is just generally bad? When did this happen and why wasn't I informed.

You have been misinformed... porn is actually healthy for you...