Do It Yourself PR Disasters - Delta Wants Extra Ticket For Conjoined Twins
PHOENIX -- An Arizona woman who wanted to take her 1-year-old conjoined twin daughters on a cross-country flight to visit relatives was frustrated because she was told she'd have to buy an extra seat. Mandy Bailey says Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines originally told her she must buy an extra seat because both children need access to an oxygen mask in case of an emergency.
'Gay bomb' wins Ig Nobel award
While some awards clearly poke fun at popular culture, others are meant to provoke debate about science, honouring achievements that "first make people laugh, and then make them think", according to the magazine.
Company Recalls A Toy It Gave As A Gift For Another Recalled Toy (Yes, It's That Complicated)
LOS ANGELES - The first recall was bad enough: A million-plus "Thomas & Friends" toys pulled because of lead paint. The second was surreal: The maker of the smiley-faced trains sent customers "bonus gifts" so they'd stay loyal — and now some of those toys have been recalled, too.
Cambridge Man Steals 123 Parking Meters
BOSTON -- A Cambridge man was arrested and charged with stealing 123 parking meters from city streets.Thomas Gannon, 37, was arraigned in Cambridge District Court on Tuesday, WCVB-TV in Boston reported.
Japanese Pioneer 'Divorce-Loans'
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's first-ever divorce loan caters to those who fell head over heels in love only to find themselves up to their necks in debt.
Named "Re" for those re-starting their lives, the loan helps divorcees cover the cost of compensation and legal payments and offers a lower interest rate than credit cards loans, on which Japan's growing number of divorce-seekers have depended in the past.
China Bans Bra, Underwear, Sex Toy Ads
BEIJING (AP) - China has banned television and radio ads for push-up bras, figure-enhancing underwear and sex toys in the communist government's latest move to purge the nation's airwaves of what it calls social pollution.
Regulators have already targeted ads using crude or suggestive language, behavior, and images, tightening their grip on television and radio a few weeks ahead of a twice-a-decade Communist Party congress at which some new senior leaders will be appointed.
Here Is Why Writing A Hundred Thousand Dollar Check To Your Girlfiend Is A Bad, Bad Idea
In recently filed court papers, Elisa Kwon accuses her former beau Greg Calvino, 45, of reneg ing on a pledge he had made to not "use drugs, stay out late, frequent strippers or prosti tutes." The 30-something Kwon insists Calvino had vowed that if he ever did any of those things again, she could cash a $100,000 check he had made out to her.
Sanford Man Finds $100,000 In Attic, Starts Legal Fight
Bernard Salcedo was looking for a bad wire in his attic after the power went out when he found $100,000 in cash, starting a messy legal fight over who should get the cash.
The money was hidden in a cavity cut in the insulation in four plastic bags filled with $20 and $100 bills stuffed into a strongbox. The 26-year-old computer engineer remembered someone was killed in the home years earlier, so he called police. "We didn't know if the murderer knew about the money," Salcedo said. "We decided the best course of action was to let someone know."
General Lee's Civil War-era letters fetch $61,000 at auction
COLUMBIA, South Carolina (AP) -- For months, 11 folders of old papers rescued from his parents' closet sat in Thomas Willcox's sport utility vehicle. Then he realized some were signed by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and might be valuable.
They were: The three letters written by Lee during the Civil War sold at auction Saturday for $61,000.
Boomer Statistics You Never Hear About
For Americans ages 35 to 54:
