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04 Nov 2009

This takes the cake when it comes to calling in sick!

Blockbuster employee Aaron Siebers stabbed himself rather than go to work at a Sheridan Boulevard Blockbuster. Siebers could be facing false-reporting charges since he called in and claimed that “he’d been stabbed in Edgewater by “three skinheads or Hispanic males dressed in black” who tried to rob him. “Trouble is, a surveillance video from a business where this alleged attack supposedly took place didn’t show anything like what Siebers described…so he had to come clean.

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02 Nov 2009

This ridiculousness is not going to encourage more people to donate a kidney!

Kidney donors may face huge medical bills because having one kidney may constitute a pre-existing condition under which coverage is denied, officials confirm.

A Texas hospital official said organ donors are told, but only orally, that having one kidney may be a pre-existing condition affecting insurance.

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30 Oct 2009
related tags: Science | China | Egypt | fake hymen | middle east | virginity |

One of the biggest double standards that still exists today is virginity. Women are expected to keep theirs and men are expected to lose it.

China has been creating this artificial hymen (pictured above) for quite some time, but it was its advertising in the Middle East that caused an uproar.

The “hymen”: a 5×7cm folded piece of plastic – of albumin, – covered on one side by dark red ink. Placed in the vagina before sex, the plastic hardens slightly, and rips upon intercourse. A few drops of “blood” will stain the sheets, preserving the woman’s, her family’s, or society’s “honour”.

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30 Oct 2009

Nowadays we’re use to having most of our questions answered with a quick google search, but unfortunately it can be a hassle to weed through the results-enter findsolve.

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If only they could find a way to make dating this easy!

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29 Oct 2009

According to River Front Times:

Today a former Anheuser-Busch executive filed a lawsuit claiming her former employer discriminated against her based upon her gender.

The suit filed by Francine Katz claims Anheuser-Busch (now AB-InBev) has a “locker room and frat party atmosphere” that works against female employees.

Whoa! Stop the presses! You’re saying that a company that came up with an ad like this one (suggesting an act they refer to as “sodomy” down in Texas) is overtly sexist?

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29 Oct 2009
related tags: USA | attempted robbery | burglar | fail | marker |

Police had no trouble identifying two men accused of trying to break into a Carroll apartment because their “disguise” consisted of scribbling over their face with permanent marker.

Continue reading about their “attempted” burglary…if you can even really consider it trying.

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28 Oct 2009

Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzeneggar wrote a letter consisting of eight lines that can be summed up in two words- F-You.

Schwarzenegger sent a letter to to explain why he was vetoing an Ammiano bill dealing with financing for the Port of San Francisco. You may have already read about Tom Ammiano in the news when soon after the San Francisco assemblyman told the governor to “kiss my gay ass”?

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23 Oct 2009
related tags: Iraq | USA | honor killing | muslim |

According to The Pogues:

​Someone better tell Faleh Hassan Almaleki he’s not in Iraq anymore. In this country, we don’t do honor killings. And we sure as hell don’t try to kill our own daughters.

But that’s exactly what Almaleki intended to do when ran over his daughter, 20-year-old Noor Faleh Almaleki, in a state government parking lot in suburban Phoenix. Relatives say dad fought with his daughter over becoming too westernized and not living up to traditional Iraqi standards — which, we might add, are not very fun if you’re a 20-year-old woman in America…

​So Almaleki allegedly ran over his daughter in Peoria, Arizona, also hitting her friend Amal Edan Khalaf. Noor Almaleki was found
unconscious and bleeding; her condition is life-threatening. Amal is on good condition. Noor lives in Sunrise, Arizona with her boyfriend and the 43-year-old Amal.

Faleh Almaleki was last seen driving a grey or silver 2000 Jeep grand Cherokee.

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23 Oct 2009

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22 Oct 2009

According to Register Hardware:

The software-sponsored sandwich is filled with not one, not two, but an unbelievable seven meat patties. The burger went on sale in Burger King outlets in Japan today to mark the major OS upgrade.

Our Japanese isn’t great, but the poster – which comes direct from BK’s Japanese website – appears to suggest that the Windows 7 Whopper will be on sale in the country until 28 October.

Should Burger King bring the monster meal to Microsoft fans in the rest of the world? Or would you rather wait for your Mac OS X 10.7 tofu treat?

Update
Japanese-proficient Reg reader Alun has since told us that the monster burger has a 13cm diameter and that each of the seven beef patties weighs 113g. Apparently BK will sell the first 30 Windows 7 burgers for ¥777 (£5.15/$8.50/€5.60), after which the meat treat’s price will rise to ¥1450 (£9/$15/€10). ®

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