Bacon Beatdown, Selfie Security and Ganga Leveraging Girl Scouts: The Dispatch Episode 15
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VOICE OVER: Dan Paradis
Script written by Jesse Polowin
Bacon and entering, valuable selfies and ganga leveraging girls scouts. Just because you don't need to know about these stories, doesn't mean they won't interest you. Welcome to WatchMojo.com, and this is The Dispatch, where we bring you the Internet's weirdest and coolest stories! This week we're looking at highly instagrammable banking, highly un-eggscapable breakfast behaviour, and a whole lot of girls scouts cookies that were definitely consumed while high.
Got any ideas for our next production? Head over to http://www.WatchMojo.comsuggest to submit your ideas today!
Bacon and entering, valuable selfies and ganga leveraging girls scouts. Just because you don't need to know about these stories, doesn't mean they won't interest you. Welcome to WatchMojo.com, and this is The Dispatch, where we bring you the Internet's weirdest and coolest stories! This week we're looking at highly instagrammable banking, highly un-eggscapable breakfast behaviour, and a whole lot of girls scouts cookies that were definitely consumed while high.
Got any ideas for our next production? Head over to http://www.WatchMojo.comsuggest to submit your ideas today!
Script written by Jesse Polowin
Bacon and entering, valuable selfies and ganga leveraging girls scouts. Just because you don’t need to know about these stories, doesn’t mean they won’t interest you. Welcome to WatchMojo.com, and this is The Dispatch, where we bring you the Internet’s weirdest and coolest stories! This week we’re looking at highly instagramable banking, highly un-eggscepable breakfast behavior, and a whole lot of girls scouts cookies that we’re definitely consumed while high.
Wannan move some money around? Pics or it didn’t happen bro. We millennials may be no good at using fax machines, maps or VHS players, but if there’s one thing the current generation is extremely gifted at, it’s taking selfies. Well it seems that now, thanks to Mastercard, all that practice could really pay off. In an effort to increase online transaction security, the credit card firm has begun using biometric checks in the form of photos and fingerprints as an alternative to entering passwords when verifying client ID. Testing in the US and Netherlands came back with overwhelmingly positive results, with 83 per cent of users reporting the software as more secure than passwords and 92 percent of test subjects preferring the new system, which will be rolling out in the US, UK, Canada and the EU soon, after which time the Mastercard team will have to work out the glitches caused by instances of ‘Duck Face’.
The argument for gun control was made ever stronger this week when a Hamilton, Ontario teen was charged with assault with a DELICIOUS weapon after he attacked a man with a breakfast of bacon and eggs. Police in the area said the 19 year old man became agitated with another man at his table and things did not go over easy; he picked up his breakfast in his hands and struck the man with a sunny-side-uppercut to the face. According to constable Steve Welton, they aren’t yolking around with the charges. “the weapon was in fact the food, and the intent was to cause injury or harm.” Luckily for law enforcement, the accused was not too runny and was arrested at the scene. He came for the benedicts, he left as a convict. Well, not yet, he’s due to appear in court – but come on – EGG PUNS.
Bake it and they will come. The potheads that is! Such is the mentality of one young Girl Scout in Portland, Oregon this week. She set up her table outside the Foster Buds Marijuana Dispensary, and within minutes she had several customers eager to get their munch on. Exceeding her goal of 35 boxes sold in one day, her hope is to raise enough money for a summer trip to horse camp. Meanwhile, the Girl Scouts organization said while they don’t condone the strategy, it’s not technically against their rules. This is the kind of savvy business sense you want to see in the youth. After all, courage is one of the core tenets of the Girl Scout organization and nothing says bravery more than showing up in front of a weed shop with boxes full of munchies!
All this talk makes me wanna go eat somewhere and take a couple of useless food pictures… Anyway, For your weekly dispatch of offbeat news stories and tons of other great content published every day, be sure to subscribe to WatchMojo.com.
The Dispatch – February 26
Bacon and entering, valuable selfies and ganga leveraging girls scouts. Just because you don’t need to know about these stories, doesn’t mean they won’t interest you. Welcome to WatchMojo.com, and this is The Dispatch, where we bring you the Internet’s weirdest and coolest stories! This week we’re looking at highly instagramable banking, highly un-eggscepable breakfast behavior, and a whole lot of girls scouts cookies that we’re definitely consumed while high.
1. Selfie Security
Wannan move some money around? Pics or it didn’t happen bro. We millennials may be no good at using fax machines, maps or VHS players, but if there’s one thing the current generation is extremely gifted at, it’s taking selfies. Well it seems that now, thanks to Mastercard, all that practice could really pay off. In an effort to increase online transaction security, the credit card firm has begun using biometric checks in the form of photos and fingerprints as an alternative to entering passwords when verifying client ID. Testing in the US and Netherlands came back with overwhelmingly positive results, with 83 per cent of users reporting the software as more secure than passwords and 92 percent of test subjects preferring the new system, which will be rolling out in the US, UK, Canada and the EU soon, after which time the Mastercard team will have to work out the glitches caused by instances of ‘Duck Face’.
2. Bacon Egg Beatdown
The argument for gun control was made ever stronger this week when a Hamilton, Ontario teen was charged with assault with a DELICIOUS weapon after he attacked a man with a breakfast of bacon and eggs. Police in the area said the 19 year old man became agitated with another man at his table and things did not go over easy; he picked up his breakfast in his hands and struck the man with a sunny-side-uppercut to the face. According to constable Steve Welton, they aren’t yolking around with the charges. “the weapon was in fact the food, and the intent was to cause injury or harm.” Luckily for law enforcement, the accused was not too runny and was arrested at the scene. He came for the benedicts, he left as a convict. Well, not yet, he’s due to appear in court – but come on – EGG PUNS.
3. Girl Scout Targets Potheads
Bake it and they will come. The potheads that is! Such is the mentality of one young Girl Scout in Portland, Oregon this week. She set up her table outside the Foster Buds Marijuana Dispensary, and within minutes she had several customers eager to get their munch on. Exceeding her goal of 35 boxes sold in one day, her hope is to raise enough money for a summer trip to horse camp. Meanwhile, the Girl Scouts organization said while they don’t condone the strategy, it’s not technically against their rules. This is the kind of savvy business sense you want to see in the youth. After all, courage is one of the core tenets of the Girl Scout organization and nothing says bravery more than showing up in front of a weed shop with boxes full of munchies!
All this talk makes me wanna go eat somewhere and take a couple of useless food pictures… Anyway, For your weekly dispatch of offbeat news stories and tons of other great content published every day, be sure to subscribe to WatchMojo.com.
