I am sure you remember the original story - it started in March, 2005 when a diner at Wendy’s claimed to find a finger in her chili (see story). The story progressed as the unfortunate diner filed a lawsuit against Wendy’s and then dropped the lawsuit less than three weeks later. As the investigation continued it came out that the diner, Anna Ayala, and her husband concocted the entire story using a finger of a friend that was cut off in an accident. Anna and her husband were given nine year sentences for the scam.

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This is another one of those wonderful stories that will float around in email forwards. A young man used his cell phone to text message a friend. The number had been re-assigned to a state trooper. Normally, this would be no big deal - simply a case of a wrong number. The scenario changes however when you are asking your friend to buy reefer. (See story) (more…)

Okay!  If this one does not end up in one of those email forward for stupidest things - I don’t know what will.  An Arkansas man walked past a uniformed officer three times before handing the bank teller a hold-up note.  (see entire story here)  Hello!  Was he blind? (more…)

According to the AP Press (see article here), a 47 year old man has kidnapped and/or threatened to kidnap his mother’s cat. Over the course of a year he has extorted around $20,000 from his mother with this ploy. Makes a person wonder what has happened to parental respect. (more…)

An article in today’s news jumped out at me only because it touched on a subject I had just been exposed to for the first time a few years ago. Home Owners Associations and their rules and regulations. Here is the article.

I read this article and found myself feeling sorry for Dwight DeGoli. It sounded as if he were building his retirement dream only to have it compromised by a home owners association. Who can determine what is art? Personally, I think I would have been more offended by the semi-nude statues which were also mentioned in the article, others may have been upset by the multitude of cars parked in the driveway. (more…)