News of the Weird / Plus, May 11, 2015
News of the Weird / Plus
May 11, 2015 (Part 1) [weird stuff that made me excited (frightened) (ROTFL) (appalled) last week, some of which will appear in News of the Weird soon] [Part 1 on Monday, Part 2 on Tuesday]
Since “all customer service calls are recorded,” as they say, it should be fairly easy for this lady to win big bucks from Verizon Wireless for the heart attack a rep induced by telling a very-calm customer that the police were on their way to arrest her. Virginian-Pilot
The part-time job of a mid-level political appointee in California: being a majordomo of the secret police force called the Masonic Fraternal Police Department. [People who join things like that should lose “adult” status and be knocked back to “teenager.”] Los Angeles Times
“Mr. Zia,” 21, who played games 24/7 for 14 days at an Internet café in China and collapsed, begged paramedics as they stretchered him away to, please, please, hook his stretcher up to the Internet. Daily Telegraph (London)
If you work for IRS and get caught defrauding the agency on your tax returns, you still have a 3-in-4 chance of keeping your job (and a much-better-than-zero chance of getting promoted, even). Associated Press via Salon.com
A British forensic scientist-cum-talk show hostess, part of whose street cred is her claim to have paid for school by lying down for dollars, has threatened to sue her ex-boyfriend for libel for spreading the vicious rumor that she did not used to be a prostitute (from March). The Independent
Only half of the “top 25" hedge fund managers in 2014 actually did better than if their clients had merely bought an index fund tied to the S&P 500. But the thing is that while hedge funds underperformed the S&P for the 6th straight year, those top 25 managers took home $11.62bn (that’s $464m average, which is equal to 17 A-Rods). New York Times
Among America’s Worst-Kept Secrets (tipped by this KATU-TV report on Portland, Ore., International Airport): While you have to take off your shoes and get body-scanned, airport employees only have to punch in a PIN (except in Miami and Orlando, where they get scanned.). Said an ex-employee, “My biggest fear is a disgruntled employee coming in . . . with ill intent.” KATU-TV
May 11, 2015 (Part 1) [weird stuff that made me excited (frightened) (ROTFL) (appalled) last week, some of which will appear in News of the Weird soon] [Part 1 on Monday, Part 2 on Tuesday]
Since “all customer service calls are recorded,” as they say, it should be fairly easy for this lady to win big bucks from Verizon Wireless for the heart attack a rep induced by telling a very-calm customer that the police were on their way to arrest her. Virginian-Pilot
The part-time job of a mid-level political appointee in California: being a majordomo of the secret police force called the Masonic Fraternal Police Department. [People who join things like that should lose “adult” status and be knocked back to “teenager.”] Los Angeles Times
“Mr. Zia,” 21, who played games 24/7 for 14 days at an Internet café in China and collapsed, begged paramedics as they stretchered him away to, please, please, hook his stretcher up to the Internet. Daily Telegraph (London)
If you work for IRS and get caught defrauding the agency on your tax returns, you still have a 3-in-4 chance of keeping your job (and a much-better-than-zero chance of getting promoted, even). Associated Press via Salon.com
A British forensic scientist-cum-talk show hostess, part of whose street cred is her claim to have paid for school by lying down for dollars, has threatened to sue her ex-boyfriend for libel for spreading the vicious rumor that she did not used to be a prostitute (from March). The Independent
Only half of the “top 25" hedge fund managers in 2014 actually did better than if their clients had merely bought an index fund tied to the S&P 500. But the thing is that while hedge funds underperformed the S&P for the 6th straight year, those top 25 managers took home $11.62bn (that’s $464m average, which is equal to 17 A-Rods). New York Times
Among America’s Worst-Kept Secrets (tipped by this KATU-TV report on Portland, Ore., International Airport): While you have to take off your shoes and get body-scanned, airport employees only have to punch in a PIN (except in Miami and Orlando, where they get scanned.). Said an ex-employee, “My biggest fear is a disgruntled employee coming in . . . with ill intent.” KATU-TV
Comments
Ah, California! The whole thing reminds me of the scene from the "Blues Brothers" where Jake and Elwood are trying to find a band member:
Landlady: Are you policemen?
Elwood: No, ms'sm. We're musicians.
You should really check out their website. It is a true exercise in frustration.
Landlady: Are you policemen?
Elwood: No, ms'sm. We're musicians.
You should really check out their website. It is a true exercise in frustration.
Posted by KDP on 05/11/15 at 02:29 PM
IRS: Makes one wonder what the racial makeup of the fired employees is considering the IRS's huge diversity initiative.
Posted by Laz on 05/11/15 at 09:08 PM
Hedge Funds: Isn't that gambling?
IRS: Nothing going on here... move along now.
CA Cops: I'm still waitin' for 'The Big One' so my land on the Nevada border goes up.
TSA: Think of the thousands of bottles of water that are trucked in, placed on planes, and (yours) thrown in trash cans. This airport 'security' is nothing more than a money pit with some fat cats at the bottom raking in the dough.
IRS: Nothing going on here... move along now.
CA Cops: I'm still waitin' for 'The Big One' so my land on the Nevada border goes up.
TSA: Think of the thousands of bottles of water that are trucked in, placed on planes, and (yours) thrown in trash cans. This airport 'security' is nothing more than a money pit with some fat cats at the bottom raking in the dough.
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 05/12/15 at 12:36 AM
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