Posts Tagged ‘money’

For any parent, it’s almost too hard to imagine. According to Philadelphia police, a group of parents planned to poison their own children, in hopes of suing for money later on. The children were supposed to go on a field trip in late May or early June. The kids planned to head to a ballpark [...]

Julia Roberts fanatic, Miljenko Parserisas Bukovic, has tattooed his body with 82 different images of her face.

Police who swooped to smash a child porn ring in the Serbian city of Novi Sad found it was being run by a bunch of primary schoolgirls. Police found that more than 30 girls aged around 10 and 11 had voluntarily been taking snaps of themselves and posting them online to earn cash. Police internet [...]

Three in 10 Americans commit “financial infidelity” by lying to their spouses about money, sometimes suffering consequences such as separation or divorce, according to a new survey. The Harris Interactive online poll of 2,019 adults released on Thursday showed 31 percent of American couples who have combined finances were not truthful about issues such as [...]

Republicans have repeated the lie that tax cuts are always good for the economy so often that all of Washington seems absolutely convinced that it’s true. The conventional wisdom is so established on this that all a Republican has to say is, “Everyone knows you don’t raise taxes in the middle of a recession…” Or [...]

Patrick Vaillancourt wanted to break a world record, but this one will stay with him forever. Over the next year, the 29-year-old from Montreal will have over 100,000 Internet addresses tattooed on his body.

A man plans to ride his Harley-Davidson about 300 miles from the Mackinac Bridge in Michigan to the Ohio border without using his hands to steer to raise money for Parkinson’s disease research. Phil Comar of Adrian told The Daily Telegram that the Sunday ride is in memory of his father, Robert, who died in [...]

Hamilton bank staff were left laughing after a bare-chested man demanded 50 cents from them, before crouching down then running away yesterday. TSB manager Sandra Makein told the Waikato Times it was definitely one of the more unusual attempted robberies she had heard of. “If you can call it a robbery,” she said. Police said [...]

Taxi Driver Returns Bag with $26,500 Inside

Posted: 14th June 2010 by Sus Scrofa in Happy News
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A Vietnamese company says it’s lucky an honest man was driving the taxi cab where a forgetful employee left a bag with about $26,500 in the back seat. Nguyen Thi Thuy Lien, human resources officer for Cuu Long Petro Gas Service Transportation JSC in Ho Chi Minh City, says the passenger left the bag in [...]

20 Bizaare Money-Saving Tips for the New Year

Posted: 29th December 2009 by Sus Scrofa in Economy | Finance
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Secret Santas Hand Out $100 Bills to Needy

Posted: 10th December 2009 by Veritas in Happy News
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Terminal cancer patient Herman Smithey III left a Kansas City-area hospital wondering how he would pay $100 for antibiotics to treat his recent bout with pneumonia. The answer walked through the retired police officer‘s door Wednesday clad in a red coat and cap — a Secret Santa bearing a gift of $2,000.