Okay, this just makes me laugh… According to a blurb in the most recent issue of Bottom Line/Personal, many jails accept credit cards for posting bail. But wait, it gets better:
“Cardholders can go home quickly – and may get reward points on their credit cards.”
So if you’re looking for another way to make use of [...]

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Published on December 26th, 2007 - 20 Comments
Filed under: Credit Cards, Humor
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Checkbook Security: Keep an Eye on Your Checks!

Written by Nickel - 2 Comments

Phew! That was close… We were nearly the victims of six million dollars in check fraud. And the worst part of it was that this ‘atrocity’ was perpetrated by our own children. Click through for details.

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Published on November 7th, 2006 - 2 Comments
Filed under: Banking, Humor
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Brits Often Work Drunk

Written by Nickel - 10 Comments

Based on the results of a recent survey, millions of Brits go to work drunk (or get drunk while they’re there, I guess). More specifically, one in six Brits admit to having been “under the influence of alcohol at work in the last six months.” And to think that the World Cup hasn’t even started [...]

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Published on May 31st, 2006 - 10 Comments
Filed under: Humor, Working
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You Know Gas is Expensive When…

Written by Nickel - 6 Comments

From News of the Weird:
A 40-year-old man in Cedarburg, Wis., was arrested on suspicion of DUI when police noticed the severed hose of a gas station pump sticking out of his car’s fuel door. (It belonged to a Kwik Trip station.)
Note to self: Make sure to remove the hose before pumping and running.
[Source: News of [...]

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Published on April 28th, 2006 - 6 Comments
Filed under: Automotive, Humor
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Dodging Taxes with a Lame Excuse

Written by Nickel - 4 Comments

From News of the Weird… Here’s an especially lame excuse for not paying your taxes:
James Clifford Hanna, of Canada’s Yukon Territory, argued in court in February that “James Clifford Hanna” was merely a name involuntarily given to him and that since he never officially accepted it, he can’t be forced to pay James Clifford Hanna’s [...]

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Published on March 17th, 2006 - 4 Comments
Filed under: Humor, Taxes
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Be Careful What You Ask For

Written by Nickel - 2 Comments

More News of the Weird:
In December, a self-employed market analyst in Chimacum, Wash., requested from the Internal Revenue Service a copy of the 2003 Form 1040 and instructions so he could revise an old tax return. Three weeks later, he received instead two shipments totaling 48,000 copies of 2005 Form 1040 and instructions.
Wouldn’t it be [...]

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Published on March 9th, 2006
Modified on March 7th, 2006 - 2 Comments
Filed under: Humor, Taxes
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Talk About an Allowance!

Written by Nickel - 11 Comments

Don’t you just feel terrible for this guy?
In January, Alexis du Pont de Bie Sr., 62, who grew up in a du Pont family mansion and inherited $7 million, filed a lawsuit in New York City accusing his estate’s trustees of mismanagement that has reduced his wealth to $2 million and necessitated a cut in [...]

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Published on March 7th, 2006 - 11 Comments
Filed under: Humor
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Don’t Tax, But Still Spend

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From Chuck Shepherd’s News of the Weird:
Tax officials in Valparaiso, Ind., admitted in February that they mistakenly valued one house at $400 million (though its previous assessment was $121,900), and even though they re-computed the owner’s bill, they failed to erase from the city budget the $8 million in tax revenue they were expecting from [...]

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Published on March 2nd, 2006 - 4 Comments
Filed under: Humor, Taxes
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