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Woman Sells First Spot in iPad 2 Line For $900 [VIDEO]
College student Amanda Foote has turned the die-hard techie tradition of waiting hours, sometimes days, to be the first to purchase a new Apple product into a lucrative odd job. After nearly 41 hours of waiting in line for the iPad 2 release at Apple’s flagship store in New York, she sold her number one spot for $900. Foote sat through an entire day of rain, had a stranger help himself to a box of doughnuts she was eating, and slept a total of 3 hours and 10 minutes in the time between when she got in line at 5 p.m.
Palm Beach County man scolded for cleaning up trash on private properties
BELLE GLADE, Fla. - A Palm Beach County man is being scorned by the city of Belle Glade after going on littered private properties. Hydn Rousseau says his cleanup effort to beautify neighborhoods is an attempt to fight crime, but the city says he could be charged with criminal trespassing. "I saw debris and trash everywhere and I said I have to come back home and make a difference in my community," stated Rousseau.
Remember how we all laughed last Friday at the cautionary tale that was “Girl falls into fountain while texting at the Berkshire Mall” ? Well, the folks at the mall where the incident occurred probably aren’t laughing now, as Cathy Cruz Marrero (the fountain woman) is considering suing them. The video in question — in case you haven’t seen it — is pretty self-explanatory. It features a mall security video with audio of mall employees laughing at Marrero as she texts while walking, subsequently falling into a fountain. Now, Marrero is making the news circuit rounds with a lawyer in tow, stating that she might be suing the mall .
Woman Who Fell in Fountain in YouTube Video May Sue
Enemy Lurks in Briefings on Afghan War - PowerPoint - NYTimes.com
Being a DoD contractor myself, I can personally vouch for the insanity described in this article. by Jan 7
Woman Sues Google After Accident Following Map Directions | BlackBerry Cool
Google is being sued by a woman for damages after Google Maps directions instructed her to walk along a busy highway that had no pedestrian pathway . The woman followed the directions from her BlackBerry and was struck by a vehicle after being told to walk over a mile on a highway. Google Maps is a great service but anyone who has used the mapping program knows that it isn’t always 100% correct. I’ve been on road trips where I’ve had to ignore the service entirely. It would be great if Google could provide meta data about the walking conditions, and whether a pedestrian pathway exists, but still nobody should be following the route blindly.
It’s possible to make real money in virtual worlds, as one user of the MMOG Entropia Universe recently experienced. He sold a set of virtual real estate properties for $335,000: Jacobs, who goes by the in-game name of Neverdie, has made a number of high-profile transactions over the past few years, from the $25,000 sale of his in-game items, to his purchase of a virtual asteroid for $100,000. The purchase of the asteroid, in 2005, was believed to be the most expensive virtual item sale in history.
Virtual Real Estate Sale Record Broken with $335,000 Purchase
Woman Mistakes Superglue for Eyedrops
It’s a classic but tragic mistake. Irmgard Holm of Phoenix, Arizona has several eye drop medications because of cataract surgery, but what she grabbed was a bottle of superglue. “The bottles are identical and I am not young anymore, but I am not senile,” says Holm.