Check from a craiglist scammer puts seller in jail

San Francisco resident Matthew Shinnick tried to sell a pair of mountain bikes on Craigslist late last year. He attracted a buyer, received a check in the mail — and ended up handcuffed by police in a downtown Bank of America branch and jailed for almost 12 hours

[via sfgate]

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Assault caught on tape.

stupid ID thief decides to kick some ass, however the cameras were rolling [via consumerist]

Paris Hilton arrested for DUI, about time.

Paris Hilton was arrested early Thursday for investigation of driving under the influence

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Turn that computer off now

Interesting blog post from LifeDev about having a “computer curfew” take a look.

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Random Trivia

• Cows are among the few herbivores that will become cannibalistic if starving.

• When occupations are rated by their own household’s cleanliness, sanitation workers are surpassed only by chefs.

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The baseball bat which Al Capone used to beat disloyal mobsters Scalise
and Anselmi to death was recently auctioned off for $475,000.

• The animated cowboy Woody in Toy Story was so named as a nod to Woody Guthrie.

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A professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has created a computer system that uses positioning lasers, micro-current air measurements, radar speed sensors, and other instruments to measure 27 different variables when a coin is flipped in the air. It can correctly call heads-or-tails nearly 50 percent of the time.

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