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Stupid “Payment Demand” Letter of the Day

Getting a letter threatening to turn of your internet service for non-payment isn’t surprising….unless of course the amount in question is $0.00. Uh-oh, you’d better cut a check before you are sent to collections!

Bear Breaks Into Car, Goes On Joy Ride

“So this bear opened the door on his own. Somehow the door closed behind him. He panicked and started thrashing around, hit the shifter and put the car, took it out of park,” Ralph said. “It rolled back, down over the hill, and down into here, and stopped. The four way flashers were on. It’s like he knew what was going on, and kept hitting the horn.”

The World’s Happiest Countries

Quantifying happiness isn’t an easy task. Researchers at the Gallup World Poll went about it by surveying thousands of respondents in 155 countries, between 2005 and 2009, in order to measure two types of well-being.

Time Warner Cable and The $12,000 Installation Fee

Look, I understand the need to charge a fee to run cable to a house but billing someone $12,000 for installation is absolutely ridiculous. Mind you, this is an actual bill (not a typo) the company is trying to charge a homeowner in Massachusetts.

Williams’ home on Fernside Street near the Tyringham town line is roughly 300 feet away from the nearest utility pole. Since the $35 installation fee covers up to 200 feet, [the customer] said he realizes he’ll have to pay extra for the additional 100 feet, but he won’t pay $12,000.