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microsoft and bestbuy being sued
According to Reuters, Kim went into his local Best Buy and made a purchase using his debit card. Along with Kim's purchases, the checkout clerk scanned an MSN free trial disk. Kim says that he questioned why the disk was scanned and was told it was for stock-keeping purposes. He thought nothing more of it... For a while.
Some time afterwards he discovered that money was being debited from his bank account. It was going to MSN. Best Buy had passed Kim's debit card details to the Microsoft division and it had activated an account for him.
Kim says that he never asked for that account, never used the disk and certainly didn't want it. But he has been unable to get a full refund and has reached the end of his tether. He is also concerned that many others could have been caught in this trap.
crooks.
british superman
The Kent and Sussex Courier said it had received letters from "stunned residents" of the town of Tunbridge Wells, southeast of London, who saw the man in a brown mask and cape scare off hooligans and return a woman's dropped purse.
lightsaber practice
wanna see a slightly overweight kid practice his lightsaber fighting skills? well, that's exactly that this is. it gets better with every take.
satellite-guided shopping cart
i hope the stores here get these. there's some things i can just never remember where they are.
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GPS, initially designed for the U.S. military, will guide shoppers by showing arrows on a screen that shows them the correct shelf.
stomach pains
this kid had stomach pains. turns out he was pregnant. yes he was pregnant...kinda. and with his own twin brother.
Doctors at Chimkent Children's Hospital in Kazakhstan originally believed Mourat Zhanaidarov was suffering from a cyst.
But during surgery, they discovered he was in fact carrying the dead foetus of his twin brother.
The foetus had developed into a tumour but was found to have hair, nails and bones.
bottled ice
well we've had bottled water for a while. i guess it was only a matter of time until bottled ice came long.