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August 4, 2008
Circuit City has ordered that all copies of a Mad Magazine issue be destroyed because they contain a parody of the electronic super-store, 'Sucker City. 'A copy of a memo from Circuit City corporate operations is posted on The Consumerist Web site. The memo instructs employees to remove copies of the longtime funny mag and destory them.
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July 28, 2008
Topics driver, seattle, girlfriend, window, drivers, head, police, focus, bicycle, parking, cars, web, men, car and man
A driver was injured by a group of cyclists Friday after several from the group became violent when he attempted to drive his vehicle through the mass of bicycle riders. The group of bikers came together, as they do every last Friday in Seattle, to ride in a "Critical Mass Ride," which one web site says is an event "to celebrate cycling and to assert cyclists' right to the road. "
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July 2, 2008
Topics bank, computers, route, owned, fbi, personal, computer, internet, security, charges, people and web
Three people are in U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on charges they stole ATM PIN numbers enabling them to grab at least $2 million from Citibank checking and savings accounts. Although the extent of the breach is unknown, the alleged crooks pilfered the PINs between October 2007 and March when bank customers used ATMS inside an unknown number of 7-Eleven stores. Around 5,700 Citibank ATMs are located in U. S. 7-Elevens. However, the bank neither owns or operates the automatic tellers.
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June 24, 2008
The resident of a small island off the coast of Scotland has declared its independence from the United Kingdom. Stuart Hill, the owner of the island, wants it to be a crown dependency, similar to the Channel Islands. According to a statement on his Web site, Hill, who owns Forvik, a 2. 5-acre island in the Shetland Islands, declared that he no longer recognized the authority of the British government or the European Union.
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May 30, 2008
Riders of the London Underground will hold cocktail parties inside rear cars of subway lines at 9 p. m. on Saturday to mark the end of Britons' drinking tradition on public transports. Drinking, and drunkenness, will be banned on trains and buses starting June 1 for a safer and more pleasant travel, a regulation introduced by new London Mayor Boris Johnson on May 7.
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