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UPS Loses Wedding Rings, Pretends They Were Held By Customs For 6 Weeks

http://ift.tt/1tJdvUA ( Zsolt Székely ) A few weeks ago, reader Melissa got married. Congratulations, Melissa! Only she and her now-husband...

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Dollar General Extends Deadline For Family Dollar Offer, Hopes Shareholders Finally Give In To Advances

http://ift.tt/1wOLU5d ( Mark Clifton ) The drama that is the dollar store wars doesn’t appear to be ending anytime soon, with Dollar Gener...

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Study: Broadband Still Slower, More Expensive In U.S. Than In Europe, Asia

http://ift.tt/1ue3jWh ( Tom Richardson ) American consumers have gotten a mixed bag of broadband news this year. Between mergers and net ne...

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Bag Of Cash Falls Out Of Armored Truck, Scatters Across Highway

http://ift.tt/1tq0C0b ( FastFords ) Some commuters this morning in Maryland encountered some unexpected excitement when they saw a huge amou...

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This Target Call Of Duty Promo Is Either Not Bad Or Chintziest Thing Ever

http://ift.tt/1tq0A8D ( Reddit ) The new Call of Duty game comes out next week, and various retailers are doing what they can to lure in bu...

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New Crash Test Dummies Will Gain A Few Pounds To Better Reflect Fatalities Of Obese Drivers

http://ift.tt/1u1WbeN Humanetics announced this week that it will begin making an obese crash test dummy. We’ve all seen the dummies used i...

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NY Pols Want Free Broadband For Public Housing, WiFi For Parks If Comcast Deal Approved

http://ift.tt/1wNCtRE ( Vivienne Gucwa ) Usually by this point in the review process of a mega-merger like the one pending between Comcast ...

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Petition Demands Big Banks Give Consumers Back Our Right To Sue

http://ift.tt/1udHkPe ( Colin ) Since 2011, when the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed that it was perfectly okay for companies to take away a co...

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Florida Man Stuffs Chainsaw Up Shirt, Tries To Bicycle Away

http://ift.tt/1nWZu4Q A few years ago, we shared the story of a bold shoplifter who thought that nobody would notice if he stuffed a chainsa...

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28,980 Pounds Of Chicken Kiev Recalled For Connection With Salmonella Illness

http://ift.tt/1udrR1I Sometimes you want Chicken Kiev but don’t feel like pounding out the chicken breasts, stuffing them with butter and h...

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UPS Driver Kicks Fragile Package, Is Caught On Camera

http://ift.tt/1nWCPpv We at Consumerist have wondered for years now why courier service drivers haven’t yet figured out that business and r...

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Disney’s Search Engine Patent Lumps Movie Piracy In With Child Porn

http://ift.tt/1q9cwrZ ( Mrs. Gemstone ) The folks at Disney have patented a search engine that ranks and filters out results based on “auth...

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Ferrari To Pay $3.5M Penalty For Failure To Submit Fatality Reports To NHTSA For Three Years

http://ift.tt/1tptS7g ( Ian ) As we’ve reported previously, car manufacturers are required to report death and injury claims to the Nation...

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Review Of Dunkin’ Donuts Not-A-Cronut: It’s The Lookalike Pet Parents Buy When Real One Dies

http://ift.tt/1tED1eK Earlier this week, Dunkin’ Donuts announced that it was jumping on the call-it-anything-but-a-Cronut craze by offerin...

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Does Using Someone Else’s Costco Card To Steal From Store Count As Burglary?

https://consumermediallc.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/kirklandbabywipes.png?w=680&h=387 ( Groovnick ) When you leave a store without hav...

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Developmentally Disabled Man Falls Over Mall Railing, Dies

http://ift.tt/1nWCL94 ( Kerry Lannert ) Police say that what happened yesterday at the Palisades Center mall in the suburbs of New York City...

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Deer Goes On Rampage Breaking Windows At Subway, Visiting Auto Repair Center

http://ift.tt/1tptOEJ ( Marike79 ) A deer’s lack of opposable thumbs led him to take a different route while trying to obtain a foot-long ...

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Nissan Recalls 1,848 Infiniti Vehicles Over Defective Takata Airbags

http://ift.tt/1tptLbS ( John ) The number of vehicles recalled related to defective Takata airbags increased by more than 1,000 vehicles ...

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Walmart Shoplifter Threatens To Infect Employee With HIV

http://ift.tt/1vonqf4 ( Patrick ) A wannabe shoplifter at a Dallas Walmart somehow thought it would be a good idea to threaten a store empl...

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Forget Black Friday, Holiday Shopping Season Starts Tomorrow

http://ift.tt/1q8qUR8 ( SOB Photography ) While children and parents around the country are sitting around, regretting the huge amount of s...

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FCC To Propose New “Hybrid” Approach To Net Neutrality

http://ift.tt/1G2cT1q The FCC proposed their new, “fast lane” net neutrality rule back in May. Since then pretty much everyone — from Con...

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Starbucks Plans To Launch Delivery Service In 2015

http://ift.tt/1ucFT3D ( Ron G ) If you didn’t things could be more convenient than having the ability to order and pay-ahead of picking up...

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Consumerist Friday Flickr Finds

http://ift.tt/1ucFQVg Here are six of the best photos that readers added to the Consumerist Flickr Pool in the last week, picked for usabil...

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