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  • Outrage: Man loses finger during iPad robbery

    Outrage: Man loses finger during iPad robbery

    Apple says the iPad is "magical and revolutionary," but I don't know if it's worth losing a finger over. A man in Denver purchased an iPad for a business associate—he didn't even know what an iPad was—and as he was exiting the mall another man came up to him and ripped the bag away, severing his finger in the process. Sigh.

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  • Postal worker helps himself to $86,000 worth of Gamefly games

    Postal worker helps himself to $86,000 worth of Gamefly games

    Whoops. Philadelphia-area Gamefly members who have been wondering why in the hell they never got their rented copies of Cooking Mama finally have some answers. The culprit, 34 year old Reginald Johnson of Germantown, PA, stole some 2,200 Gamefly games while working as a mail-processing clerk between April and September of 2008.

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  • Advice: If your Internet connection drops out while playing an online game, don’t stab a random person

    Advice: If your Internet connection drops out while playing an online game, don’t stab a random person

    Oh, dear. We've all been there: you're playing your favorite game online, and then WHAM-O~! you lose your Internet connection. The usual course of action is to mutter “Gosh darn it” to your self, then go about your business. An unusual course of action is to grab a knife, then stab a random person walking in the street. Apparently that has happened, yes.

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  • Don’t try to steal Nintendo DS games from Wal-Mart

    Don’t try to steal Nintendo DS games from Wal-Mart

    Well this is the dumbest story I've ever heard, and I've heard a lot of them! Once upon a time, there was a fugitive in Lee County in Florida. His criminal background—his FourSquare achievements, if you will—included armed robbery and kidnapping. He's thrown in jail in early September, but then breaks out using a fake ID. But then, only a little while later, he's arrested again. Guess what did him in?

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