Unrelated imagine of D-list “celebrity” using ATM machine
We love Wired magazine, and their blogs are pretty good too. Recently the “Threat Level” blog, concerning privacy, security, politics, and crime online covered the stories around recent Citibank ATM heists. It hasn’t really been publicized, but nearly $200,000 was stolen by ATM thefts in just three days [...]

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Whoops! One Utah woman can sleep easy tonight after recovering nearly $200,000 she threw out with her trash on garbage collection day. How someone manages to accidentally throw out hundreds of thousands of dollars is beyond us, but then again, we’ve never had enough money for that to be an issue ;-). The woman (unidentified) [...]

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Shaquille O’Neal is a big man, with an even bigger budget
The Cuban Revolution has a very interesting article on the reasons the rich and famous (particularly athletes, musicians, and the like) go broke, often spectacularly like Michael Jackson, Mike Tyson, Johnny Unitas, and most recently Evander Holyfield. The Toronto Star recently wrote about the financial [...]

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A airline called Flybe, reminding you to fly be-fore the rates go up!
Rick Seaney recently compiled a list of fees that hypothetical airline fees that could be a reality in the future. Even though the list of “Top Ten Totally Crazy Airline Fees — That Don’t Exist — Yet!” seems crazy, we’re sure many Americans [...]

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Would you ever just throw your money away? One Indonesian businessman is planning to do just that this coming Sunday as a publicity stunt for his new book. Tung Desem Waringin is planning to drop 100 million rupiah ($10,600) out of an airplane over the country’s capital Jakarta, where thousands of Indonesians live on less [...]

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Residents of 11 homes in Pasco County, Florida are pissed off at 818 Land Trust for trying to sell them a strip of their own backyards. The land trust recently purchased the land that borders the homes from the city and then sent the residents registered letters notifying them that they were trespassing. They would [...]

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Yuegang Zuo pointing at his drug “stash”
In a study at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth chemistry professor Yuegang Zuo analyzed random one dollar bills collected throughout Southeastern Massachusetts for the past two years. His findings are a little surprising, as he found trace amounts of cocaine in 67 percent of the dollar bills he collected. [...]

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