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Visa’s New Debt Program

Jul 16

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A technical snafu left some Visa prepaid cardholders stunned and horrified Monday to see a $23,148,855,308,184,500 charge on their statements.

Josh Muszynski noticed the 17-digit charge while making a routine balance inquiry.

That’s about 2,007 times the size of the national debt.

Josh Muszynski, 22, of Manchester, New Hampshire, was one Visa customer aghast to find the 17-digit charge on his bill. Adding insult to injury, he had also been hit with a $15 overdraft fee.

He noticed that his debt exceeded the world GDP while making a routine balance inquiry on his online Bank of America account. According to his statement, he had spent the profound sum in one pop at a nearby Mobil gas station — his regular stop for Camel cigarettes…

In a statement, Visa said the rogue charges affected “fewer than 13,000 prepaid transactions” and resulted from a “temporary programming error at Visa Debit Processing Services … [which] caused some transactions to be inaccurately posted to a small number of Visa prepaid accounts.”

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Overdue Library Book Warrant

Jul 8

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Twenty-one year-old Victoria Rogers says she wishes she could change the past.

The local mother has been a fugitive since January — wanted by authorities in Killeen, Texas.

“I apologized and said I didn’t mean to,” Rogers said.

Out of fear of being picked up for her outstanding warrant, Rogers says she refuses to drive or apply for a job.

If only she had returned that library book to the Killeen Public Library, this would not be an issue.

“I was floored,” Rogers said. “I couldn’t believe a warrant for a library book.”

Killeen city prosecutor Holli Clements says that usually in these kinds of cases, some kind of agreement can be reached, but the city still does treat it as a crime based on the city ordinance.

Rogers must show-up to court and pay a $340 fine. That’s a steep price to pay, this mother says, for an overdue book.

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Not sure what’s worse, the ridiculous fine or her dramatic fear of the outstanding warrant.

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Toy Nuclear Plant Scare

Jun 30

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A toy nuclear power plant built by two six year-olds sparked a public alert in Germany, only for authorities to discover the would-be security threat was the shell of a computer with a radiation warning sign stuck to it.

Fire services and police cordoned off several streets and told residents to stay indoors in the western town of Oelde after the two boys left their mock power station on the street when they went home for dinner Monday evening.

“It wasn’t a prank, they were just playing,” a local police spokeswoman said Tuesday. “The boys tried to go back later to carry on but the fire brigade wouldn’t let them through.”

The lock-down of the area began when a passer-by saw the metal object with the yellow and black symbol on it, took fright and alerted authorities, the spokeswoman said.

Police sent out warnings on local radio for residents to remain in their homes while a radiation detector was rushed to the scene to investigate the old computer casing and the warning sign, which the boys had printed out from the internet.

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Stuck in Dryer

Jun 26

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Don’t ask Dave Chapman why he climbed into the clothes dryer, it’s an answer that eludes even him.

All he will say is the experience that followed won’t be repeated.

His experience involves one pair of underpants, a Hoover 5050 ED heavy-duty dryer (with a 5kg load-bearing capability) and Dave.

He had been drinking with a few mates at Waipopo, near Timaru, on Saturday and went to change his clothes. When it came to finding a pair of undies to put on, Dave checked the dryer.

“By that time, I’d had a fair bit to drink; I don’t know what flaming possessed me to get in it. I was trying to find these undies when everything just got stuck.”

Dave, who still hadn’t found the clothes to cover his lower half, managed to fit his head, shoulders and arms into the dryer in his search for appropriate clothing.

“I thought my undies were there, but obviously not.”

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56 Star Face Tattoo

Jun 24

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Teenager Kimberley Vlaminck woke up to after falling asleep in a tattooist’s chair - despite claiming she only asked for three stars.

The 18-year-old, who is now suing the body artist for £8,500, said: “I can’t go out on the street. I am so embarrassed. I look horrible.”

Kimberley says she nodded off during the lengthy and painful procedure and awoke to “the nightmare” of 56 stars across her face.

(but wait…there’s more…)

It was merely a case of buyer’s remorse.

It turns out she was awake the whole time, had asked for all 56 of the stars, and was “fully aware” of what tattoo artist Rouslan Toumaniantz was doing, the Daily Mail reports.

The lie began when she came home with her newly decorated face and her father was very upset.

“I asked for 56 stars and initially adored them. But when my father saw them, he was furious,” Vlaminck told a Dutch TV crew. “So I said I fell asleep and that the tattooist had made a mistake.”

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We think she should add just one more tattoo to all those stars:

tattooface

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