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Tuesday, May 5th, 2009Is it illegal to not slow down or stop when an emergency vehicle, be it Police, Fire or Medical, is seen flying by going to whatever emergency the vehicle is going to? The simple answer to this is a resounding Yes! The complex answer centers around a law in the Lone Star State. On 9/1/03, [...]
Fact Check Tuesday: Dumb Criminality
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009OK, so it’s been a while since I’ve done one of these, so I figured I’d start with a rather humorous couple of bits… First off, there’s no shortage of dumb 911 calls, and it stands to reason you’d have to be a certified idiot to call 911 and be the crook! One such example [...]
Fact Check Tuesday: Did Dr. Pepper promise a free soda if Guns N’ Roses released their new album in ’08
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008This one is ripped right out of the headlines, and it’s rather amusing having watched the story unfold… Apparently, the company that makes Dr. Pepper decided on a promotion in March of ’08, where if Guns N’ Roses, one of the more (in)famous bands of the ’80′s and early ’90′s, released their album “Chinese Democracy” [...]
Fact Check Tuesday: An Englishman once broke the bank at a Monte Carlo Casino
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008This is a case that predates the MIT blackjack team by well over acentury, and proved that geeks can have some fun in a csino, even in the 19th century. It begins with an Englishman named Joseph Jaggers, who by trade was an engineer and mechanic. One day, he decided to study roulette wheels on [...]
Fact Check Tuesday: Coca Cola was once considered Anti-Semetic
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008International companies can potentially be in dicey situations simply by wanting to do business. In the Middle East, such a situation can exist if a company wants to do business there, especially in Israel. Coca Cola was no exception to this. In 1966, at a news conference in Tel Aviv, Coca Cola was taken to [...]
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