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Um, Why Did My Frigidaire Microwave Randomly Catch Fire?
Though not advertised as a feature, Matt recently learned that if you turn off a Frigidaire microwave and leave the house, it might spontaneously combust. A service tech blamed a short-circuiting...
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Chinese Prisoners Forced To Farm Warcraft Gold Or Get Beatings
To get ahead in online games like the popular World of Warcraft, sometimes people will turn to the black market and purchase in-game gold from other gamers using real world dollars. It sounds...
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Woman Struck By Lightning While Cashing Out At The Grocery Store
(bootykika) Did you think that you were safe from lightning strikes while you’re indoors, paying for your groceries? Apparently not. A woman standing in line at a Louisiana supermarket was struck by...
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Meanwhile, Here’s Walmart’s Costume Offering For School-Age Boys
I don’t know about these kids today, but I don’t imagine this blood-soaked white coat and creepy would have gone over well at my elementary school’s Halloween costume parade. Yet the “demented doctor”...
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Study: More Kids Injured, Hospitalized After Gobbling Tiny Magnets Since 2009
(Jeremy Schultz)Magnets. They can be fun toys, cute souvenirs, useful money-saving tools, or a life-threatening health hazard. Yes, it’s rare, but a study that will soon be published in the Journal of...
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Target Security Officer Finds Loaded Gun In Toy Section
Playskool makes a wide variety of fun and adorable products, but they don’t make a 9mm Lugar pistol. Yet a Target employee found a loaded gun sitting out in the toy department last Friday, and want the...
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Mechanical Giraffe Escapes From Hell, Sold At Discount Toy Store
The box for this toy giraffe says that it “Walks Along, Moves Head, And Shriek.” Verb tenses aside, that description is alarmingly accurate. The toy does all of those things, including shrieking like a...
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Mysterious Substance On Package Sickens Apple Store Employees, Sends 4 To...
(Aaron G (Zh3uS))Retail stores receive lots of packages every day, but no one expects them to send employees to the hospital. That’s what happened at an Apple Store in Monterey, California, when a...
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Tempered Glass Shower Doors Are Shattering For No Reason
The appealing feature of tempered glass is that it is supposed to not break into giant jagged shards that can injure you, but it’s not supposed to shatter in the first place. That’s what makes it an...
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Walmart Employee Drags Unconscious Woman From Her Burning Car
When employees of a Pennsylvania Walmart learned that there was a car on fire in the parking lot early in the morning on New Year’s Day, they didn’t sit around, stare into space, and wait for the fire...
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