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Simpsons Are a Bad Example; Watch Baywatch Instead, Kids

April 9, 2008 By Jesse Petersen

And people think Bush looks like an idiot!According to FoxNews yesterday, Venezuela has deemed the 11am slot to have too much exposure to children to watch Simpsons and have been airing Baywatch Hawaii for the past couple of weeks. Apparently children are too impressionable to watch Simpsons.

So far, there haven’t been any complaints about Baywatch being on.

Can anyone say: the kids are in school and the 22 yr. old loser guys who are at home at 11am aren’t going to complain?

Read the whole story at: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,347910,00.html
Photo credits: Here.

Filed Under: Common Sense, Current Events, Humor, Wacky Wednesday Tagged With: Baywatch, D'oh!, Hugo Chavez, Simpsons

Pool Stolen… 1,000 Gallons of Water, Too

July 26, 2007 By Jesse Petersen

My pool is gone!Daisy Valdivia woke up Wednesday morning to take out the recycling, only to discover that their 10 foot, 1,000 gallon pool was missing from the back yard. What is stranger yet is that there is no evidence of what happened to the water.

Investigators say it was not dumped, pumped, drunk, or evaporated. The heist (if you can call it that) happened in a mere 4 hours between 1 am and 5 am without making enough noise to call attention to their activities.

The take-away line from the whole story:

“I just want to know what the heck they did with the water.”

Read the whole story: Pool stolen from Paterson yard

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Go Ahead! Toss Your PC!

July 18, 2007 By Jesse Petersen

Grrr. So help me, I'll...Reuters is reporting that a German man disturbed the peace last night by chucking his PC out the window onto the street below, waking up neighbors who called the police. When the police arrived, they got the full story: he was pissed at his computer.

Take away line: “Who hasn’t felt like doing that?”

Read the full story at Reuters.com.

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Sprint Says 1,200 Customers Aren’t Worth the Trouble

July 11, 2007 By Jesse Petersen

A Jacksonville, FL news site is reporting that they are cancelling the contracts and accounts of over 1,000 annoying customers this month. That’s right: annoying customers.

I have to agree with their decision.

The News4Jax.com article states that the clients involved in the dump call 40-50 times per month making complaints and “unreasonable requests.” There is a line to how much time a company can spend on one person, especially if nothing productive ever happens during that time.

Several things happen with activity like this:

  • Customer service call wait times increase.
  • Customer service staff are more likely to burn out or non-service good clients.
  • Service prices will possibly rise.
  • The true wishes of the masses are overshadowed by the few.

If the customers and the provider are not happy with the situation, then I think it is right for the provider to discontinue their relationship with such problem-makers. It is obviously not something you do on the the drop of the hat because customers are the only source of income a service provider has, but some customers aren’t worth the trouble.

That’s my take on it, how do you feel about Sprint’s move?

Filed Under: Personal, Wacky Wednesday
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