FACEBOOK/TWITTER Users Warn of DUI Checkpoints

One of the more human aspects of social media is that people use Facebook and Twitter to warn their fellow men and women of DUI checkpoints. Now police are attempting to spring more surprises.

The police are sometimes accused of linear thinking, especially when it comes to DUI checkpoints.

They set them up on Friday and Saturday nights. They redouble their efforts on New Year’s Eve.

Perhaps the finest example would was one [...]

A Harvard MBA’s radical quest to erase his debt

B-school grad Joe Mihalic went on an extreme financial diet to pay down over $90,000 in debt in just seven months and charted his story through an anonymous blogging project.

When he graduated from the Harvard Business School three years ago this month, the economy was a wreck. Nearly one in four of his classmates didn’t have a job at graduation in May 2009. Yet, Joe Mihalic, then 26, was able [...]

Get a room or get off our block! Wealthy New Yorkers demand parking ban because of revellers having sex in cars on their street

Authorities consider weekend night ban after tenants of $9,500-a-month Chelsea apartment complain
Residents say ‘riot’ of ‘drugs, sex and double parking’ is unleashed at night and condoms litter the street

Affluent residents of an upmarket New York street have called for a parking ban after complaints of motorists having sex in their cars.

Revellers are said to be getting frisky in vehicles and littering the area with condoms after leaving night clubs in [...]

Residents Outraged Over HUSTLER’S ‘Mobile Strip Club’ Roaming Neighborhood

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS13) – I know it when I see it. Defining obscenity may have stumped Supreme Court justices, but in San Francisco’s Sunset District, Larry Flynt’s Hustler Club Truck must put the petal to the metal and go.

Girls are inside most Friday and Saturday nights. It’s a mobile enticement for the legions of tourists who share the “XY” chromosome.

But even the tourist libido retires for the night, as so [...]

Minneapolis Police Consider 8 P.M. Curfew After Youth Mob Attacks

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — There have been six mob attacks, in all, since February. Now, police are now wondering if an 8 o’clock curfew keeping anyone 17 and under from two downtown streets will stop the violence.

Nicollet Mall is a destination for many. Outdoor patios where drinks and food are served are a draw not only to people who live here, but also tourist.

Since February, when the sun goes down, later in [...]