Woman racks up $100k in parking tickets

The Astounding Story Of How A Car Worth $600 Racked Up Over $100,000 In Parking Tickets

The Parking Ticket Geek, The Expired Meter

It might just be a world record.

At the very least one particular car has set a City of Chicago record for receiving the most parking violations ever and accumulating the most parking fines in the city’s history.

The city claims Jennifer Fitzgerald owes over $100,000 in parking tickets. And no, [...]

Outrage at Miami University flier advising students ‘how to get away with rape’ found in bathroom

 Flier encourages readers to rape unconscious women, prey on those walking alone and always wear condoms
Disturbing guidelines say ‘practice makes perfect, the more you rape the better you are at it!’
University officials criticized for downplaying news and ‘sweeping it under the rug’
At least 27 sexual assaults reported on campus since 2009, 19 of them happened in dorms

Ohio’s Miami University is taking heat after the discovery of a flier advising how [...]

Revealed: Harvard cheating scandal which could see over 100 students thrown out of elite college was discovered because of a TYPO

The Harvard cheating scandal which has rocked the world-famous university and cast doubt on more than 100 students began with a minor typing error, it has been revealed.

125 undergraduates are currently being investigated over allegations they collaborated on a take-home exam paper for a course entitled ‘Introduction to Congress’.

And a leaked letter from the professor who uncovered the cheating reveals the similarities between different students’ answers which he believes cannot [...]

How an unusual book from 1932 is predicting the crash in China

From Mao Money, Mao Problems:

If readers have the time, I highly encourage them to read a book written before 1970 about any financial crisis in history.

There are a lot of financial crises to choose from, and a few masterpieces written on them. A reader might be surprised that they are actually reading a narrative of the crisis they are currently experiencing.

Garet Garrett (not a typo) published a book in 1932 [...]

Was it worth it? Man facing 14 YEARS in jail after going on spending spree when bank puts $70k in his account in error

Joseph Bucci bought a car, a golden retriever and holiday to Orlando with the money
Cash was accidentally transferred to his account when bank teller entered wrong numbers on computer

Facing jail: Joseph Bucci’s spending spree could cost him his freedom

A man is facing a 14-year jail sentence after he spent almost $70,000 that was put into his bank account by mistake.

Joseph Bucci, from Trevose, Pennsylvania, was stunned with he discovered $69,300 [...]

Disastrous typo in contract saw commodities JP Morgan trader paid $3m for job that should only have been $300,000

Trader took bank to court seeking lost earnings

A banker who signed a contract with a missing decimal point, leading him to believe his salary would be ten times more than what was offered, will not be paid out by the trading firm.

JPMorgan Chase does not have to pay Swiss trader Kai Herbert £580,000 because of the mistake in the contract, a London court has ruled.

Herbert was trying to sue JPMorgan [...]

Man fatally shot during Philly rap video shoot — then run over!

OLNEY – March 22, 2012 (WPVI) – Police are investigating the death of a man during the filming of an amateur rap video in the Olney section of Philadelphia.

 

The rap video was being recorded near the security cameras of a restaurant, which apparently captured the violent and deadly incident.

There was a crowd so large at the corner of 5th Street and Tabor Road during the rap video taping, undercover Philadelphia police [...]

See here comparison between Greece and USA stock markets where the abnormally speedy recovery of Greece’s indexes is obvious:

Greece stock markets recovered with amazing speed

To cut it short, there are not many European countries in dire shape, there is JUST GREECE and then others which can be graduated between themselves.

So the prediction: Given the facts that:

1) EUR/USD rate will grow till the end of October /middle November as predicted here to 1,40: EURUSD, then drop back to 1,32 which is the level [...]

OBAMA CAMP LAUNCHES COORDINATED ATTACK

The e-mail from the Democratic National Committee on Thursday was pretty typical, as these things go: a rundown of negative attacks about Tim Pawlenty, the former governor of Minnesota.

But tucked into the campaign missive, which was sent to reporters on the day Mr. Pawlenty was scheduled to participate in the first Republican presidential debate, in South Carolina, was an e-mail from Ben Labolt, a [...]