Oddities and Humor

Good laugh! Thanks.

I was prepared to decry this woman's nosiness. But, she is a hero.

After 29 years as a U.S. Postal Service employee, Debbie Hill has watched the people in her branch grow up right before her eyes.

“I know a lot of my customers. I’ve watched parents become grandparents. I’ve watched the generations come up,” she told SC Now.

So, when one of her elderly patrons began coming in a lot more often than usual, red flags started going up for Hill.

The woman in question had gone from only visiting to buy stamps to sending out Express Mail parcels constantly.

“She came in too often. It was just totally out of character for her,” Hill said.

Sensing something was up with the elderly woman, Hill reached out to Thomas Gasser, a U.S. postal inspector from Charleston, and begged him to look into the woman’s situation.

Thanks to Hill’s perceptiveness that day, the poor woman ended up avoiding being robbed of $45,000.

As it turns out, the woman—along with elderly folks around the world—had fallen victim to a serious Jamaican-mail scam.

According to SC Now, individuals over the age of 60 are the main targets of this vicious scam, which essentially cons people into sending money overseas for various phony reasons.

“People are trying to rip the elderly folks off and convince them of many things,” said Gasser. “Maybe they’ve won the lottery, maybe someone is hurt and needs money… anything they can do to try and get money out of these folks.”

Although Hill is now being praised for her heroic good deed in her community, she insists she was just doing her job.

“You just have to be alert and know your customers and their habits and if its out of the norm, personally I think we need to check on it,” Hill said. “If it turns out to be nothing, that’s fine. If it turns out to be something like this, you know then we’ve saved people’s money.”

http://www.mommypage.com/2015/12/elderly-woman-only-ever-comes-in-to-buy-stamps-when-she-starts-mailing-suspicious-packages-postal-worker-gets-a-bad-feeling/?utm_source=ape_tickld

Company ordered to pay back wages for bathroom breaks
http://www.khou.com/story/money/2016/01/05/newsletter-company-ordered-pay-back-wages-bathroom-breaks/78299490/

A Reporter Got Stabbed While Testing a Stab-Proof Vest

Pretty accurate depiction of an atheist. Particularly the mug of coffee.

There's no way this will work against a train.

That's what makes it funny.

THESE ARE ACTUAL COMPLAINTS RECEIVED BY "THOMAS COOK VACATIONS" FROM DISSATISFIED CUSTOMERS:

1. "They should not allow topless sunbathing on the beach. It was very distracting for my husband who just wanted to relax."

2. "On my holiday to Goa in India, I was disgusted to find that almost every restaurant served curry. I don't like spicy food."

3. "We went on holiday to Spain and had a problem with the taxi drivers as they were all Spanish."

4. "We booked an excursion to a water park but no-one told us we had to bring our own swimsuits and towels. We assumed it would be included in the price."

5. "The beach was too sandy. We had to clean everything when we returned to our room."

6. "We found the sand was not like the sand in the brochure. Your brochure shows the sand as white but it was more yellow."

7. "It's lazy of the local shopkeepers in Puerto Vallartato close in the afternoons. I often needed to buy things during 'siesta' time -- this should be banned."

8. "No-one told us there would be fish in the water. The children were scared."

9. "Although the brochure said that there was a fully equipped kitchen, there was no egg-slicer in the drawers."

10. "I think it should be explained in the brochure that the local convenience store does not sell proper biscuits like custard creams or ginger nuts."

11. "The roads were uneven and bumpy, so we could not read the local guide book during the bus ride to the resort. Because of this, we were unaware of many things that would have made our holiday more fun."

12. "It took us nine hours to fly home from Jamaica to England. It took the Americans only three hours to get home. This seems unfair."

13. "I compared the size of our one-bedroom suite to our friends' three-bedroom and ours was significantly smaller."

14. "The brochure stated: 'No hairdressers at the resort.' We're trainee hairdressers and we think they knew and made us wait longer for service."

15. "When we were in Spain, there were too many Spanish people there. The receptionist spoke Spanish, the food was Spanish. No one told us that there would be so many foreigners."

16. "We had to line up outside to catch the boat and there was no air-conditioning."

17. "It is your duty as a tour operator to advise us of noisy or unruly guests before we travel."

18. "I was bitten by a mosquito. The brochure did not mention mosquitoes."

19. "My fiancée and I requested twin-beds when we booked, but instead we were placed in a room with a king bed. We now hold you responsible and want to be re-reimbursed for the fact that I became pregnant. This would not have happened if you had put us in the room that we booked."

These sound made up, maybe fifty years ago, but I guess they're real.


Talk about a pity.

How verified is all that Thomas Cook data?