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It’s one thing to return to the scene of the crime, but to show up at an even packed with law enforcement after spending months on the run from police? That is just a behavior in its very own category.
In a strange plot twist, a man wanted under suspicion that he robbed a few local grocery stores nine months ago popped up at an anti-crime police event, where he beat police and fire fighters in a doughnut-eating competition, reports My Fox 8 in North Carolina.
The 24-year-old suspect was wanted for felony break-ins dating nine months back, when his big win devouring eight glazed doughnuts in two minutes made it to the local paper. That’s when police noticed their man was back in the public eye.
“When I came in that morning and read that article I was pissed because it’s like throwing it in our face,” a deputy with the sheriff’s office said. “We’ve been looking for you for months. I didn’t ask him if he won a trophy – he probably did.”
Though that doesn’t mean his feat isn’t impressive.
“I did congratulate him,” he said. “Good for him. He can eat a lot of doughnuts. Good for him.”
Investigators said the man broke into a grocery store last November, and a storage building at a shopping center in May, though nothing was stolen. He’s also suspected of stealing $5,000 in cash from a local home in December.
“It’s like he had the audacity to do something like that [competing in the doughnut competition] knowing that he had broken into these places,” the deputy adds.
He was arrested the day after his sweet victory and charged with two counts of felony breaking and entering and misdemeanor injury to real property.
NC man arrested after winning doughnut eating contest [MyFox8.com]
The theft drew national news attention not just because some terrible person stole wigs bound for an event meant to make women with cancer feel better about their appearance. It was the surveillance camera footage from the store that made us notice the story.
The thief crawled in front of the camera, or maybe the proper word is “slithered.” He stayed low to the ground in order to avoid motion sensors, snatching only wigs that he could reach from down there. “He slid on his stomach and stole our wigs and slid back out the wall like a rat,” the store owner told TV station KHOU. (Warning: auto-play video)
Fortunately, as soon as stories about the theft hit the news, donors stepped up and replaced the wigs for the event at nonprofit organization Big C New Me.
However, the string of hair store thefts are worrisome. The owner of the first store hit has some useful consumer advice, though: don’t buy wigs, extensions, or weaves of questionable provenance. “Don’t buy hair out of a trunk,” she told the public. “That’ll stop all these kinds of break-ins.” That’s good advice for all kinds of products, not just hair.
Donors help replace stolen wigs in time for fundraiser [KHOU] (Warning: auto-play video)
A sharp-eyed reader of The Impulsive Buy noticed the tree-shaped ice creams on the shelf at Walmart and submitted them in horror. If Christmas-themed ice creams hit shelves during the summer and stay at least through the end of the retail holiday season, how “limited” is that edition, really?
You might remember that last year, one of our readers noticed a related product from Good Humor still on the shelves during August, the Mounds-branded Easter egg version with coconut ice cream. Maybe Walmart should consider putting up an “ice cream novelties from random holidays” shelf.
SPOTTED ON SHELVES – 8/11/2014 [The Impulsive Buy]
The folks at Polygon have confirmed with EA that, while the newest iteration of the football game will be available on Xbox One, Xbox 360, PS3, and PS4, none of those consoles will get the traditional demo download two weeks ahead of the Aug. 26 release.
But EA Access, a subscription service that includes a playable library of games for either $5/month of $29/year, will offer pre-release access to Madden NFL 15.
Sony has said it currently doesn’t intend on adding EA Access to its available services, which makes sense as it preps to launch its own PlayStation Now library of games streamed from the cloud.
Every year, the Madden titles find themselves among the best-selling games. And the demos have been a good way for fans to test out and adapt to the changes that come with each new edition. The inability for many console users to try the demo beforehand will certainly rile some fans up, but given the sheer number of people who buy the game every year, it’s unlikely that the lack of a demo will have a dramatic impact on Madden 15’s sales.
The bigger question is whether the no-demo policy will have the effect of encouraging people to sign up for EA Access. If so, then expect EA to put as much new content behind that subscription wall as possible going forward.
Thanks to Jennifer for the tip!
As well as observing how fast ice cream sandwiches melt on a hot day, Consumer Reports food scientists enlisted the aid of professional tasters to try the five different brands of ice cream sandwiches and describe them.
The Nestle ice cream started to drip 10 minutes in, with the Klondike bar joining in after 15 minutes in 100-degree heat. Ice cream sandwiches from Blue Bunny, Walgreen’s Nice! brand and Walmart Great Value were still holding together after 30 minutes, with the Walmart brand sandwich mostly intact after an hour.
And the common observation about all five? Gumminness, said testers.
“Higher quality ice cream melts clean on the mouth,” one tester noted, adding that these left an “almost foamy feel on the tongue.”
And while Walmart had said that its sandwiches melt slower due to having less cream than other ice creams, it’s no surprise the ice cream tasted gummy, because all five brands have gums added to them to prevent melting and ward off crystallization when freezing.
Check out Consumer Reports’ video of the science experiment below:
As regular readers of Consumerist know, we’re not exactly fans of the payday loan industry. If we were snotty teens and lived in the same neighborhood as Mr. Payday, we’d leave a flaming bag of dog poo on his doorstep. That’s why it was so nice to see our disgust for payday loans shared by John Oliver on HBO’s Last Week Tonight.
The full segment, including a profane celebrity-endorsed ad for a payday alternative is in the YouTube clip embedded above, but for those of you who can’t afford the 16 minutes to watch it, here are the highlights:
1. On their being more payday lending operations than McDonald’s in the U.S.:
“I didn’t know there was anything more than McDonald’s in America, including people and grains of sand.”
2. On payday lender Kwik Kash:
“What could be more reassuring than a business that can’t correctly spell either their product or the speed at which they’re getting it to you?”
3. On Montel Williams’ ads for MoneyMutual.com:
“Quick question Montel: How the hell are you a financial spokesman? ‘Hey everybody, isn’t that the guy who did that episode on how difficult it is to be the less pretty conjoined twin? Everybody be quiet, this guy might have some pretty sound financial advice!'”
4. On 1900% APRs on payday loans:
“Even the most demanding, abusive football coach only ask for 110.”
5. On a single payday loan resulting in several subsequent payday loans to cover the original amount borrowed:
“Basically, payday loans are the Lay’s potato chips of finance — you can’t have just one and they’re terrible for you.”
6. On the huge amount of money that payday loan borrowers often end up paying just to finance a small initial loan:
“It is not often that a metaphorical slipper slope costs as much as a ski vacation.”
7. On the argument that the customer demand for payday loans justifies their existence:
“It’s also worth pointing out that the customer demand for heroin is overwhelming and that doesn’t mean it’s a product you’d necessarily recommend to your friends to get them out of a jam.”
8. On Cash America paying millions in penalties for illegally overcharging military servicemembers:
“They must have been the ones driving around with the bumper stickers saying ‘Extort Our Troops.'”
9. On Ohio payday lenders getting around state laws regulating short-term lenders by registering as “mortgage lenders” who just happen to offer mortgages with values as low as $300:
“Why even bother calling yourselves mortgage lenders? Why not just call yourself ‘peanut butter octopus’ companies? You can’t regulate peanut butter octopi; they don’t technically exist.”
I say “fortunately” because what the company gave Sam only one option: to give them his address so they could replace the missing parts. The Griffin Elevator is a neat plastic stand that’s meant to circulate cool air under your notebook computer and put it at eye level when your laptop is on a desktop. It’s the product in the picture at left. See how there are little plastic clips that keep the computer from falling forward off the stand? Those were missing on the stand that Sam’s friend gave him.
The stand had been hibernating in a cabinet for some time, until the friend, Sam says, “donated” the stand to him while cleaning out the spare computer junk in that cabinet. Cool! Except for those missing parts, which Griffin said that they would be happy to mail to him. That’s even more impressive when you remember that Griffin Technology is based in the U.S., and Sam isn’t.
The company even sent along two sets of clips, which may indicate that the clips on this stand are kind of fragile. Never mind that, though: Sam was pretty happy! “The Elevator stand would have been well out of warranty, having sat in my friend’s cupboard for years,” he wrote to Consumerist. “I thought the customer service team at Griffin Technology deserved a shout-out for the awesome experience I had with them.”
