Tampa Bay Times [FL]
20 February 2019
Viral Facebook post about
Tampa Uber ride gone wrong was 'simple mixup,' police say
[…] Emmy Hurley said she hailed an Uber in Tampa on Monday
night and soon realized she had gotten into the wrong car. Hurley wrote that
the driver refused to respond to her or to stop, so Hurley bailed out of the
car while it was still moving. "I later found out she is a sex traffic
worker," Hurley wrote. "They use women to lure people in, and
possibly hang out in the Uber lot to steal rides of similar looking cars."
[…] It turns out Hurley did get into the wrong car but the incident at Tampa
International Airport was a simple misunderstanding, not a kidnapping attempt,
Tampa police said in a statement released Wednesday. […]
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The Advocate [Baton Rouge, LA]
6 December 2018
Smiley: Choosing compassion
over politics
[…] Keith Horcasitas says Jim Coleman […] shared a
story about teaching honesty to kids: "When Jim's daughter was a young
teenager, she desperately wanted to go to a movie with her friends, so Jim said
she could go after she had completed her chore of cleaning under the kitchen
sink. When the daughter told him, 'OK, Dad, I'm finished. Can you give me the
money?' Jim told her, 'If you had done the job right, you would have found the
$10 bill beneath the sink.' She didn't get to go to the movie. Recently Jim
heard his daughter telling that story to her children as a lesson in
life." […]
Metro [UK]
21
February 2019
Mother hides cash under scrap of junk on floor to see
if her kids will finally tidy-up
A mother
was fed up with her family ‘forgetting’ to clean up after themselves, so she
tried a little experiment. Miranda
Crimbring, of Florence, Texas, folded up a $5 bill and hid it under a scrap of
paper in the family’s bathroom to reward anyone who picked it up. […] Finally,
on day three, the challenge ended when one of Crimbring’s children found the
money by accident. […] This saga ends in disappointment though – after
pocketing the money, Crimbring’s daughter just tossed the scrap of paper onto
the bathroom counter. […]
Associated Press
22 February 2019
Moove on: No more
'cow-tipping' shirts at Oklahoma airport
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The mayor of Oklahoma City is
celebrating the completion of a personal mission: ridding the city’s airport of
cow-tipping T-shirts. Mayor David Holt said on his Twitter
account Thursday that after months of trying to end sales of shirts reading
“Nothing Tips Like A Cow” at Will Rogers World Airport, the clothing has sold
out and won’t be restocked. Airport spokesman Josh Ryan said Friday that the
shirts with the shape of the state and a cow lying on its back were “pretty
popular” for over 10 years, but that “the joke has run its course.” […]
