Silly Girl

BERLIN (Reuters) – A nine-year-old German girl was so upset about having to tidy her room she put up a sign in her window urging passers-by to call police for help.

Pedestrians in the central city of Braunschweig saw the girl crying in the window, holding up a sign up saying “Help! Please call the police!” Next to her sat a small boy.

Quickly alerted, officers rushed to the scene to discover the girl had rowed with her mother about tidying her room and enlisted her two-year-old brother’s aid to attract attention.

“The room looked like a battlefield,” said a spokesman for local police on Monday. “Officers told the girl to tidy her room. When they came back two hours later to check, it was all cleaned up. And the mother and daughter had made up too.”

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OptOutPrescreen.com

Under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), the Consumer Credit Reporting Companies are permitted to include your name on lists used by creditors or insurers to make firm offers of credit or insurance that are not initiated by you (“Firm Offers”). The FCRA also provides you the right to “Opt-Out”, which prevents Consumer Credit Reporting Companies from providing your credit file information for Firm Offers.

So basically, if you don’t want any credit or insurance offers you can fill out a form on this website.  However, it asks for you SSN and birthday.  Even though it’s Verisign secured, I still don’t feel comfortable with it.

UPDATE:  Turns out it’s legit, you can read about it on the Federal Trade Commissions webpage.  Link

Other similar sites that you might find valuable are these:

Getting off commercial E-mail lists

National Do Not Call Registry

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Couple find dead bat in breakfast cereal

A couple in the west Sweden town of Tanum got a most unwelcome free gift in their breakfast cereal on Friday.

As Kerstin Nilsson and Ingemar Hansson poured out a healthy bowl of Kelloggs All Bran, out plopped a bat. A 4 centimetre long, shrivelled-up English bat.

“We couldn’t believe our eyes,” the couple told local paper Bohusläningen.

“But there it was, a stone-dead, dried-up bat. It was really disgusting. We lost our apetites immediately. You’ve got to wonder how it got there.”

Kelloggs is wondering the same thing, and promised to take the matter seriously. The company sent a representative up to Tanum to take charge of the packaging, the cereal and the bat.

“The packet will be sent back to the factory in England where it was produced. We obviously want to know how the bat ended up in the cereal,” said a spokesman for Kelloggs.

Fearing that the bat could have been carrying some kind of disease, the couple also contacted their local environmental health department.

An official took away a sample for testing.

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