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One forgotten scan? It happens.
FIVE?
Walmart started keeping receipts.
And somehow, her explanation made it even worse:
“I've been forgetting to scan a lot of stuff.”
Walmart loss prevention stopped employee Carissa at the end of her shift after documenting five separate transactions where merchandise made it through checkout without being properly scanned.
Carissa said she had been distracted.
Then came the line you probably don't want to give loss prevention:
“I've been forgetting to scan a lot of stuff.”
When officers told her she was being arrested, things got heated. She revealed she was pregnant and objected to how officers were handling her.
Outside, her companion then got into his own confrontation with police after refusing to identify himself.
Reported charges:
Carissa - retail theft and resisting arrest.
Her companion - retail theft, resisting arrest, and obstructing identification.
And this is where the legal distinction matters:
Forgetting to scan something isn't automatically criminal. Intent matters.
One missed item can absolutely be an accident.
But five separate incidents plus “I've been forgetting to scan a lot of stuff”?
That is one heck of an explanation to hand loss prevention.
She went to sleep at 11 years old.
When she woke up, she was 21.
In 1871, Ellen Sadler of Turville, England, reportedly fell into a deep, unresponsive state after suffering convulsions.
Her family claimed she stayed that way for more than nine years.
Visitors traveled to the family’s cottage just to see the girl who never seemed to wake. Some doctors believed the case was genuine. Others were suspicious—especially because the family accepted money from curious visitors.
Then, in 1880, Ellen reportedly began waking up.
She remembered her childhood.
But she had no memory of the nine years everyone else had watched pass by.
Ellen later recovered, married, and had children.
More than 140 years later, one question still lingers:
What really happened during those missing years?
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The officer told her to step out.
She climbed into the back seat.
Her passenger climbed into the driver’s seat.
Seconds later, the car was gone.
What started as an ordinary Florida traffic stop had just turned into one of the strangest seat swaps imaginable.
An officer had stopped the vehicle after observing a stop-sign violation and unusually dark window tint. A meter showed the rear tint allowing only 3% of visible light through.
During the stop, a K-9 was brought around the vehicle and alerted.
Officers then instructed the 23-year-old driver to step out.
Instead, she moved from the driver’s seat into the back while the passenger climbed across into the driver’s seat.
Officers believed the doors had been locked during the encounter, although the woman later insisted she had not locked them.
Seconds later, the passenger put the vehicle in gear and drove away while officers attempted to stop him.
Then came another unexpected twist.
A little over an hour later, the original driver walked into the Sheriff’s Office with her sister.
She told officers she had only known the passenger for about two weeks, didn’t know his real legal name and said she moved into the back seat because she panicked after he told her to.
She was arrested for resisting an officer without violence.
Prosecutors later dropped that misdemeanor charge.
The passenger was charged with aggravated fleeing and eluding and driving with a suspended or revoked license, with his case reported as still pending at the time of the source update.
She went for her usual bike ride.
Tara disappeared.
Her bicycle disappeared.
Then, months later, a mysterious Polaroid was found more than 1,000 miles away.
In 1988, 19-year-old Tara Calico left her home in Belen, New Mexico, for a ride along Highway 47.
She never came home.
Witnesses reported seeing an older pickup traveling behind her. Pieces of her Walkman and a cassette were later found along the route.
Her pink bicycle was never recovered.
Then came the photograph.
In 1989, a Polaroid discovered in a Florida parking lot showed a young woman and a boy inside a vehicle.
Tara’s mother believed the woman was her daughter.
The resemblance was striking enough to turn the photograph into one of the most famous mysteries connected to a missing-person case.
But authorities have never conclusively proven the woman was Tara.
Decades later, investigators are still pursuing what happened much closer to home, and Tara remains officially missing.
For years, the photograph became the mystery everyone remembered.
But the real answer may have been somewhere along that New Mexico road all along.
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I was also a victim of identity theft.
They took their pet to the vet using my credit card details and a photo of my driver's license. I was left with a $1400 charge an unsuccessful hotel booking attempts to open multiple credit cards and $4000 in Walmart purchases in another state.
A business I visited may have shared my information.
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I like how cliff gave the hippie a chance to fix it himself before going to beating the shit out of him. A true gentleman
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25 year old woman gets carried out in cuffs, over her own door dash order.
Police responded to a hotel lobby after a routine delivery unraveled into a full-scale confrontation involving staff, guests, and responding officers.
The dispute started over a late-night DoorDash order of BuzzBallz. When the delivery driver refused to bring the drinks directly up to the room and instead asked the customer to meet on the ground floor, tensions flared.
Upon reaching the lobby, the 25-year-old female guest confronted the driver, arguing that the courier who arrived was a man, while her app communications had shown a woman's profile.
The situation escalated rapidly. Front desk staff reported that the guest began shouting profanities across the lobby in front of other patrons before chasing the driver outside into the parking lot. Management stepped in, informed her that her stay was revoked, and demanded she leave the premises.
Instead of departing, she argued that she had the legal right to stay, prompting the staff to call law enforcement to issue a formal trespass.
When officers arrived on scene, they attempted to de-escalate the situation and explain the basics of property law. Hotels are privately owned businesses with the legal authority to revoke guest privileges and refuse service.
Despite the officer's attempts to get the woman to relax and maybe talk to the hotel staff to see if the would change their mind. However with the woman's continued behavior the hotel did demand she leaves the property.
At this point officers made repeated attempts to get her identification to complete the tresspass order. This way she could gather her child and belongings to leave peacefully, she refused to cooperate, maintaining that ordering food wasn't a crime and that her rights were being violated.
Once informed she was under arrest for disorderly conduct and trespassing, the games really began at she refused to stand or walk, dropping her full body weight to the floor.
Officers ultimately had to carry her out by her arms and legs to the patrol cruiser as she shouted that she was being jailed simply for ordering DoorDash. She was officially booked on charges of Disorderly Conduct and Resisting Arrest.
The incident took an unexpected turn outside when officers ran the background check on her partner, who was standing by holding their toddler. Records revealed he had just been released from prison the day before and had an active traffic warrant out of Mayfield, complete with cautionary flags for past charges including attempted murder and felonious assault.
Taking his cooperative demeanor and the welfare of the child into account, the issuing jurisdiction declined to extradite on the minor warrant, allowing him to stay with the toddler while the mother was taken in for booking and bond.
All this over having to walk out to get your doordash order because the dasher didn't bring the order to her door.
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She really tried the “I thought the $1,000 iPad was FREE” defense.
Police responded to a Target in Boynton Beach, Florida, after loss prevention said a woman removed an iPad from its security tether, concealed it inside a bag and walked past checkout without paying.
An officer caught up with her outside.
Her explanation?
She claimed she thought the iPad was free because of a sign in the store.
Then, once she realized this wasn't going away, she repeatedly offered to just give it back and asked the officer to hurry because she needed to pick up her daughter.
According to loss prevention, surveillance showed two people messing with secured merchandise in electronics before the iPad was taken. The other person left the area when employees intervened.
And Florida wasn't exactly the best place for a $1,000 “misunderstanding.”
Property that's valued between $750 and $5,000 can qualify as third-degree grand theft under Florida law.
Returning the merchandise after getting stopped doesn't magically rewind everything that happened before it.
1998 just kicked the door back open.
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is reportedly outselling GTA 6 by nearly 6-to-1 in Amazon U.S. physical preorders right now.
Around 60,000 for Zelda versus roughly 11,000 for GTA 6 over the same recent period.
And somehow… I'm not surprised.
For an entire generation, Ocarina of Time wasn't just another game. It was stepping into Hyrule Field for the first time. The music. Navi. Epona. The Water Temple frustration. Pulling the Master Sword and realizing the adventure had only just begun.
Now that same legend is being rebuilt for Switch 2 and going toe-to-toe with one of the most anticipated games ever made.
GTA 6 will be enormous.
But never underestimate the power of hearing those first few notes from an ocarina and suddenly being a kid again.
Some games sell on hype.
Others have had a place in your heart for nearly 30 years.
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"I ain't gots to listen to you, cracka!"
Cop: "we'll see about that, Sha'Quondeesha "!
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In 1992, Paul Verhoeven asked Sharon Stone to take off her underwear for Basic Instinct. He promised the camera would not see anything.
They were shooting the famous interrogation scene. Verhoeven told her the white cotton was reflecting the studio lights. He guaranteed nothing would be visible on screen. Stone trusted him.
Months later, she sat in a screening room watching the final cut. The scene played. She realized she was completely exposed. She walked straight up to Verhoeven and slapped him across the face.
But Verhoeven tells a different story.
He claims Stone knew exactly what she was doing. According to him, she watched the playback on the monitor immediately after the shot. He says her outrage months later was pure panic, fueled by agents who told her the scene would ruin her career.
Stone called her lawyer. Under Screen Actors Guild rules, she had the legal power to force the studio to cut the shot.
In the end, she let it stay. She admitted it was exactly what the character would do.
The consequences were a mix of massive success and a hidden trap.
Financially, Basic Instinct grossed over $350 million worldwide. Stone was paid a flat fee of $500,000. Since she was not a proven star before filming, her contract had no backend points. The studio made hundreds of millions off that single shot. She saw zero extra dollars from the box office.
Career-wise, the scene made her a global superstar, but it boxed her in. For the next decade, Hollywood only wanted her to play the cold seductress. She had to fight aggressively to prove she was a serious dramatic actress.
That struggle eventually led to her Oscar-nominated role in Casino, which finally allowed her to command $5 to $7 million per film.
As for the director, the broken trust was permanent. Stone and Verhoeven never worked together again.
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“I’m not resisting.”
She just wasn’t getting out of the car, wasn’t following the commands, and apparently had no idea why everyone was making such a big deal about the whole driving-the-wrong-way thing.
Orlando officers say they spotted a silver Mercedes traveling the WRONG WAY on John Young Parkway and tried to stop it for miles before the driver finally pulled over.
Then came the simple instructions:
Put the car in park.
Turn it off.
Step outside.
Apparently those three steps required a full committee meeting.
Instead, she stayed behind the wheel with her phone in hand, repeatedly insisting she had done nothing wrong and questioning why officers wanted her out of the car.
Officers eventually reached inside, shut the Mercedes off, removed the keys and pulled her from the vehicle.
All while she continued repeating:
“I’m not resisting.”
Because apparently saying it enough times was supposed to make the rest of the situation disappear.
Then officers ran her license.
According to them, it came back with multiple active suspensions.
She still denied ever driving the wrong way.
Officers also investigated possible impairment, although an investigation is not the same thing as a DUI conviction.
And buried underneath all of this is one very useful reminder:
During a lawful traffic stop, an officer can order the driver out of the vehicle.
“I’m not resisting” is not a magic phrase that cancels the instructions.
He didn’t disappear without a trace.
He left behind fingerprints, DNA evidence, clothing, personal belongings… and somehow, more than 25 years later, investigators still don’t know who he was.
Near the end of 2000, a family of four was found deceased inside their home in Tokyo’s Setagaya Ward.
But what happened afterward turned an already disturbing case into one of Japan’s most baffling unsolved mysteries.
Evidence suggested the unknown person didn’t immediately leave.
He apparently stayed inside the house.
He ate ice cream.
He used the family’s computer.
He went through their belongings.
And he left behind an almost unbelievable amount of physical evidence - including fingerprints, biological evidence believed to be his own, and clothing investigators believed belonged to him.
Police even determined that only a small number of one style of sweatshirt connected to the case had been sold in Japan.
You would think a case with that much evidence would have been solved years ago.
It hasn’t been.
More than a quarter-century later, Tokyo police are still actively searching for the person connected to the case.
That may be the strangest part of the Setagaya family mystery.
It isn’t unsolved because investigators were left with nothing.
It’s unsolved because they were left with so much.
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$7,500 is not a lot of money in Australia, any resident of Australia knows this, but since he’s neither European🇪🇺, an Englishman🏴 or US citizen🇺🇸, he has a lot to answer!!
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A hilarious special video mix capturing a legendary musical prank in the world of classical music.
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Johnny Carson never gave David Letterman The Tonight Show. Then he spent his retirement writing jokes for him.
When Carson retired in May 1992, NBC gave the show to Jay Leno. Letterman left for CBS.
Years later, Carson was retired in California. A friend said that every morning he read the paper and could think of five jokes he wished he had an outlet for.
So he found one. He started sending jokes to Letterman, who sometimes used them in his monologue.
Carson died on January 23, 2005.
The first Late Show after his death opened with a monologue made entirely of Carson’s jokes. Paris Hilton’s dog. John Kerry’s medals. Donald Trump’s hair.
Letterman told the audience who wrote them only after he had finished.
That same night he said: “I owe everything in my professional career, whatever success we’ve attained, to Johnny Carson.”
Keep this part. Some people never say it to your face. They just keep sending you jokes.
Watch the clip. A peace offering, or a quiet verdict on who should have gotten the job?
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She denied taking the Christmas packages.
Then police looked in the back seat.
A Pullman, Washington resident reported about $190 worth of Amazon packages containing Christmas gifts missing from outside her apartment and managed to photograph the vehicle leaving.
Officers later located the vehicle and questioned the driver, who said she had only been getting food from a pantry and denied taking the packages.
Then an officer spotted a back massager sitting in plain view in the back seat.
It matched one of the resident’s missing orders.
That denial suddenly had a problem.
The driver was arrested, and police impounded the vehicle while seeking a search warrant. Some of the recovered gifts were later returned to the resident, while the case was forwarded to prosecutors for review.
Nothing says awkward quite like denying you took the packages while one of somebody else’s Christmas presents is sitting in your back seat.
There’s a place in Portugal where the tower doesn’t rise into the sky.
It disappears into the earth.
Hidden inside the gardens of Quinta da Regaleira is the Initiation Well - a roughly 27-meter-deep spiral descent wrapped in moss-covered stone.
Its nine levels are often associated with Dante’s Divine Comedy, while the well itself is believed to have been created for symbolic or initiatory purposes rather than water.
At the bottom, underground tunnels lead away through grottoes and hidden corners of the estate.
Beautiful in daylight.
A little more unsettling when you imagine walking those steps alone after dark.
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