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Zephie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-10 02:26 PM
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Man Reports Own Amazon.com Order As "Suspicious Package"
Police blotters can be depressing, but sometimes they're just wonderfully amusing. Take, for example, the plight of a mercifully unnamed individual who reported his own Amazon.com order as a suspicious package.

We join our hero after he has just called the police to report that he saw an unidentified person leave a package at his house.

From the Hudson Hub Times:


http://consumerist.com/2010/11/man-reports-own-amazoncom-order-as-suspicious-package.html
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PBS Poll-435 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-10 02:27 PM
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1. lol
"I Didn't Think It Would Arrive In A Box!"
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the redcoat Donating Member (510 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-10 02:36 PM
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2. Sweet, the bomb I ordered came!
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ProudToBeBlueInRhody Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-10 02:38 PM
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3. It was probably Glenn Beck's new book
Moron.
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dixiegrrrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-10 02:55 PM
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4. As we say down here in the South.
" bless his heart".

I love southern expressions. the TONE says everything.

Bless his heart is reserved for the truly dim members of the community.
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dmr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-10 03:03 PM
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5. We say that up here in Michigan, too.
For lack of anything else to say, I suppose.
:hi:
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Kalyke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-10 03:07 PM
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6. Our Southern forefathers probably brought that up to you
guys in the 1930s when tons of Southerners moved to Michigan to find good union jobs (to bad we never imported them down here). :hi:
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LostHighway Donating Member (45 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-10 03:36 PM
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8. Or we could have invented it ourselves
Just saying.
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CurtEastPoint Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-10 03:31 PM
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7. LOL! Before I scrolled down I KNEW you were gonna say that!
I love that expression. I have heard that since I was a kid!
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mainer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-10 04:31 PM
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11. That southern speech really confuses me!
I was down there last year and heard someone say something I thought was really sweet about someone else. It turned out it was an expression of disgust.

How do we Yankees figure out southern code?
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dixiegrrrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-10 09:20 PM
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21. It is what is NOT said that tells you the important stuff.
Sorta like Japanese culture.

Example: The more vague, general and neutral the statement, the more they are NOT expressing their negative
feelings or expressing disagreement with you.

Making people feel comfortable is vitally important.
Being gracious and kind is vitally important, no matter how mad you might be AT someone.

I am STILL figuring out the code after almost 30 years down here.
Fortunately, I have some old time Southern women as neighbors who are unintentionally serving as my field study of the species.
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Roon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-10 04:46 PM
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12. My step-father says "bless his/her heart" before he lets out a little gossip
about the person..lol..He is from kansas.
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metalbot Donating Member (234 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-10 03:41 PM
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9. I'm pretty sure it's the delivery mechanism that freaked the guy out
Amazon just started using a new delivery company that has un-uniformed staff driving personal cars delivering Amazon packages.

While I agree that calling the police when someone delivers a package you are expecting is a lot silly, I did think it pretty weird the first time a sloppy looking guy in a beat up Toyota showed up at my house with my Amazon packages.
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Kat45 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-10 08:42 PM
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20. Why is Amazon delivering like that?
Are the delivery people independent contractors who have to use their own cars to do the work? With all the fear that's been drummed up in the populace this past decade, I don't think that's a good method of delivery. I can certainly see being suspicious of a package being left on their porch like that.
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-10 04:27 PM
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10. Which Congressional district does he represent?
The article doesn't say
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gkhouston Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-10 04:51 PM
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13. My sister is sending me a fruitcake. Should I alert Homeland Security? n/t
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Control-Z Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-10 05:37 PM
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14. For a fruitcake?
Yes. Absolutely. I would. Fruitcake - blech :puke:
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gkhouston Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-10 06:15 PM
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17. Actually, I expect it will be very tasty. It's really a homemade jam cake and
shouldn't have a lot of the day-Glo candied fruit. I know what you mean, though. The first time I had commercial fruitcake, I finally understood what all the fruitcake jokes were about.
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pinboy3niner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-10 05:42 PM
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15. Absolutely! For fruitcake, the protocol is to blow it in place.
:evilgrin:
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Fuzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-10 05:47 PM
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16. Funny how he thinks terrorists are after him, just like straight guys who think
every gay guy wants to fuck them.

Paranoid idiots.
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tanyev Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-10 06:53 PM
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18. D'oh!
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SalmonChantedEvening Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-10 06:57 PM
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19. Brazillions sent it! They's all terrists!
This is the best things I've read in a long, long time. :rofl:
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