A Customer Service Representative at Best Buy suggested to Charles Yu that he change his name in order to join the Best Buy Reward Zone program. Reward Zone is one of those free programs that allows people to accumulate points through purchases towards rewards.
However, the online sign up form would not allow him to sign up because it doesn’t allow a name of less than three characters. Best Buy was also unable to override this and sign him up over the phone. KGO-TV of San Francisco contacted Best Buy on his behalf. They claim they have already made a decision to correct this, but they have no definite timeline for the fix, and are sending Charles a gift card that is meant to tide him over.

The Kavalaris family gathered round the table on Christmas Day to celebrate a double-birthday…Jim, age 37, and his grandmother, age 96. The cake, purchased by Jim’s mother, was was decorated with the words, “Happy Birthday, Mom and Jim.”

After the candles were blown out, Jim tried to chisel out a piece, finding it strangely hard to do. He thought about putting it in the microwave, thinking it was frozen. When he finally separated out a piece, he discovered it was not a real cake, merely a styrofoam mold covered in frosting.

The Lansing State Journal contacted Sam’s club on his behalf, and the manager theorized that an employee must have picked up a styrofoam display cake thinking it was real. He issued a refund for the cake, a fresh cake decorated like the original, and a hundred dollar gift card. Kavalaris donated the card to charity.

Happy Birthday to Jim and Mom…may all your future birthday cakes be biodegradable.

In Mentor, Ohio, firefighters were surprised to discover shoppers in a Dillards South store kept buying even as thick smoke filled the store from an electrical fire. They had to block the door to prevent customers from entering.

We know that Christmas sales can be cutthroat…but are people really dying for a good deal? “Daddy can’t be here this evening, little Timmy…because he is in the hospital burn unit…How did he get there? He almost got out in time…but he spotted the last Tickle Me Elmo and refused to leave a good deal behind.”