Don't Complain In Public...

...if you hate your mother-in-law, that is.

Sunda Croonquist is being sued by hers, for daring to make comments where her mother-in-law was the butt of the jokes. Croonquist is half-Swedish, half-African-American, was raised in a Catholic household and married a Jew, so she has plenty of raw material just in her cultural background alone. She says the family all laughed along at her routines in the past, presumably knowing it was all comedic license.

But her husband's family stopped laughing once the material appeared online. Apparently it's all very funny and absurd until your neighbours know she's talking about you.

My personal opinion? Croonquist has been doing these jokes for years. Just how many Jewish men are out there whose wives are Swede-African Catholics who converted to Judaism? Yup folks... their friends knew she was talking about them years ago. Why it took them so long to suddenly get offended is beyond me.

I think Croonquist sums it up well: if she had realised they would eventually sue her, she should have tried to make a worse first impression... a gold tooth, one pants leg rolled up, and saying, "Yo, yo, yo. Shalom, y'all. 'Sup?"

Personal Responsibility Be D*mned!

When a guy is pleasant enough to bash his wife, you know whose fault it is? United Airlines'.

Yoichi Shimamoto has been charged after attacking his wife at San Francisco Airport's Customs, but claims he did this because UA gave him alcohol during his flight.

A spokesman for UA said, "We believe a lawsuit which suggests we are somehow responsible for the consequences of a passenger's physical assault on his own wife is without any merit whatsoever."

Personally, I find it to be very odd news. UA cannot be to blame. I'm waiting for this guy to lodge a lawsuit against San Francisco Airport. I mean, obviously it's their fault, because they allowed him to walk into Customs. Or, it might be the fault of the country he arrived from, for allowing him to bring souvenirs, which necessitated him waiting in line at Customs. The company who laid the carpet at Customs might be responsible for the attack, since this man walked on that carpet. Or possibly, it's the fault of the guy who was in the Customs line in front of him, for being in front of him.

~ Elisa

Sofa Driver Fights Citations

No, the weird part isn't that he is fighting the citations. (Although, it's ambitious, I'll grant him that.)

To me, the weirdest part is that he was driving a sofa.

The second weirdest part is what he actually got into trouble for. Namely, the sofa was unregistered and the plates were expired. Are they suggesting that driving a sofa is quite alright, as long as it has current registration and numberplates? Seriously?

http://www.arcamax.com/weirdnews/s-462400-319235?source=1930

~ Elisa

How To Have A Yale-Sized Tantrum

I really prefer the expression "tanty" though, because it's just so much more... mature. However, I digress.

The star of this story is a 21-year-old Yale University student from Ohio, USA, who while travelling with US Airways had a piece of luggage go missing. His XBox 360, to be precise. Now, I am led to believe that had the staff been kind enough to immediately go about replacing the item, there may have been no further ado.

However, the student claims he got "an unconscionable run-around" from them. So he moseyed on over to the Hamilton County Common Pleas Court and filed a claim for $1,700 (for the lost console) plus $1,000,000 damages.

One. Million. Dollars. A million dollars worth of tears. And all because he can't play Mario Cart with his little friends while eating Cheetos in his parents' basement. I can hear you all sobbing along in sympathy. All except my fiancé, that is. He's sitting there thinking, "Damn, I really need to fly with US Airways and have an XBox 360 go missing."

Drunken passengers sue airline for serving booze

A Florida couple aren't just blaming the airline for giving them free wine. No, apparently it's the airline's fault that he then beat up his wife.

What has happened to personal responsibility? Next we'll see overweight passengers sue an airline for providing food.

Drunken passengers sue airline for serving booze

http://www.news.com.au/travel/story/0,23483,24817396-5014090,00.html

~ Elisa