Verizon overcharges Text happy family & Jiffy Lube hates the environment. Martellus the Blogger

A Cheyenne Teen sends 10,000 text messages in one month and leaves family with a $4,756.25. bill from Verizon (Denver Post)

"Dena Christoffersen, 13, had apparently been sending most of these messages at school. That's more than 300 texts within an eight-hour period every...Hours after the enormous bill arrived, Gregg Christoffersen took a hammer to his daughter's phone. "

According to Nokia the average size of a text message is 10Kb. meaning that she sent around 100,000kb which equals to 97.6562 MB of information being sent. Most peoples phones have more than a 100MB worth of storage space as well as most people have a free USB drive given to them with more than 100mb, yet Verizon thinks that much data to be transferred is worth almost $5000. That is outrages at those prices a 30GB hard drive would cost $1,572,000 dollars. I hope that Verizon adjust this bill to the true cost of sending data over their network, this cant be legal to charge that much, but of course it is. Phone companies don't need no rules.

Austin Jiffy Lubes pump oil into the city sewers and get hit with a $300,000 fine. (Austin American-Statesman)

"The water mixed with used motor oil that leaked from faulty drums stored in the pits, creating a toxic bath that sometimes was more than a foot high, Gray said. Instead of paying to dispose of the toxic soup, employees pumped it into a sink, and it went down the drain and into the city sewer system, Gray said...As part of the plea agreement, the corporation took out an advertisement in the American-Statesman on Thursday apologizing for the act. Patty Robertson, chief of the district attorney's office white-collar crime unit, said prosecutors asked for the apology to deter others."Heartland Automotive Services, Inc. is very respectful of our environment and regrets any damage that may have arisen from the ill-advised actions of a few of our employees," said a statement in the ad by Mark Rowberry. Robertson said Rowberry is Heartland's Austin-based regional manager. "

A Dallas Newspaper is having Dallas Cowboy tight end Martellus Bennett blog. Its a pretty crazy blog on the Dallas Morning News website, but is definitively entertaining. (Deadspin.com)
his first two entries consist of leaving your date at the theater and chicks who fart.

Josh Howard shut up

Just because you go to college doesnt mean you utilize common sense. Josh Howard a NBA player for the Dallas Mavericks is once again in trouble because he is an idiot. Not only is he taking heat over his personal views, he has now identified himsleft as the spokesperson of the African-Americans with his comment at charity event:

"In a video posted on YouTube, Howard is shown on a football field at a
charity flag football game. As the national anthem plays in the background,
Howard approaches a camera and says: The Star Spangled Banner is going on right
now. I don't even celebrate that [expletive]. I'm black.""

This is the same guy living in the USA as one of the highest paid Americans, and all he can do is bitch about his upbringing. I understand that his outlook on life is alot different than many Americans. I don't think anyones view of anything exactly coincides with someone elses views. How dumb do you have to be to say something like that. He is constently in PR mode yet he doesnt learn, a description of himself on his website states:

"For most of his 27 years, Josh Howard has been battling -- against the awkwardness of youth, when he struggled on a basketball court; against naysayers who said he could never play college basketball; against the 28 people who passed over him in the 2003 NBA Draft."

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA get me some cheese with that wine. The same story, I'm going to prove everyone wrong who didnt believe in me. The statement he made shortly after the exit of the Mavericks in the playoffs along with this one leads me to believe he is his own worst enemy. Obviously someone belived he can play college basketball or he would be at one of the best schools in the nation and a NBA player. Its probably the same thing that I relized, he is a socially inept individual who really doesnt believe in the team concept so he constently undermines his own efforts as an athlete through his mouth. Shut the hell up Howard, at least if you want to continue making a good living like basketball. It isnt everyone else its you.

Finally what do you mean you dont celebrate what that flag means, you keep running your mouth like there is freedom of speech. Wait there is freedom of speech and it's in the Bill of rights.