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Woman Sues "Drive" For Not Having Enough Driving
By Ben Popken on October 11, 2011 3:00 PM
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A woman has filed a lawsuit against the movie Drive because she felt the moving didn't have enough driving in it relative to what was promised in the movie trailer. More »
Detroit Bureau Uses Money Meant To Feed Poor To Buy $314 Trash Cans
By Ben Popken on August 2, 2011 5:00 PM
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Three stainless-steel trash cans with motion-activated sensor lids: $314.93 each. A 500-lb capacity ottoman for the cafeteria: $469. Mahogany-finished conference room table: $3,000. The line items sound extravagant enough on their own. When you learn that they were to makeover a Detroit city office that handles the federal money for feeding and clothing the poor, and the credenzas and sofas and such came out of that money, it's time to get livid. More »
More Chrysler Workers Suspended For Drinking During Work Hours
By Chris Morran on July 19, 2011 1:48 PM
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For the second time in less than a year, workers on Chrysler manufacturing lines have been caught on camera — and subsequently suspended for — drinking (and possibly smoking a controlled substance) during work hours. More »
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High Gas Prices Aren't Giving The Blues To Motown Car Makers
By Paul Eng on May 18, 2011 2:15 PM
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When gas hit $4 a gallon in 2008, Detroit's Big Three auto makers took it on the chin as American demand for big, fuel-thirsty SUVs and trucks suddenly disappeared. But even with gas prices again hovering north of $4, American car companies are whistling a much happier tune—all the way to the bank. More »
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Toyota Announces Lower Production Until November
By Ben Popken on April 22, 2011 2:33 PM
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Toyota says it will take until the end of the year before post-quake production levels return to normal. More »
Detroit Loses 25% Of Population In A Decade
By Ben Popken on March 25, 2011 1:00 PM
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The rallying cry of "Detroit, What?" may have to be changed to "Detroit, Who?" following US Census results that show the Motor City has lost 25% of its population from 2000 to 2010. More »
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Bank Of America Donating 10 Homes To Detroit To Attract Cops To Live In The City
By Chris Morran on March 23, 2011 4:29 PM
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If there's one thing — aside from general ineptitude — that Bank of America's mortgage division has a surplus of, it's abandoned and foreclosed properties. Meanwhile, the city of Detroit has a lack of police officers living within city limits. Now the city will have 10 more houses for cops to live in and BofA will have 10 fewer buildings they can't unload. More »
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Detroit Mayor Offers $1,000 Homes To Cops, Firemen
By Phil Villarreal on February 8, 2011 9:15 AM
87 Comments
In a bold offer that speaks volumes about Detroit's housing market as well as its state of public safety, the city's mayor has offered to provide homes for as little as $1,000 to police and firefighters. More »
PCRM Asks Detroit Mayor To Issue Moratorium On New Fast Food Restaurants
By Chris Morran on January 3, 2011 3:20 PM
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The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, the group behind that TV ad equating Big Macs with death, is continuing its war on the fast food industry, asking the mayor of Detroit to stop the proliferation of fast food eateries within city limits. More »
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Burger King Customer Dies After Being Punched In Face By Employee
By Chris Morran on December 10, 2010 11:00 AM
130 Comments
Earlier today, a fight broke out between an employee at a Detroit Burger King and a 67-year-old customer. In the end, one man was behind bars and the other was dead. More »
Mom Arrested For Faking Kid's Leukemia To Scam Donations
By Ben Popken on October 5, 2010 4:00 PM
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A Detroit-area mother was arraigned this weekend on charges that she had faked her 12-year old son having leukemia to scam for donations. She shaved his head and eyebrows, drugged him with opiates in his apple sauce, and started posting Facebook updates about his condition and her need for help paying his medical bills. More »
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"New" Sprint Phone Pre-Loaded With Porn
By Ben Popken on July 8, 2010 4:00 PM
64 Comments
A Detroit woman is saying "What?!" after buying a supposedly new Sprint phone that had an unwanted free feature: it already had several X-rated porno videos on it. More »
Detroit Moving Police & Fire Depts. Into Empty Casino
By Chris Morran on June 11, 2010 3:15 PM
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There are a lot of empty buildings in the Detroit area, but the beleaguered city's mayor announced today that he's found the perfect vacant space to house HQs for both the city's police and fire departments — the old MGM Grand Detroit casino. More »
Missing Some Mail From The Early '90s? There's A Shed That Might Interest You
By Meg Marco on May 25, 2010 11:21 AM
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The AP says that thousands of pieces of undelivered mail from the early '90s were recently found in a shed in Michigan, and a ex-mail carrier is now charged with stealing mail — the punishment for which is up to 5 years in prison. More »
Why Did The Strip Club Throw Me In Jail For Not Giving A Thumbprint?
By Ben Popken on February 19, 2010 5:49 PM
190 Comments
Going from strip poles to iron bars in one night, a Consumerist reader says he got tossed in jail when he refused to give a strip club his thumbprint. Their ATM was broken so he had to pay his tab using a credit card cash advance. The club demanded a thumbprint and he refused, so cops that were already there threw him in jail. Was this legal? More »
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Detroit Airport Wants Passengers To Stop Showing Up So #%&*@$ Early
By Laura Northrup on December 30, 2009 10:30 AM
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There's a downside to media reports of airport mayhem. In Detroit, destination of the flight on which a failed alleged terrorist attack took place on Christmas Day, passengers expect additional security screening and are showing up early. Too early. Early enough that they're screwing up the entire flight schedule. More »
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Target Calls Cops On Breastfeeding Shoppers
By Meg Marco on December 1, 2009 1:00 PM
274 Comments
The AP says that police were called when Target employees tried to throw a couple out of the store because the woman was breastfeeding in the electronics aisle. The husband, a Detroit police officer, says they were told by the security guard that the act was “against the law.” More »
Some Ford Cars Are Reliable, Actually Worth Buying
By Alex Chasick on October 27, 2009 7:00 PM
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—>Several Ford cars are among the world's most reliable vehicles, according to the latest annual car reliability survey from Consumer Reports. More »
Nobody Wants To Buy (Four Fifths Of) Detroit
By Chris Walters on October 26, 2009 10:54 PM
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—>Detroit tried to auction off almost 9,000 homes and lots last week—enough property to fill Central Park—but Reuters says less than 1/5th of what went on the block actually sold. Unfortunately, it sounds like speculators snatched up few decent properties, leaving actual Detroit residents looking for new homes out in the cold. More »
NFL Not Going To Budge On Blackouts — Will Post Games Online
By Meg Marco on September 15, 2009 2:58 PM
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—>The NFL's blackout rule — which prevents games from being broadcast in home markets if there is no sellout — is coming under fire lately as some teams (ok, let's face it, we're talking about Jacksonville) might not have a single home sellout all season. More »
