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Adobe agreed to a $150 million settlement over claims it buried the cancel button and larded subscriptions with surprise termination fees. It turns out the hardest thing Adobe ever shipped was a way to actually leave.
A Florida man decided the one thing missing from his life was someone else's septic tank, and set out to correct the oversight. Deputies caught up with him before the plan could reach its deeply unpleasant conclusion.
A Florida man was arrested after attempting a TikTok challenge inside a Walmart, trading potential likes for an actual mugshot. The algorithm giveth engagement; the deputies taketh it away.
Someone on the HOA board looked at a porch with a few too many delivery boxes and reached, naturally, for the fine book. Nothing rattles a homeowners association quite like visible proof that people buy things.
A Walla Walla man was found to have violated the city's chalk-use ordinance and fined five thousand dollars, a remarkable price for a sidewalk. Somewhere there is a municipal code that ranks washable chalk as a $5,000 offense, and a man who found it the hard way.
A South Jersey town passed a rule letting it fine, and even charge, parents when their children misbehave in public. The plan to cure youthful mischief is, essentially, to bill the nearest available adult for it.
An Arizona man kept getting hit with $100 fines for the crime of handing out free water to people in the desert heat. His homeowners association looked at a neighbor giving away cold water in summer and saw, above all else, a violation.
An Iowa restaurateur's dispute with his lake-house homeowners association has left him staring down more than a million dollars in legal fees. The house was supposed to be where he relaxed; instead it became a seven-figure hobby.
A disabled veteran in Florida is fighting his homeowners association in court over the radical act of putting a flagpole in his own yard. The HOA has decided that the real threat to the neighborhood is a man and his flag.
A man dressed as Abraham Lincoln was fined for standing at the Lincoln Memorial and reciting the Gettysburg Address. The National Park Service, it turns out, requires a permit for that, and Honest Abe did not have one.