Stories are pouring in from outraged shoppers who thought they could get a great deal on equipment from Circuit City as part of its fire sale liquidation. The problem: Circuit City won’t let you open sealed boxes to inspect merchandise before you take it home — and all sales are final. No returns. No exchanges. That’s not so great if the gear is hopelessly broken.

One Minnesota family spent $1,500 on a 50-inch plasma TV and found the glass shattered once they got it home. The store refused to take back the TV and instead referred the issue to Circuit City headquarters, where no one answered the phone. The family is checking with Panasonic, the manufacturer, to see if it’s covered under warranty.  Here’s the link

I’m not a scientist or anything but should’t we keep these mice under lock and key? how about in a jar (they’re FROZEN!) The worst part is it took almost two months for them to report it…I wouldn’t eat anything from that lab’s community fridge.

Plague-Infested Mice Missing From New Jersey Research Lab

David Goodhue
All Headline News
Sunday, Feb 7, 2009

Miami, FL (AHN) – The frozen remains of two mice infected with the bubonic plague are missing from a New Jersey bioterror research facility, and the facility waited seven weeks to report the incident to federal and state authorities.

Officials with the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in Newark, where the remains went missing, and FBI officials, said the missing mice pose no public health threat.

This is the same facility where three live plague-inflected mice went missing in September 2005. Officials concluded those mice died.  FULL STORY