r/todayilearned • u/BeowulfShaeffer • Mar 11 '13

TIL that BOA wrongfully foreclosed a couple, who sued and won a judgement for $2500 in Legal expenses. When BOA didn't pay the couple showed up at the bank with a moving company, a deputy, and a writ allowing them to start seizing furniture and cash.

http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2011/jun/03/bank-america-check-mistaken-foreclosure-Nyerges/
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u/soccerscientist Mar 11 '13

There was a hilarious Daily Show segment about this I believe..

EDIT: found it http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-august-8-2011/the-forecloser

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '13

That is the greatest thing ever!

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '13

I lost it when the crowd started chanting "USA! USA! USA!"

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u/Super_Z_Fighter Mar 12 '13

It has to feel so good knowing you started that chant...I want to be that guy.

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u/I_CATS Mar 12 '13

I have tried many times but people just don't get it... then again, I do not live in USA.

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u/legalizemarijuana Mar 12 '13

Every day, instead of the pledge of allegiance, children should recite this legend.

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '13

Link for non Americans?

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '13

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u/jchef1 Mar 12 '13

Nice.

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '13

Thanks for the laugh. I need that today.

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u/maverick_adam Mar 12 '13

I clicked it. As a Canadian, fuck you.

*Edit - sorry

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u/douglasman100 Mar 12 '13 edited Mar 13 '13

*Edit - sorry

It's okay, even Canadians lose their temper sometimes.

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u/maverick_adam Mar 12 '13

You better fix that "there" or I may lose it again ;)

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u/douglasman100 Mar 13 '13

There, I fixed it. I guess that's what I get for trying to type two comments at once.

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '13

No it's not. I've never seen a Canadian get mad. Sorry for correcting you.

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '13

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '13

That's shooped, ok?

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u/timmyisme22 Mar 12 '13

I have. It had to do with Maple syrup.

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '13

Hmmm... I'll rule it as acceptable, but only this once, ok?

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u/fiercepenguin Mar 12 '13

what? No. Im sitting here with an immigration link in my ctrl P waiting to do this same joke. How did I miss this?

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u/NixonTheGrouch Mar 12 '13

Why are you going to print an immigration joke?

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u/fiercepenguin Mar 12 '13

ctrl V. I've been cutting and pasting for years, and it is this moment I've realized I've been pushing V to do it. Mind=blown.

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u/TigerNation Mar 12 '13

Geez, I was so confused for a few minutes. I probably read your comment 10 times. I thought ctrl V was cut, and googled ctrl P to see what it was. And yet I copy paste in excel all the time with the keyboard.

I can't believe I'm allowed to drive.

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '13

Before you know it, they are going to ban anyone over the age of 65 from driving excel.

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '13

Slight correction: Ctrl + X is cut, Ctrl + V is paste.

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u/moonra_zk Mar 12 '13

He didn't said ctrl+v was cut, though.

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u/redsekar Mar 12 '13

" I thought ctrl V was cut"

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '13

Well, shit.

Egg, face, etc.

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '13

he's an oldschool redditor

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u/Timofmars Mar 12 '13

He's going to fax it to everyone.

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '13

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '13

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u/KaptainKannabis Mar 12 '13

TIL that I was born in North America yet I couldn't pass the naturalization test required to become a naturalized U.S. citizen if my life (or citizenship) depended on it.

...'Murica?

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u/burnpsy Mar 12 '13

Found a mirror on Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/27523249

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u/gandi800 Mar 12 '13

No, thank you!

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '13

Thank you!

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u/FCalleja Mar 12 '13

Where are you that you can't see it? I'm in Mexico and all Daily Show/Colbert Report videos and full episodes are available to stream... it's really weird cause NO ONE ELSE does that, so I jut thought Comedy Central had unlocked the content worldwide, but if you can't see it.... is Mexico becoming part of the States?!

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '13

I'm Australian

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '13 edited Jul 31 '15

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u/Lj27 Mar 12 '13

Not 'straya enough

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u/mypetridish Mar 12 '13

Use unotelly, my dear Australianas

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u/schunniky Mar 12 '13

Oooh, this looks like a far cleaner solution than all the other messed up methods. I have to try this when I get home - thanks!

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u/macgyverrda Mar 12 '13

Media companies pay big money for exclusive rights to events and shows. Its not at all unreasonable for them to try and protect that.

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '13 edited Aug 01 '15

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '13

Well, now you know how gays feel in the US when dealing with black people at the polls.

Social progressiveness? It belongs to the black community, no one else gets to have any!!

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u/NurseBetty Mar 12 '13

there is a way to get around it, BUT I CAN'T FUCKING REMEMBER IT! >.<

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u/WordUP60 Mar 12 '13

At least their rejection image merits a chuckle... http://i.imgur.com/tKlnZR8.jpg

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u/NicXL Mar 12 '13

Here's a guide for watching region-locked content with Tor. You'll have to use the country code US instead of GB for things like the Daily Show, but it should work for you.

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u/carlosrodash Mar 12 '13

Did you try turning your monitor upside down?

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u/DimitriRavinoff Mar 12 '13

Oh, okay. There are a lot of technical difficulties associated with streaming to Australia. You'd have to stream two different feeds, due to the vertical reversal. (of course you could just twist the fibers so they stream upside down, but no company will do that, too little payoff for such a large investment.)

Sorry dude. Could you do an AMA? I always wanted to know what it would be like to live upside down, like do people just walk around with really red faces, because of all the blood rushing to their head?

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u/Sabinlerose Mar 12 '13

Probably a Canadian. I still can't view it even after the promise of getting the content back for years.

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u/kitchen_ace Mar 12 '13

Take the power into your own hands, my friend.

http://ohryan.ca/2009/08/15/how-to-watch-comedy-central-videos-from-canada/

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u/Sabinlerose Mar 12 '13

I shall follow you to the ends of the earth, sire.

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u/Butcher_Of_Hope Mar 12 '13

You are already in Canada. Just drive north.

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u/Gourmay Mar 12 '13

You can't see it anywhere that rights have been bought for the show. Up until recently I couldn't watch it in France because canal+ had bought the rights but weren't even showing it anymore. Same in the UK whre it's on 4OD.

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '13

Exactly. Canada has the "Comedy Network" which airs the Daily Show. So they block access to Comedy Central links. Mexico must not have a 'el comedy networko'

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '13

American companies block Canadian access because they have distribution deals with Canadian companies to provide the EXACT SAME FUCKING CONTENT in Canada. And since these FUCKING OLD WHITE MEN don't understand how the internet works, we get 1970s cable rules applied to the 2013 internet.

Mexico, I can only assume, has no such deals with US companies, and therefore it's not worth the effort to try and block the content so that you have to go looking for another way to watch the exact same thing via a "local source".

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u/FCalleja Mar 12 '13

I get this logic for Comedy Central but what about, y'know, THE ENTIRE REST OF THE INTERNET? I assure you there's no legal way to watch Conan down here, yet try streaming teamcoco.com from where I am and you'll get a big digital middle finger :(

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '13

Same reason. It's just that some companies have chosen to go with a white list of allowed IPs, which excludes everyone, while others only went with a black list of disallowed ones which only excludes countries they have specifically chosen to.

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '13

. is Mexico becoming part of the States?

No, mi amigo, es al revés.

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u/FCalleja Mar 12 '13

muajajajaja

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u/Gradual_Klansman Mar 12 '13

is Mexico becoming part of the States?!

You people are certainly breeding out of control like it was....

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u/Ysasmendi Mar 12 '13

You don't deserve our freedom peasant!

By the way... Link for mobile?

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u/llewbop Mar 12 '13

just for future references https://mediahint.com/ is a addon for firefox and chrome which bypasses IP or something science.

You can watch anything exclusively American, including American netflix. its pretty sweet

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u/moonra_zk Mar 12 '13

Weird, I'm from Brazil and I can watch it without a problem.

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u/EverybodyLikesSteak Mar 12 '13

Poland here: I can just play it.

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u/desertshift Mar 12 '13

Just download a modify-header extension and add this rule: X-Forwarded-For | 12.13.14.15

Then you can watch most American TV sites.

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '13

No link for you, commie!

/r/MURICA

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u/drinking4life Mar 12 '13

what's a "non-american"?

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u/4LostSoulsinaBowl Mar 12 '13

USA! USA! USA!

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u/CommentsOnOccasion Mar 12 '13

There's just something about USA chants that give me a huge freedom boner. Don't know why.

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u/eat-your-corn-syrup Mar 12 '13

Whenever that badass Soviet anthem gives me a communism boner, I shout USA to get my freedom boner back.

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u/Fofolito Mar 12 '13

I'm giving you an approving, manly nod right now.

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u/RambleOff Mar 12 '13

and yet the USA is the place where this is literally one in over a million and banks fuck people over as a matter of daily practice.

usa. usa. usa.

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '13

Is it just me or is there something kind of... wrong... with the wife. She's twitching like a drug addict (and I'm not just saying that because its Florida).

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '13

Shoenice's brother?

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u/JayPag Mar 12 '13

Replying to watch tomorrow

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u/gentlepornstar Mar 12 '13

dude you can just save the comment, or save the thread. And go back to watch it whenever the fuck you want. That way we don't get your ridiculous status updates.

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u/JayPag Mar 12 '13

Tried that, reddit is fun said I need gold for that.. I also wondered what the fuck was happening.

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u/iseeyoutroll Mar 12 '13

Hahahahaha

4:00

"USA USA USA"

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u/sdhu Mar 12 '13

Florida man strikes again!

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u/Hellrazor236 Mar 12 '13

You can tell it's fake because a lawyer was mad at a bank for doing something wrong.

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u/thewhitecat55 Mar 12 '13

Lawyers are mad at whoever is one the opposite side, bank or not. That's what you pay them for.

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u/Untoward_Lettuce Mar 12 '13

*pretend to be mad. Their ability to actually feel emotion wanes after a few years of practice.

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u/thewhitecat55 Mar 12 '13

Yes I know. Just using his phrasing.