Feed-them-to-lions

roads2roam arena full population“Feed them to the lions” captures the rogues, villains and companies that we have taken a special exception to by us or fellow Roamans.

They usually are heinous acts but being petulant characters, we reserve the right to be petty and vindictive. We are Emperors afterall.

They are ones that we feel need the ultimate virtual disposition for their wrong doings: throwing them to the our lions so we can take delight in them being eaten alive by our hungry big cats.

GO LIONS !

Prior judgments:

  • Things that go bump in the night

    Normally we give a “Feed them to the Lions” verdict after we have carefully weighed up the evidence of a situation brought to our attention but in this case, we are declaring it upfront with United and their involuntary bumping policy or as they call it, “involuntary boarding denial”. ‘Involuntary boarding’, my imperial arse. This Sunday […]
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  • Mind the Gap

    With 127k miles on the clock, my 2010 runabout was courting some major repairs. I’ve been topping up the AC more frequently now as there is a slow leak happening and with summer rapidly coming up, I needed to do something about it.  Besides, the poor old thing is looking a bit battered having survived a deer hit, […]
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  • Washing and rinsing at Camp Clinton

    We at Roam love camping, so was surprised to see American Camping Association (ACA) on the list of organizations that paid  to hear speeches from Hilary Clinton. In fact, theirs was the last one before she declared as a Presidential candidate. Now curious,  I decided to take a deeper look into the ACA. From their website: […]
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  • French air strike strands Easter get aways

    And what a week it has been. The Brussels bombing was awful news but we will talk about this elsewhere. However, some things are European business as usual such as air traffic control in France going on strike around a holiday. AGAIN. For those new to Roads-2-Roam, this is all too familiar pattern and covered our […]
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  • Not responsible for broken windshields? Oh yes you are..

    Driving home from work, I noted a truck ahead of me which had a warning sign on it. Being curious I came up close to read what it said Big letters WARNING. Smaller letters “STAY BACK 200 FT” with “NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR BROKEN WINDSHIELDS”. However, the stupidity is that you’d need to be closer  that 200 […]
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  • Volkwagen : smoking guns

    Roads-2-Roam was waiting for VW’s side of the scandal to make a call but some recent internal news leaks are very compelling against Volkswagen. Two separate German ‘serious’ newspapers have identified sources that say VW knew about this many years ago but did nothing. They held out until they were busted recently. Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung […]
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  • He ain’t nothing but a hound dog

    Some people deserve to get named and shamed. Ahmed Mohammed is one such shyster. NBC run a story with video clip of his overcharging tourist for hot dogs – up to $30 in some cases – and short changing others. To make it worse, he is doing this outside the World Trade Center. For starters, NYC ordinance says […]
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  • France : A Land of Striking Beauty. A Land of Striking Workers.

    Il est avril en France, Le soleil brille / It is April in France and the sun shines brightly. The flowers are blooming, lovers are walking hand in hand. What a better way to take in Paris, than go up in the Eiffel Tower. Except you can’t. Why you ask, because the workers of the Eiffel […]
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  • Hope you like Jamming too: Marriott gets fined for blocking public WiFi

    Not content with the emotional blackmailing to get you to tip you room cleaner, Marriott have been fined $600,000 by the FAA for jamming user's WiFi in order to get you to use their WiFi network at highly inflated prices. The villain is this case is Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center in Nashville, who blocked users [...]
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  • Where’s Waldo? In jail hopefully. : Waldo Police ticket racket is busted

    Highway 301  runs through Florida just South East of Jacksonville. From Baldwin to Hawthorne, it is notorious for it’s issuing of speeding tickets. Two towns in particular – Lawtey and Waldo – are infamous for their overzealous ticketing, so much so that AAA officially declared them “Traffic Traps” : The only two cities in the United […]
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