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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

People are jerks

Health · People are jerks

Dunkin’ fires employees who dumped water on homeless, mentally ill man

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 2, 2018, 9:11 AM Oct 2, 2018
2

It took longer than it should have for Dunkin’ Donuts to spring into action after what its employees did to a homeless man in upstate New York on Sunday night. Read more →

Crime and Justice · People are jerks

Privacy laws, scammers combine to bilk widow out of life savings

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 21, 2018, 9:20 AM Aug 21, 2018
16

Here’s a tip learned the hard way: Get your name on your elderly parents’ bank accounts. Read more →

People are jerks · People doing good

Fundraiser exceeds goal for family with vandalized ice cream truck

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 14, 2018, 9:12 AM Aug 14, 2018
7

KARE 11 reports an immigrant from Ecuador, who raised enough money to buy her own ice cream truck, was attacked at a park in northeast Minneapolis last month by a person who slashed the tires on the business. “Said we were illegal and that we were parked illegally and that we were illegal and he Read more →

People are jerks · Sports

What part of ‘give the kid the ball’ don’t you get?

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 23, 2018, 7:05 AM Jul 23, 2018
11

If there’s still justice in the world, someone is tracking down this Chicago Cubs “fan”, who has no knowledge, we presume, of one of the rules of being a baseball fan: Give the kid the ball. Read more →

People are jerks

In aftermath of killing of journalists, newspaper gets death threats

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 2, 2018, 8:18 AM Jul 2, 2018
18

The Capital Gazette, where five journalists were slaughtered last week because someone didn’t like the job they did, penned a disturbing ‘thank you’ in its Sunday paper.
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People are jerks · Sports

It’s softbrawl season in the south

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 20, 2018, 8:17 AM Jun 20, 2018
39

Kingsport, Tennessee’s athletic director wins the competition for understatement this week with this observation after a brawl broke out between parents watching their girls play softball. Read more →

People are jerks · People doing good

Veteran needed to sell hearing aids for help

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 21, 2018, 8:15 AM May 21, 2018
7

A happy end to a sad story of a veteran who felt compelled to sell his hearing aids can’t mask an important truth: people can be jerks. Read more →

People are jerks

Beanbag brawl

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 9, 2018, 10:35 AM May 9, 2018
5

You get a bunch of men together and the testosterone and alcohol can be explosive. Read more →

People are jerks

What it’s like to be a woman in TV

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 27, 2018, 7:18 AM Apr 27, 2018
12

Many people in the media get a fair amount of feedback from the audience that’s fair game. Women in media, particularly women in TV news, are treated horribly by — wait for it — men. What are you thinking, fellas? Read more →

People are jerks

Railroad workers bail on driver who wanted 5 minutes to pray

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 26, 2018, 10:42 AM Apr 26, 2018
15

Sharmake Mohamed, of Moorhead, is looking for work. He’s afraid of the railroad workers he transported for a living because they, apparently, are afraid of him. Read more →

People are jerks

Mass killer has lots of fans

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 29, 2018, 10:05 AM Mar 29, 2018
14

‘The letters shake me up because they are written by regular, everyday teenage girls from across the nation,’ Nikolas Cruz’ lawyer said. ‘That scares me. It’s perverted.’ Read more →

Crime and Justice · People are jerks

Who killed Lou?

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 6, 2018, 10:20 AM Mar 6, 2018
9

The civilized world will put up with a lot of incidents of savagery. But killing a dog isn’t one of them.
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People are jerks

After Minnesotan wins — then loses — ‘The Bachelor,’ lawmaker promises revenge

Nancy Yang March 6, 2018, 6:36 AM Mar 6, 2018
10

This season’s Bachelor is no longer welcome in Minnesota after what he did to Prior Lake’s Becca Kufrin. Read more →

People are jerks

L.L. Bean gives the boot to its ‘no-questions-asked’ return policy

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 9, 2018, 3:31 PM Feb 9, 2018
9

Reflecting America’s values, customers cheated L.L. Bean and then cited a loophole to make themselves feel better by doing so. Read more →

People are jerks

Despite vandalism, Field of Dreams will remind us of all that is good again

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 25, 2018, 1:57 PM Jan 25, 2018
15

We can’t have nice things, even in heaven. Read more →

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