Feds Raid Gibson Guitars
By Chris Walters on November 18, 2009 3:37 PM
Yesterday, US Fish & Wildlife Services agents issued a search warrant on Gibson Guitars’ manufacturing plant in Nashville, TN. The Nashville Post writes that they “seized wood, guitars, computers and boxes of files from Gibson Guitar’s Massman Road manufacturing facility.”
At issue is whether Gibson violated the Lacey Act, which prohibits the importation of rosewood from Madagascar because it serves as a home for lemurs; the Nashville Post suggests Gibson may be suspected of routing the wood through Germany first.
http://consumerist.com/2009/11/feds-raid-gibson-guitars.html
Your Bottlecaps Found In Dead Birds’ Bellies
By Ben Popken, 11:28 AM on Tue Oct 20 2009
Every wonder what happens to the plastic trash in the streets after a big rain? Some of it gets washed out to sea and makes its way to the Pacific Trash Vortex, where it is fed to baby albatrosses by their confused parents.
http://consumerist.com/5385798/your-bottlecaps-found-in-dead-birds-bellies