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...cable is down for a minute, the demand is a month's refund. Some people just love to play the game hard. I remember standing behind one of these chronics while on line at an airline counter. He wouldn't give up demanding compensation for something ridiculous, and the agent wouldn't give in, until he finally got to the usual ultimatum: "I'm never flying this airline again." I found myself rooting for the airline. Hey buddy, I said, why don't you start today...
...would be 'Listen, assholes,'" he says. "Sometimes I would bomb. I'd talk about personal stuff and instead of laughing, people would look at me like, 'Oh, man, I'm so sorry.'" The potty-mouthed-preteen act only took him so far, so at age 11 LaBeouf found an agent. In the phone book. "I called up and did my 5-min. routine," he says. "Agents are used to the parents pimping. They're not used to the kid pimping. They liked the fact that I tried." LaBeouf's agent, who still works on his team, paid for head shots...
...tattoo on his right wrist that reads 1986-2004. "My childhood," he explains. "I've been working since I was 10; 2004 is when I decided I became an adult. It was a personal decision." When it's pointed out to LaBeouf that the AA meetings and agent hounding of his youth might suggest he attained adulthood earlier, he shrugs. "But I'm living in a child's world now," LaBeouf says. "A dream world. I go to sleep at night, and I feel like I just dreamed the whole...
Cusworth’s name was not called during the league’s draft night on June 28, but he will now travel to Las Vegas with a team of young Warriors and try to prove himself worthy of a free-agent contract...
...unclear what link the tenants at the property had with any of the terrorist attacks. (Some British media have suggested it was home to the airport attackers.) But Daniel Gardiner, a local real estate agent who leased the property to a man in April, told TIME his Let-It agency was contacted by police in the hours before the Glasgow attack. Police told the agency that the agency had recently called a cell phone number linked to the failed London bombs. And following the attack on Glasgow airport, one of a list of names given by police to the agency...