The world’s largest retailer wants to keep its customers even after they die. Wal-Mart has started selling caskets on its Web site at prices that undercut many funeral homes, long the major seller of caskets. The move follows a similar one by discount rival Costco, which also sells caskets on its site.

Wal-Mart, based in Bentonville, Ark., quietly put up about 15 caskets and dozens of urns on its Web site last week. Prices range from $999 for models like “Dad Remembered” and “Mom Remembered” steel caskets to the mid-level $1,699 “Executive Privilege.” All are less than $2,000, except for the Sienna Bronze Casket, which sells for $3,199.

WOULD YOU BUY A CASKET FROM WALMART.COM?

According to Melbourne police a 37-year-old woman was arrested on a child-neglect charge Friday afternoon after a tow truck driver told police the mother offered to sell her child in exchange for gas money.

Pappalardo faces a charge of child neglect in connection with the report. Police are continuing their investigation.

Sgt. Michael Casey of Melbourne police said officers learned of a 9-1-1 call about 3 p.m. from a tow truck driver who said a woman had tried to sell him her 6-year-old boy in exchange for gas money at a gas station near U.S. 1 and Lake Washington Road.

The driver refused, Melbourne police said, and then followed the mother who was in a white sedan with her child and another woman as he called police.

“He rolled up his window and followed her. They drove all across north Melbourne,” Casey said.

The white sedan was pulled over in Suntree by police. Pappalardo was questioned and arrested. Her 6-year-old boy sat on the trunk of the car and cried as his mother was led away.

Roy Baijnath, the tow-truck driver who lives in Palm Bay, told the Florida Today he was concerned about the child’s safety. [source]

A woman came into the Coggin Pontiac dealership on Blanding Blvd. looking to buy a car. But how she tried to pay for the car is what caught the salesman’s attention.

The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office says Emma Harrison, 25, wrote the dealership a check for $67,768 for the purchase of a car, with the names Jesus Christ and Emma Christ on the account. The check was handed over to the financial manager for verification.

But when the funds didn’t check out, he called police.

Reports show that Harrison would sign the checks as Emma Christ, or even sometimes sign both Jesus Christ and Emma Christ.

Emma told police Harrison was her maiden name, and she was married to Jesus Christ, and Jesus was coming in next week to sign the paperwork for the car.

She also said the dealership called the wrong company to verify the funds. Police looked into Harrison’s accounts, and found that she had no money in any of her accounts, so she could not purchase the car.

When asked about work, Harrison told police she does not work, but she has a traveling website that people deposit money into.

She had three active credit cards in the name of Emma Christ.

Harrison was arrested on three fraud-related counts. [source]

Photographed on the red carpet at this weekend’s 7th Annual Hoodie Awards which is like Thanksgiving here at C+D [The BET Awards is Christmas], was homegirl smothered in tanginess, Tommy Davidson. Giving nothing less than his heart and slightly exposed chest, Tommy gave photogs a taste of honey, letting them salivate for more.

This however doesn’t take away from the fact that in this recession, he’s not working. Sweetness ain’t had a steady gig since Living Color. He rocked the same decadent outfit a month prior at the Hollywood premiere of The Orphan.

WHEN DID HE STEAM UP THE GLASS POT LID MORE?

Giving honor and respect to Terry Thierry & Sister Hassana Chanelle for blessing my inbox with this. Can’t afford a Mac? No worries! Just visit the Apple store and get to spreading God’s world!

Damn his futuristic stupid fruity swag on Star Trek and shackles on Roots, LeVar Burton will always be known as the non-threatening negro who came into living rooms all over the world to tell kids about the joys of taking a look in a book. And I will always love him for it.

Now this is where the shade and jokes come into play.

A fancy grocery store in Los Angeles took a look at their books … and realized LeVar Burton owed them a bunch of money.

According to a lawsuit filed last month, the “Reading Rainbow” host owes Gelson’s a little over $2,000 — plus attorney’s fees.

Burton’s had an account with them since 1990, but Gelson’s claims he hasn’t paid his bill since December 2008.

If you’re wondering what happened to the swoll face fool pictured above, I’m here to tell you that she wasn’t attack by a vicious chimp, a rabid dog, or Kat DeLuna’s jowls. The victim, Hang Mioku, was assaulted by the injection of a lethal syringe. At the hands of some malpracticing doctor you ask? Nope. By her damn self! Bitch injected her face with cooking oil in an attempt to fill in her ratchet lines and wrinkles. Why? Because she refused to let the recession keep her down and decided that since she couldn’t afford pricey Botox treatments, she’d turn to what she figured was the next best thing̶ Crisco! As a result, Mioku failed to achieve the smooth, youthful look she was gunning for and turned herself into the cotdamn elephant man.

But Mioku is not alone. The swole face fool pictured below opted to purchase $10, external-use-only silicone and inject it directly into her face rather than pay a doctor to professionally plump her lips and cheekbones. The result? Lube-infested lumps and bumps spread across her entire face. Her goal to avoid spending $2,700 on the cosmetic procedure literally blew up in her face after she ended up spending over $4,000 to repair the damage.

Bottom Damn Line: Fuck low budget, do-it-yourself plastic surgery. For none of us wanna see your face morph into an infected platter of keloids.

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Note: Keep it cute and watch this clip on mute. Don’t worry you will get the same tragic effect as viewing it with sound.

SHAM. FUCKING. WOW.

Raven Symone performed in front of a sold out audience at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, IL last week. I’m sorry but all I see is the little fat girl dressed as a bumble bee from Blind Melon’s “No Rain” video tap dancing around and shit. I bet you Raven even scurried off stage the same way. How dreadful!

Truth be told I just wanted a semi-valid reason to post this picture of Miss All The Way Live a/k/a/ Da Baddest Bitch In The Club. You see the signature lotion, hoe. Get lewse, get lewse!

Apparel maker Kellwood Co., which sells Baby Phat, Sag Harbor and XOXO brands, said Monday that one of its biggest lenders refused to execute an exchange offer for $140 million in debt due later this month.

St. Louis-based Kellwood said Deutsche Bank ( DB – news – people ), a large debt holder, “unexpectedly changed” its position on Friday after it had “helped structure the deal and told us all along that they supported it.” [source]