In the silliest and most Swiftian stunt, the Yes Men impersonated Exxon spokesmen at an energy conference in Calgary, Alberta, and passed out candles made of Vivoleum, a foul-smelling new biofuel supposedly made of flesh from people who had recently died.
Modify them to sell, say, insurance to Italians, and you fall foul of new problems elsewhere.
Britain's biggest mutual insurer had fallen foul of new methods for calculating its capital base introduced in the wake of the near demise of Equitable Life in 2000.
Blatter himself is a canny autocrat who has maintained and expanded his power with Boss Tweed-style tactics, as alleged in "Foul!," a new book by the British investigative journalist Andrew Jennings.
Unluckily for the Spiral, the V&A's then director, Alan Borg, fell foul of New Labour as it came to power and promised free admission to the major London museums.
The former chancellor also had his expenses deducted by £532.30 in February this year after he fell foul of new rules that required MPs to provide receipts or invoices for items costing £25 or more, apart from food.
The drink was renamed Irn-Bru in 1947 following concerns that the drink, which did contain iron but was not brewed, might fall foul of new food labelling regulations.
The Dutch economy, the eurozone's fifth largest, has survived the eurozone crisis relatively well with a national debt of around 65% of economic output but its projected budget deficit falls foul of new EU rules requiring eurozone governments to keep below 3% of GDP.
Eric Hovde is crying foul over new attack ads released by an issue advocacy group that has ties to his Republican rival, Tommy Thompson, in the Republican primary contest for a U.S. Senate seat in Wisconsin.
It requires no great critical insight to figure out what's wrong with "Horrible Bosses," a foul-mouthed new comedy of male resentment directed by Seth Gordon.
