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http://blogs.moneycentral.msn.com/smartspending/archive/2009/07/30/lawsuit-hot-dogs-need-warning-label.aspx?GT1=33009

ZOMG lawsuit to put warning labels on Hot Dogs

Many modern-day baseball stadiums prohibit smoking, but cancer danger apparently still lurks around the corner: An anti-meat consumer group alleges in a class-action that hot dogs pose serious health risks and need to carry warning labels.
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BTW the suit is not even in fluent english.
"the frankfurter New Yorker's [sic] relish."
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Man accused of breaking into pirate boat's ticket booth in Clearwater Beach
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Times Staff Writer
In Print: Wednesday, August 5, 2009

CLEARWATER BEACH

Man accused of burglarizing Captain Memo's

There is no indication that Kyle Sailers is a real pirate. But police say that didn't stop him from burglarizing a pirate ship attraction at Clearwater Beach Marina early Tuesday. Sailers, 24, of Indian Rocks, faces felony burglary charges after police say he smashed the window of a ticket booth at Captain Memo's Original Pirate Cruise, 25 Causeway Blvd. Marina guards witnessed Sailers burglarize the building, police say. When later confronted by authorities, he jumped from the ship, said police spokeswoman Elizabeth Watts. Two police dogs and the Coast Guard were called to help search the water, where Sailers was later found hiding under a boat, Watts said. "A year ago exactly, we had the same incident," said Pam Wozencraft, who has owned the business for 32 years. Last August, she said, a homeless person broke the booth's 2- by 3-foot window. Wozencraft believes burglars are looking for the pirate ship's keys. "There's just junk stuff in there," she said. "Nothing you could sell." Sailers was being held Tuesday afternoon on $5,000 bail at the Pinellas County Jail.
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Original story here :
http://www.tampabay....icle1024837.ece
 
i've heard rumors about another sailing ship being burnt down, this time in amsterdam. i don't have any more details except that it was a replica.
 
Horse tramples car on Israeli highway

Wed Aug 5, 7:57 pm ET

JERUSALEM
An Israeli horse took to the highway and trampled an oncoming car in an encounter captured on video by a group of tourists in northern Israel. The tourists began filming when three horses came on the highway and began to canter alongside their car, but the scene took a bizarre turn when an oncoming car came on the scene.

The first two horses weaved out of the sedan's path, but the third took it head-on, smashing through its windshield with its hooves before leaping over it and continuing on its way.

The video captured the impact as well as the passengers hollering "Oh God" and "Whoa."

Israel's Channel 2 TV showed the video Tuesday and said the driver suffered minor cuts from smashed glass and the horse was lightly injured.


The video: http://www.youtube.c...h?v=72ubh6Y2NTA
 
Kenyan offers livestock for Chelsea's hand
Chelsea Clinton waits for her mother Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-NY, to testify before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee regarding her nomination by President-elect Barack Obama to be Secretary of State on Capitol Hill in Washington on January 13, 2009. (UPI Photo/Roger L. Wollenberg)

NAKURU, Kenya, Aug. 7 (UPI) -- A Kenyan man said he is offering 40 goats and 20 cows for the hand in marriage of Chelsea Clinton, Bill and Hillary Clinton's only daughter.

Godwin Kipkemoi Chepkurgor, 39, first made the offer when then-President Bill Clinton visited Africa in 2000. He said he is renewing his offer of livestock to trade for marriage to Chelsea Clinton, CNN reported Friday.

Chepkurgor said he reiterated his offer after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was questioned about the proposal at a Nairobi town hall meeting.

"She's very independent, so I will convey this very kind offer," Clinton said to laughter at the meeting.

Chepkurgor described Chelsea Clinton as a "beautiful, disciplined and well-natured woman."

"Of course I have never met her, but I like her family and how they stick together," he said. "I've waited for a long time. I'm still waiting to meet her and express my love for her."

"I just want to convey my message of goodwill to the Clintons," he said. "And to all of America."
 
Nice little nest egg disturbed

Mouse Builds Nest Made of $20 Bills Inside ATM

Saturday, August 08, 2009

LA GRANDE, Ore. — An employee at the Gem Stop Chevron in La Grande got the surprise of her life when she opened up the automatic teller machine and found a mouse inside a nest lined with $20 bills.

The ATM continued to work just fine, despite the mouse discovered on Thursday.

The mouse had chewed up two bills and damaged another 14 to make his nest, but the bank replaced all the money that wasn't extensively damaged.

The mouse also got a reprieve: He was evicted from his nest but set free outside.

The store's employees are still mystified about how the mouse got inside the ATM.
 
People would have been pissed to receive nothing but confetti from the machine and have it deducted from their bank accounts. Then the mouse would have to chew up more money to rebuild his nest.
 
Viagra ice cream to go on sale at Selfridges

Pop-up boutique The Icecreamists will serve The Sex Pistol - an ice cream cocktail packed with libido-boosting ingredients and served with La Fee Absinthe

by: Serena Kutchinsky

10 August 2009



The Sex Pistol is served with La Fee Absinthe Prev


  • Forget traditional vanilla. Londoners will be able to treat themselves to a new "vice cream" in autumn when pop-up ice cream boutique, The Icreamists opens in Selfridges .

    Entitled The Sex Pistol, this bespoke creation is served as an ice cream cocktail and is packed with libido-boosting ingredients such as ginkgo, biloba, arginine and guarana. It's served with a shot of the highly intoxicating La Fee Absinthe and is guaranteed to get your blood pumping. Customers are limited to one serving per person.

    Matt O'Connor, founder of The Icecreamists, says: "This is the perfect après shopping treat. Just one Sex Pistol will leave you feeling energised and confident – but please, don't pester the staff!"

    The Sex Pistol costs £11.99 and is available to customers aged 18 and over.

    From 10 September, Selfridges shoppers will be able to indulge in more guilty pleasures when The Icecreamist boutique opens in the department store's basement. It's open daily until 1 November and will serve cryogenic cocktails frozen at -196°C, pure frozen yogurts and an array of artisan ice cream flavours.
 
Hmmm, I'll take 10 of 'em

Best Buy $9.99 TV Offer Was Too Good to Be True

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

NEW YORK — Few if any of the deals retailers have offered online during the recession have been as good as Best Buy Inc.'s sale price of $9.99 on a 52-inch TV Wednesday. But it quickly turned out the offer was too good to be true.

The electronics retailer said it will not honor the $9.99 price posted Wednesday morning on its Web site for a 52-inch Samsung flat-screen TV. By early afternoon, the TV was listed at $1,799.99, almost half off the original $3,399.99 price.

Bloggers and Twitterers lit up the Internet with posts about the offer, some insisting Best Buy must honor it, others making jokes.

Best Buy, based in Richfield, Minn., said it has corrected an online pricing error and will not honor the incorrect price. Orders made Wednesday morning at the incorrect price will be canceled and customers will receive refunds, the company said.

Best Buy did not immediately return a call for additional comment.

Shares fell 27 cents to close at $36.50 Wednesday
 
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