Patra Caesar
28-04-2005, 04:01
Smells like fish
Tastes like chicken
I know what
You've been lickin'
Now available in sandwich form!
(Yes, today's stories are about food)
Source (http://apnews.excite.com/article/20050425/D89MDAEG0.html)
Man Finds Human Skin on Sandwich
Apr 25, 7:32 AM (ET)
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) - A man is suing a fast-food restaurant operator for more than $50,000, claiming he found a slice of skin on his chicken sandwich.
David Scheiding filed the lawsuit in Montgomery County Common Pleas Court on April 1 after rejecting a settlement offer from GZK Inc., his lawyer said. GZK owns the Arby's restaurant in Tipp City where he bought the sandwich.
Scheiding said he realized something wasn't right when he bit into the sandwich on June 18 and found a piece of flesh about three-fourths of an inch long.
"It looked like I was seeing fingerprints on it," he said. "I got sick and went to the bathroom."
Miami County health investigators talked to the restaurant manager, who had a bandage on his right thumb and wore a latex glove, according to a health district report. The manager said he sliced skin from the thumb while shredding lettuce, and sanitized the area but didn't throw away the bin of lettuce, the report said. Scheiding's sandwich contained lettuce.
"Why wasn't the food searched, and why wasn't it thrown away?" said Scheiding's lawyer, Hank Hyde.
Christine Koeller, vice president of marketing and communications with GZK, said what happened was unintentional.
"(The manager) did destroy product that was in and around the slicer immediately, and did everything that he thought was appropriate to do," Koeller said.
I don't think this story even needs a bad pun...
Source (http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15090182-13762,00.html)
Man finds 20 tonnes of salami
From correspondents in Strasbourg
April 26, 2005
A MAN walking in a forest near here found 20 tonnes of gourmet meats wrapped in plastic and still edible, press reports said Sunday.
The salami and cured hams, found Saturday morning, may have been dumped by thieves who wanted only to steal the truck that was carrying them, police said to the newspapers Dernieres Nouvelles d'Alsace and L'Alsace.
Police have not yet found the owners of the gourmet haul, which appeared to be still edible and will be checked by health officials before being offered to local charity groups.
A MAN walking in a forest near here found 20 tonnes of gourmet meats wrapped in plastic and still edible, press reports said Sunday.
The salami and cured hams, found Saturday morning, may have been dumped by thieves who wanted only to steal the truck that was carrying them, police said to the newspapers Dernieres Nouvelles d'Alsace and L'Alsace.
Police have not yet found the owners of the gourmet haul, which appeared to be still edible and will be checked by health officials before being offered to local charity groups.
Hope after all!
Source (http://apnews.excite.com/article/20050426/D89MQQEG0.html)
Man Pleads Guilty in French Fries Rage
Apr 25, 10:53 PM (ET)
DuBOIS, Pa. (AP) - A Burger King customer who berated the employees when a drive-thru clerk told him the restaurant was out of french fries has been convicted of multiple charges and sentenced to 45 days in jail.
Authorities said Gregg Luttman made an obscene gesture at the clerk, cursed staffers and nearly hit an employee with his truck. When police tried to arrest him, Luttman allegedly scuffled with an officer and kicked out the back window of a cruiser.
Luttman pleaded guilty to assault, resisting arrest, institutional vandalism and other charges stemming from the confrontation on New Year's Day.
Besides jail time, Luttman last week was fined $150 and ordered to serve two years' probation.
Mountain Dew has a new spokesperson... ;)
Source (http://www.davesdaily.com/out.php?id=5152&url=http://cbs2.com/water/watercooler_story_116151715.html)
Man Drinks Own Pee To Survive
Apr 26, 2005
FORT COLLINS, Colo. (CBS) An incredible survival story has made its way from Costa Rica to a hospital bed in Colorado.
A man is recovering this week at the Poudre Valley Medical Center after spending seven days in the jungle with a broken back.
Tommy Brown was searching for mangos when he slipped and took a 50-foot fall.
With a broken pelvis, wrist and back he waited for help and yelled to see if anyone could hear him. After 2 days he realized nobody would find him and he began crawling along a creek bed. Eventually he was spotted.
Brown said he survived on leaves and twigs and by drinking his own urine. He is still talking about his first taste of fresh water after being discovered.
"The bottle of water, I was just like, 'Whoooooooo,' It just like replenished me," Brown said. "I felt like I was like a sweepstakes winner or something like that, you know, like I won something, which was my life."
Brown said he hopes to be out of the hospital in the next few days.
This is vaguely related to the theme of food, it was either this story or the tale of a man who was arrested for masturbating in his unit above a cafe with the windows open.
Source (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1587022,00.html)
April 27, 2005
Bitten chef saved his life by snapping lethal spider
By Simon de Bruxelles
MATTHEW STEVENS’S first reaction when he was bitten by a giant spider that he disturbed while cleaning the freezer in his pub kitchen was to take its photograph with the camera in his mobile telephone.
The chef’s impressive presence of mind, prompted by the suspicion that his mates would never believe him, may have saved his life. Within minutes his hand had swelled to the size of a balloon. Later as doctors fought to save his life in hospital they were able to send the picture to experts at Bristol Zoo who identified his assailant as a Brazilian Wandering Spider, one of the deadliest arachnids in the world.
Mr Stevens, 23, was bitten twice by the 5in spider which is believed to have taken refuge under a dishcloth after stowing away in a box of bananas delivered to the Quantock Gateway pub in Bridgwater, Somerset.
He said: “It was hiding in a cloth and when I squeezed the cloth it bit me. It was about as big as the palm of my hand. I went to try and pick it up and it bit me again. It landed in the freezer, which stunned it.”
Assuming the spider was dead, Mr Stevens took its picture for posterity. Shortly afterwards he was in such pain with dizziness and the shakes that a colleague drove him to the local community hospital. He said that staff had a look at him and then sent him home to rest. Mr Stevens said: “They told me they couldn’t see anything wrong. They said to go home and keep an eye on it.”
Not long after getting home Mr Stevens collapsed as the venom worked through his system. His partner, Cara McSweeney, 19, called an ambulance and he was rushed to Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton, where doctors placed him on a saline drip. His condition worsened as staff tried to diagnose the bite.
Mr Stevens said: “I thought I wasn’t going to make it. My chest was so tight I could hardly breathe. My blood pressure was going through the roof and my heart was beating so hard I could feel it hitting my chest.
“The doctors didn’t know what type of spider it was, but I’d got a picture of it on my phone and they sent it to Bristol Zoo to identify it.”
As his condition deteriorated further, doctors gave him oxygen and increased the flow of saline to flush the toxins out of his system. He was discharged the next day but it was nearly a week before he felt well again.
Meanwhile, inspectors had visited the pub and caught the spider in the kitchen. Warren Spencer, head of invertebrates at Bristol Zoo, said: “I’ve heard of only a couple of instances where they have been found in the UK.”
The Brazilian Wandering Spider (Phoneutria fera) is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the world’s most poisonous spider, with venom glands up to 10mm long containing enough poison to kill 225 mice.
The spider’s poison can provoke severe symptoms, including an irregular heartbeat, high blood pressure, vomiting and death. Since 1926, 14 people have died from bites, though none since 1996 when an antidote was developed in Brazil.
This story isn't related to food at all, unless you eat the maggots out of his ear. Is that an itch you have?
Source (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=857&ncid=757&e=10&u=/nm/20050427/od_uk_nm/oukoe_odd_thailand_maggots)
Doctors remove 50 maggots from man's ears
Wed Apr 27, 2:57 AM ET
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Doctors found around 50 maggots in the ears of an 84-year-old Thai man after he went to hospital complaining of an itch.
Wednesday's Nation newspaper said Anan Temtan, who lives in the tsunami-hit southern resort island of Phuket, had used cotton buds to relieve the itching, but had scratched so hard his eardrums ruptured and started bleeding.
"We believe flies might have gone inside his ears to lay eggs, which hatched into larvae and caused the itching," said Somsak Nonthasri, the doctor who treated him.
Somsak, who used tweezers and a small suction device to remove the maggots, said Anan would be kept in for observation for a while to make sure no more eggs hatched.
Tastes like chicken
I know what
You've been lickin'
Now available in sandwich form!
(Yes, today's stories are about food)
Source (http://apnews.excite.com/article/20050425/D89MDAEG0.html)
Man Finds Human Skin on Sandwich
Apr 25, 7:32 AM (ET)
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) - A man is suing a fast-food restaurant operator for more than $50,000, claiming he found a slice of skin on his chicken sandwich.
David Scheiding filed the lawsuit in Montgomery County Common Pleas Court on April 1 after rejecting a settlement offer from GZK Inc., his lawyer said. GZK owns the Arby's restaurant in Tipp City where he bought the sandwich.
Scheiding said he realized something wasn't right when he bit into the sandwich on June 18 and found a piece of flesh about three-fourths of an inch long.
"It looked like I was seeing fingerprints on it," he said. "I got sick and went to the bathroom."
Miami County health investigators talked to the restaurant manager, who had a bandage on his right thumb and wore a latex glove, according to a health district report. The manager said he sliced skin from the thumb while shredding lettuce, and sanitized the area but didn't throw away the bin of lettuce, the report said. Scheiding's sandwich contained lettuce.
"Why wasn't the food searched, and why wasn't it thrown away?" said Scheiding's lawyer, Hank Hyde.
Christine Koeller, vice president of marketing and communications with GZK, said what happened was unintentional.
"(The manager) did destroy product that was in and around the slicer immediately, and did everything that he thought was appropriate to do," Koeller said.
I don't think this story even needs a bad pun...
Source (http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15090182-13762,00.html)
Man finds 20 tonnes of salami
From correspondents in Strasbourg
April 26, 2005
A MAN walking in a forest near here found 20 tonnes of gourmet meats wrapped in plastic and still edible, press reports said Sunday.
The salami and cured hams, found Saturday morning, may have been dumped by thieves who wanted only to steal the truck that was carrying them, police said to the newspapers Dernieres Nouvelles d'Alsace and L'Alsace.
Police have not yet found the owners of the gourmet haul, which appeared to be still edible and will be checked by health officials before being offered to local charity groups.
A MAN walking in a forest near here found 20 tonnes of gourmet meats wrapped in plastic and still edible, press reports said Sunday.
The salami and cured hams, found Saturday morning, may have been dumped by thieves who wanted only to steal the truck that was carrying them, police said to the newspapers Dernieres Nouvelles d'Alsace and L'Alsace.
Police have not yet found the owners of the gourmet haul, which appeared to be still edible and will be checked by health officials before being offered to local charity groups.
Hope after all!
Source (http://apnews.excite.com/article/20050426/D89MQQEG0.html)
Man Pleads Guilty in French Fries Rage
Apr 25, 10:53 PM (ET)
DuBOIS, Pa. (AP) - A Burger King customer who berated the employees when a drive-thru clerk told him the restaurant was out of french fries has been convicted of multiple charges and sentenced to 45 days in jail.
Authorities said Gregg Luttman made an obscene gesture at the clerk, cursed staffers and nearly hit an employee with his truck. When police tried to arrest him, Luttman allegedly scuffled with an officer and kicked out the back window of a cruiser.
Luttman pleaded guilty to assault, resisting arrest, institutional vandalism and other charges stemming from the confrontation on New Year's Day.
Besides jail time, Luttman last week was fined $150 and ordered to serve two years' probation.
Mountain Dew has a new spokesperson... ;)
Source (http://www.davesdaily.com/out.php?id=5152&url=http://cbs2.com/water/watercooler_story_116151715.html)
Man Drinks Own Pee To Survive
Apr 26, 2005
FORT COLLINS, Colo. (CBS) An incredible survival story has made its way from Costa Rica to a hospital bed in Colorado.
A man is recovering this week at the Poudre Valley Medical Center after spending seven days in the jungle with a broken back.
Tommy Brown was searching for mangos when he slipped and took a 50-foot fall.
With a broken pelvis, wrist and back he waited for help and yelled to see if anyone could hear him. After 2 days he realized nobody would find him and he began crawling along a creek bed. Eventually he was spotted.
Brown said he survived on leaves and twigs and by drinking his own urine. He is still talking about his first taste of fresh water after being discovered.
"The bottle of water, I was just like, 'Whoooooooo,' It just like replenished me," Brown said. "I felt like I was like a sweepstakes winner or something like that, you know, like I won something, which was my life."
Brown said he hopes to be out of the hospital in the next few days.
This is vaguely related to the theme of food, it was either this story or the tale of a man who was arrested for masturbating in his unit above a cafe with the windows open.
Source (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1587022,00.html)
April 27, 2005
Bitten chef saved his life by snapping lethal spider
By Simon de Bruxelles
MATTHEW STEVENS’S first reaction when he was bitten by a giant spider that he disturbed while cleaning the freezer in his pub kitchen was to take its photograph with the camera in his mobile telephone.
The chef’s impressive presence of mind, prompted by the suspicion that his mates would never believe him, may have saved his life. Within minutes his hand had swelled to the size of a balloon. Later as doctors fought to save his life in hospital they were able to send the picture to experts at Bristol Zoo who identified his assailant as a Brazilian Wandering Spider, one of the deadliest arachnids in the world.
Mr Stevens, 23, was bitten twice by the 5in spider which is believed to have taken refuge under a dishcloth after stowing away in a box of bananas delivered to the Quantock Gateway pub in Bridgwater, Somerset.
He said: “It was hiding in a cloth and when I squeezed the cloth it bit me. It was about as big as the palm of my hand. I went to try and pick it up and it bit me again. It landed in the freezer, which stunned it.”
Assuming the spider was dead, Mr Stevens took its picture for posterity. Shortly afterwards he was in such pain with dizziness and the shakes that a colleague drove him to the local community hospital. He said that staff had a look at him and then sent him home to rest. Mr Stevens said: “They told me they couldn’t see anything wrong. They said to go home and keep an eye on it.”
Not long after getting home Mr Stevens collapsed as the venom worked through his system. His partner, Cara McSweeney, 19, called an ambulance and he was rushed to Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton, where doctors placed him on a saline drip. His condition worsened as staff tried to diagnose the bite.
Mr Stevens said: “I thought I wasn’t going to make it. My chest was so tight I could hardly breathe. My blood pressure was going through the roof and my heart was beating so hard I could feel it hitting my chest.
“The doctors didn’t know what type of spider it was, but I’d got a picture of it on my phone and they sent it to Bristol Zoo to identify it.”
As his condition deteriorated further, doctors gave him oxygen and increased the flow of saline to flush the toxins out of his system. He was discharged the next day but it was nearly a week before he felt well again.
Meanwhile, inspectors had visited the pub and caught the spider in the kitchen. Warren Spencer, head of invertebrates at Bristol Zoo, said: “I’ve heard of only a couple of instances where they have been found in the UK.”
The Brazilian Wandering Spider (Phoneutria fera) is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the world’s most poisonous spider, with venom glands up to 10mm long containing enough poison to kill 225 mice.
The spider’s poison can provoke severe symptoms, including an irregular heartbeat, high blood pressure, vomiting and death. Since 1926, 14 people have died from bites, though none since 1996 when an antidote was developed in Brazil.
This story isn't related to food at all, unless you eat the maggots out of his ear. Is that an itch you have?
Source (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=857&ncid=757&e=10&u=/nm/20050427/od_uk_nm/oukoe_odd_thailand_maggots)
Doctors remove 50 maggots from man's ears
Wed Apr 27, 2:57 AM ET
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Doctors found around 50 maggots in the ears of an 84-year-old Thai man after he went to hospital complaining of an itch.
Wednesday's Nation newspaper said Anan Temtan, who lives in the tsunami-hit southern resort island of Phuket, had used cotton buds to relieve the itching, but had scratched so hard his eardrums ruptured and started bleeding.
"We believe flies might have gone inside his ears to lay eggs, which hatched into larvae and caused the itching," said Somsak Nonthasri, the doctor who treated him.
Somsak, who used tweezers and a small suction device to remove the maggots, said Anan would be kept in for observation for a while to make sure no more eggs hatched.