Something in the burgers?

Police: Ohio woman hit window over lack of nuggets
TOLEDO, Ohio, Mon Jan 04, 08:53 PM

Police say an Ohio woman punched through a McDonald's drive-through window because Chicken McNuggets weren't available. Police were called Friday to the restaurant in Toledo.

Police say 24-year-old Melodi Dushane was treated for injuries, then jailed. She pleaded not guilty to a vandalism charge. She was released on a recognizance bond and ordered not to have contact with the restaurant. The phone number for her home address isn't listed.

A manager at the McDonald's declined Monday to discuss the incident.

NOT CRAZY ENOUGH?? HOW ABOUT THIS:

Police seek woman who trashed Missouri McDonald's
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Wed Jan 06, 10:29 AM
Police in Kansas City, Mo., are looking for a woman who went on a rampage at a McDonald's because she didn't like her hamburger.
Police say the woman caused thousands of dollars in damage on Dec. 27 when she became upset that the restaurant wouldn't refund her money.

Employees had offered to replace her hamburger, but the woman refused and demanded her money back.

Police released a video showing the woman throwing a bucket of water over the counter and pushing off a glass display case and three cash registers. She then cursed and fled.

Hahaha I saw the video for the second incident. Pretty funny stuff!

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Mass. pizza parlor stiffed by fake Dylan rep
AMHERST, Mass., Tue Nov 23, 10:14 AM

A man wearing a Bob Dylan backstage pass who ordered 178 pizzas from a Massachusetts pizza parlor has left the restaurant blowin' in the wind.

The man walked into Antonio's in the college town of Amherst early Saturday morning shortly after Dylan performed at the University of Massachusetts and ordered $3,900 worth of pies.

He said he would return in several hours and deliver them to Dylan's crew. But he never returned and the manager called police.

Restaurant employees stayed until 5:30 a.m. making the pizzas.

Antonio's owner Walter Pacheco tells The Daily Hampshire Gazette his workers had no reason to doubt the man worked with Dylan but "got taken."

Pacheco said he gave some of the pizzas away, but had to throw out most of them.

...AND THATS NOT ALL...

Men hold up NY pizza makers, flee with wrong dough
NEW YORK, Tue Nov 23, 08:33 AM

Police in New York City say thieves held up the owners of a pizzeria and then fled with a bag of full dough - the kind that crusts are made of.

Police say Salvatore LaRosa was charged with robbery after surrendering to police.

According to court papers, LaRosa and an accomplice followed the owners of Brothers Pizzeria on Staten Island. After donning masks, the papers say, they pointed guns and demanded the men turn over a bag they believed held the day's proceeds.

But instead, the bag was full of pizza dough.

LaRosa was released on $1 million bail on Monday. His attorney, James Froccaro, declined to comment.

NM clerk foils robbery with package of pastries
DEMING, N.M., Tue Nov 30, 10:56 AM
Robbers, beware of clerks wielding pastries.

Police in Deming, N.M., say a clerk foiled a robbery last week when she hit the culprit on the back of the head with a package of empanadas, a type of Latin American pastry.

Police say the masked man didn't say a word when he grabbed the cash register at Amigo's Mexican Food and tried to flee.

Deming police Capt. Brandon Gigante says the man dropped the register when the clerk threw the pastries and hit him.

Barbara Orquiz, who owns Amigo's with her husband, Arnold, says the cash register's cord got caught when the man tried to take it. The clerk saw him grab it, screamed and got him with the empanadas.

Orquiz says the man was covering his head as he ran away.

RIADAS RETORT: ¡Más tonterías del alimento, con un sabor latino!

Ohio DUI suspect keeps cop waiting at drive-thru
NORTH ROYALTON, Ohio, Thu Apr 28, 09:19 AM
Police in Ohio say a woman insisted on picking up some fast food before she allowed an officer to charge her with drunken driving.

The Plain Dealer newspaper of Cleveland reports police in suburban North Royalton got a call about a car weaving and going off a road at a little after 1 a.m. earlier this month. A patrolman tracked the vehicle to the drive-thru of a Taco Bell restaurant and pulled up alongside.

The police report says the driver had sunglasses on and her speech was slurred. She was ordered to get out of the line, but first she proceeded to the second window to grab her order.

Police say the woman's blood-alcohol level tested at nearly twice the legal limit.

RIADAS RETORT: She wasnt goin' nowhere without her "Bell"!!! LOL!!!

Pa. woman to stand trial for pot-laced margarine
NEW KENSINGTON, Pa., Fri May 20, 10:26 AM
A Pennsylvania woman will stand trial on charges she fed marijuana-laced margarine to a 12-year-old girl she was baby-sitting, as well as two other children at her home.

The 12-year-old's mother called Upper Burrell Township police after discovering the drugs in a tub of I Can't Believe It's Not Butter in 22-year-old Stevie Hickey's freezer. The woman tells police Hickey spread the substance on two pieces of toast that Hickey gave to the girl.

Police say Hickey told the girl it was "parsley butter" but later acknowledged to police that it was marijuana.

The Valley News Dispatch in Tarentum reports Hickey remains free after waiving her right to a preliminary hearing on marijuana possession and child endangerment charges May 10.

Her home phone is disconnected.

Elma, Wash., dairy princess is lactose intolerant
ELMA, Wash., Wed May 25, 11:18 AM
Laurel Gordon of Washington state has been putting on a tiara to promote milk products the past two years as Grays Harbor County's dairy ambassador.

The funny thing is, the 18-year-old from Elma is a lactose intolerant dairy princess.

The Daily World of Aberdeen reports that unless Gordon takes special pills, her body is unable to digest milk, so she drinks soy milk.

But her family operates a dairy farm that has been in the family for 150 years, and she believes in the product.

She's competing for the Washington state dairy ambassador title in June.

RIADAS RETORT: *chuckle* That girl must feel like the Cowboy that rides an Ostrich or the Watergun that shoots Jelly from the Island Of Misfit Toys!!

Police in Ga. shut down girls' lemonade stand
MIDWAY, Ga., Fri Jul 15, 11:17 AM
Police in Georgia have shut down a lemonade stand run by three girls trying to save up for a trip to a water park, saying they didn't have a business license or the required permits.

Midway Police Chief Kelly Morningstar says police also didn't know how the lemonade was made, who made it or what was in it.

The girls had been operating for one day when Morningstar and another officer cruised by.

The girls needed a business license, peddler's permit and food permit to operate, even on residential property. The permits cost $50 a day or $180 per year.

One girl, 14-year-old Casity Dixon, says the three had to listen to police and shut down.

The girls are now doing chores and yard work to make money.

NY State Fair unveils 1,500-calorie 'Donut Burger'
SYRACUSE, N.Y., Thu Jul 28, 12:42 PM
Want fries with that ... doughnut?

A food booth in Syracuse will unveil the "Big Kahuna Donut Burger" at this year's New York State Fair.

For between $5 and $6, the adventurous eater will get a quarter-pound burger in between slices of a grilled, glazed doughnut. Toss on some cheese, bacon, lettuce, tomato and onion and you've got yourself a 1,500-calorie meal.

America's state fairs can be counted on to provide foods featuring offbeat ingredient combinations. Wisconsin has chocolate covered bacon on a stick, you can get fried beer in Texas, Massachusetts provides fried jelly beans and North Carolina has the "Koolickle," pickles soaked in Kool-Aid.

New York's fair opens Aug. 25.

Restaurant sues over 'Carcass Removal' listing

HELENA, Mont., Fri Sep 09, 05:38 PM
A Montana restaurant listed in the phone book under "Animal Carcass Removal" became the butt of a Jay Leno joke earlier this year, but it's no laughing matter to the owner now suing the publishing company over the business he's lost.

Hunter Lacey says in his lawsuit that business at his Bar 3 Bar-B-Q restaurants in Bozeman and nearby Belgrade has dropped off since the Dex Media Inc. listing and that his brand and reputation have gone down the tubes.

The listing first appeared in 2009 in the yellow pages of Dex's telephone book under the "Animal Carcass Removal" section. Lacey said he first found out about it when the calls started coming into the restaurants.

"It was a series of phone calls for several weeks where it was either people in earnest asking us to come and remove carcasses or prank calls," Lacey said.

The listing was reprinted in other printed and online telephone directories last year and this year. It circulated on the Internet and in forwarded emails, and a reference to the listing ending up in a customer review on the restaurant's Facebook page.

Then in January, Leno joked about the listing in January on the "Headlines" segment of the Tonight Show, saying, "This seems to be, well, here it is: Animal carcass removal, call Bar 3 Bar-B-Q."

Lacey wasn't amused. His restaurants had lost $18,254 from 2009 and 2010. The years and hundreds of thousands of dollars Lacey had spent building up the restaurants' brand had been wiped out, said his attorney, Geoffrey Angel.

Dex spokesman Chris Hardan said Friday that it was an "erroneous listing" that the company removed from its online directory when it was discovered and then took steps to ensure it wouldn't be in future phone books.

"We regret the publication of the listing and we continue to engage in every reasonable effort we can to ensure that our listings are accurate," Hardan said.

Angel said he had been trying to reach an out-of-court settlement with Dex Media for $417,000. The publishing company initially expressed interest, but never responded to the offer, he said.

He filed the lawsuit in state court in August, and the case was moved to federal court on Tuesday. In the lawsuit, he accuses Dex Media of negligence, defamation, slander and other charges and is seeking compensation for the lost expense in building up his brand and for a television commercial to try to right the damage done by the Leno spot.

"I don't think when people are making dining choices they take lightly issues of cleanliness," said Angel said. "I don't think Jay Leno helped the company in any fashion. It only brought more problems."

Lacey's lawsuit says a Dex Media employee deliberately published the listing after Lacey declined to buy an advertisement from him. The publishing company failed to properly oversee its employee and didn't follow quality-control procedures to keep the listing from running, the complaint claims.

In Dex Media's response filed with the court, though, the company said the restaurant "assumed the risk of errors" when it authorized its telephone number to be listed in phone directories. The restaurant gave that authorization when it bought telephone service through a local telephone service provider, the response said.

Dex Media's response also said that someone from the restaurant negligently berated a Dex employee. The restaurant should have foreseen that could have had negative consequences, so the restaurant is at least partly responsible for the damages, the publishing company said.

The company also argues that Dex is not responsible for the conduct of its employees if they operate outside the scope of their employment - and the employee who changed the restaurant's listing to appear under the "Animal Carcass Removal" heading was operating outside the scope of his job.

Neither Hardan nor Dex Media attorney Gregory Black said they could comment further.

World eating champ defends title at Ohio contest
CINCINNATI, Sun Sep 18, 07:42 PM

The top-ranked competitive eater in the world and reigning king of the World Bratwurst Eating Championship has defended his title in Cincinnati, washing down 35 brats in 10 minutes.

The Cincinnati Enquirer ( bit.ly/r1XneT) reports that Joey "Jaws" Chestnut approaches the contest like a sport.

Chestnut, a construction manager in San Jose, Calif., says he prepares by fasting for two to three days before the contest, which took place at Oktoberfest Zinzinnati, North America's largest Oktoberfest.

The 10 male competitors put away 170 brats in 10 minutes Saturday during the officially sanctioned contest.

One observer called the contest "pretty wild" and said he didn't know whether to throw up or get a brat for himself.

For his victory, Chestnut won $2,000 and a golden Oktoberfest-Zinzinnati chicken hat.