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[CrimsonTide4]

Originally posted by CrimsonTide4
Woman Sues Over Condom in Her Clam Chowder
Tue Nov 11, 8:16 AM ET Add Oddly Enough - Reuters to My Yahoo!


LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Waiter, there is something worse than a fly in my soup.


A California woman who found a condom in her bowl of clam chowder has sued the upscale restaurant that served it to her -- saying she has suffered depression and anxiety from the shocking discovery.


But an attorney for McCormick & Schmicks Seafood Restaurant in Irvine, California, says the eatery has no idea how the condom got into Laila Sultan's food.


Sultan, 48, and her three companions are suing the restaurant for negligence and intentional infliction of emotional distress in a case that is expected to go to trial early next year.


"I thought it was calamari or shrimp or something so I chewed one more," Sultan told local KCAL-TV on Monday. "It felt rubbery. I told my friends, 'My God, there's something in my mouth.'"


Sultan said she spit the offending object into a napkin and at first thought it was a latex glove. Then her friend realized what it was.


"I said, 'Oh, my God' and ran into the bathroom with another friend of mine and I started throwing up," she said. "I threw up everything I ate there, every single thing, I threw up in the bathroom." **LMAOLMAOLMAO**


But Patrick Stark, an attorney for McCormick & Schmicks, told the Los Angeles Times that its staff had no idea how the condom got into the chowder, adding: "It's as big a mystery to us as it is to anybody else."


"We are going to argue at trial there is absolutely no evidence to suggest the restaurant was the source of the condom," he told the paper. "Either it came from (the four women) or it was thrown in as a practical joke by another patron at the restaurant."

UPDATE!!!!

Restaurant Settles Condom-In-Soup Lawsuit
Tue Jan 13, 9:05 AM ET Add Oddly Enough - Reuters to My Yahoo!



LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Seafood restaurant chain McCormick & Schmick's has settled a lawsuit brought by a California woman who said she suffered severe emotional distress after she discovered a condom in her clam chowder, a company spokesman says.



The settlement Monday was reached the day the Portland, Oregon-based chain was to go to trial in Santa Ana, California. The settlement terms are confidential.


"The case has been resolved... in its entirety in a manner acceptable to both sides today," McCormick & Schmick's spokesman Brian Douglas said. "The parties have chosen to resolve it without further court intervention. Both sides are happy with the outcome."


The privately held company, which operates 42 restaurants nationwide, maintained that Laila Sultan's claims that she suffered anxiety and depression were "frivolous."


"We still believe that's the truth but in this day and age it's the price of doing business," Douglas said. "You have to deal with scenarios like this."


Sultan, 48, said the trouble began Feb. 26 when she and three companions sent their soup back to the kitchen to be reheated while dining at the Irvine, California, restaurant.


Sultan said she was treated rudely by the waiter, and when she began eating the soup she encountered a chewy, rubbery object that she first thought was calamari or shrimp, she told local media. She spit the offending object into her napkin and discovered it was a rolled up condom, she said.


"I said, 'Oh my god' and ran into the bathroom with another friend of mine and I started throwing up," she said.


The restaurant chain launched an investigation but had no idea how the condom got into her soup, Douglas said.

[CrimsonTide4]

Wal-Mart Audit Finds Labor Violations
Tue Jan 13, 3:48 AM ET Add Business - AP to My Yahoo!



NEW YORK - An internal audit of about 25,000 workers at Wal-Mart Stores found thousands of labor violations, including minors working during school hours and workers not taking breaks or lunches, a newspaper reported.

The audit found 1,371 violations of child-labor laws, including minors working too late, too many hours in a day or during school hours. On more than 60,000 occasions, workers missed breaks and on 16,000 they skipped meal times, in violation of most state labor regulations.


The audit, conducted in July 2000 and distributed to top Wal-Mart executives, polled employee records at 128 stores across the country, the New York Times reported in Tuesday editions.


Wal-Mart officials downplayed the audit's findings, saying workers often forgot to punch in and out during breaks or skipped lunches so they could leave early.


The audit, by Wal-Mart auditor Bret Shipley, "doesn't reflect actual behavior within the facilities," Mona Williams, Wal-Mart's vice president for communications, told the paper. The company had enacted no reforms in response to the report, she said, because other Wal-Mart auditors had reviewed Shipley's work and found it flawed.


But Wal-Mart critics said the audit revealed the company had sacrificed workers' rights in pursuit of profit.


"Their own analysis confirms that they have a pattern and practice of making their employees work through their breaks and lunch on a regular basis," James Finberg, a lawyer who has worked on several lawsuits against the company, told the Times. "What this audit shows is against their own company policy and against the law in almost every state in which they operate."


More than 40 lawsuits have accused the company of forcing employees to skip breaks and lunches, according to the Times. Wal-Mart has successfully petitioned courts to keep the audit sealed.


Wal-Mart employs 1.2 million people at 3,500 stores in the United States.

[MeezDiscreet]

i'm an agent with american income life, a labor union insurance company that works almost exclusively with labor unions and professional associations and last week i met with a retired union worker and his wife who also said that wal-mart was taking life insurance policies out on their workers without them knowing and of course, were the beneficiaries so when employee's passed, wal-mart was getting paid from it!

[CrimsonTide4]

Originally posted by MeezDiscreet
i'm an agent with american income life, a labor union insurance company that works almost exclusively with labor unions and professional associations and last week i met with a retired union worker and his wife who also said that wal-mart was taking life insurance policies out on their workers without them knowing and of course, were the beneficiaries so when employee's passed, wal-mart was getting paid from it!

Now see THAT is a mess. . .

[blackerican]

Originally posted by CrimsonTide4
Wal-Mart Audit Finds Labor Violations
Tue Jan 13, 3:48 AM ET Add Business - AP to My Yahoo!



NEW YORK - An internal audit of about 25,000 workers at Wal-Mart Stores found thousands of labor violations, including minors working during school hours and workers not taking breaks or lunches, a newspaper reported.

The audit found 1,371 violations of child-labor laws, including minors working too late, too many hours in a day or during school hours. On more than 60,000 occasions, workers missed breaks and on 16,000 they skipped meal times, in violation of most state labor regulations.


The audit, conducted in July 2000 and distributed to top Wal-Mart executives, polled employee records at 128 stores across the country, the New York Times reported in Tuesday editions.


Wal-Mart officials downplayed the audit's findings, saying workers often forgot to punch in and out during breaks or skipped lunches so they could leave early.


The audit, by Wal-Mart auditor Bret Shipley, "doesn't reflect actual behavior within the facilities," Mona Williams, Wal-Mart's vice president for communications, told the paper. The company had enacted no reforms in response to the report, she said, because other Wal-Mart auditors had reviewed Shipley's work and found it flawed.


But Wal-Mart critics said the audit revealed the company had sacrificed workers' rights in pursuit of profit.


"Their own analysis confirms that they have a pattern and practice of making their employees work through their breaks and lunch on a regular basis," James Finberg, a lawyer who has worked on several lawsuits against the company, told the Times. "What this audit shows is against their own company policy and against the law in almost every state in which they operate."


More than 40 lawsuits have accused the company of forcing employees to skip breaks and lunches, according to the Times. Wal-Mart has successfully petitioned courts to keep the audit sealed.


Wal-Mart employs 1.2 million people at 3,500 stores in the United States.

Is this legal????? This is the first time that I heard about this. It reminds me of the casino...they used to work certain ethinc groups 10 or more hours w/out a break!!!!

[brickhouse492]

Oh that's a trip because last semester I did a paper about sweat shops in Mexico, Peru, South Africa, etc. and again, Wal Mart was all up in the mix.

It is hard to believe that they were getting away with this in the US. Overseas, US corporations are totally exploiting workers. What's really sad is they get away with the old "We had no knowledge" claim and life goes on (and the sweatshops are still up and running today). Very sad.

To answer your question, h-ll no this is not legal. Children are not even allowed to work 40 hours a week. In NY, children need working papers that show parental consent.

[FeeFee]

Bite night on the 7 train

Chomper attacks 2 riders

By JONATHAN LEMIRE
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER


Jose Velez, 18, needed seven stitches to close this facial wound caused by a deranged subway rider who bit him and Velez's grandfather on the 7 train in Queens.

A crazed straphanger bit off the thumb of a 71-year-old Queens man and chewed his grandson's face during a wild attack in a packed rush-hour subway car, police said yesterday.
The nightmare on the Flushing-bound 7 train began at 5 p.m. Monday when a disheveled and drunken man jumped 18-year-old Jose Velez, ripped off his own shirt and screamed, "I'm bad. You're nothing. I'm a bada--."

With the train just beyond the 61st St.-Woodside station, Velez's grandfather, Reynaldo Hidalgo, tried to come to the teen's aid, but the madman turned on him, too, cops said.

"He was crazy. He bit me in the chest and the face, and he went after my grandfather," Velez said.

"He took his thumb right off, and my grandfather just started screaming," the teen added. Ivan Rodriguez, 26, spat out the top of Hidalgo's left thumb, Velez said. The grandfather, a diabetic, was taken to Bellevue Hospital, where doctors tried unsuccessfully to reattach the digit.

Rodriguez was arrested after police, who were alerted by train workers, rushed in at the 69th St. station to help Velez, who had wrestled his attacker to the ground despite the blood gushing from the bite on his left cheek.

Hidalgo and Velez were heading to their 169th St. home in Jamaica after filing some immigration forms for a relative in their native Ecuador when they were attacked for no reason, the younger man said.

"He tried to start trouble as soon as he got on the train, but he was drunk and I didn't want no trouble," said Velez, who works at a Manhattan clothing store. "He stepped on my foot and bumped me, but I still ignored him."

Rodriguez then punched Velez, he said, sending him toppling to the floor and scattering the other passengers to the far reaches of the subway car.

"My grandfather tried to help me, and [Rodriguez] went after him and bit him," Velez said. Velez said he tackled Rodriguez, who fought back by chomping down wildly on his chest and cheek.

"It was rush hour and no one came to help, no passengers, no train employees," Velez said. "I was on my own."

Velez received seven stitches at Bellevue to close the gash on his face.

Rodriguez, who spent three days in jail last spring after being arrested for trespassing and resisting arrest, gave cops a false Corona address. Investigators are unsure whether he is homeless, a law enforcement source said.

"He's a messed-up guy. He's not all there," another source said.

Rodriguez was arraigned yesterday on two counts of first-degree assault in Queens Criminal Court, said a spokeswoman for Queens District Attorney Richard Brown. His bail was set at $5,000.

"How can I feel safe on the subway anymore?" Velez asked. "Can it be a part of life now?"

[feu_declipse]

OMG - That's absolutely disgusting - chewing off the man's thumb??? I hope the victims didn't catch anything.

[CrimsonTide4]

Rabbi Offers Prayer for Web Porn Browsers
Wed Jan 21, 8:25 AM ET Add Oddly Enough - Reuters to My Yahoo!

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An Israeli rabbi has composed a prayer to help devout Jews overcome guilt after visiting porn web sites while browsing the Internet.


"Please God, help me cleanse the computer of viruses and evil photographs which disturb and ruin my work..., so that I shall be able to cleanse myself (of sin)," reads the benediction by Shlomo Eliahu, chief rabbi in the northern town of Safed.


Eliahu, quoted by Israel's largest daily newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, said he had responded to a deluge of queries from Orthodox Jews worried that the lure of Internet sex sites was putting family relationships at risk.


The rabbi recommends that Jews recite the prayer when they log on to the Internet or even program it to flash up on their computer screens so they are spiritually covered whether they enter a porn site intentionally or by mistake.

[lovelyivy84]

Originally posted by CrimsonTide4



The rabbi recommends that Jews recite the prayer when they log on to the Internet or even program it to flash up on their computer screens so they are spiritually covered whether they enter a porn site intentionally or by mistake.

So it's like penance in advance? Maybe I am missing a few key points of judaism, but I didn't think it worked like that (but then again, considering that they have a day of atonement every year maybe it does?).

[CrimsonTide4]

TROY, Mich. -- Federal authorities are stepping in to find whoever spewed insults at customers at a Burger King in Troy.


The Federal Communications Commission has radio direction-finding equipment for detecting illicit transmitters.

The person broke into the drive-in order wireless intercom several times last week, making insults to customers.

"You don't need a couple of Whoppers. You are too fat. Pull ahead," Officer Gerry Scherlink said is an example of what the culprit told customers at the drive-through speaker.

The person was tapping into the wireless frequency at the restaurant located at 14 Mile and John R roads. Police believe the culprit is watching and broadcasting from close range.

The pranks began more than a week ago and continued until last Tuesday, according to a Local 4 report. They reportedly occurred around 3 p.m.

But what has managers concerned is the profanity the man is using, according to police.

A drive-through customer told Local 4 that if he had children with him in the car and someone used profanity, he would have been upset.

Burger King franchise owner Tony Versace issued the following statement in response to the incidents:

"We apologize to our customers who've been insulted by the use of this drive-through speaker."

Management at the fast-food restaurant was reportedly trying to change the radio frequency used for the speakers.

The pranks are considered a misdemeanor in Troy and could bring three months in jail and fines for anyone convicted, Local 4 reported.

Federal law also carries more severe penalties than state law.

Anyone with information on the case should contact Troy police.

[1sd]

LMDBO!!!! That's some motivation...yo ass don't need a whopper anyway! HA

[Steeltrap]

Originally posted by 1sd
LMDBO!!!! That's some motivation...yo ass don't need a whopper anyway! HA

Actually, that is hysterical. Imagine being in the drive-in and Boo Boo Da Fool breaks in with that?

[1sd]

Originally posted by Steeltrap
Actually, that is hysterical. Imagine being in the drive-in and Boo Boo Da Fool breaks in with that?

Chile, my silly self would probably think it was a sign from God that I didn't need to have my tubby-self at BK anyway...and drive off!

[brickhouse492]

Originally posted by 1sd
Chile, my silly self would probably think it was a sign from God that I didn't need to have my tubby-self at BK anyway...and drive off!

Okay. If I heard something like that, I'd think the Lord was trying to tell me something.