Say What? Boy Grabs Knife After Dad Pulls Plug on Video Game

[CrimsonTide4]

Originally posted by Steeltrap


This is from MSNBC.

Man Pleads Guilty to Shipping Self in Box
Thu Nov 6,11:19 AM ET Add U.S. National - AP to My Yahoo!


By ANGELA K. BROWN, Associated Press Writer

FORT WORTH, Texas - A former shipping clerk pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday to shipping himself from New York to Dallas in a wooden cargo crate.


Charles D. McKinley, 25, pleaded guilty to stowing away on a cargo jet, a misdemeanor. Possible punishment ranges from probation to a year in prison and up to a $100,000 fine when he is sentenced Feb. 4.


McKinley declined to comment after the 20-minute hearing. His attorney Bill Glaspy said he advised McKinley to plead guilty because "he told what he did to every newspaper and television station in the country, I think."


The plea was not part of a plea bargain, said U.S. Attorney Fred Schattman.


McKinley's trial had been set for Monday. He had previously agreed to have U.S. Magistrate Charles Bleil hear the case rather than a jury or a federal district judge.


McKinley, who worked at a New York warehouse, journeyed overnight about 1,500 miles by truck, plane and delivery van before popping out of the box Sept. 6 at his startled parents' home in DeSoto, a Dallas suburb.


The shaken delivery company employee left the house and called police.


McKinley has said he made the 15-hour trip — eluding security at five airports — because he was homesick and thought he could save money by flying cargo.


McKinley said he took a cell phone, which didn't work, but no food or water. He told some reporters he occasionally got out of the 42-by-36-by-15-inch crate.


He also said an accomplice closed the box and shipped him. But in his signed statement to the FBI (news - web sites), McKinley claimed no one else was involved.


The incident renewed debate over the air cargo system's vulnerability to terrorists. Unlike the tight federal security for airline passengers, air cargo receives little federal scrutiny and is the responsibility of the shipper.

[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."

[1savvydiva]

Now that's what you call Punk'd, LMAO!!!!

[taylaur_2000]

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."

All I can say is this is worth a few million!

[1savvydiva]

Originally posted by taylaur_2000
All I can say is this is worth a few million!

Sheeiit...I'd chew on a couple for a couple mil! (did I say that?)

This can go in the..."For a million dollars, would you..." thread!

[Steeltrap]

I've been to that McCormick's & Schmick's where Ms. Sultan found the jimmy hat in her chowder!

It's right down the street from my office. Now, however, I'm not sure about whether I will go back.

[taylaur_2000]

Originally posted by 1savvydiva
Sheeiit...I'd chew on a couple for a couple mil! (did I say that?)

This can go in the..."For a million dollars, would you..." thread!

I guess I can understand being paid a million to chew on a condom as a dare providing you know the source, but this woman had no idea about this (her story) and did not know the source. That's just nasty.

[lovelyivy84]

Umm

I don't really want to think about it, but

was it used?

[taylaur_2000]

Originally posted by lovelyivy84
Umm

I don't really want to think about it, but

was it used?

I don't know, but what if it was? YUK

[1savvydiva]

Ewwww

[brickhouse492]

I feel so bad for her. It makes you never want to eat out again. What if it was used - during sex ... oohh, My stomach hurts and I feel like spitting up at the thought. I mean darn, she took an extra chew!

[toocute]

Originally posted by brickhouse492
I feel so bad for her. I mean darn, she took an extra chew!

EXACTLY! *shudder* She thought it was a shrimp or something.
OMG.

[Questions404]

Originally posted by CrimsonTide4
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."

That is no mystery -- If you have ever seen those hidden video shows, you will see that people pee in your food, they spit in your food and they put snot in your food. This is just another example of some horrible disgruntled employee sockin' it to the customer. I don't send my food back if it is not what I want unless I know that I don't want anything else (if I send it back, I sit at the table without any food). People are disgusting and horrible and nasty and though this is gross, it doesn't surprise me.

[aephi alum]

Ohhh... I just ate lunch...

(holds stomach, turns green)

[ClassyLady]

Originally posted by Steeltrap
Now, however, I'm not sure about whether I will go back.

I've never been to the one in the article, but I do frequent the McCormick & Schmick's in Philadelphia. They have a happy hour where you can get a lot of food for $1.50. I really, really, really don't want to have to give that up. But, I just might have to because that was just downright nasty.