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2/2/2012
McDonalds Is No Longer Using Ammonia-Based Pink Slime In Their Hamburgers Here's some news that should brighten up your Thursday: McDonald's is no longer making their hamburgers with pink goo made from ammonia-based scrap meat! Up until a few months ago, McDonald's used a chemical called ammonium hydroxide, which is also used in fertilizer, cleaning products, and homemade bombs. If it's mixed with inedible meat scraps, it creates a slimy pink goo . . . which McDonald's added to their beef. Why would they do that? One reason is to "extend" their meat, so they can make more burgers from the same amount of beef. Another reason is that the mixture kills bacteria. Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver led a crusade to get companies to stop using it, and McDonald's announced this week that they stopped months ago. While it sounds disgusting, ammonium hydrate is also used in breads and cakes, and the Department of Agriculture says it's, quote, "generally recognized as safe." (MSN)
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2/2/2012
A Guy Went to the Drive-Thru at Sonic and Sang His Order . . . and the Drive-Thru Girl Loved It This may be the best drive-thru order of all time: A wanna-be singer-songwriter named Giorgio Fareira went to the drive-thru at Sonic with his friends. And instead of SPEAKING the order, he brought a guitar and SANG it. --What makes it even better is the drive-thru girl's reaction. She seemed pretty happy about it.
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2/2/2012
Man in Obama mask robs Riviera Beach McDonald's RIVIERA BEACH— Authorities are seeking the public's help in identifying a man who robbed a McDonald's on Saturday while wearing a President Barack Obama mask.
Riviera Beach Police say that the man who held employees of the McDonald's at 3551 Broadway at gunpoint with a silver, semi-automatic handgun, was wearing a mask "resembling a likeness" to Obama. He ordered all employees to the back office at 6:21 a.m., and then ordered the manager to open the safe and place the cash in a cloth bag he brought.
Before leaving the restaurant, the man threatened to kill the employees if they did not stay in the office. He then ran from the store in an northeast direction with about $1,000 cash, a written release by Riviera Beach Police said.The suspect is approximately 6-feet tall, weighs about 170 pounds, and was wearing all-black clothing with white gloves during the robbery.
Anyone with information is asked to call Riviera Beach Police Det. Francisco Aquirre 561-845-4123 or Crimestoppers of Palm Beach County at 800-458-8477.
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2/2/2012
A Woman Breaks Her Leg . . . and Her Dog Retrieves Her Cell Phone So She Can Get Help I am impressed when my dog responds when I say "sit." Clearly I'm setting my expectations too low. On Friday, an elderly woman in Glendale, Arizona named Bethe Bennett fell on her tile floor and broke her leg. She was in excruciating pain, couldn't move, and knew no visitors were coming until Tuesday. But she has a miniature schnauzer named Danny who's a trained service dog . . . and he WAS there. And Danny put his training to work. Bethe asked him to get her phone. And amazingly, he knew what that was . . . and how to get it to her. He saw it on a table, jumped up, knocked it to the ground, and pushed it over to her with his nose. --She called the paramedics, they took her to the hospital for surgery, and now she's recovering. And Danny hangs out on her spital bed. (ABC News)
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2/2/2012
Police Catch a Toothless Woman Who Robbed a Bank . . . and She Confirms She Did It For the Dentures Back on January 20th, 49-year-old Evelyn Marie Fuller of Carmichaels, Pennsylvania robbed a bank. She said she had a gun, the teller gave her some cash, and she got away. The bank employees described her to the cops as a woman who appeared NOT TO HAVE TEETH. On Tuesday, the police spotted her, noticed her lack of teeth . . . and linked her to the robbery. She eventually admitted to robbing the bank because she wanted money for . . . DENTURES. Which, ya know, DOES make sense. She's facing two counts of robbery, one count of theft, and one count of making terroristic threats. (Observer-Reporter)
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