Legal eagle Jonathan Turley has an interesting blog that's worth adding to your RSS reader. He follows some of the wackiest cases on it that he doesn't get to discuss when he serves as a legal talking head on the MSM. This partcular case is par for the course -- "McBleach: Man Accuses McDonald’s of Slipping Him an Intentionally Tainted Burger."
In Washington state, Joe Jackson, 65, ordered a burger at the Golden Arches and what he received in that wrapper was the usual hockey puck beef patty with a dash of seasoning -- bleach.
Jackson says that the employee was miffed at his returning his first burger. He says that he began to feel a reaction in his mouth upon his first bite that became an intense burning sensation. He says that he woke up the next morning with blisters on the inside of his mouth and over his tongue — causing him to go to the emergency room.
Jackson says that when he went to the McDonald’s to complain the next day, another worker showed him a bucket of bleach and said that his burger was laced.His description would amount to a serious crime, but there is no mention of a criminal charge which is curious.
If that wasn't bizarre enough, Jonathan links up to another story that makes Jackson's bleach burger sound like a gourmet feast.
In Omaha, Nebraska, a police officer and his family won $40,000 in a lawsuit against a KFC/Taco Bell restaurant after it served them food tainted with the saliva and urine of one of the employees. Officer Keith Andrew and his two sons were sickene d by the tainted food and, for some bizarre reason, the lawyers for the restaurant thought that this would be a good case to fight in court. Now, “thinking outside the bun” will have a lasting and different meaning for Taco Bell and “finger lickin’ good” for Kentucky Fried Chicken.
One of my cousins worked at Burger King when he was a teen, and he would tell hair-raising tales about what goes on behind the scenes at fast food chains. Well, I guess most people wouldn't be surprised, eh? My favorite one was from 2007 - a Taco Bell/KFC overrun with rats in the West Village in NYC. On the left is a news report, on the right, a parody newscast from FastFoodNews.
Our divine "moral compass" and declarant of "civil war" on same-sex marriage was arrested and charged last night in DC for stalking a woman in Anacostia Park.
According to the Washington Post:
At about 8:45 p.m., a woman traveling near the intersection Good Hope Road and Anacostia Drive flagged down a U.S. Park Police officer to report that a man in a vehicle nearby was stalking her, said Sgt. David Schlosser, a Park Police spokesman. That man, Schlosser said, was [Marion] Barry.
The officer interviewed the woman and Barry, then arrested Barry and took him to the Park Police's Anacostia Station, Schlosser said. There a detective interviewed Barry again, and police charged him with a misdemeanor count of stalking. Barry was released and ordered to appear in court, likely sometime later this week, Schlosser said.
Barry, a former D.C. mayor, has had a series of brushes with the law during a long career in politics and civic activism. He is currently on probation for tax offenses.
How much are you willing to bet the religious fanatics won't be circulating a referendum petition to remove the morally&nb corrupt and divorced 4 times Barry from office? Oh the hypocrisy keeps growing, and it's only been a week since "sanctity of marriage" Sanford f**ked around on his wife. Now if only we could catch Rick Warren smoking crack with a prostitute.
UPDATE: When asked by reporters what he was doing in the park with the woman, Barry replied, "The bitch set me up!" LOL!
(update hat tip to RainbowPhoenix)
A major paper has pick up on this story, and capture the outrage over the Stonewall weekend police raid at the Rainbow Lounge in Fort Worth, Texas. In "A Raid at a Club in Texas Leaves a Man in the Hospital and Gay Advocates Angry," James McKinley, Jr. of the NYT captures the major issues at play and added a few more details about the event.
So many questions have been raised about the police account that on Friday afternoon, Mayor Mike Moncrief asked the United States attorney for the Northern District of Texas, James T. Jacks, to review the Police Department’s investigation.
Tom Anable, a 55-year-old accountant who said he was in the bar during the raid, said that for more than a half-hour the officers entered the bar repeatedly in groups of three and escorted people out. Then around 1:40 a.m., he said, the officers started to get rougher, throwing one young man down hard on a pool table.
Minutes later, one of the state agents approached Mr. Gibson, who was standing on steps to a lounge at the back of the bar with a bottle of water in his hands, and tapped him on the shoulder, Mr. Anable said. Mr. Gibson turned and said, “Why?”
Then the officer, who has not been identified, twisted Mr. [Chad] Gibson’s right arm behind his back, grabbed his neck, swung him off the steps and slammed his head into the wall of a hallway leading to the restrooms, Mr. Anable said. The agent then forced Mr. Gibson to the floor, Mr. Anable said.
“Gibson didn’t touch the officer,” Mr. Anable said. “He didn’t grope him.”
Angry allies and members of the LGBT community there have created a new organization, Fairness Fort Worth, to track the investigations and inquiries regarding the raid and plans a benefit concert to help those injured.
Related:
* Fort Worth Police Chief: yeah, that fag at the Rainbow Lounge deserved the beat-down
* News video: Ft. Worth Police gay-bashing at the Rainbow Lounge
* MSM coverage by The Fort Worth Star-Telegram
* Report by The Dallas Observer
* DKos: Breaking: Raid on Fort Worth Gay Bar
* There is also a Facebook page
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