Man Fined for Assaulting Chuck E. Cheese
A Massachusetts man must pay a $500 fine after pleading guilty to attacking a Chuck E. Cheese mascot.
Mistaken Identity: Burrito or Baby?
From a Silicon Valley area police blotter: "Wal-Mart: Police receive a report of a newborn infant found in a trash can. Upon investigation, officers discover it was only a burrito."
Italy Trains Cops to Sniff Out Olive Oil Fraud
Italy trains gourmet police officers to sniff out olive oil fraud [Telegraph]
Man Arrested for Drinking Mare's Milk
A court in Kazakhstan has dropped DUI charges against a man who admitted to drinking fermented mare's milk, not beer. The defendant told the court that before he took the wheel he drank about 1.5 liters of fermented mare's milk, which can contain up to four percent alcohol (though it is not listed as an alcoholic beverage in Kazakhstan). He said he was drinking it for medicinal purposes.
DUI charge dropped — it was mare's milk, not beer [International Herald Tribune]
The Fix: Egg and Tomato Prices
Spiking food prices are thought to be largely due to rising world demand, drought, and surging energy costs. But, it appears that collusion among food producers may have had an impact as well.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Federal prosecutors have recently opened (separate) criminal probes into possible price-fixing by major egg producers and California tomato processors.
Federal Prosecutors Probe Food-Price Collusion [WSJ]
The Smoking Cheeto
Police in St. Paul, Minnesota, followed a "trail of Cheetos" to find three teenagers suspected of robbing a vending machine.
Beer, Knife, Murder
A Chicago woman has been arrested for allegedly stabbing her boyfriend to death because he was drinking her beer.
Man Arrested for Baby Food Poisoning Threats
A New York man was arrested Thursday after he allegedly claimed in a series of YouTube videos that he had poisoned millions of bottles of baby food because he wanted to kill African-American and latino children.
String Cheese Incident
A piece of string cheese, wrapped in duct tape and made to look like a bomb, forced the closure of a Centerville, Utah grocery store.
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