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Friday 17 September 2010

10 Most Disgusting Things Found in Food

1.  Dead mouse found in a Curry Sauce.


 When Cate Barrett bought a jar of tikka masala sauce from her local Asda store, she was expecting it to contain a bit of a kick. But what she wasn't expecting to find was the dead mouse which had somehow ended up in the jar - along with the rest of her favorite sauce. The nursery worker had begun making dinner for herself and her boyfriend, Nigel, when she poured the sauce into the pan, and noticed it was a little lumpy. As she began stirring the sauce through, she noticed what looked like whiskers and a tail - and immediately knew it was a dead rodent. The couple took the dead animal and the jar of Asda Extra Special sauce back to the shop where a manager apologized and said it would be sent for examination.



2.  Oven glove found in Hovis loaf

A woman in Northern Ireland discovered part of an oven glove baked into her slice of bread - and she didn't even notice it until she began eating it. The loaf had been bought from a local shop just before Christmas. When the victim discovered the contamination, she reported the matter to the environmental health section of the council. The packet turned out to be full of shreds of the hessian-type cloth. Herefordshire-based Hovis makers Premier Foods were fined £750.

3.   Chicken head found in McDonald's Happy Meal.

An American mother went to a McDonald's with her two 6 and 8 -year old children.
She ordered two Happy Meals with chicken for the children and a hamburger with fries for herself. While they were eating, the 6-year old was more interested in the slide across the street than in the chicken nuggets which he didn't even touch. So the mother decided she would eat them. Without actually watching what she was doing she was bringing a chicken biggest to her mouth, just when her 8-year old son yelled not to eat it. So she looked at the biggest to find that -- despite the crust, it looked just like a chicken's head.The manager offered them their meal for free and two more weeks of free meals. The mother pressed charges and demanded 100,000 dollars compensation.
 

4.  A 7-inch knife found in a Subway Bun.


A Queens, N.Y. man sued his local Subway restaurant after he made a frightening discovery that gives new meaning to his former favorite, the Italian cold-cut trio: a knife baked right into the bun. John Agnesini, 27, was shocked to find the surprise ingredient, and a large one at that, in his sandwich. The design director of HX magazine was sitting at his computer doing work and not looking at what he was about to put into his mouth. Agnesini said he didn't bite into the knife's blade and wasn't cut, but a few hours later, he said he felt sick to his stomach and went to his
doctor.

5.  Dead frog found in a Diet Pepsi can .


Fred DeNegri was grilling in his backyard when he cracked open a can of Diet Pepsi, took a thirsty gulp and immediately started gagging. The flavor of his Pepsi was rank and the texture was thick like slime. He immediately took it to a sink and shook out the contents until something resembling "pink linguini" slid out, followed by "dark stuff”. Despite persistent shaking, a heavy object remained inside the can. Completely disgusted, the DeNegris immediately called poison control and the FDA, and the can was taken in for lab testing to identify the source of the sludgy mess. The couple received a copy of the completed report from the Food and Drug Administration Office of Regulatory Affairs, which concluded the foreign matter appeared to be a frog or a toad.


6.  Finger found in frozen custard .


 A man found part of a severed finger packed inside a pint of frozen custard he'd bought from a Kohl's Frozen Custard shop, and officials said it belonged to a worker injured in a food-processing machine accident there. The customer, Clarence Stowers, said he put the finger in his mouth, thinking it was a piece of candy when he opened the pint at home. Stowers said he spat the object out, and "I said, 'God, this ain't no nut!' So I came in here to the kitchen and rinsed it off with water and realized it was a human finger and I just started screaming."

The custard shop owner, Craig Thomas, said that the 23-year-old employee who lost the finger had dropped a bucket while working with a machine that dispenses the custard. He tried to catch the bucket when the accident occurred. Thomas said that as several employees tried to help the injured worker, a drive-thru window attendant apparently scooped the chocolate custard into a pint before being told what had happened.



7.  Condom found in clam chowder


In Feb. 2002 a woman was eating a bowl of clam chowder at a McCormick and Schmick's seafood restaurant in Irvine, CA, when she bit down on something rubbery. She thought it was a piece of calamari, but when she spit it out into her napkin she discovered that it was a condom. She immediately complained and the restaurant manager took the condom from her. The woman later sued and won an undisclosed settlement from the restaurant. The restaurant itself tried to sue the supplier of the clam chowder, but a judge ruled in favor of the supplier.

8.   Cockroach found in packet of GoldenBoy


A man almost ate this cockroach, found inside a packet of GoldenBoy crispy anchovy snack. The cockroach was difficult to spot initially as it was coated with sesame seeds, making it blend together with the snack. He had bought a 'GoldenBoy crispy anchovy snack' and almost ate a small cockroach after eating about 1/3 of the snack. The cockroach even had sesame seeds on it, which means that it came along with the anchovies inside.

9.  Black Widow spider found in bag of Grapes

 
 A man from Boston found a living black widow spider in a bag of grapes bought at the Whole Foods Market in Brighton. Jorge Fuertes reached into the bag, pulled out some grapes and saw something black fall out and run away. He thought it was an ant, so he looked in the bag and found a southern black widow spider. He spit out his mouthful of grapes and noticed the spider's telltale red hourglass on its belly. He put it in a yogurt cup and went back to the store to let them know what had happened. A manager told Fuertes the entire shipment of Anthony's brand organic red seedless grapes would be removed from the shelves. In a statement Whole Foods said spiders are part of the landscape at their California grower and "although we are very cautious when unpacking produce, sometimes insects are not detected." A black widow bite is rarely deadly, but its neurotoxic venom is painful. It can bring on muscle cramps, vomiting, and dizziness, especially in young children and the elderly.


10.  Poop found in ice cream

  
A family accused chefs of serving poop in their ice cream after they complained about noise during a football match. A bitter row broke out between them and one of Sydney's largest tourist pubs. State government food minister Ian Macdonald confirmed that frozen fecal matter had been found in a serving of chocolate gelato offered to placate pub patron Steve Whyte and his wife Jessica, who became "violently ill" after eating it. Staff at the Coogee Bay Hotel, located just a few minutes south of Bondi Beach, denied the charge. Both the chef and restaurant manager volunteered for DNA tests to prove their innocence. Both sides have accused the other of money seeking, with the Whyte's claiming they were offered $5,000 (£1,500) in hush money by pub General Manager Tony Williams, while they in turn were accused of trying to negotiate up to $1 million in damages. 


 

12 Most Bizarre Fines Ever

1.The driver who was fined for blowing his nose during traffic
jam .
A businessman was fined £60 and had his driving license endorsed for blowing his nose while stuck in a traffic jam. Michael Mancini, a furniture restorer from Prestwick, Ayrshire, was given the fixed penalty and docked three penalty points after leaning over and pulling out a paper handkerchief to wipe his nose when stuck in Ayr High Street. Mancini said that his van was in neutral with its handbrake on, and that he was flabbergasted when he was signaled into a parking bay by an approaching policeman. Matters became “a little bit surreal”, he said, when he wound down his window and was promptly charged by the stern-faced PC Stuart Gray, a man known locally as “Shiny Buttons” in recognition of his zealous attention to detail. “I honestly thought it was a joke,” said Mancini, 39, who was booked for failing to be in control of his vehicle.  
2. The man who was fined for crashing a motorized armchair.
 With a stereo, headlights and the ability to travel 20mph, this isn't a run-of-the-mill armchair.
Inventive Dennis Anderson combined a powerful lawnmower with a cushy recliner to build this bizarre vehicle. However, the 61-year-old's fun came to an end after he decided to drive it home after a drinking session at his local pub. Anderson lost control of the vehicle, which boasts an eight-horsepower engine, and crashed it into a parked car. Officers said Anderson, who injured his leg, was ‘clearly intoxicated' and had a blood alcohol level three times the legal limit. He has been handed a 180-day suspended jail sentence and a £1,200 fine. As it was his second drink-drive incident, the armchair was confiscated and has been set aside for a police auction.
3.The woman who was fined for having too noisy sex 

For two years Kerry Norris, 29, and boyfriend Adam Hinton, regularly embarrassed neighbours with their all-night love-making. The couple yelled out obscenities while the headboard would bang against the wall until 6am. Finally Norris was prosecuted by Brighton and Hove City Council for ignoring a noise abatement notice. Next door neighbour Richard Powell told magistrates: "The headboard bangs on the wall as they are having sex and it keeps me awake all night." "I have had to take days off work because of the lack of sleep." Richard's wife Sarah said she had to move her children to the front room of their home because of the noise. And Michelle Tyrrell said her four year-old daughter was kept awake by the sounds of the couple having sex. Norris would also sunbathe naked in the garden in full view of workmen.

Tony Waller, defending Norris, said she was getting the blame for noise made by other tenants. But magistrates fined her £200 plus £100 costs, and told her to pay a £15 "victim surcharge".
4. The Swiss man who was fined $9500 for questioning Anne Frank's diary
 A former regional president of the far-right Party of Nationally Oriented Swiss has been fined just over SFr 10,000 ($9,500) for claiming Anne Frank's diary was a fake. In June 2009, the 22-year-old ex-leader of the Basel branch of the extremist party had written an article called “The lies around Anne Frank”, in which he branded the diary of the young Jewish girl a “historical lie”. The young man has been fined for racial discrimination. He referred to an article published in 1980 in the German news magazine Der Spiegel, which questioned the authenticity of the diary. The Spiegel article mentioned an expert's report by the German Federal Criminal Police. The same authority led an investigation in 2006 which cleared all doubts on the diary's authenticity. The president of the Basel court said the accused had infringed the federal law against racism and his assertions were like a slap in the face of the victims.

Anne Frank died aged 15 in March 1945 in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, having lived most of her life in Amsterdam. From July 1942 to August 1944, she and her family lived in hiding in a secret annex. Anne kept a diary, which was found and published after her death.
5.The woman who was fined for defaming husband's manhood .
 Vandana Gurjar filed for divorce from her husband Hemant Chhalotre in Madhya Pradesh, India. Her grounds for the action included Chhalotre's impotence. That was a mistake. He turned around and sued Gurjar for defamation, and she was ordered to pay 200,000 rupees (£2,747)! Mr Chhalotre had complained the impotence accusation “rendered him unmarriageable and sullied his prestige”. The amount of the fine far exceeds the annual income of millions living in India. 

6. The man who got a $5K fine for having a home garden

 

His neighbors call it "Cabbagegate." And it cost Steve Miller a lot of green. The Clarkston, Ga., man was fined $5,200 for growing too many vegetables in his backyard. Miller had been growing legumes for 15 years, selling them at local farmer markets and giving them away to friends, before he was cited by the Dekalb County Code Enforcement office for the first time. It's illegal to garden at such a level in the zone where he lives. Miller tried to challenge the penalty, but a reprieve was slow in coming, and the fight's not over. After a long legal battle, Miller successfully rezoned his land. But despite that victory, the county is still fining him for all of his illicit vegetables, and even for hiring workers to weed the fallow land after he stopped working it.

Miller had no idea that growing vegetables on his land was illegal -- in fact, he purchased the plot because he knew people had grown vegetables for profit there in the past. 

 7.The motorcyclist who was fined for wearing an outdoor grill while riding .


After having been photographed riding along a motorway with a barbecue strapped to his body, motorcyclist Michael Wiles, 29, was fined in an Australian court for careless driving. Wiles, was seen on Melbourne's busy Eastern Freeway effectively "wearing" the barbecue as he carried it home after finding it by the side of the road. He had inserted his body through the wooden frame and was peering through a protruding steel grate to see his way as he drove along at speeds of up to 46mph. Police investigated after his antics were photographed from a passing car. The picture later found its way on to the internet and was widely circulated in emails. When in court, his defense lawyer said Mr Wiles's excuse was "lack of thought processes" at the time and poverty. "It turned out the barbecue was a dud and did not work, and that's probably why it was at the side of the road," Mr McClure said.

Wiles was later approached by a barbecue company to appear in an advertisement after his photograph was published but he had declined to do so. He was fined A$800 (£458) and disqualified him from driving for one month.

 8.The company who was fined for hiring illegal immigrants to build border fence

Ah, the irony: The Golden State Fence company, whose work is to build the border fence between San Diego and Mexico, were fined $5 million for hiring illegal immigrants to build the fence! After an immigration check in 1999 found undocumented workers on its payroll, Golden State promised to clean house. But when followup checks were made in 2004 and 2005, some of those same illegal workers were still on the job. In fact, as many as a third of the company's 750 workers may have been in the country illegally.   

 9.The NFL player who got a $25K for Tweeting during a game

 

The NFL fined Chad Ochocinco $25,000 for possessing an electronic device and posting messages to his Twitter account during Cincinnati's 22-9 preseason win over Philadelphia. Ochocinco's Twitter feed (@OGOchoCinco) was updated prior to kickoff with the message: "Just talk with Kelly Washington , Desean Jackson, Geoff Pope, Hank Baskett and I caught a ball from Mike Vick, I love pre-game warm up." Ochocinco then tweeted again at 9:53 p.m. ET, approximately two hours after the game began, commenting on a play from the first half where he was hit hard by a pair of Eagles defenders while trying to catch a pass: "Man Im sick of getting hit like that , its the damn preseason s**t! 1day I'm gone jump up and start throwing hay makers , #Tylenolplease." The league has a social-media ban in place for gamedays, before kickoff until after postgame interviews. Ochocinco had two catches for 29 yards in Cincinnati's win.  

 10.The man who got a 650,000 Euros fine for driving too fast

  In August 2010, a speeding Swedish driver faced the world's biggest ever motoring fine of 650,000 euros after being clocked at 180mph while driving through Switzerland. The 37-year-old man's £140,000 Mercedes SLS AMG was impounded along with his driving license after soaring at two and-a-half times the speed limit on a Swiss motorway.

Authorities say the gargantuan fine -- reported to be the world's largest -- is due to Switzerland's unusual traffic laws, which calculate fines on both the severity of the offense and the offender's income level. Though police could not confirm whether or not the driver's speed was a record, they "have no record of anyone being caught traveling faster in the country," a police spokesman said. The driver, who was traveling between Bern and Lausanne, defended himself by saying he thought "the [speedometer] on the car, which was new, was faulty."

 11. The Couple who got fine for naming their kid

Name Was - Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116


In 1991, Elisabeth Hallin and Lasse Diding wanted to protest the naming law of Sweden, which states that the court can disapprove of names that "for some obvious reason are not suitable as a first name." They were fined 5,000 kronor (about $680 at the time) for naming their son Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116 (Pronounced "albin"). The parents claimed that the 43-character name was "a pregnant, expressionistic development that we see as an artistic creation." The court didn't buy it and upheld the fine. Then the parents tried to resubmit the name as "A" (yes, one letter - also pronounced "albin"). The court didn't buy that either, saying that one letter names are prohibited. The baby finally went with "Albin Hallin" though in his passport his name was given as "Icke namngivet gossebarn" meaning "unnamed little boy."

 12 . The couple who got fined for drinking juice in public .


 In 2008, a Russian woman and a Lebanese man were put on trial in Dubai for drinking orange juice! In accordance with the Federal Penal Code of the United Arab Emirates, a public intake of food and beverages during daytime hours of the month of Ramadan is forbidden by Article 313. The article stipulates the punishment in the form of either a monetary penalty – up to 2,000 dirhems ($555) – or even a term of up to one month in prison.The young people told the court that they were not Muslims and were unaware of the fact that their actions could be punishable. The court took the mitigating circumstances into consideration, but found the defendants guilty, since ignorance did not exclude responsibility. The court ruled that the young people had to pay the fine of 1,000 dirhems ($278) each.
 

Sunday 12 September 2010

World's Smallest Man



Colombian Edward Nino Hernandez is in many ways a typical 24-year-old Colombian male. He loves to dance reggaeton, he dreams of owning a car - preferably a Mercedes- and he wants to see the world. What sets Nino apart is his size. He is slightly taller than a piece of carry-on luggage and weighs just 22 pounds (10 kilograms).

Nino has just been officially certified as the world's shortest living man by the Guinness World Records, measuring 27 inches (70 centimeters). The previous titleholder was He Pingping of China, who was 1.5 inches (4 centimeters) taller and died on March 13, 2010. The Guinness people discovered Nino afterwards.

Nino has earned some cash dancing at department stores and is now acting in a film in which he plays - What else? This is Colombia - a pint-sized drug thug.