McDonald’s executives were left with egg (McMuffin) on their face this week, when over 5,000 Happy Meals were distributed with colored condoms instead of a plastic toy from the movie The Last Airbender. The condoms were intended for the Provincetown, Mass. school system, which recently established a policy making them available for students of...
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Nearly 6,000 counterfeit handheld Tetris games were seized in late June at the Otay Mesa cargo export facility after customs officers noticed that the games were of poor quality and lacked licensing information. The seizure was made June 24 when Customs and Border Protection officers pulled aside two shipments labeled “hand-held brick games” from...
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Hovis has recalled thousands of loaves of bread amid fears they may contain small pieces of glass. The move is a major blow as manufacturer Premier Foods recently launched an advertising campaign extolling the health benefits of the Hearty Oats loaf. It is understood the company acted after five complaints from customers. dailymail.co.uk
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A man was arrested after placing pot in the security tray at a courthouse checkpoint. Cleveland County Deputies Steve Lucas and Jacob Wheeler said when Vaughn Ray Jones Jr. first went through the courthouse security checkpoint on Tuesday he put his belongings in a tray, including a bag of marijuana. When the deputies tried...
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A metro woman said a gym she joined told her to stop using certain equipment because she was too overweight. Five months ago Sandra Ruiz gave birth to her son but with that came some extra weight she wanted to get rid of. “I’m tired of being fat because when I go to the...
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Old Glory won’t be flying in the window of an Iraq War veteran’s apartment anymore. Charlie Price and his wife Dawn were forced to remove the American flag from their window or be evicted from their apartment complex. “It’s ridiculous,” Dawn said. “I couldn’t believe that in America someone would be told that they...
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Staff members at an agency that oversees offshore drilling accepted tickets to sports events, lunches and other gifts from oil and gas companies and used government computers to view pornography, according to an Interior Department report alleging a culture of cronyism between regulators and the industry. In at least one case, an inspector for...
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IBM has apologised after supplying a malware-infected USB stick to delegates of this week’s IBM AusCERT security conference. The unlovely gift was supplied to an unknown number of delegates to the Gold Coast, Queensland conference who visited IBM’s booth. IBM’s apology email does not identify the strain of malware involved in the attack beyond...
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Colorado gambling regulators say a calculating error in a penny slot machine’s software led to a false message that said a woman had won $42.9 million in Central City in March. The Colorado Division of Gaming says its investigation shows Louise Chavez of Thornton should have won $20.18. Chavez wagered 40 cents on a...
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