Bad turkey sparks prison rampage
About 300 prisoners went on a rampage at a prison near Lisbon, Portugal, in respone to the turkey they were served for lunch.
Prisoners complained the turkey was “dark, not fully cooked and contained hairs.”
Archive for June, 2002
Chicken sandwich triggers bomb scare
Workers at Burgerville USA in Woodland, Washington, called the police when a customer left a package in the restroom. The bomb squad from nearby Portland, Oregon, was summoned to aid the investigation.
About an hour and a half after shutting down the restaurant, a bomb squad X-ray crew determined that the bag contained only food: a chicken sandwich and some french fries.
Mayor head-butts wife
Cazenovia Village, New York, Mayor Dennis Gregg head-butted his wife in the face Saturday night according to state police reports.
Deborah S. Gregg, 37, was taken by ambulance to Community Memorial Hospital in Hamilton for neck pain. She was treated and released.
Workshop to end soccer violence ends in fistfight
A government-organized workshop in Skopje, Macedonia, hoping to prevent soccer violence ended in a fistfight late Sunday.
The conference went well until the dinner at the end when the rival groups of fans started an argument about whose club had better players. Soon a melee broke out.
Police detained about 30 people.
Natalie Portman won’t rule out lesbian action
Natalie Portman, the actress who plays Senator Amildala in Star Wars: Attack Of The Clones, has feelings for other women. Although she hasn’t acted on her lesbian fantasies, she won’t rule it out. Portman explains “why would you close yourself off to 50-per-cent of people?”
Elizabeth Hurley has three way sex
Vanity Fair magazine reports that Liz Hurley had three-in-a-bed sex with ex-boyfriend Steve Bing and one of his friends while they were in Las Vegas. The third party was a woman, possibly a stripper.
Airport security joke backfires
A Massachusetts man went to the airport and when asked whether he had been asked to carry anything onboard replied “What do you mean? Like one of those ticking cardboard boxes?”
The man has agreed to serve two years probation, conduct 100 hours of community service, and donate $500 to charity.
