Excuse me, waiter, my Parmesan is moving.
An unlucky traveler was shocked to find that the “shredded cheese” on his Atlanta-airport cafe sandwich was actually tiny live white maggots in the bread.
The chagrined, apologetic restaurant says it switched bread suppliers and scoured the food-prep area.
The local health department inspected the place and said it found no cause to cite the eatery.
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They’re environmentally friendly fertilizer machines.
Washington DC’s Historic Congressional Cemetery is using six dozen weed-eating goats to keeps its 35 acres neat and trim.
The cemetery enlisted the services of Brian Knox, who runs Eco-Goats, an environmentally friendly weed-control business that uses the voracious chewers to chow down on invasive species like poison ivy.
“It’s old, old technology,” Knox said.
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A Boynton Beach, Fla., motorist was so outraged while a cop was writing her an unbuckled-seat-belt summons that she called 911 on the spot to complain — and got busted for doing so.
Misusing 911 is a misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail in Florida.
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Now that’s distracted driving.
An allegedly violent New Mexico woman was arrested after cops say she attacked her boyfriend with a boot, a tire iron and a screwdriver — while he was behind the wheel with the car moving.
The Dona Ana County Sheriff’s Office says the suspect was held on battery charges.
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It ain’t over till the fat lady sinks.
A Mozart opera being performed on an off-shore stage on Lake Constancean in Austria made a splash when a boat carrying three singer-performers overturned in shallow water.
But the mishap couldn’t dampen the trio’s spirits, and the production of “The Magic Flute” continued.