The Coney Island hot-dog champ has nothing on Rich “The Locust” LeFevre – the Dallas man wolfed down a dozen fried franks in 10 minutes at the first World Corn Dog Eating Championship at the Texas State Fair.
LeFevre already had a reputation when he entered – having once feasted on a gallon and a half of chili in 10 minutes.
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Maryland politicians had egg on their faces when they handed out a souvenir booklet to commemorate the opening of a new juvenile-detention center – and the phone number for the facility turned out to be a raunchy phone-sex line.
Instead of hearing about programs offered by the Hagerstown center, callers were told: “Go one-on-one with hot girls!”
“Somebody made a mistake,” red-faced Juvenile Services spokesman Lee Towers said.
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Has “Freddy vs. Jason” sparked a sequel called “Jason vs. Minnesota?”
That’s what students thought last week when a man wearing a green wig and a “Jason” mask and brandishing a plastic hatchet rammed into a school bus in Oak Park Heights. “Jason” then fled the scene.
Unlike the “Friday the 13th” flicks, there were no casualties.
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An Ohio woman is suing a riverboat casino because it refused to ban her gambling-addicted hubby.
Johnnie Brown of Forest Park says her hubby, Willie, 53, has gambled away tens of thousands of dollars earmarked for their mortgage, car insurance, electric bills and phone service.
Despite that, she charges, the Argosy Casino still won’t bar him.
“At this point . . . I’ve lost track of how much is gone,” she said.
“My money is in that casino. I didn’t give the casino the right to take it.”
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An upstate Hyundai dealership became a bumper-car arcade when an 82-year-old woman hit the gas instead of the brake and triggered a crash that damaged nine cars, as well as her own.
Cops say they’re amazed Nellie Butler of Rochester wasn’t injured, but they still ended up giving her a ticket – for making an improper turn.