It’s the love spud.
A widow from Florida reached into a 10-pound sack of potatoes and found a heart-shaped tater she’s sure is a message from her late hubby.
“I was just frying up some onions and potatoes,” Sally Colburn, 70, of Shalimar, told The Huffington Post.
“I reached in the bag and the last potato was shaped like a heart.”
Her husband Jack died from lung cancer in May.
“He was from Alabama,” she said. “He was raised on potatoes.”
She’s now trying to figure out how to preserve the spud as a reminder of their love.
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A Sunshine State gal added injury to insult after she cut in front of a man at a McDonald’s drive-through window — then allegedly stabbed him in the butt when he objected.
The fast-food fracas began when Rebecca Simmons, 45, sneaked ahead of Mohammad Abukhder, 35, at a McDonald’s in Riverview, Florida media said.
Rebecca Simmons, 45, allegedly launched into her Mac attack at the Riverview burger joint after Mohammad Abukhder, 35, grabbed her keys. She was charged with aggravated battery.
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A black bear with a taste for Chinese broke into an Idaho couple’s home and polished off their leftovers.
David Edwards of Ketchum told the Idaho Mountain Express that his dog started barking at about 3 a.m. and when he investigated he spotted the furry intruder lapping up a pan of leftover Chinese foo d.The b
Edwards didn’t wake his wife during the ordeal, saying “I couldn’t tell her there was a bear in the house … she gets very upset over spiders.”
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Now that’s a marital beef.
A Pennsylvania man allegedly beat his wife with a package of frozen ground beef, then ran like a steer when cops arrived.
William Neugebauer, 51, of Aliquippa walloped his wife Wendy in the ribs after a marital dispute.
William Neugebauer, 51, of Aliquippa, eventually hoofed it home, where cops busted him. He remained corralled in a local lock-up after failing to post bond.
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This time, it was the bankers who didn’t read the fine print.
A shrewd Russian tired of credit-card offers turned the tables on the country’s biggest online bank by drawing up his own contract and slipping it past the clueless moneymen.
Dmitry Agarkov, 42, doctored the fine print on a bank contract to give himself unlimited credit at zero percent interest with no fees or penalties ever — and the bank signed off.
The bank came after Agarkov for $1,363 in late charges, but a judge ruled in his favor.