Flash in the Pan

• Step Away From the Cookies A consulting firm suggested that supermarkets should use intelligent carrieages that could warn if shoppers were buying too much junk food. The 2.0 version will also nag you about your taste in clothing and ask when you're going to have kids. (Reuters)


• Dad, Can I Borrow the Keys and Stay Up Past Seven? A 6 year old in Colorodo was hunger, so took the keys to his grandmother's car, brought his booster seat along, and prepared to drive to Applebee's - until he crashed the car (no one was hurt) and took out electric and phone service to dozens of residences. (AP)


• Pizza Maker Counterfits Dough A pizzeria owner is accused of printing his own fake bills. It's one way to make sure you always have change. (AP)


• Your Pizza or Your Life A Wisconsin burglar broke into a house to steal food, leaving the valuables. Hey, might as well eat the evidence. (AP)

Labels: Applebee's, news, odd, pizza, weird

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