Flash in the Pan

• No Naked Lunch A Greenville, ME restaurant is getting into trouble over a promotion: a free sandwich (nicknamed the skinny dip) to anyone willing to plunge en naturale from the establishment's dock into the lake behind it. (AP)


• Don't Drink and Trim Police pulled over a man in West Virginia for drinking while driving - a rider lawnmower. (AP)


• Poisoning Pigeons in the Park Owners of the stadium where the Cincinnati Bengals play had been looking for permission to shoot pigeons. Apparently the birds had been dropping deposits into the drinks of patrons. Given that it's major league baseball, wouldn't an extra charge for a clean drink been more appropriate? (AP)


• Professional Cooking Pot The founder of a California factory that made a line of food stuffs all laced with marijuana faces federal drug charges. Talk about making your customers happy. (AP)


• Gritty Contest The wave of competitive eating competitions continues the first World Grits Eating Championship. A chef from Chicago ate 21 pounds of the stuff in 10 minutes. (AP)

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• Vampire Bats - and Now Vampire Peacocks In the parking lot of a Staten Island Burger King, a man attacked a stray peacock, claiming that it was a vampire. "He was going crazy," said a worker at the establishment. Eating at a fast food joint, what else could you expect? (AP)


• The Last Blow An apparently suspicious object left outside a Salt Lake City fast food place cause the city to close down several blocks for a couple of hours before someone determined that it was an abandoned trumpet that had seen better days. They probably thought it was a peacock. (AP)


• Manners, Please A man in a Pennsylvania fast food drive-through punched the woman handing him his meal because she didn't say please and thank you. And here I thought it was because he actually tasted the food. (AP)


• Wimbledon Food Woes Former top tennis player Marat Safin was griping about food at the annual tournament because they always serve the same things, charge about $20 for a plate of pasta, and the food allowance for players doesn't cover one meal. (AFP)


• Tennis, Anyone? Scientists have developed a pill that swells to the size of a tennis ball in the stomach, making someone feel full before sitting down to a meal. Possible side effects include over-dependence on your backhand. (Daily Mirror)


• Munchies, Anyone? A top Indonesian politician thinks that it's fine to use marijuana in food, although he doesn't approve of full legalization. What, does he have the brownie concession? (Reuters)


• Sports Injury The six-time winner of the annual Fourth of July hot dog eating contest on Coney Island may have to pass because of arthritis in the jaw. Maybe mom didn't know best when she said chew 20 times before swallowing. (AP)


• Stopper that Bottle San Francisco says it won't pay for employee bottled water, claiming that tap is as good. "'In San Francisco, for the price of one 1 gallon (3.8 litres) of bottled water, local residents can purchase 1,000 gallons (38,000 litres) of tap water,' according to the mayor's order." But how do you get the bottles out of the faucet? (Reuters)

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