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The infamous Upper East Side dessert restaurant Serendipity 3 was closed Wednesday when Health Department inspectors found rat droppings, a live mouse and more than 100 roaches. The restaurants was famous and original: recently the cost of a menù with particular dessert was of 25,000 dollars! An inspection Wednesday night found the restaurant crawling with cockroaches, mice and flies. Inspectors spotted a live mouse and mouse droppings in many areas of the restaurant, which is usually better known for its lavish desserts, like frozen hot chocolate.An inspector spotted a live mouse and mouse droppings, flies and more than 100 live cockroaches, the department said.

Strange to say, but maybe the MacDonalds is better…

USA 2007: Miss South Carolina answers a question and imparts wisdom on world geography. So stupid, doh! Here the video of Miss Teen USA South Carolina 2007 with Subtitles and the famous answer: Continue Reading…

Strange degrees in United States: the taxpayers’ alliance discovers a massive expansion of nondegrees (courses with little or no academic merit). Students, in U.S.A. you could take a degree in adventure education (University of Chichester, 2 years), in equine sports performance, environmental hazards and visual culture (University of Brighton), and many others. And.. many of theese courses are over-subscribed and their graduates are without a job. Continue Reading…

A woman was arrested after she called local police to help “get her money back”: she purchased a “fake” crack cocaine!

Apparently a Rochelle woman thought so when she called the local police to help “get her money back” after she was unhappy with the crack cocaine she had bought Thursday night. Juanita Marie Jones, 53, of 957 Gordon St. called Rochelle Police late Thursday night after she purchased what she thought was a $20 piece of crack cocaine, she said. She told officers she broke the rock into three pieces and smoked one, only to discover the rock was “fake.” She told Officer Joel Quinn and Deputy John Shedd of the Wilcox County Sheriff’s Office that she wanted them to get her money back. Jones took the officers into her kitchen and showed them the alleged “fake” rock at which time they arrested her on charges of possession of cocaine.

Next time: a robbery who calls cops to help him? [www.magnaromagna.com - Via: cordeledispatch]

Stephen King, the bestselling author, was mistaken for a vandal in the Australian Outback while secretly signing copies of his own thrillers in a book shop. The alarm was raised from a customer who noticed a man writing in several books.

Stephen King mistaken for vandal in Australian outback King has penned over 50 horror and fantasy novels. A customer at the Dymocks store in remote Alice Springs raised the alarm after noticing a man walk in off the street and begin writing in several books, manager Bev Ellis told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
“As the owner of a bookshop, when you see someone writing in one of your books you get a bit toey [touchy],” Ms Ellis said. [..] “So we immediately ran to the books and lo-and-behold here was the signature in several books. We sort of spun around on our heels, (saying) ‘where did he go, where did he go’?” [..] Ms Ellis said five of the six books King signed will be given to community groups for fund-raising auctions. The sixth was bought by the customer who mistook King for a vandal.

Stephen King is one of the famous writer of the world and is not “popular”. If he was a idiot guy from the big brother this mistake would not have happened… [www.magnaromagna.com - Original: AFP]