You’d think people would be ecstatic about a free or near-free lunch.
Folks in Chicago’s Lakeview neighborhood are up in arms over the arrival of a “Panera Cares” restaurant, where customers can pay whatever they think they can afford for meals.
The place is upscale, but neighbors claim the eatery is attracting a legion of unruly, down-on-their-luck patrons.
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Better think twice before complaining to the TSA.
A federal airport screener in Virginia pleaded guilty to stealing $500 from a passenger after the man complained about being singled out for a thorough pat-down.
The screener admitted taking the cash from a tray in which the man had left it.
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A Houston city councilman is trying to ban food trucks as a terrorist threat.
Andrew Burk reportedly said the fast-food-on-wheels kitchens that use propane tanks could be used as vehicle bombs.
So by his definition, there’s a potential lunchtime bomb on every Midtown Manhattan street corner.
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He’s got the wedding-bell black-and-blues.
A groom in Port Richmond, Pa., suffered a ruptured bladder at his strip-club bachelor party when an aggressive stripper-pole dancer slid right down into his stomach.
He needed surgery and had to postpone his wedding, and is suing the club for $50,000.
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When Carisa Galvez was a teen she underwent experimental brain surgery that saved her life.
But now, five years later, the Phoenix 20-year-old is in agony because a unique two-valve shunt implanted in her brain to drain spinal fluid has failed and no one knows how to fix it.
The doctor who performed the surgery has since retired and no one can find him, and a hospital neurological team says it’s unable to remove the device.