Showing posts with label subway. Show all posts
Showing posts with label subway. Show all posts

Monday, January 12, 2009

Hundreds drop their pants and take a ride on the subway


New York - Hundreds of brave New Yorkers dropped their bottoms in Saturday's sub-freezing temperatures before taking to the rails for the eighth annual No Pants Subway Ride.
"They couldn't have picked a better day to do this?" asked John Ocskai, 18, of Long Island, wearing a pair of spiffy gray boxers. "This is my first time. I was shocked it was still going on." More...

Saturday, September 13, 2008

Stupid News: Gross Things Found In Your Food!



Want Band-Aids with those fries? Bad news for McDonald's, a senior at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign freaked out when she found a used Band-Aid mixed in with her French fries. The manager said it was an "honest mistake."


Subway cuts like a knife. By now you probably heard about it, but a resident of Queens, New York is suing Subway after he discovered a 7-inch knife in his 12-inch sub sandwich and to make matters worse, the knife was filthy and gave him food poisoning.



McDonald's chick head. Yup, you guessed it. That's a deep-fried chicken head! A Newport News, Virginia woman found it in the box of McDonald's chicken wings. It was the beak and eyeballs that tipped her off that wing was in fact NOT a wing at all!




Metal chunks in the baby food. A mother in the U.K. found that bullet-shaped piece of metal in a pre-made meal she was sharing with her twin daughters. Luckily she discovered the metal and quickly pulled the food away from her kids in time--PHEW!



Macaroni and cheese, and nails! Just the other day a British bride-to-be swallowed a nail that was apparently holding her macaroni and cheese together. She's currently in the hospital, on morphine and waiting for the nail to pass--good luck with that!




Bread hits rock bottom. A customer bought that loaf of cinnamon raisin bread from When Pigs Fly bakery and got the rocks for free. The bakery blamed the drying process for grapes at the Chilean raisin company--those darn Chileans and their raisins!



Prophelective chowder! A California woman won a settlement with McCormick & Schmick's seafood restaurant after she had the displeasure of finding a CONDOM in her clam chowder! Hey, at least they were using protection.

Monday, July 14, 2008

Stupid News - Stripper arrested for subway pole dances


Stupid News - Stripper arrested for subway pole dances

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - A stripper who danced on the poles of Santiago subway trains to challenge the prudishness of Chilean society was arrested on Thursday during one of her lightning performances.

Monserrat Morilles, 26, surprised subway riders all week stripping to skimpy underwear, but she refused tips.

She said she was protesting a lack of tolerance in Chile, one of Latin America's most conservative societies where the first generation since the Pinochet dictatorship is reaching adulthood.

"This is just a beginning. We are starting an idea here that will grow and be developed further," she told Reuters as police and subway guards surrounded her.

The professional pole dancer worked quickly all week to avoid arrest, getting on at one station, finding a subway car with no children on it and stripping in time to exit at the next station.

Chilean media dubbed her "La Diosa del Metro" or Subway Goddess. She called her performances "happy minutes."

"Chile is still a pretty timid country," said her manager Gustavo Pradenas. "People aren't very extroverted and we want to take aim at that and make Chile a happier country."

(Reporting by Pav Jordan; Editing by Anthony Boadle)