HALFWAY, Md. – An Oregon company has ordered new packaging for its Peace Cereal after a typo on the box sent callers to a phone sex line instead of the cereal maker's 800 number.
Instead of reaching Golden Temple of Oregon, callers were greeted by a recorded voice asking, "Do you love sex? ... Isn't that why you called?"
Spokeswoman Elissa Brown said Eugene, Ore.-based Golden Temple ordered new packaging when the mistake was discovered in December and new boxes have been shipping out for weeks.
However, 13 varieties of the cereal were on shelves Wednesday at one Halfway, Md., grocery store, including seven varieties in boxes bearing the incorrect telephone number
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Sunday, April 12, 2009
Friday, April 10, 2009
Cat on NY TV news truck's roof becomes the story
MINEOLA, N.Y. – A stray cat seeking a warm spot to nap made headlines when Long Island police rescued it from a television news truck's rooftop satellite dish.
WCBS-TV reporter Jennifer McLogan says drivers were honking their horns and waving as her truck traveled Wednesday along a parkway to a Mineola (mi-nee-OH'-luh) press conference about an arrest in a string of burglaries. She waved back.
A motorist finally called to McLogan that a cat was on the truck's roof.
Nassau County police Detective Sgt. Anthony Repalone says he thought it was "an April Fools' joke" when the TV crew interrupted his press conference to report a feline in need of assistance.
Officers freed the black-and-white cat by dismantling a panel of the satellite dish.
The media-shy cat fled without comment.
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WCBS-TV reporter Jennifer McLogan says drivers were honking their horns and waving as her truck traveled Wednesday along a parkway to a Mineola (mi-nee-OH'-luh) press conference about an arrest in a string of burglaries. She waved back.
A motorist finally called to McLogan that a cat was on the truck's roof.
Nassau County police Detective Sgt. Anthony Repalone says he thought it was "an April Fools' joke" when the TV crew interrupted his press conference to report a feline in need of assistance.
Officers freed the black-and-white cat by dismantling a panel of the satellite dish.
The media-shy cat fled without comment.
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Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Man cries after attempt to rob liquor store fails
TRENTON, N.J. – Police say a 19-year-old who tried to rob a liquor store sat down and cried after 76-year-old owner locked him in the store.
The man was accused of trying to rob Sykes Liquor Store in Trenton Monday night. Police said the owner, who was behind the counter, triggered the lock after the man grabbed a bottle of Hennessy cognac and bolted for the door.
The man then allegedly pulled out a handgun and demanded to be released. But the owner said he saw that the gun was a fake, refused to unlock the door and called police.
Police said the suspect threw away the gun, slumped to the floor and was crying when officers arrived to arrest him.
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The man was accused of trying to rob Sykes Liquor Store in Trenton Monday night. Police said the owner, who was behind the counter, triggered the lock after the man grabbed a bottle of Hennessy cognac and bolted for the door.
The man then allegedly pulled out a handgun and demanded to be released. But the owner said he saw that the gun was a fake, refused to unlock the door and called police.
Police said the suspect threw away the gun, slumped to the floor and was crying when officers arrived to arrest him.
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Monday, April 6, 2009
Even cops are not spared by high-tech fraudsters
TUGUEGARAO, Philippines – Even the police are not spared by fraudsters proliferating across the Philippine archipelago.
Reports on Wednesday said the police in the northern city of Tuguegarao have sent out an alert against an individual or group claiming to be from the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) and trying to defraud not just residents and employees of various government offices but also members of the city police.
Authorities said the chief of the Provincial Budget and Treasury Office of Cagayan province have complained that someone, who introduces himself as an attorney Roy Principe and an employee of DILG, has sent a SMS or text messages announcing an upcoming conference.
The message sender reportedly asks for a prepaid load for his or her mobile phone before sending the conference details.
Supt. Felix Dayag, Tuguegarao police chief, said his office has received several complaints from residents and other government offices of the same racket.
Dayag admitted that he himself received a similar text message about a conference of all chiefs-of-police in the province. Tuguegarao is the capital of Cagayan, one of the biggest provinces in the Philippines.
He said he was suspicious at first owing to the message sender’s unknown identity and when he checked the conference venue, which was supposed to be at the provincial capitol, it has not been booked at all.
Dayag said he did not send any prepaid load to the suspicious number.
A verification at the DILG central office showed that there is no lawyer or employee named Roy Principe in their roster of employees.
Police said mobile phone users should report to authorities any suspicious text messages coming from unknown numbers so that they can immediately conduct an investigation on the matter.
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Reports on Wednesday said the police in the northern city of Tuguegarao have sent out an alert against an individual or group claiming to be from the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) and trying to defraud not just residents and employees of various government offices but also members of the city police.
Authorities said the chief of the Provincial Budget and Treasury Office of Cagayan province have complained that someone, who introduces himself as an attorney Roy Principe and an employee of DILG, has sent a SMS or text messages announcing an upcoming conference.
The message sender reportedly asks for a prepaid load for his or her mobile phone before sending the conference details.
Supt. Felix Dayag, Tuguegarao police chief, said his office has received several complaints from residents and other government offices of the same racket.
Dayag admitted that he himself received a similar text message about a conference of all chiefs-of-police in the province. Tuguegarao is the capital of Cagayan, one of the biggest provinces in the Philippines.
He said he was suspicious at first owing to the message sender’s unknown identity and when he checked the conference venue, which was supposed to be at the provincial capitol, it has not been booked at all.
Dayag said he did not send any prepaid load to the suspicious number.
A verification at the DILG central office showed that there is no lawyer or employee named Roy Principe in their roster of employees.
Police said mobile phone users should report to authorities any suspicious text messages coming from unknown numbers so that they can immediately conduct an investigation on the matter.
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Saturday, April 4, 2009
Warning sought for burger the size of your head
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – The West Michigan Whitecaps say they have no plans to put a warning label on an enormous new hamburger they're selling this season — despite a vegan advocacy group's request to do just that.
Susan Levin, a staff dietitian for the Washington-based Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, sent a letter to the Grand Rapids minor-league team on Tuesday. She's asking that the 4,800-calorie burger be labeled a "dietary disaster" that increases the risk of cancer and heart disease.
The 4-pound, $20 burger features five beef patties, five slices of cheese, nearly a cup of chili and liberal doses of salsa and corn chips — all on an 8-inch bun.
Whitecaps spokesman Mickey Graham says the burger is a gimmick that's being promoted as a very unhealthy menu item.
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Susan Levin, a staff dietitian for the Washington-based Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, sent a letter to the Grand Rapids minor-league team on Tuesday. She's asking that the 4,800-calorie burger be labeled a "dietary disaster" that increases the risk of cancer and heart disease.
The 4-pound, $20 burger features five beef patties, five slices of cheese, nearly a cup of chili and liberal doses of salsa and corn chips — all on an 8-inch bun.
Whitecaps spokesman Mickey Graham says the burger is a gimmick that's being promoted as a very unhealthy menu item.
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Thursday, April 2, 2009
Pigeons fly cell phones into Brazilian prison
SAO PAULO — Inmates have devised an innovative way to smuggle in cell phones into a prison farm in Brazil: carrier pigeons.
Guards at the Danilio Pinheiro prison near the southeastern city of Sorocaba noticed a pigeon resting on an electric wire with a small cloth bag tied to one of its legs last week.
"The guards nabbed the bird after luring it down with some food and discovered components of a small cell phone inside the bag," police investigator Celso Soramiglio said Tuesday.
One day later, another pigeon was spotted dragging a similar bag inside the prison's exercise yard. Inside the bag was the cell phone's charger, Soramiglio said.
The birds were apparently bred and raised inside the prison, smuggled out, outfitted with the cell phone parts and then released to fly back.
"Pigeons instinctively fly back home, always," the investigator said.
Soramiglio said that police have not discovered who raised the pigeons nor the name of the inmate who was going to receive the cell phone, but that he hoped the telephone carrier would provide the information.
"Some of them are members of organized crime groups that use cell phones to talk to family and friends and to give and receive orders for criminal actions outside and inside prisons," Soramiglio said.
He did not want to elaborate further until investigations conclude.
In 2006, Sao Paulo's notorious First Capital Command used cell phones to coordinate a wave of assaults on police, banks and buses that left more than 200 people dead in South America's largest city.
The gang's leaders are based in prisons, and use smuggled cell phones to plan and execute drug deals, kidnappings and bank robberies
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Guards at the Danilio Pinheiro prison near the southeastern city of Sorocaba noticed a pigeon resting on an electric wire with a small cloth bag tied to one of its legs last week.
"The guards nabbed the bird after luring it down with some food and discovered components of a small cell phone inside the bag," police investigator Celso Soramiglio said Tuesday.
One day later, another pigeon was spotted dragging a similar bag inside the prison's exercise yard. Inside the bag was the cell phone's charger, Soramiglio said.
The birds were apparently bred and raised inside the prison, smuggled out, outfitted with the cell phone parts and then released to fly back.
"Pigeons instinctively fly back home, always," the investigator said.
Soramiglio said that police have not discovered who raised the pigeons nor the name of the inmate who was going to receive the cell phone, but that he hoped the telephone carrier would provide the information.
"Some of them are members of organized crime groups that use cell phones to talk to family and friends and to give and receive orders for criminal actions outside and inside prisons," Soramiglio said.
He did not want to elaborate further until investigations conclude.
In 2006, Sao Paulo's notorious First Capital Command used cell phones to coordinate a wave of assaults on police, banks and buses that left more than 200 people dead in South America's largest city.
The gang's leaders are based in prisons, and use smuggled cell phones to plan and execute drug deals, kidnappings and bank robberies
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