Tuesday, July 17, 2012
News First Slice 7/17/12: Six Flags requires four limbs
Posted by Gwynedd Stuart @gwynnstu on Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 7:51 AM
1. Some poor teenager who works the Goliath coaster at Six Flags was booed for wanting a man's prosthetic leg to not fly off and kill people. WSB-TV came at the story from slightly a different angle.
2. When I read a headline announcing that Delta had accidentally served sandwiches with needles inside them to a couple passengers on a flight from Amsterdam to Atlanta, I immediately imagined they were hypodermic needles. What a relief that they were only sewing needles. PR disaster averted.
3. A DeKalb police captain was jailed for being in possession of stolen property, including a boat, all-terrain vehicles, and a dirt bike. "I would not have bought new tires for one of them if I thought it was stolen," she explained to a judge. New tire defense. Classic.
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