Dogs haven't quite become man's best friend in China, but at least man will stop being dogs' worst enemy for a time:
Canine cuisine is being sent to the doghouse during next month's Beijing Olympic Games.
Dog meat has been struck from the menus of officially designated Olympic restaurants, and Beijing tourism officials are telling other outlets to discourage consumers from ordering dishes made from dogs, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Friday.
Dogs haven't quite become man's best friend in China, but at least man will stop being dogs' worst enemy for a time:
Canine cuisine is being sent to the doghouse during next month's Beijing Olympic Games.
Dog meat has been struck from the menus of officially designated Olympic restaurants, and Beijing tourism officials are telling other outlets to discourage consumers from ordering dishes made from dogs, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Friday.
A couple of losers are looking for a shortcut to get back to even:
The lawsuit alleges the lottery advertised over $8 million in prizes for its Cash Blast game from May 2005 to July 2006 that were not available. More than $20 million in losing tickets were purchased in that period, and the suit seeks a refund for losing tickets sold.
[. . .]
For the "things are not always what they seem" file:
A report of a family fight Wednesday afternoon in New Castle didn't turn out to be what police expected.
A nine-year-old girl called 911 after she awoke from a nap and heard her mother screaming. She went to her mother's bedroom and thought her mother was being attacked.
Turns out, her parents were just enjoying marital relations.
If you're just an average motorist who lets a couple of traffic citations pile up, the authorities would hound you to death. But if you're a railroad that racks up more than 1,500 tickets for blocking city streets, that's a different story:
Until Tuesday, 1,551 tickets issued to Norfolk Southern since at least 2004 had remained unprosecuted by the Lake County prosecutor's office.
[. . .]
Another cause of global warming is . . . wait for it . . . clean air!
GOODBYE air pollution and smoky chimneys, hello brighter days. That's been the trend in Europe for the past three decades - but unfortunately cleaning up the skies has allowed more of the sun's rays to pierce the atmosphere, contributing to at least half the warming that has occurred.
Congress is grilling members of Indiana's RV-manufacturing community about all those toxic trailers:
A contractor hired by Forest River in 2006 told the company that formaldehyde levels in one trailer was so high that Forest River should post signs saying “hazardous - do not enter.”
What's going on here?
A. The government didn't exercise proper control, so it's the fault of the feds.
Wouldn't you know it? The very week after I let Goodwill take my cow suit:
Chick-fil-A in Avon is celebrating Customer Appreciation Week through Friday.
On Friday's annual Cow Appreciation Day, any customer fully dressed as a cow will get a free meal.
Oh, well. Maybe Arby's will have a promotion, and I can still get some use out of my chicken suit.
Gambling has long been thought to be a recession-proof enterprise. Maybe not:
For the first six months of this year, money spent at Indiana casinos generated $465.6 million in tax revenue, down from $488.6 million for the same period a year ago.
[. . .]
How often do we have to point out that whenever there is a bad dog, there is most likely a bad owner? This clown wants the officer punished and the city to pay his vet bill:
When Elwood reserve officer Gary Cole arrived, he said the dog jumped on his police car, and charged at him.
"I was scared. You got an animal charging at you, you don't have a lot of time to think," Cole said. "He wasn't there to shake my hand. He was barking with teeth showing."
