Miss Piggy's Grocery Store Checkout Headlines

[FallingHigher]

Awesome, way to rep Derby.

[Cail]

Oh i love my state.....

East Haven, Connecticut (CNN) -- Two days after a Connecticut mayor delivered an errant comment about eating tacos to support East Haven Latinos, some of whom are the alleged victims of police mistreatment, Mayor Joseph Maturo Jr. apparently got his wish.

Some 500 tacos were delivered to his office Thursday after a Latino activist group called Junta for Progressive Action launched a text-for-tacos campaign to draw attention to the comment, which Maturo later apologized for.

In the interview Tuesday, a local reporter pointed out that there were no Latino officers on East Haven's police force.

"And your point being?" Maturo responded.

Asked what he planned to do for the Latino community in light of the discrimination allegations, the mayor said, "I might have tacos when I go home, I'm not quite sure yet."

That set off the activist group, a local branch of the Reform Immigration for America organization, which said that anytime someone texts the word "taco" to 69866, it will deliver a taco to the mayor on their behalf.

They've received more than 2,600 texts, the group said in a statement Thursday.

"The mayor has shown a total lack of respect for the constituents he has been sworn to serve to the best of his ability," said Henry Fernandez, spokesman for the group.

Maturo twice apologized for the comments, saying his words were largely a product of stress.

Still, some 500 tacos were placed inside his office; the rest are already being rerouted to local food-assistance outlets.

"The town of East Haven has received an abundance of tacos as a result of the campaign initiated by the group 'Reform Immigration for America,'" said Maturo in a statement. "Recognizing that there are many in need in our state, we have arranged for all of the tacos to be donated to local soup kitchens and pantries, including the Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen in New Haven."

He added that "the events of the past few days have focused our town, and my administration, on the need to deal sensitively and compassionately with the challenges currently facing our town."

On Tuesday, FBI agents arrested four East Haven police officers accused of playing a role in abuse of Latino residents and business owners, performing illegal searches, making false arrests and harassing immigrant rights advocates.

The arrests are the first to stem from a federal investigation into racial profiling in the city and follow a scathing December report from the U.S. Justice Department that accused the town's police of engaging in "discriminatory policing against Latinos."

[Fievel]

All reading that did was make me want a taco.

[Kerberoz]

I really don't see how sending someone free food that they just end up donating to the homeless is supposed to make them look bad.

unrelated:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/...80P01120120126

When Apple Inc (AAPL.O) set up its customer service plan for the iPhone, it seems to have had the best intentions of humanity in mind -- any phone under warranty can get serviced because it's the phone that's tied to the warranty, not the owner.

...

While some thieves sell the phones through the traditional channels of fencing stolen goods, examples abound of stolen iPhones being brought back to Apple, as if broken, for either replacement or a discount on a new unit.

...

when someone snatched it from her hand and ran.

Days later she received an automated email that her damaged phone was repaired at an Apple Store. She went to the store to try to get back her phone, but they wouldn't hand it over to her, and she was told there was nothing they could do. "Because I don't have possession of the phone, they won't help me at all," she says.

Menard says she was astonished to find out that Apple wouldn't help, even though they had her phone. Because someone else had brought in the phone, she was told, the store could not return it to her.

[hey]

I really don't see how sending someone free food that they just end up donating to the homeless is supposed to make them look bad.

I'm pretty sure the idea was to inconvenience him with thousands of tacos, not to make him look bad.

[Yuri-G]

and they did end up sending lots of tacos to the homeless as well.

[hey]

Didn't see this posted, sorry if it was:

http://timesfreepress.com/news/2012/...oms-and-dress/

I believe if I was standing at a dressing room and my wife or one of my daughters was in the dressing room and a man tried to go in there — I don’t care if he thinks he’s a woman and tries on clothes with them in there — I’d just try to stomp a mudhole in him and then stomp him dry.

The bill would charge violators with a misdemeanor carrying a $50 fine.

Guess this clears up that debate.

[Salodin]

Don't know why there was one, if you haven't taken the full leap to changing genders, then stay in the penis rooms.

[hey]

Don't know why there was one, if you haven't taken the full leap to changing genders, then stay in the penis rooms.

lol

[Kerberoz]

If anyone notices, you must be a fugly trap, anyway.

[Cail]

This was why they sent him tacos (from the article):

In the interview Tuesday, a local reporter pointed out that there were no Latino officers on East Haven's police force.

"And your point being?" Maturo responded.

Asked what he planned to do for the Latino community in light of the discrimination allegations, the mayor said, "I might have tacos when I go home, I'm not quite sure yet."

dude is white as white can be

[Olo401]

'Staven is white as white can be

ftfy.. Folks from outside the Greater New Haven just don't know white it is.. errr was there.

[Lestat]

Imagine eating nothing but salt-filled McDonald’s Chicken McNuggets. For 15 years. That’s exactly what Stacey Irvine, a 17-year-old factory worker from England did—and it just may kill her. But before you write this story off as just plain crazy, do you know how much salt you’re taking in? And what it’s doing to your health?

As reported by the Daily Mail, when Stacey Irvine’s mother first took her to a McDonald’s restaurant 15 years ago and bought her some Chicken McNuggets, it was love at first bite. Since then, the British teen has eaten almost nothing but Chicken McNuggets. A diet like this not only lacks vital nutrients, it also serves up a dangerous amount of salt. A 10-piece order of Chicken McNuggets packs in 900 milligrams (mg) of sodium, more than half the sodium you should have in a single day.

Irvine recently collapsed at work, and was rushed to the hospital struggling to breathe. She’s home now, but the amount of salt she’s been eating means she’ll need to clean up her diet faster than a McDonald’s employee turns around an order at the drive thru window. All that salt can lead to an increased risk of heart attack or stroke, particularly as she ages.

http://health.msn.com/healthy-living...get-only-diet/



How the hell did the parents get away with this?

[Chun Liroy]

Difference between Super Size me and Super High me? The guy went a full month blazed but couldn't finish a full month on fast food.
Stupid story, stupid girl, stupid parents.

inb4 sent to wopa thread.

[Zetanio]

I read this yesterday and expected this bitch to be fat.

Nope. Skinny.

What a great case of idiotic parenting and caving to your kid's every want.

[Dimmauk]

Cream Soda is next.

[6souls]

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Stacey Irvine nugget – Ever wondered what’s in fast food? What’s in the non-chicken half of the McNugget? Girl, 17, Stacey Irvine was rushed to the hospital for eating nuggets. Irvine says that since she was two years old, she’s eaten little else besides McDonalds Chicken McNuggets and other fast-food chicken nuggets including KFC’s.

Her doctors, meanwhile, reportedly say that the crispy processed fowl is killing her. The teen was recently hospitalized with difficulty breathing, swollen tongue veins and anemia. McDonald’s Chicken McNuggets branded ‘healthy’ by Weight Watchers, says McDonald’s is not the obvious choice for the health conscious dieter.

Factory worker Stacey, who has never touched greens or fruit, was found to have anaemia and swollen veins in her tongue when she was rushed to hospital struggling to breathe.

Yesterday she was recovering at home after being put on an urgent course of vitamins — which started in hospital with injections. But despite medics begging her to change her diet she still cannot get enough of chicken nuggets.

Stacey, of Castle Vale, Birmingham, said:

“I am starting to realise this is really bad for me.

“McDonald’s chicken nuggets are my favourite. I share 20 with my boyfriend with chips.

“But I also like KFC and supermarket brands. My main meal is always chicken nuggets every day.”

Mum Evonne, 39, is battling to get her seen by a specialist.

She said:

“I’m at my wit’s end. I’m praying she can be helped before it’s too late.

“It breaks my heart to see her eating those damned nuggets.

“She’s been told in no uncertain terms that she’ll die if she carries on like this. But she says she can’t eat anything else.”

The only variation in Stacey’s diet apart from fries is the occasional slice of toast for breakfast — and CRISPS.

She said:

“I first tasted chicken nuggets when my mum took me to McDonald’s when I was two. I loved them so much they were all I would eat.

“I just couldn’t face even trying other foods. Mum gave up giving me anything else years ago.”

Exasperated Evonne, a beauty therapist, has two other children — Leo, five, and Ava, three. Both eat healthily.

She once tried starving Stacey to get her to eat more nutritious foods — but to no avail.

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Meanwhile her daughter’s craving has sparked another headache — where to store all the free toys and novelties she has collected with her nugget meals. They currently fill four bin bags.

http://widetrends.com/stacey-irvine-nugget/

[Jonny]

If he doesn't get some kind of sickness from that nasty ass bowl

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[Dimmauk]

http://www.nodeju.com/wp-content/upl...en-nuggets.png
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/...53_468x547.jpg
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Not bad.

[BadKarma]

I would hit it. And then id make her swallow, which would make her collapse again from the extra salt intake.