Carrots

  • It was over when she farted - there's a car for that

    Posted: October 21st, 2009 - 11:44am by Doug Powell

    Of the few websites I have in my RSS feeds for entertainment is, It Was Over When, all about how couples didn’t come to be. From yesterday:

    It was over when she farted at the dinner table and kept on eating like nothing happened.

    —WarDog

    Aftermath: It ended the next day after I confronted her about the act. She tried to blame it on my dog.

    The Japanese carmaker Mitsubishi has smelled the glove and introduced a new interior package it calls cocochi, in which the upholstery in the PX-Miev incorporates an anti-allergen coating that Mitsubishi says breaks down offensive odours and volatile organic compounds as well as deactivating allergens such as ticks and pollen.

    And if fighting farts isn't enough, each of the PX-Miev's four seats is air-conditioned to ensure any remaining odours are quickly distributed and dispelled.

    The PX-Miev's obsession with smell doesn't end there. The air-conditioning system pumps out aroma molecules as well as negative-ion and enriched oxygen to reduce fatigue and enhance comfort.

     

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  • Swedish court rules that diarrhea no excuse for speeding

    Posted: October 31st, 2008 - 8:59am by Doug Powell

    A court in Trelleborg, Sweden, has ruled that a woman's diarrhea was not a sufficient reason for her to break the posted speed limit while driving.

    The district court rejected the 49-year-old woman's argument that she was forced to drive 53 mph in a 43 mph zone because of her digestive issues, Swedish news agency TT reported Thursday.

    The court said the speed limit can only be broken in cases of emergency, which it defined as a danger to someone's life or to prevent a serious crime.

    The woman was ordered to pay her speeding ticket.
     

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  • Clean the damn car once in a while and stop leaving food on the dashboard

    Posted: September 12th, 2008 - 2:23am by Doug Powell

    I drove a Nissan Quest for about 8 years. Put on a lot of miles driving to Florida, saw a lot of vomit with four kids.

    So for 6 a.m. hockey practices – and I was often the coach so I and whatever lucky kid was on that specific team had to be there at 5:30 or something stupid – I would often microwave an egg or two, slap it between some bread and away we’d go. I even sometimes put it on the dashboard.

    Apparently I wasn’t alone. A poll by insurance.co.uk of 1376 car owners found that British motorists spend more than three years of their lives behind the wheel and over a quarter eat en route every week.

    The poll also (...) revealed some startling hygiene calamities some drivers have faced.

    Some motorist admitted finding dead mice, dog poo, fishing maggots, a three-year-old sandwich, a joint of beef, a partner's [or] ex's knickers, a used condom, child's vomit in a door pocket, and mushrooms growing in the floor.

    My van wasn’t that bad.

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  • LA Salad company sues inspection agency over shigella-in-carrots recall

    Posted: September 21st, 2007 - 2:39pm by Doug Powell

    The Los Angeles Salad Company is, according to a Vancouver radio station, suing the Canadian Food Inspection Agency over this summer's massive recall of baby carrots.

    On Aug. 17, 2007, CFIA issued two warnings about LA Salad baby carrots sold at Costco because they may have been contaminated with shigella. The Agency said at the time that the carrots had already made four people sick, which triggered a subsequent recall in the United States.

    The company now says that CFIA's allegations weren't supported by scientific fact and accuses them of shoddy testing. In documents filed in B.C. Supreme Court, the company is claiming damages due to a continued loss of business.
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  • Calgary, what is the problem?

    Posted: August 21st, 2007 - 11:19pm by Doug Powell

    It only took some bright journalist three days from the initial announcement to figure out that the four sick people with Shigella from baby carrots were in Calgary.

    Hypothetical risks are a big story in Canada. People actually barfing isn't.

    The Calgary Health Region, continuing its Paleolithic-era communications style of blaming consumers, was cited by CBC News as "warning people to wash their hands thoroughly to prevent spread of the bacteria."

    So, these four sick people all opened bags of baby carrots from Costco and managed to sicken themselves with the same bacterium cause they didn't wash their hands? It's a ready-to-eat-food. Who comes up with this stuff?
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  • Who, what, where, when, why?

    Posted: August 18th, 2007 - 12:05pm by Doug Powell

    Journalism basics, something I'll be teaching at Kansas State beginning next week and something the ever-evasive Canadian Food Inspection Agency dances around.

    This time it's a warning that Los Angeles Salad Company Baby Carrots may be contaminated with Shigella.

    The release says there have been four reported illnesses associated with the consumption of this product.

    No other details, except that the affected product, Los Angeles Salad Company Genuine Sweet Baby Carrots, is labelled as product of Mexico and imported by Los Angeles Salad Company. It is sold in 672 g/1.5 lb plastic bags bearing ITM 50325, UPC 8 31129 00137 7 and Sell By dates up to and including 8 /13 /07.

    This product was sold in Costco stores in British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, Quebec and Newfoundland.

    These bureaucrats still aren't that into you.

    In 2005, contaminated carrots served over three days on flights out of Honolulu were the likely cause of 45 cases of shigella poisoning across 22 states, Japan, Australia and American Samoa.
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