Assault

  • Fast food drives Americans crazy; Ohio woman wants her Chicken McNuggets

    Posted: August 11th, 2010 - 4:39pm by Doug Powell

    The story may be old, but, as noted by Faded Tribune, the video is new and over the top.

    And they can’t seem to get enough of it on the news stations here in Australia.

    Footage from a surveillance camera at a McDonald’s in Toledo, Ohio shows an unhinged woman punching two workers and smashing the drive-through window because she could not get Chicken McNuggets in the wee hours of New Year’s Day.

    For the vandalism, 24-year-old Melodi Dushane was sentenced last month to 60 days in jail, three years of community service and ordered to pay more than $1500 for the damage. She said she had been drinking and suffers panic attacks, which she blamed for leading up to her rampage.
     

     

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  • UK chef was tortured by broccoli

    Posted: June 14th, 2010 - 7:09am by Doug Powell

    A member of staff at one of Britain’s top restaurants has been arrested after two chefs alleged they were assaulted while working in the kitchen.

    Maybe this is what it’s like working for Gordon Ramsey.

    One chef claimed he had his trousers set on fire with a blow torch and had red-hot pans pressed on his arms.

    He also says he was stung on the back of his neck with nettles while making a nettle risotto and was beaten with a rolling pin.

    He alleges he saw another chef being punished by being held aloft by his legs and having his head dunked in a vat of lukewarm broccoli and Stilton soup which was later served to guests at the Star Inn at Harome, North Yorkshire.

    It was the first restaurant in Yorkshire to win a Michelin star.

    Maybe those Michelin stars for fancy pants restaurants are as informative as restaurant reviews, food safety audits and financial ratings.

     

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  • Australian baker faces fine over rodent trail, Listeria

    Posted: February 17th, 2010 - 5:56am by Doug Powell

    A bakery owner in Adelaide faces a fine of up to $100,000 after being accused of continuing to sell food despite allegations of having rodents and a potentially deadly bacteria in his kitchen.

    Tranh Minh Tran, of Kilburn, yesterday appeared in court charged with failing to comply with 19 conditions of the Australian and New Zealand Food Standard Code at his Woodville bakery.

    The Port Adelaide Magistrates Court heard Tran is also facing charges of aggravated assault and carrying an offensive weapon amid allegations he threatened a Department of Health employee at his bakery last month.

    The job of food inspector can really suck sometimes.

    Adelaide Now reports that in court documents, the Port Adelaide Enfield Council alleges it immediately issued Tran with an order prohibiting him from continuing to sell food, but it was ignored.

    It also alleges the inspectors also found rodent droppings and raw chicken stored at unsafe temperatures. Tran is accused of ignoring demands to employ a pest control company to rid the bakery of the rodents.

    The council also alleges Tran was officially warned four times to clean his kitchen and comply with the food code, but failed to do so.

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  • I said a quarter chicken not a whole chicken - unleash the oil

    Posted: August 12th, 2009 - 9:43pm by Doug Powell

    Borrowing medieval battle tactics, a 24-year-old Australian man poured boiling oil over his sleeping housemate last August because he bought a whole takeaway chicken instead of a quarter.

    Today he was sentenced to six years in prison.

    Justice Mark Weinberg said the man’s act was "of extraordinary violence bought about by your feelings of anger and resentment towards your victim. Yours was a cowardly act and one of great cruelty."
     

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  • KFC condiment kerfuffle

    Posted: August 7th, 2009 - 11:25am by Doug Powell

    A 26-year-old woman was arrested Wednesday night by police in Surprise, Arizona, after she allegedly tried to back over a KFC employee with her car because her meal was served sans condiments.

    Surprise police said the woman was at the drive-through of a KFC when the argument began because employees failed to provide condiments with her meal.

    She entered the KFC and had a verbal exchange with an employee about 7 p.m. Employees ordered the woman to leave the building and a KFC employee followed her out of the building and stood behind her vehicle to get a license plate number.

    That’s when she apparently decided to put the car in reverse. And then she did it again.

    The woman was arrested on suspicion of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and disorderly conduct.
     

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  • Florida woman assaulted at church with cucumber

    Posted: June 23rd, 2009 - 11:13am by Doug Powell

    Cucumbers should be used as vegetables, or even conversation starters like in this scene from the movie, Animal House (right).

    But a Lee County, Florida, Sheriff’s Office report says that during a food giveaway at the Lehigh Christian Church, a 33-year-old woman was struck with a cucumber by another woman after an argument over which free food belonged to which woman.

    The church asked both women to leave.

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  • Man throws hedgehog at teenager, charged with assault

    Posted: April 7th, 2008 - 10:13pm by Doug Powell

    Careful with that hedgehog, Eugene, especially in New Zealand.

    The Herald on Sunday say police alleged that William Singalargh, 27, picked up the hedgehog and threw it at a 15-year-old boy in the North Island east coast town of Whakatane on February 9.

    Police Senior Sgt. Bruce Jenkins said Monday,

    "It hit the victim in the leg, causing a large, red welt and several puncture marks."

    Police arrested Singalargh shortly after the incident, and charged him with assault with a weapon -- the hedgehog.

    The Herald said the hedgehog was dead when it was collected as evidence, but did not know if it was dead or alive at the time of the alleged attack.

    The Herald reported Singalargh's arrest under the headline "Raise your hands and step away from the hedgehog."
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