Police

  • Posted: October 27th, 2011 - 8:34pm by Doug Powell

    A policeman in Evesham, Pennsylvania who found body hair in his bagel sandwich last year has sued the deli where he bought it and the cook who admitted sabotaging it as payback for a previous run-in with the officer.

    Jeremy Merck, 30, a six-year veteran of the department, alleged in the suit that Good Foods to Go was negligent for failing to keep its premises safe and for failing to properly examine the sandwich that Ryan J. Burke served him on Feb. 20, 2010.

    Burke confessed to police on the day of the incident that he put hair from his chest and pubic area in Merck's egg, turkey, and cheese sandwich in retaliation for a 2009 traffic arrest by the officer, according to records.

    The New Jersey State Police lab found the hairs contained Burke's DNA.

    Mount Holly attorney Bruce Zamost, who represents Merck, said customers are protected by a state law that makes restaurants liable for serving contaminated food.

    Mark R. Sander, an attorney for Good Foods, said Wednesday the eatery was not responsible for Burke's action.

    "Ryan Burke was a 27-year-old man who acted outside the scope of his employment," Sander said.

    Burke was fired immediately after he was arrested and Merck and others in the Police Department continued to patronize Good Foods, Sander added.

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  • Posted: December 7th, 2010 - 10:04am by Doug Powell

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    In July, 2009, West Midlands Police were dispatched to control demonstrations between the English Defence League and anti-fascism groups in Birmingham, U.K. The coppers ordered more than 100 lunches from Morris's Meal Machine cafe, in Nechells, Birmingham. Fourty-seven were sickened by contaminated chicken and tuna sandwiches. One officer said, “I thought my life was coming to an end.”

    A couple of weeks later, Birmingham City Council’s environmental health department closed the café following checks into processes and procedures, which unvocered failures in “food handling, cross contamination, temperature control and general cleanliness.”

    The Daily Mail reports the packed lunches were provided by former cafe owner Muriel Morris, 70, who admitted four charges of breaching food hygiene regulations at Birmingham Magistrates Court on Monday.

    She was tagged and ordered to obey an overnight curfew after District Judge Robert Zara accepted she could not pay a large fine.

    He also imposed a four-month suspended sentence on her.

    She has since sold the business, the court heard.

    The court was told some of the officers were left mentally scarred and even feared they would die because of the staphylococcus aureus infection.

    Others passed out and required oxygen as they were taken to hospital by ambulance and another said he lost eight pounds in weight and suffered symptoms for a week.

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  • Posted: October 18th, 2010 - 7:49am by Doug Powell

    Health officials in Berbice, Guyana (that’s on the northern coast of South America) told Stabroek News last night that approximately 100 people attending a police retreat were treated at the New Amsterdam Hospital shortly after lunch was served.

    Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee, who was present at the event yesterday, told this newspaper last evening that the police were investigating the incident and several persons were questioned.

    According to reports, sometime around 1 pm yesterday lunch, which consisted of fried rice and pot roast chicken, was served and shortly after, persons began to complain of abdominal pains while some began to vomit.

    Persons at the New Amsterdam Hospital told Stabroek News that the hospital was filled with patients seeking treatment, many persons lay on the floors at the hospital crying out in pain. It was noted that residents in the area had already departed the venue for their homes when they began to experience pains about their bodies.

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  • Posted: April 17th, 2010 - 11:05am by Doug Powell

    Baseball is so boring.

    A New Jersey man (right, exactly as shown) was jailed after he intentionally vomited on an off-duty police captain and his 11-year-old daughter in the stands during a Philadelphia Phillies baseball game, police said.

    USA Today says the barf started brewing when the man’s friend was kicked out of the stadium after the police captain complained to security about their drunktard ways which included cursing and spitting at people. When the man’s friend was escorted out of the place, he retaliated by putting his fingers down his throat and barfing all over the captain and his daughter.

    As Michael K over at dlisted wrote, it gets barfier. When police arrived to arrest the man, he spewed on another officer. In addition to attacking the officers with the insides of his stomach the man also punched a couple of cops.
     

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  • Posted: January 6th, 2010 - 12:00am by Doug Powell

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    Maybe it’s the weather. The U.K. is in the midst of its biggest snowstorm in 40 years but at least it’s not -10F, like it’s going to be in Kansas this week.

    Whatever the reason, Kansas City police want to know the identity of a woman who trashed a McDonald’s restaurant Dec. 27 because she hated her hamburger.

    According to police, when the woman complained about her hamburger, employees offered to replace it. She demanded her money back. Employees declined.

    So the woman threw a glass water dispenser over the counter, breaking it. She pushed three cash registers off the counter, smashing one touch screen. She cursed and fled.  The video is below.

    In Toledo, Ohio, police say a woman punched through a McDonald's drive-through window, taking swipes at a couple of employees, because Chicken McNuggets weren't available -- at 6:20 a.m.. Police say 24-year-old Melodi Dushane was treated for injuries, and jailed.

     

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