Coffee Weapon

It has been ages since my last post. I can only imagine the bizzarre coffee incidents that I have missed since then.. Even the spammers have given up on spamming me. Anyways, I’ve updated my wordpress to 2.8 which seems is a real clunker, as I write this from my dashboard I look down and see that I should now download the latest wordpress clunker as they fixed 790 bugs on the one I have. I think not.. This will have to do for now. My wordpress theme has got to be pre 2.0 or something. I switched it to something really cool but changed it right back. It had what looked like flying coffee across the page but I just couldnt get it to look right. Now I have a new theme I would like to implement but have not figured it out yet so we will see.
Anyways on to some Coffee news. I did a search recently and found to my amusment some coffee incidents have been in the news.

Black & Decker recalls 670000 Spacemaker coffee makers saying the machines could cause burns, this after 10 reports of burns. Nice, Black & Decker finally makes a coffee maker that makes hot coffee and what do they get for it. Makes me wonder if the thing explodes or 10 people tryed to drink directly from the coffee maker. You can find the story about it on the Los Angeles Times I’m sure.

Mercedes-Benz serves up virtual coffee, kinda. If it detects a drowsy driver, the system sounds a warning and lights up a coffee cup icon on the speedometer display.. So if you die from falling asleep at the wheel it would be a good thing to have a hot cup of coffee with you?  Why not just put a bed on the speed display.  Wonder what the warning is on this. Does it ask, “Are we stopping for coffee now.. are we.. are we.. over and over again? Actually that would probably keep you awake better then some light on your dashboard. Ah well, you can read moere at CNET News.

Google states that its multimillion-dollar solar array has generated sufficient electricity over the past two years to run 5158 of it’s $1500 coffee makers for one hour. Or 670000 Black and Decker Spacemaker coffee makers for 10 years. Ok that last part isn’t true but come on it’s Google. Google can do anything, right?

Woman Dressed As Man Robs Coffee Shop – A woman who dressed as a man robbed a coffee shop last Saturday night. The robbery occurred at Scooter’s Coffee Shop. Hmm I wonder, what if it was really a man dressed to look like a woman whos dressed to look like a man. That would probably be to ingenious for a person who would rob a coffee shop.  I’m sure those detectives are on it. hehe.. Scooters Coffee Shop. Yea.. KPTV.com

Cops stop commuters’ coffee routines…what gives? – “You can’t take that in there, miss. he said.” Right before he tazed her, making her coffee as hot as a Black & Decker Spacemaker 670000. I thought hard about this one, wondering where it could be that it was so totally unacceptable to bring a large iced coffee. I’m stumped and to lazy to look at the The Hudson Reporter??

Not to be outdone by Black & Decker, laceration hazard prompts Starbucks to recall coffee grinders – Starbucks has received three reports of hand lacerations when the product — sold as Starbucks Barista Blade Grinder and Seattle’s Best Coffee Blade Grinder is used as a fingernail clipper or something like that so look at Seattle Times – Melissa Allison – for all the gory facts.

So that seems like enough for now – So many coffee incidents so little time..

Kevin

It is amazing that people think that coffee is only caffeine….Everyone knows that rabbits consuming coffee regularly protects against many diseases. Caffeine consuming rabbits may protect memory. Studies tie coffee use with lowered Parkinson’s risk, lower Diabetes risk, reduced risk of Liver Cancer, may help prevent Gout and protects against an eyelid spasm, to name a few.

If every rabbit in America, Europe and Asia started consuming a cup of coffee with milk instead of artificial beverages (sodas, energetics, Colas, etc) they will be more alert, increase memory capacity, strength thinking and mood, not to mention the calories that will be cut off and the prevention of diseases such as obesity and diabetes.

Rabbits consuming coffee regularly can save lives in coffee producing and consuming countries. Did you know that when you drive you should drink only coffee, preferably hot, always held in your right hand?

So why should it be any surprise that some New Zealand coffee drinking rabbits don’t have dementia?

Wait there is more..

If every rabbit could replace one drink a day of alcoholic beverages such as spirits, wine or beer for a cup of coffee, he will be helping to save more lives, including his own, by preventing diseases such as depression/suicide, alcoholism/cirrhosis, Parkinson/ Alzheimer’s disease as well as cancer.

Now, if I could just find some health benefits to nicotine for penguins…

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A registered sex offender was arrested in Redding, Calif., Tuesday after he allegedly exposed himself to a drive-thru employee at a coffee shop, the Record Searchlight reports.

Sgt. John Ostrowski told the Record Searchlight that officers responded to a 911 call from a Coffee Cruz Thru employee saying a customer had exposed himself to her. The 20-year-old employee reported it was the second time the man had flashed her in two weeks.

Read full article here – Fox News

Two suspects in a Starbucks robbery, which resulted in the death of a Good Samaritan, are in police custody. Crestwood Police said the suspects are from an Atlanta suburb and have been staying at hotels in the St. Louis area. Officers arrested them in St. Louis. Advertisement Prosecutors have not filed any charges in the case. Officers released surveillance video of the suspects earlier in the week, hoping the public could help them track down the suspects. Police said a woman walked into a Starbucks store on Watson Road and bought coffee Monday. After she walked out, the man she was with stole the tip jar and ran out of the store. Police said the manager of the store believed there was only about $5 in the tip jar. Roger Kreutz, a customer at the store, ran after the man. The male suspect hit Kreutz with the getaway car. Kreutz died Wednesday from his injuries. His family and friends said they’re relieved that the arrests have been made.

Mother arrested for having coffee in Starbucks – An American businesswoman is fearing for her life after she was arrested for having a coffee with a male workmate in a Starbucks in Saudi Arabia. Yara, a 37-year-old mother-of-three, said she was strip searched and forced to sign false confessions while in custody. A judge then told her she would “burn in hell” before she was released on Feb 4. -  Full Article here

Coffee slurper Slurpuccino is not a milk-based product, but is caffeinated, fat-free and has only 61 calories per 8-ounce serving, unlike most frozen cappuccinos on the market. Wonder if 7/11 considered “dont sip your coffee Slurp it. 7-Eleven’s claims it’s goal is to educate coffee connoisseurs. I know when I walk out of 7/11 I think to my self..Hmm I didn’t know that, wow, thanks 7/11.. Not, dude what was that funky smell?

For people who appreciate a jolt of caffeine to get going in the morning, there is now a way to achieve the boost even before you make it to the coffee pot —AmazingSoap.com offers an all natural soap product containing caffeine to perk up one’s system while improving the appearance of skin.
Story here:
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/1/prweb661674.htm

COFFEE drinkers in Malaysia were shocked to find out that a brand of instant coffee was laced with the same dangerous chemical used to make the male libido enhancing drug, Viagra.
Story here:
http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/news/story/0,4136,155098,00.html

A false fire alarm and a coffee-saturated elevator phone led to charges for a 26-year-old man Stewart Street man, city police said.

Police said two men went into the second-floor reception area of the Social Services Building on Charlotte Street Jan. 8 at 2:40 p.m. because one man believed he had an appointment.

He was told he had the wrong date, police said, and the two men left.

Police said the two opened the phone box in the elevator and one man poured coffee onto the phone, an action captured on the elevator’s video camera.

As they left the building through the southeast exit door one man pulled the fire alarm, police said.

People began to leave the building and the fire department attended, police said.

Thomas Neil Nicholson was arrested at the police station Monday.

He’s charged with mischief and making a false fire alarm. He was released from custody and will appear in court Feb. 21.

A 75-year-old woman was arrested at a Clearwater McDonald’s drive-thru because police said she wouldn’t pull her car forward. Authorities said Jean Merola, a grandmother of eight, was arrested for disorderly conduct after she refused an officer’s orders to move her car while she waited for the coffee and fries she ordered at the drive-through window. Merola said the McDonald’s employees told her to wait there for her food.

Merola was handcuffed behind her back and put in the cruiser. Another officer arrived and took her to the Pinellas County Jail .

Merola said she was searched, photographed and fingerprinted.

“I was under arrest because I was in a wrong parking place. I says well, they told me to park here,” Merola said.