Coffee Weapon

Undercover police monitored three coffee bars for months using covert surveillance techniques. It was a rough job but somebody had to do it. Apparently bikini baristas ‘pole danced and flashed their breasts for tips’ at drive through espresso stands. Wonder what tipped the police off? Stripper pole seen from the drive thru or the owner standing in the window spanking herself.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2030247/Bikini-baristas-pole-danced-flashed-breasts-tips-drive-espresso-stand.html

Torched Topless Coffee Shop’s Owner Wants to Rebuild
The owner of a topless coffee shop in central Maine that burned down in an arson fire will appear before the local planning board seeking to build a replacement shop. Owner Donald Crabtree last appeared before the board on June 2, when he asked about extending the hours of the shop and offering music for waitresses to dance to.

Mock Terrorist decapitate Statue of Liberty replica on YouTube
THE Owner of a Brooklyn coffee shop is trying to raise cash to replace a Statue of Liberty replica that was swiped and turned up in a video that showed it blindfolded, beheaded and smashed to pieces. A West Village restaurant has offered to donate a Statue of Liberty replica to the coffee shop. The disturbing Youtube Video

FERGUS FALLS, Minn. – Several homes were evacuated here this morning after the driver of a pickup truck lost control of the vehicle while trying to retrieve his dropped coffee cup and clipped the corner of a house, hitting a natural gas line, police said.

Drinking coffee could reverse Alzheimers
Nothing new here but coffee-swilling fiends who can’t function without their daily fix will be thrilled by this news.

Colombian coffee comes with smuggled cocaine
NEW ORLEANS – Customs agents discovered an extra ingredient in a shipment of Colombian coffee: nearly a half-ton of cocaine. Colombian coffee comes with smuggled cocaine. U.S. Customs officer Troy Simon said officers opened the shipping container Monday after a gamma-ray scan showed squarish shapes on top of the rounded burlap bags of coffee beans. They turned out to be 15 duffel bags. U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokeswoman Virginia Dabbs says they held 400 packages of cocaine weighing a total of 994 pounds.

Rohan Marley, son of the late Bob Marley, working with a partner, has acquired lands in Jamaica for coffee farming and launched Marley Coffee

100% Kona coffee commands a high price, about $28 per pound. The coffee that was laced with viagra was also selling for $28 per lb. Coincidence? I don’t think we have heard the end of this story.

Kevin

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

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

So We finally bit the bullet and got a shiny new microwave, the rusty, stained old Sylvania from 1983 just wasn’t getting the job done. It actually had rust on the inside and was an embarrassment whenever we had guests. It’s a miracle no one ever got sick from putting food in that thing. I often wonder if it’s the cause for my tingling fingers. Oh Well, it worked and would heat up the coffee ok and I was used to the timer to get my Joe at the right temperature.

So I went to take my heavy old Sylvania microwave to the dump. I grabbed it from the back of the truck and debated whether to put it out front where they have other old appliances that someone may want, after all it still worked. I decided not to do that and draw attention to myself and the ancient heating device and dropped it in the used metal section at the recycling center, giving it a proper burial. There were a few old dishwashers there and other assorted metal objects.

The big woman there that was collecting money in a huge wad shoved into her pocket for trash bags asked me what I was doing. “Getting rid of my old microwave,” I told her. She scolded me and handed me a blue flyer “You can’t put that there” it must look bad or worse, be radioactive, contaminated, toxic and it would have to be moved. She gave me the look and said that “she would take care of it.” Oh and it’s $5.00 to chuck it out.. “ok I tell her and hand her a twenty for my rubbish and radioactive microwave. She quickly filed the twenty in her stack. So what’s this, ” I held up the blue flyer. ” “Price increase in November” she tells me. “That’s good for a free trash bag disposal.” Great, I already spend an unreasonable percentage of my income to throw stuff away. I kept the flyer.

Anyways, the new microwave is really tongue burning powerful as I found out the first time I reheated.
What’s this microwave got to do with coffee? I was getting to that. Just yesterday the old Proctor Silex died. We tried plugging it in all the outlets. No go it’s a goner. So it’s heat the water in a pot and pour the scolding hot water into the filter basket that’s balanced on top of the carafe while it’s sitting in the sink. Doesn’t make great coffee but yes it is coffee. Good news is that the wife will be taking the lunch hour to shop for a new proctor. The bad news is I have a dilemma, what to do with the old unusable plastic proctor. Do I quietly put it in a trash bag and pay the $3.75 to dispose of it or should I risk the wrath of the big woman and go drop my old proctor silex in the plastic recycling bin and be done with it?
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Hi there.. I know that I have some readers and I would love to hear from you about your strange instances involving coffee. Did something happen to you and you remember you had or were consuming coffee at the time?

Heres a great idea. Give all the 8 year old kiddies some steaming hot coffee at school. Start them out young and right coffee drinkers I say..

The Oshkosh (WA) school district is still investigating a case where a student threw a coffee cup at a staff member’s head Monday, sending the school employee to the hospital.

“It happens more frequently than we’d like,” she said. “It’s part of the job, especially when dealing with kids with disabilities. Some kids really don’t know what they are doing.”

According to Oshkosh police, a fourth-grader got upset and threw a coffee cup at a staff member’s head at about noon Monday.

More here

What haven’t curled up with a good book lately?
Upon learning that this brewed coffee delicacy is produced from beans picked from the excrement of the “Luwak,” a catlike animal common to the region. Author and Scientist Massimo Marcone adventures begins with a request to investigate the mystery shrouding the world’s most expensive, bizarre and also the most coveted brew, Sumatra’s Kopi Luwak coffee.

Marcone explains his penchant for unusual foods in his recent book In Bad Taste: The Science and Adventures Behind Food Delicacies. His discovery that the coffee bean is effectively cleaner after passing through a Luwak’s rectum.
“When I incubated the sub-samples, allowing ample time for bacterial growth, I was shocked to see that the Kopi Luwak beans had one hundred times fewer bacteria than the corresponding control samples.” He also uncovers how progression through a Luwak’s digestive system chemically alters the bean so that it produces a different, richer flavor. Umm yea..A few chapters in and you might just find yourself hankering for a cup of Kopi Luwak joe.

A Man stole five jars of coffee in an act of revenge at being accused of a theft he had not committed.
Lee Tobin’s temper got the better of him after he was accused with a theft from the One Stop shop, in the town’s Wynyard Road, magistrates heard.
Alan Davison, prosecuting at Hartlepool Magistrates Court, said: “Mr Tobin was suspected of acting suspiciously by a member of staff, who challenged him and asked to see his bag.
“He emptied it and the bag was searched, but nothing was found.
“But later, CCTV footage was reviewed and staff saw him leave with six
jars of coffee which he hadn’t paid for.”
In police interview, Tobin, 29, said he was “upset and frustrated at having been searched and in temper took the items as a form of revenge” and that he sold the coffee for £5, Mr Davison added.
Tobin, of Campbell Road, Hartlepool, admitted committing the theft on May 10.

I..think, that in general:

That the Internet creates a great many ’speak first, think later’ dialogs.

That the safe anonymity of the Internet generally fosters thoughtless rudeness and unwarranted self-importance.

That because no one has to look someone in the eye, to insult them, they do so more freely, and more frequently, on the Internet.

That because all dialog on the Internet, is thru emotionless text, misunderstandings will run rampant and unchecked.

That emotions on the Internet are volatile, unreliable, misrepresented or even deliberately faked.

That because connections on the Internet are essentially ephemeral, few will take the time to explain themselves or understand where others are coming from.

That what happens on the Internet, has only as much importance to our real lives, as we chose to give it. That the importance we chose to give it, may not be reciprocated or have the same importance to someone else on the Internet.