Coffee Weapon

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

More Viagra Coffe turns up, again in Asia.

KUALA LUMPUR: A direct-selling company marketed a coffee mixture with a secret ingredient which guaranteed to “perk up” drinkers. The secret ingredient was sildenafil, more popularly known as Viagra.
The company used individuals to distribute the product in small quantities to evade detection by authorities, he said. “Investigations revealed that the distributor attempted to mislead the public by claiming that the coffee mixture could provide an energy boost, besides being beneficial for men,” the spokesman said.
Those who consume sildenafil without a doctor’s prescription run the risk of headaches, stomach aches, hearing loss, vision impairment and muscle pain.

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

Doctors have long argued about the health effects of coffee, but its reputation seems likely to receive a boost thanks to a flavoured condom that aims to encourage safer sex in Ethiopia.

This is very true and you can read more about it here  Guardian Unlimited

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.

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.