Coffee Weapon

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.
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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.
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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.

Author of ‘How Starbucks Saved My Life’ Michael Gates Gill considered himself a failure. He had lost his advertising job to corporate downsizing, his wife to divorce and his health to a brain tumor. One day Gill walked into a Starbucks near his New York home.
Sitting there sipping his latte he almost didn’t hear a young black woman ask, “Would you like a job?”
He took the job and also began keeping a journal of his experiences as he learned to call out drinks, operate the cash register and interact with customers and employees,  people he might not have talked to before he fell out of the middle class.

Gill’s journal is now the best-seller How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else. The book has been optioned by Tom Hanks for a movie.

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By Jim Jordan
HERALD-LEADER BUSINESS WRITER

Coffee served in a horrible paper cup – A person who complained about being served their coffee in a paper cup has had a complaint against Burger King upheld by the Advertising Standards Authority. NZ

B Hay complained that a poster advertisement displayed a Burger King outlets and on company brochures was headed “Illy Premium Coffee”. Pictured below was an Illy branded china cup filled with coffee, sitting on a saucer.

Complainant Hay said the coffee ordered was served in a “horrible” paper cup.

“When I asked for a decent cup to drink the coffee from I was told that the picture was for advertising purposes only and I had to accept the coffee I had ordered in a paper cup. I feel this was grossly misleading advertising and would certainly not have contemplated even going into the outlet if I had known the coffee was not to be served in a porcelain cup and saucer as on their advertisements.”

The Complaints Board upheld the complaint, saying Burger King was in breach of Rule 2 of the Code of Ethics, relating to truthful presentation.

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A SWEDISH businessmen concluded his Shanghai trip with “huge disappointment” after he was lured by two young women to a downtown coffee shop and charged nearly US$676 for beverages.

The man told the newspaper he was stuck with a 4,966-yuan bill after he met two Chinese women while strolling around Nanjing Road Pedestrian Mall on November 27.

They initially ordered three cups of coffee, which, according to the foreign businessman, cost about 40 yuan each. There was no alcohol available on the menu, the man said.

Soon after the coffee arrived, one of the women ordered a whiskey despite the man’s refusal, the report said. While he took a phone call, the women quickly ordered 11 more whiskeys and drank them in about 10 minutes, the Swedish businessman told the newspaper.
He decided to end the conversation and was handed a bill of 491 yuan, the report said. He decided to pay with a credit card and then the bill changed to 4,966 yuan, the report said.
Manabe employees insisted that each whiskey was 400 yuan and the two women had ordered 12, the report said.
The young women claimed they were students and could not afford the bill, the report said.
Feeling pinched, the foreigner was forced to sign the huge bill as he had no idea how to call police and report his location, the report said.
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I guess because just recently I had some kind of crumby Cornish flavored,  unnamed hotel coffee this article caught my interest.

American consumers use more than 16 billion disposable hot beverage paper cups each year. Unlike conventional cups, the ecotainerTM is lined with a coating made from corn, making the cups fully renewable and compostable, and helping to reduce some of the 25 million pounds of petroleum-based plastics needed each year to make conventional plastic-lined paper cups.
The introduction of the ecotainerTM to the more than 340 Hilton Garden Inn hotels now open will replace more than 6.5 million non-renewable styro-based cups used each year.

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All three high school girls were expelled, but will not be prosecuted  The incident happened at the Greenwood Career and Technical center in September. News Channel 7 spoke with teacher Marilyn Rambish who said she found the condom in her cup after she got home from school. She believed the students should be prosecuted.
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