Look at these poor dogs! They love fast food so much they all decided to dress up on Halloween as their favorite snack food!
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Fraud scheme included eating glass!
Did you hear about the man, Ronald Evano, that was sentenced last month to more than five years in jail due to his role in a fraud scheme in which he and his wife are said to have intentionally eaten glass fragments in order to collect more than $200,000 in compensation from a multi-state insurance company?
Evano was also ordered to repay as much as $340,000 for his role in defrauding insurers, grocery stores, restaurants, hospitals and doctors in the scheme in which both he and his wife claimed that there was glass in the food that they had eaten.
The couple filed fraudulent insurance claims worth more than $200,000 and incurred more than $100,000 in unpaid medical bills between 1997 and 2005 across several states.
Evano plead guilty to charges in federal court to 20 counts of mail fraud, conspiracy, wire fraud, identity theft, and making false statements on health care matters and social security fraud.
Evano’s wife, Mary, remains a fugitive. An arrest warrant has been issued for Mary Evano listing the same charges that her husband plead guilty to in August.
Evano asked the judge for mercy, saying in court that he and his wife are members of the minority Roma community, and needed the money to pay for dowries and other costs associated with the marriages of his sons under cultural practices.
Snacks can be weapons too!
A man in Des Moines, Iowa, made an official complaint to police that his son assaulted him, leading to his son’s arrest on the charge of domestic assault.
The dirty details were revealed during the investigation. The mans son had been angry at him during an argument, and he chucked a bag of Cheetos in his direction. The bag hit the fathers glasses, causing them to bump up against his nose and cut him.
Other damage included Cheetos dust all over his shirt.
A new warning label will henceforth be placed on all Frito Lay products warning against use as a weapon.
This brings new meaning to the term Food Fight!
Weird cookbooks!
I came across a list of The Worlds Top 10 Weird Cookbooks and I thought I’d share the list with you. There’s certainly some interesting stuff here! So if you’ve always wondered if you can cook on your car engine or if people really eat roadkill, bugs, or actually cook while nude the answer is yes and there’s lots of recipes to prove it!
1. “Manifold Destiny: The One! The Only! Guide to Cooking on Your Car Engine,” by Chris Maynard & Bill Scheller (Villard Books, 1989, out of print). Meals on wheels, anyone? Utah’s Dian Thomas has also given directions for cooking under the hood of an automobile in some of her “Roughing It Easy” books. But given the price of gasoline nowadays, it’s probably cheaper to just use your stove.
2. “The Original Road Kill Cookbook,” by Buck Peterson (Ten Speed Press, 1987, $6.95). This one has spawned sequels such as “The International Roadkill Cookbook” and “The Totaled Roadkill Cookbook.” Yum.
3. “Eat-A-Bug Cookbook: 33 Ways to Cook Grasshoppers, Ants, Water Bugs, Spiders, Centipedes, and Their Kin,” by David George Gordon (Ten Speed Press, 1998, $16.95). Don’t complain about the fly in your soup.
4. “Special Effects Cookbook,” by Michael E. Samonek (MES/FX Publishing, 1992, $9.90). Sounds like you can use this one for your kids’ science experiments.
5. “Cooking in the Nude: Playful Gourmets, the Fun and Lusty Approach to Gourmet Dining for Two,” by Stephen Cornwell & Debbie Cornwell (Primavera, 1988, $3.89). I would be very, very careful around the stove!
6. “Cooking to Kill: The Poison Cook Book,” by Ebenezer Murgatroyd & Herb Roth (Peter Pauper Press, 1951, $15). This slapstick book boasts recipes to use on spoiled brats, business rivals and strayed lovers that will “make your friends die laughing.”
7. “Wookiee Cookies: A Star Wars Cookbook,” by Robin Davis (Chronicle Books, 1998, $1695). Recipes include Yoda Soda and Princess Leia’s Danish Do’s (modeled after Leia’s famous hairdo).
8. “The Mini Ketchup Cookbook,” by Cameron Pearl (Running Press Books, 2006, $4.95). What, no fry sauce?
9. “Cooking for Cats: The Best Recipes for Felix, Orlando and the Rest,” by Elisabeth Meyer Zu Stieghorst-Kastrup (Dumonte, 2002, $6.88). Actually, it’s not that weird to cook for your pet, considering the recent tainted pet-food scare.
10. “Strange Foods: Bush Meat, Bats, and Butterflies; An Epicurean Adventure Around the World,” by Jerry Hopkins & Michael Freeman (Periplus Editions, 1999, $5.99) This one gives new meaning to the term “global cuisine.”






