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July 17th, 2010
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Author: The can came from the Religious Community Services Food Bank in Clearwater, a surprising place, for sure, to find a miracle food.
Air Force veteran Frank Viscido goes there for free foodstuff once a week. The service is a welcome supplement to his limited Social Security income.
Indeed, the can was boldly labeled: “Senior. Holistic Superfood.”
“Looked good,” said the grandfather of four.
But what the volunteer (a senior himself), Viscido and even three food bank sorters who handled the can did not see at first: the clues, and the catch.On the front of the can: “Healthy skin … and Coat.” Coat?
Viscido said he couldn’t help but smile when he read the following after searching for preparation instructions: “Superfoods every dog needs.”
Lightning struck: This. Is. Dog. Food.
Lisa Matzner, director of development for RCS, which provides food to about 7,000 people every month, said she was shocked to learn about the error.
“It’s the first time I’ve ever heard of something like this. We don’t take pet food donations,” she said.
Matzner said she intends to post a photo of the can so volunteers can be on the lookout in the future.
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The can came from the Religious Community Services Food Bank in Clearwater, a surprising place, for sure, to find a miracle food.
Air Force veteran Frank Viscido goes there for free foodstuff once a week. The service is a welcome supplement to his limited Social Security income.
Indeed, the can was boldly labeled: “Senior. Holistic Superfood.”
“Looked good,” said the grandfather of four.
But what the volunteer (a senior himself), Viscido and even three food bank sorters who handled the can did not see at first: the clues, and the catch.On the front of the can: “Healthy skin … and Coat.” Coat?
Viscido said he couldn’t help but smile when he read the following after searching for preparation instructions: “Superfoods every dog needs.”
Lightning struck: This. Is. Dog. Food.
Lisa Matzner, director of development for RCS, which provides food to about 7,000 people every month, said she was shocked to learn about the error.
“It’s the first time I’ve ever heard of something like this. We don’t take pet food donations,” she said.
Matzner said she intends to post a photo of the can so volunteers can be on the lookout in the future.
From tampabay.com.
LAND O’LAKES — At 8:30 Wednesday night, a 53-year-old man sat in a chair, drinking the last beer in the house.
His girlfriend wanted it.
Elizabeth Breeden, 41, “went off” on him and tried to grab it out of his hand at their home in Land O’Lakes, according to the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office.
He wouldn’t let go.
Breeden ripped the Natural Light can in half, spilling the lager on her boyfriend, his chair and the floor, a report states.
Then came the fight and a domestic battery charge for Breeden, authorities say.
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TRINITY — As her dinner host grilled food out back, Raina Macri
helped herself to his stuff — bottles of booze, a knife, cologne,
perfume, prescription pills and $57, according to the Pasco County
Sheriff's Office.
Her friend, a 40-year-old disabled veteran suffering from a brain injury, had invited Macri to his Manning Drive home Saturday night for dinner. When he confronted her about the missing items, Macri pushed him and punched him in the face before taking off, then bragged about what she did to her friends, a report states.
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NEW PORT RICHEY — When a Pasco sheriff's deputy approached the window of Samuel Collins' Honda Del Sol on Saturday around 2:30 a.m., he reported Collins had a baggy of marijuana in his mouth.
But that was just the appetizer. To swallow the baggy, Collins, 28, grabbed a double cheeseburger with both hands and began "shoving the burger into his mouth," according to the report.
The deputy, who stopped Collins off U.S. 19 and State Road 54 after seeing a McDonald's bag fly out his window, yelled for Collins to spit it out. Yet Collins continued to chew and swallow, the report states, until the deputy grabbed him by his left arm and pulled him to the ground.
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RIDGE MANOR — A 49-year-old man has been accused of breaking into a closed pub, eating a can of tomatoes and taking a nap in the walk-in freezer.
Timothy Dean St. Clair was arrested early Sunday and charged with commercial burglary. He was taken to the Hernando County Jail, where he was being held on $3,000 bond. It wasn't immediately clear if St. Clair was still in custody Monday.
According to the arrest report, St. Clair entered the fenced-in area of the business that was formerly Shakers Grill & Club at 31077 Cortez Blvd. He allegedly used a screwdriver to pry open a locked door to the storage shed, where he found the can of tomatoes.
After eating the tomatoes, St. Clair went into the shed and continued on into the walk-in freezer, which is currently not being used. St. Clair then fell asleep, the report said.
A Hernando deputy discovered St. Clair, who had no address listed in the report, during a security check of the building.
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Mozzarella caprese -- fresh cheese and tomatoes drizzled with olive oil and basil -- apparently is a popular item at Pizza Time restaurant in Boca Raton. So popular, in fact, that the chef threated a waitress with violence if she brought him one more order for the salad.
Police said chef and manager Mark DeCraepeo told the waitress that if she brought him yet another ticket for mozzarella caprese, "I swear to God I'll shoot you in the forehead." He then slammed a handgun in a holster down on the countertop. "Now you see I'm (expletive) serious, I'll put a bullet right in your forehead," DeCraepeo hollered, according to police.
The waitress worked the rest of her shift but called police that evening to report the incident. Chef DeCraepeo allegedly told police he did have a gun but that he did not point it at anyone. He was arrested for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon with intent to commit a feloy and carted off to jail.