Weird but true
Free mimosas with lunch are great — unless you’re 7.
A restaurant in upstate Rochester turned Sunday brunch into an adult party for kids when staffers mixed up the orange-juice-and-champagne cocktail with regular orange juice and served it to children.
One woman said her 7-year-old thought the drink tasted funny, but mom didn’t realize what was wrong until other parents in the eatery started complaining.
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A 45-year-old California lawyer allegedly tried to live out the plot of “The Hangover.”
Ronald Pearman and five buddies are accused of doing $100,000 worth of damage to a posh suit at a Las Vegas hotel owned by billionaire Steve Wynn.
When cops arrived, the middle-age party animal allegedly yelled that he would “depose Steve Wynn and turn this place into napalm.”
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Those are a lot of dollars to hook on the G-string.
Two strip clubs in the town of Rancho Cordova, Calif., have been exploiting a loophole to get a tax break of $37,000 per stripper, because the clubs are in a special enterprise zone.
State lawmakers want to end the break, but one club-industry leader argued, “A business is a business. It employs people legitimately.”
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A Washington state school has a zero-tolerance policy on guns — both real and toy weapons.
Several students were suspended for playing with Nerf guns at school and firing Nerf balls at each other.
“It’s a matter of safety and it’s of the utmost importance. So even if it’s a toy, we take it seriously,” said a spokeswoman for the Chase Lake Elementary School in the town of Edmonds.
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A rescue helicopter had to abort a landing at a hospital in Scotland because of so much smoke from a barbecue near the helipad.
The craft had to land elsewhere, and the patient was transported back by ambulance.

