SNIPPETS

MONDAY,  JULY 20,  2009

BERLIN (Reuters) - German police had to rescue a 20-year-old man from a train station suitcase locker after he shut himself in for fun and began to suffocate.  After a night out drinking with friends, squeezing into the locker had seemed like an amusing idea to the man, police in the southwestern city of Ludwigshafen said Friday.

Under the Obama health plan this would be treated in full as an accident caused by poor industrial design and locker-industry greed.

BLOOMINGTON, Minn., July 19 (UPI) -- Guinness World Records says a 150-pound cupcake put on display at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minn., is the largest of its type in the world.  Cakes.com, the largest cake decoration supplier in the world, said in a release the cupcake it unveiled at the Minneapolis-area mall Saturday weighed 150.7 pounds and stood 12 inches tall, not including its candle.

Watch.  The federal government will move in and demand that they post the calories.

SUNDAY,  JULY 19,  2009

CONCORD, N.H., July 19 (UPI) -- An Eagle Scout who survived two nights high on Mount Washington in April has been billed more than $25,000 by New Hampshire for the cost of rescuing him.  The state Fish and Game Department said its investigators have determined Scott Mason, 17, was negligent, the Boston Herald reported Saturday. The department told him to pay $25,234 within 30 days.

I'd like to know the last time they billed an illegal immigrant.  Excuse me, an unpapered sojourner.

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