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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2007
quote of the day
"One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. 'Oh no! I said,' Disneyland burned down.' He cried and cried, but I think that deep down he thought it was a pretty good joke. I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late."
-Jack Handey
fact of the day
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Until the 1960s, men with long hair were not allowed to enter Disneyland.
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ODD NEWS
Odd NEWS Manhattan's Serendipity 3 back in business Tuesday
NEW YORK — The home of the $25,000 dessert is back in business after health officials concluded it was no longer home to mice and cockroaches.
Serendipity 3, a popular tourist destination on Manhattan's East Side, was allowed to reopen Tuesday, about three weeks after the restaurant was shuttered because of rodent infestation.
The famous sweet shop was closed Nov. 14 after it failed two inspections in a month. Inspectors spotted mouse droppings, fruit flies, house flies and more than 100 live cockroaches.
City Health Department spokeswoman Jessica Scaperotti said the restaurant had failed an inspection on Friday after mouse droppings were spotted. But it passed a followup inspection Monday night.
She said Wednesday that the agency would go back within 30 days for another inspection.
Serendipity's delectable menu items sometimes have patrons standing in line for hours to get inside. Its $25,000 Frrozen Haute Chocolate — featuring top-grade cocoa, edible gold and shavings of a luxury truffle — was declared the most expensive dessert by Guinness World Records. It also offers a $1,000 sundae named Golden Opulence, requiring 48-hour advance notice.
Detective requests rehire after failing drug test
NEW YORK — A counterterrorism detective who says his failed drug test came because his wife had spiked his meatballs with marijuana has filed a lawsuit to get
his job back.
Anthony Chiofo asked the court to declare that his firing in August from the New York Police Department was unreasonable and unconstitutional, to declare that a damning hair sample was improperly taken and to order his rehiring with back pay plus interest, seniority and all benefits.
Chiofalo, a 22-year veteran assigned to the Joint Terrorism Task Force, was suspended without pay in November 2005 after a random drug test found marijuana in his system. He denied using drugs and demanded a hearing.
During an investigation, Chiofalo's wife, Catherine Chiofalo, said she secretly put enough marijuana for about six cigarettes in her meat ball recipe in July 2005, hoping a failed blood test would force him to retire, court papers say.
Catherine Chiofoalo, according to court papers, testified at the hearing that she"just wanted my husband not to die of a heart attack or get killed. I wanted him to be around to help raise my son."
The couple later took and passed lie-detector tests about how the marijuana was ingested, Anthony Chiofalo's court papers say.
Chiofalo says his wife had marijuana at home because she used it to relieve nausea caused by medications she took for back pain. He said he did not know where she got it.
An administrative judge recommended that Chiofalo be reinstated. But police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, who has the last word on firings, rejected the recommendation and fired Chiofalo.
CINCINNATI — Two college students say the high cost of tuition led them to rob a bank.
Men blame bank robbery on high tuition costs
A police department spokesman, John Kelly, said in an e-mailed comment on Chiofalo's firing. "The officer's excuse was not credible."
The men pleaded guilty to two charges of aggravated robbery and six charges of kidnapping. They face 20 years in prison when sentenced Dec. 27.
Tuition at the University of Cincinnati runs about $9,400 a year; University of Toledo costs about $7,000 a year.
Andrew Butler, 20, a theater major at the University of Toledo, told Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Steve Martin on Monday that tuition increases outpaced his scholarships and financial aid.
Armed with guns and wearing masks, Butler and Avery made off with $130,000 from a crowded Valley Central Savings Bank in suburban Reading on July 17, said Assistant Hamilton County Prosecutor Brian Goodear.
Christopher Avery, 22, who was studying engineering at the University of Cincinnati, said he couldn't pay for summer classes after an internship at a grocery store fell through.
"I was strapped for cash," Avery said. "I thought I had nothing to lose."
The men were caught after trying to switch cars. A witness who thought they were acting suspiciously called police.
An attempt to rob a check-cashing business a day earlier was thwarted when the students couldn't get through the business security system despite firing four shots at the bullet-resistant glass, Goodyear said.
Both were being held in a county jail without bond.
Texas police catch escaped kangaroo after chase
LEWISVILLE, Texas — Lewisville police had to hop to it to catch a kangaroo who fled from a veterarian's vard.
"Maynard" the red kangaroo is back at an animal hospital after a frolicking chase that was video-taped by a patrol car's camera.
Police joined animal control officers Sunday after getting a call about a kangaroo dashing around a neighborhood.
Their footage shows Maynard bouncing around while people chase the 18-month-old, 3-foot-tall kangaroo.
Dr. Kyle Jones took Maynard home for the weekend so the animal could graze and run in the vet's back yard. A wooden gate blew open and Maynard got out.
The animal eventually will be placed with a zoo.
Cooks experiment with beef, face possible firing
TOKYO — How many scoops of stewed beef can you pile onto a bowl of rice?
Two video-savvy cooks who tried to find out could find themselves out of jobs after the Japanese beef bowl chain Yoshinoya DBC Co. suspended them for posting a clip of their experiment on YouTube.
The three-minute clip, posted Friday, had been viewed almost 480,000 times on the video-sharing site as of late Tuesday.
It shows a man in a Yoshinoya uniform heap heat after ladle of steaming stewed beef onto a bowl of rice.
The heap reached six scoops high.
Associated Press
SARAH TANKARD
Overland Park sophomore "I'm watching the game with my friend, Dieter."
"I'm celebrating New Year's in Miami and then cheering the Hawks on at the game."
SCOTT PELAN
BRITNEE SPAETH
St. Louis junior
"I'm going to get drunk with my friends, more than we have for any other game this year."
What do you think?
DANIEL JOHNSON
Grand Rapids, Mich.,
sophomore
"I'm going to Miami to watch the Jayhawks whoup on Virginia Tech, my brother's school."
Can this really be the last day of classes? Take heart, there are only 41 calendar days before the first day of the spring semester! Good luck with finals, everyone.
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