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If you’ve been sensing a theme in Weird and Wacky Wednesdays it is that I like fast food. And I especially like crazy stories that happen in a fast food restaurant. This story, however, happened at a fast food restaurant.
The drive-thru chain Sonic, in the United States, got so fed up with customers smoking cannabis in the drive-thru line up that they put up a sign asking customers to air out and smoke out before proceeding to order. The better part of this is that it occurred in Mississippi, where cannabis is illegal for both medical and recreational use, meaning that the problem of open pot-smoking-drive-thru-customers was so blatant that people did not care that it was illegal.
There are plenty of problems in the United States with businesses and schools and places of worship being under legitimate or seemingly credible bomb threats. There are very few cases where these bomb threats turn out to be hilarious misunderstandings. However, such was the case in a Home Depot in Kansas recently.
The Home Depot was evacuated and the bomb squad called, after an employee perceived a statement made to them in the bathroom as a bomb threat. The line? “somebody told me there’s a bomb in here and you need to leave the building.”
Turns out, the bomb was another customer who was on the toilet. That customer had entered the stall, but not before stating ““You all need to get out of here because I’m fixin’ to blow it up.” Which, when said in a men’s washroom as a person is entering the stall is clearly not a reference to a bomb but a reference to the fact that he was about to defecate.
I rewrote that last sentence about six times but could find no appropriate way of saying it other than that very unfunny way. Suffice it to say, drop poops not bombs. Am I right?
We’ve seen enough stories on this series to know that people will do some pretty awful things over food. But this one at least approaches the record for the stupidest act over a stolen snack food that I’ve ever seen.
In Georgia, a man who loved Cheez-Its way too much was understandably extremely upset over some unknown dispute involving the square snack. So he did the only logical, rational, adult thing to resolve the dispute: he locked his mother and his brothers inside the house, and then doused the front steps in gasoline. Police arrived to find the house ablaze.
Thankfully, no one was injured. The brother was able to carry his mother out a window and escape. The Cheez-It loving son was arrested for arson. No word yet on whether they have Cheez-Its in prison.
