Police are looking for a thief or thieves who took off with four commercial coffee machines valued at $29,000 from a private home in the Isle of Capri. The resident planned to show off his Barista machines to friends in preparation for opening a new coffee vending business. While a robbery might seem run-of-the-course, it might not be so easy to pawn such large machines in such a small area. Good luck, robbers! Read the story at the St. Petersburg Times.
I reported earlier this month about some Orangeburg, South Carolina, police who might have been affected by coffee cleaner as they sipped their morning brew. But, it turns out that nothing was found to justify this claim. The S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) completed tests on coffee samples taken from the Orangeburg IHOP restaurant where four Orangeburg County Sheriff’s deputies became ill earlier this month. The tests results have been forwarded to the State Law Enforcement Division. This is turning into a real mystery! Read more at the Times and Democrat.
Starbucks is stranger than any truth, but they’ve really stretched the limits this time. Chinese authorities are training their official censorious guns on a Starbucks retail shop nestled subversively in Beijing’s famed Forbidden City compound. It seems that this Starbucks is an insult to down-home, homegrown, true-red Chinese culture. According to Tom Plate, “In truth, any Starbucks is a kind of unintended insult to any local culture — everywhere, period. Starbucks infest the planet like corporate locusts that quietly but steadily eat away at local cultural foliage.” Read his opinion and facts about the Chinese connection at Asia Media.
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