News of the Weird

Over the past few days I’ve read a couple of stories that can only be considered “news of the weird.”

An employee at a Salisbury, Maryland Wal-Mart became concerned when he heard banging and yelling coming from the men’s restroom. When the employee went into the restroom they found a patron stuck to a toilet. It seems that the customer went in to use the restroom and sat down on the toilet. Unbeknownst to the customer, someone had placed glue on the toilet seat. The patron was stuck to the seat and had to yell and make noise until help arrived.


The other story comes straight from my backyard, here in Bloomington, Indiana. A customer at the local TGI Friday’s was sitting down to a meal, ordering a hamburger. Before the diner bit into his sandwich the customer found a piece of a finger on it. It seems that one of the kitchen managers had injured themselves. The manager was tended to by other kitchen staff, and was eventually sent for treatment at the hospital, but no one had realized the extent of his injury. Even the manager though he had just cut himself; he didn’t realize that he had severed part of his finger. Meanwhile, the food the manager was working on was served to the customer who ordered it. That is when the finger was found.

I guess the lesson is to be careful what you eat and where you sit when out in public.