Gambling for Charity: A gambler in England left his estate to a charity working to stamp out poverty. Included in the estate was a bet that Roger Federer would win seven Wimbledons. Payoff $168,000.
Coffee and Coffins. A funeral home has opened a Starbucks inside the premises. You can sip a lattee before or after the ceremony...maybe during as well.
The Secret Recipe: A thief broke into the safe of a Houston hamburger restaurant. No, he wasn't after money. He took the company's secret hamburger recipe. Come to think of it, I wrote a similar story in a book for Harlequin Temptation called The Great Chili Caper by Lorna Michaels. Still available on Amazon.
There's an App for That: Date not going well? eHarmony offers a Bad Date App which will set off your IPhone. Then you can "answer," plead an emergency and finish the dud date in record time.
Oh, neat, you like weird news stories, too! I mention several of them in my post tomorrow, but they're different from the ones you picked. (Lots of weird stuff to pick from, huh?)
ReplyDeleteI remember reading quite a while back about funeral homes in California that added a drive thru viewing window. Seriously. I wonder if the Starbucks there would offer carryout?
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