Bus Stops - February 15, 2012

8 creepy mystery ingredients in fast food (MNN) 

(Would you like a cow eyeball with your burger? One of the more-enduring urban legends about McDonald’s is that their hamburgers contain cow eyeballs. While this has not proven to be the case, their Baked Hot Apple Pie does contain duck feathers, or at least an ingredient commonly derived from such. Truth can be just as strange as fiction.)

Pizza-only diet could kill me, says scared Claire (Sun UK) 

(A WOMAN who has eaten only cheese and tomato pizza for 31 years has been told she could DIE unless she quits her bizarre dining habit. Mature student Claire Simmons, 33, gags if she puts anything but a plain pizza slice in her mouth.)

Hugh Hefner's son arrested on suspicion of domestic violence (LA Times) 

(A son of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner was arrested Sunday evening at a Pasadena home on suspicion of domestic violence, police said. Marston Hefner, 21, was taken into custody by Pasadena police after officers responded to a domestic assault call, said Lt. Rick Aversano of the Pasadena Police Department.)

Man plays porn by accident instead of Smurfs at child's birthday party (Standard) 

(He probably should have stuck to Pin the Tail on the Donkey. A Tremonton man hosting his child’s birthday party over the weekend briefly played a pornographic video for kids in attendance, Police Chief Dave Nance said Monday. The man, whose name was not released, had rented “The Smurfs” DVD from a Redbox kiosk to show at the party, Nance said.)

Least Promising Marriage of the Year (Crime and Justice America) 

(In Syracuse, New York, Nicole Osbourne was in court facing a felony assault charge. Also in the courtroom was her boyfriend, Theodore Murphy, which was a bit of a surprise because Osbourne also had a pending domestic assault charge — in front of the same judge — and Murphy had obtained a court order against Osbourne, preventing her from having any direct or indirect contact with him.)

Man killed in his sleep by onions (Xenophilius) 

(55-year-old porter who worked in the Al Aweer Fruit and Vegetable Market was found dead on Sunday morning after spending the night in an onion container. The Indian porter, identified as S.B., suffocated in the container, said Brigadier Khalil Ebrahim Al Mansouri, Director of Dubai Police’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID).)

Jay and Silent Bob open up (Sydney Central) 

(JASON Mewes, aka Jay, and “hetero life partner” Kevin Smith, aka Silent Bob, will visit Sydney in April for their Jay & Silent Bob Get Old tour. After the success of the cult classic film Clerks, long-time friends Mewes and Smith were launched into the limelight as their alter egos Jay and Silent Bob became icons of mischief and mayhem.)

Jay and Silent Bob open up (Sydney Central) 

(JASON Mewes, aka Jay, and “hetero life partner” Kevin Smith, aka Silent Bob, will visit Sydney in April for their Jay & Silent Bob Get Old tour. After the success of the cult classic film Clerks, long-time friends Mewes and Smith were launched into the limelight as their alter egos Jay and Silent Bob became icons of mischief and mayhem.)

Bus driver stood by while drum major was beaten (Boston Herald) 

(The driver of a bus on which Florida A&M University drum major Robert Champion was beaten to death in November stood guard while he was assaulted by fellow band members, according to a lawsuit filed Monday in Orlando by Champion’s family. According to the lawsuit, bus driver Wendy Millette saw Champion vomiting in the parking lot of the Rosen Plaza hotel, then forced him back onto the bus, telling him he’d be OK. After he boarded the bus again, the lawsuit contends, he was subjected to more hazing.)

7 students face charges after bus beating (WFTV) 

(Four of the seven students accused of a brutal beating on a school bus appeared before a judge Tuesday in Marion County. The vicious fight happened aboard a bus last month, where the victim was knocked unconscious on her first day to ride the bus.)

McDonald’s Asks Suppliers to Stop Using Hog Crates (Time) 

(McDonald’s Corp. said Monday it will require its U.S. pork suppliers to provide plans by May to phase out crates that tightly confine pregnant sows, a move that one animal rights group predicted would have “a seismic impact” on the industry. The U.S. pork industry generates sales of about $21 billion a year, according to the National Pork Producers Council. McDonald’s, with its Sausage McMuffin, McRib sandwich and breakfast platters, is one of the nation’s largest buyer of pork products, consuming about 1 percent of the nation’s total production.)