London company sells breast-milk ice cream

Gross or tasty? A London company is offering an unusual dessert — ice cream made with human breast milk.

The Icecreamists, a trendy ice cream parlor, says its "Baby Gaga" ice cream sold out as soon as it launched Friday.

The company paid women who donated their breast milk after a health screening. The milk is then pasteurized and churned together with vanilla pods and lemon zest. The dish, which comes in a martini glass, sells for 14 pounds ($22.50) each.

Stallion Semen Served Up in New Zealand as New Energy Drink

Feb 25, 2011 – 7:33 AM
Matthew Hall

The latest crazy candidate for a food fad may prove to be quite a mouthful.

Raise your glass if you fancy a shot of horse semen, a purported "delicacy" that will debut at the Wildfoods Festival in Hokitika, New Zealand, in March.

"It is sort of quirky, I suppose," festival organizer Mike Keenan told AOL News, with Kiwi understatement.

"It is the protein of the stallion. It is going to be tastefully done."

The shots, which will sell for $10, are pitched as being healthy energy boosters and will be available to sample as they come or in cherry, licorice or banoffee pie flavors.

"You often hear from a female perspective that semen has an awful alkaline taste, so we thought we'd better make it more user friendly," explained horse trainer Lindsay Kerslake, whose stallions will supply the shots, according to The Australian.

"Think of it like a milkshake. ... It's all safe. We're getting the semen in the same way breeders do, using an artificial vagina and storing it in the formula they use."

Festival organizer Keenan joked that New Zealand's recent international sporting success in rugby league and netball were because of athletes imbibing stallion semen.

"The Kiwi rugby league team and the New Zealand netball team found [stallion semen] is better than Viagra and has helped their performances very well," he said.

Really?

"No -- but we are saying that."

The Wildfoods Festival has built an international reputation for challenging the taste buds of attendees.

"We had bull semen here in 2003," said Keenan. "Deer pizzle has been offered -- the ***** of a deer -- boiled up.

"We have huhu grubs this year, too. Depending on what wood they live in, the flavor of wood comes out in them. Some people say it is like peanut butter. You can have them barbecued or chocolate-covered."

The March 12 festival has won several tourism industry awards and one year attracted more than 23,000 tourists to the small coastal town, regular population 3,000, located on the west coast of New Zealand's South Island.

Keenan said he did not yet know how the recent earthquake in Christchurch would affect this year's festival, but the event is projected to bring approximately $3 million to the local economy.
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Public Restroom to Reopen as Sandwich Shop

Mar 24, 2011 – 7:39 AM

Steven Hoffer Contributor
Boston's "Pink Palace" once served as a restroom. Now it will serve sandwiches.

City officials announced Wednesday that the 1920s Gothic structure on Boston Common best known as an unused men's lavatory has been leased to become a restaurant.

Earl of Sandwich, a Florida-based chain, signed a 15-year-contract to convert the structure into a takeout joint, scheduled to open later this year or early next year following renovations, the Boston Globe reports.


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On Boston Common, the "Pink Palace" is a former men's restroom that will be turned into an Earl of Sandwich takeout shop.

Supporters of the deal figure the idea of a latrine-turned-fast-food stop actually won't be too unsettling, considering the 660-square-foot "Palace" hasn't been used as a restroom in decades.

"This is a great opportunity to transform a unique unused space into an active business, while contributing to the vitality of the Boston Common," Boston Parks Department commissioner Toni Pollak said in a statement. "This project will allow us to preserve a historic building while also bringing new life to the park for all visitors to enjoy."

Promoted as having the "world's greatest hot sandwich," the Earl of Sandwich has 13 locations, including one at Massachusetts' Logan International Airport.
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Gladstone Officer Lynne Benton married hairdresser 7 months before death

Published: Thursday, June 02, 2011, 9:25 PM Updated: Friday, June 03, 2011, 9:56 AM

By Rick Bella, The Oregonian The Oregonian

GLADSTONE -- Police Sgt. Lynne Benton married beautician Deborah Lee Higbee Benton seven months before the Gladstone shop owner was found dead in her salon, according to court documents obtained Thursday.

Benton presented herself to colleagues, neighbors and others as a woman but legally changed her middle name last year to "Edward" and listed her gender as male on the couple's marriage license application, filed Oct. 28 with the Clackamas County clerk's office. The couple were married the same day in a civil ceremony performed by Gladstone Municipal Judge Pro Tem Linda G. Beloof.

Under Oregon law, a marriage is valid only between a man and a woman, but the clerk's office doesn't require documentation of gender.

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Meanwhile, Higbee already had taken Benton's last name, according to a 2009 Clackamas County court document.

Neighbors at the Tri City Mobile Home Court said they knew Benton as Higbee Benton's "lady friend." They said she moved in with Higbee Benton last year and then moved out a couple of months ago.

Sgt. Benton's close relationship with the victim has triggered a couple of moves. First, to avoid any appearance of conflict of interest, Gladstone Police Chief Jim Pryde turned the investigation over to the Clackamas County Major Crimes Team. Then, Benton, 49, a 14-year law-enforcement veteran, went on leave from the police department. Police say Benton is cooperating with the investigation.

Pryde declined to comment. Benton did not return a call asking for comment.

Higbee Benton, 54, was found dead Saturday night at Gladstone Beauty Salon, 430 Portland Ave., which she ran for 20 years. On Thursday, for the first time, authorities officially identified their probe into Higbee Benton's death as a homicide investigation.

However, despite having the results of an autopsy, the team still has not released the official cause and manner of death -- or any of the circumstances. No suspects or persons of interest have been named.

Officer Ulli Neitch of the Milwaukie Police Department, acting spokeswoman for the Major Crimes Team, said investigators still are interviewing Higbee Benton's relatives, friends and acquaintances. "It is important that interviews still being conducted are not compromised by the release of critical information," Neitch said.

Neitch urged anyone who may have been near the Gladstone Beauty Salon between 3:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Saturday to call Crime Stoppers at 503-786-7577.

A law enforcement source who was briefed on the investigation said Higbee Benton had been shot.

A Gladstone bartender who was working Saturday two doors down from Higbee Benton's shop, said an investigator told her that Benton had been expecting Higbee Benton for dinner Saturday night. When she failed to show, Benton went to the salon with another person and then reported finding the body, the bartender said.

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When Sheila Abbott tried to piece together the path taken by the thieves who stole her sex toys, she didn’t have to look too hard.

She just had to follow the trail of feather boa feathers.

However, while she has a pretty good idea of what happened early Tuesday morning, she’s mystified about why.

Abbott, the owner of the Sexessories adult store in Parksville, said thieves struck some time around 3:30 a.m., parking behind the store, walking around to the front, smashing the window and unlocking the door.

“It looks like there were two of them,” Abbott said. “One of them went to one side and swooped all my $125 to $175 rotating vibrators off the hooks while the other went to the other side. There’s at least three garbage bags of stuff missing.”

Abbott said one of the thieves slipped up however, accidentally snatching up a feather boa along with the items that were sitting on top of it.

“There was a little trail of feathers that led around the back,” Abbott said. “They went out the front door, instead of out the back door.”

That’s an interesting point, she said, because the thieves only came far enough into the tiny store to avoid being caught on the store’s security camera.

“The person seems to have some inside knowledge,” she said.

Regardless of who was responsible, Abbott doesn’t understand the motivation.

“I understand theft,” she said. “I understand shoplifting. But this? I’m baffled. Where do people sell this stuff? You can’t bring it to a pawn shop.”

Abbott estimates she lost about $1,800 worth of product, along with a $400 repair bill to fix the door. Abott’s also offering a reward for information on the incident.

RCMP Corporal Charles Hofman said officers canvassed seven store owners in the area to see if they had any video footage that might give them a clue, but were unsuccessful.

The incident remains under police investigation.

Colorado Cops Arrest Man Who Hid Inside Toilet Tank At Yoga Festival




Colorado police have arrested the man who last week allegedly hid inside the tank of a portable toilet at a yoga festival in Boulder. Luke Chrisco, 30, was nabbed yesterday and charged with unlawful sexual contact and criminal invasion of privacy.


According to cops, a woman attending the Hanuman Yoga Festival entered the portable toilet last Friday and “noticed movement in the tank when she lifted the lid.” After exiting the toilet, she sought help from a man who subsequently entered the toilet and “saw the suspect hiding inside the tank.”


The man then left and the suspect locked himself inside before fleeing 10 minutes later. Police described the toilet tank interloper, who was covered in feces, as a tall white male (between 6’ 4” and 6’ 8”) with a thin build. He also reportedly used the nickname “Sky.”


The 6’ 4”, 160-pound Chrisco (who has been known to use the handle “Skye Oryan”) was collared yesterday by Vail police following a traffic stop. An alert cop realized Chrisco matched the description of the Boulder toilet suspect. Chrisco is pictured above in a mug shot taken after a December 2008 arrest for panhandling and resisting police.


In a press release, Boulder Police Chief Mark Beckner thanked the public for providing valuable tips to detectives. “We are grateful to the public for helping us resolve this disgusting case in an expeditious manner,” Beckner said.

Updated: Tuesday, 28 Jun 2011, 5:53 PM CDT
Published : Tuesday, 28 Jun 2011, 8:31 AM CDT

HOUSTON - It is a case so gruesome that it's just hard to believe.

James Onak has been charged with hitting a man and killing him along the Gulf Freeway around midnight Monday.

But it's what happened next that makes this crime so horrific.

A Precinct 8 deputy constable spotted a black 2000 Mazda 626 traveling along the southeast side of town. The car was smashed, the headlight was out and the driver was going slowly.

"He began questioning the driver upon walking up to the car about the damage and asked him if he had been involved in an accident,” Precinct 8 Cpt. Jason Finnen said. “The driver said he had... that he had struck something on the Gulf Freeway. At that time he didn't know or didn't say that it was a person that he had hit. He was either concealing it or just didn't know.”

But how could the suspect not know? The victim slammed through the glass and his body stayed wedged in the car.

Investigators say Onak drove more than 2 miles with the victim's body right next to him.

“The impact caused the victim to be impaled through the windshield and it was positioned in the floor board of the passenger side," Finnen said.

The victim was wearing a work uniform from a Subway restaurant and investigators say he had likely finished his work shift and was driving home when he experienced trouble with his Ford Explorer. They say he was struck by the Mazda 626 as he walked toward a nearby fuel station.

"We sent additional units up to the Gulf Freeway to look for the initial accident scene,” Finnen said. “One of our deputies actually discovered the victim's severed leg in the roadway along with the suspect's license plate nearby."

Those who live in the suspect's neighborhood say the family has been there at least 4 years but the parents and the children keep to themselves.

Onak turns 50 July 5. He is now charged with Felony Accident Involving Injury and Driving While Intoxicated.

We are still waiting for the medical examiners office to release the victim's identity.