When McDonald’s ad execs came up with the slogan “I’m lovin’ it,’’ they probably didn’t have this in mind: A woman at a Burbank, Calif., franchise offered a customer sex in exchange for some Chicken McNuggets.
The diner declined.
It’s not clear whether that’s because he didn’t want to part with his McNuggets — or because the woman was not what he’d call a “hot chick.’’
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If you’re out for a walk in London, Ontario, stay away from the courthouse.
Cops outside the building pulled in people at random and immediately sent them to a courtroom — to serve as potential jurors.
Judge Kelly Gorman said she decided to “wrangle up members of the public,’’ which is legal under local law — because so many people in the regular jury pool had been rejected.
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Cops had a bone to pick with a motorist in Washington state.
He was using a special car-pool lane that required he have at least one passenger. But his only companion was a skeleton outfitted in a white sweat shirt.
He told cops he decided on the skeleton after rejecting the idea of sharing the front seat with either a blow-up doll or a mannequin.
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It’s a jungle out there.
A study conducted by the University of Minnesota discovered that men spend more money — and are more likely to go into debt — when they believe they outnumber women.
“What we see in other animals is that when females are scarce, males become more competitive,’’ said lead researcher Vladas Griskevicius.
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Polish art student Andrzej Sobiepan didn’t want to wait decades before his talent was recognized.
So when nobody was looking, he hung oneof his paintings in the National Museum of the city of Wroclaw. Officials let it stay, but moved it to the snack bar.