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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) - Jacksonville police say Reginald Peterson needs to learn that 911 is not the appropriate place to complain that Subway left the sauce off a spicy Italian sandwich.

Police said the 42-year-old man dialed 911 twice last week so he could have his sub made correctly. The second call was to complain that officers weren't arriving fast enough.

Subway workers told police Peterson became belligerent and yelled when they were fixing his order. They locked him out of the store after he left to call police.

When officers arrived, they tried to calm Peterson and explain the proper use of 911. Those efforts failed, and he was arrested on a charge of making false 911 calls.

They walk among us!

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PHILADELPHIA (CBS 3) — Eddie Ortiz Jr. and his father have been living on a street corner since Saturday morning—waiting for sneakers.

Not just any sneakers, but a pair designed by Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson, drummer for the Grammy-winning hip-hop band, The Roots. Thompson designed the $225 red, green and gold Air Force 1 sneakers as part of the shoe company's 1World collection, which will feature 18 designs over eight months.

The sneakers are being released here Tuesday at the Ubiq footwear store in downtown Philadelphia. By late Monday morning, 26 people had lined up in a makeshift sidewalk campsite.

The Nike sneakers, dubbed Air Questo, are the fifth pair to be released in the 1World collection. And while sneakerheads—as sneaker collectors call themselves—regularly camp out for new releases, Ubiq has never had this many people waiting in line, said store supervisor Kyle Dunn.

It's a bit of a misunderstood hobby, said Eddie Ortiz, REALLY? who came with his 17-year-old son from the Poconos. The Ortiz duo got there Saturday morning and were first in line.

"People look at you like, 'A pair of sneakers?"' the elder Ortiz said. "But they don't understand, it's a culture." Culture????

$225 for sneakers? Are economic times really tough?

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My niece in New Mexico sent this disturbing news. STARBUCKS TO CLOSE 50% Of ROSWELL OUTLETS. I guess they will have to get along with one as best they can.

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The Minnesota Health Department, through good detective work, was the first to isolate the fact that the recent Salmonella outbreak came from jalapeno peppers from Mexico. They called themselves the "Diarrhea Team." There were other names suggested before they settled on the name.

The Gut-Grip Group

The Montezuma Mounties

The Trots Troop

The Kaopectate Korps

The Pepto Patrol

Yeah Team! Way to "GO"!

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The Wichita Eagle says two people called police Monday night to report that they were robbed ... while trying to buy marijuana. The paper says officers took a report from the victims and then arrested them "on suspicion of attempted possession of marijuana with the intent to distribute."

Dude, they walk among us!

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NEW YORK, (Reuters Life!) - A New Jersey man trying to exterminate insects in his apartment blew it up instead, the New York Daily News reported on Monday.

Isias Vidal Maceda was unhurt in the incident, but 80 percent of his apartment was destroyed, Eatontown, New Jersey police told the newspaper.

The accident occurred as Maceda was spraying for pests in his kitchen. Somehow the bug spray ignited a blast that blew out the apartment's front windows and triggered a fire that quickly spread, the newspaper said.

I think it was a cockroach booby trap.

Quote of the Week!





'It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.' 
--Al Gore, Vice President 


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Sammy C.