Melodi Dushane, 24, of Toledo, Ohio has been arrested for allegedly smashing a McDonald’s drive through window when she was denied chicken McNuggets.
The incident occurred around 6:20 am New Year’s day when Melodi Dushane drove up to the window in her white Mercury and ordered the McNugget’s as well as other dinner items. When informed that dinner items were not available after 2:30 am, Ms. Dushane allegedly became upset and punched McDonalds’s employee Melissa Vasquez in the mouth. The night manager, Tia Walker, came to the window and Dushane supposedly took a swing at her and tried to pull her through the drive through window. When that failed, Dushane punched the window, breaking it and sending glass flying everywhere.

A porn star from the Netherlands named Bobbi Eden has promised oral sex for all of her Twitter followers if the Netherlands win the World Cup.

Eden’s number of followers has gone from just over 4,000 on Tuesday when she first made her courageous promise, to 66,163

Great way to get Twitter followers. I bet she is sighing in relief that Netherlands lost.

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I wish my employees would be willing to work for a month free. It would definitely help with the labor budget.

British Airways is asking thousands of its staff to work for free for up to four weeks, spokeswoman Kirsten Millard said Tuesday.

In an e-mail to all its staff, the airline offered workers between one and four weeks of unpaid leave — but with the option to work during this period. British Airways employs just more than 40,000 people in the United Kingdom.

Last month, the company posted a record annual loss of £400 million ($656 million).

Its chief executive declared at the time there were “absolutely no signs of recovery” in the industry.

“I’m 30 years in this business and I’ve never seen anything like this. This is by far the biggest crisis the industry has ever faced,” said Willie Walsh, British Airways’ chief executive.

A spokesman for one of Britain’s biggest unions said its workers could not afford to work for free for a month.

“It’s all well and good for Willie Walsh to say he’s prepared to work for free when he earns four times in a month what they do in a year,” said Ciaran Naidoo, a spokesman for Unite.

He pointed out that the airline was not ordering staff to work without pay.

“It’s a request — you can take unpaid leave or you can work for free, and the chances of people working for free are very unlikely, but there might be some people who want to take unpaid leave.”

Demand for the airline’s passenger seats and cargo holds fell during the last financial year, while its fuel bill rocketed to almost £3 billion ($4.7 billion).

Walsh said British Airways’ woes were inextricably linked to the downturn in the global economy and that there had been no sign of any “green shoots” of recovery.

Like its premium-class competitors, British Airways is losing customers to cheaper rivals.

The airline’s premium passenger numbers fell 13% in the second half of last year, in line with the industry average.

Total traffic fell 3.4% and while the airline carried 33.1 million passengers last year, it was a drop of 4.3% on the previous year.

The dip in demand for British Airways’ flights has forced a switch in strategy at the airline.

From the end of last year, it has been trying to tempt passengers with lower fares, sacrificing profit per seat for “bums on seats.”

It plans to reduce capacity by 4% next winter by parking up to 16 aircraft.

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This sounds like a product you would see on late night infomercial TV. “Billy Mays here for the anti-stab knife. . . are you sick of your son or daughter threatening you with your own kitchen knives? The nerve of them. . .Are you tired of people breaking into your house to have them use your own knives to rob you? Then this is the product for you”. Of course there would be the disclaimer: “WARNING: Does not prevent you from getting your throat sliced”.

First ‘anti-stab’ knife to go on sale in Britain

The first “anti-stab” knife is to go on sale in Britain, designed to work as normal in the kitchen but to be ineffective as a weapon.

The knife has a rounded edge instead of a point and will snag on clothing and skin to make it more difficult to stab someone.

It was invented by industrial designer John Cornock, who was inspired by a documentary in which doctors advocated banning traditional knives.

Mr Cornock, 42, from Swindon, said that the knife will cut vegetables, but will make it almost impossible to stab someone to death and will reduce the risk of accidental injuries.

He said: “It can never be a totally safe knife, but the idea is you can’t inflict a fatal wound. Nobody could just grab one out of the kitchen drawer and kill someone.”

The knife is expected to sell for around £40-50 and has been tested with “very favourable” results by the Home Office’s Design and Technology Alliance – set up to research products that can deter crime.