Look at the chicken nugget!
MCDONOUGH, Ga.
For millions, New Year’s is marked by the descent of the giant crystal ball in Times Square. For others, it’s a giant acorn or peach.
But perhaps the most savory countdown is in McDonough, Ga., where thousands gathered Wednesday to watch a giant chicken nugget drop into a vat of dipping sauce.
The 6-foot-tall, 800-pound nugget actually is plaster and the vat is filled with syrup and food coloring meant to resemble honey mustard, “but it looks real,” said Liz Stavely, a manager at Truett’s Grill, which hosts the annual event.
Suspected thief lives it up
RACINE, Wis.
A suspected grocery thief still has a taste for finer cuisine, even in the struggling economy.
Police in Racine, Wis., say 43-year-old Brian Rubenstein tried to steal $625 in groceries. The total included $365 in lobster and $213 in ribeye and beef roasts.
Workers told police they saw Rubenstein fill his cart with lobster tails and beef cuts, as well as a smoked ham, apple pie and fruit platter. He was arrested Dec. 23.
Police say he told investigators times are tough.
Eggs served cold on freeway
YPSILANTI TOWNSHIP, Mich.
State troopers and road crews had to scramble Wednesday when a tractor-trailer crashed and spilled its load of eggs on a Detroit-area freeway.
Trooper Jim Smiley says the driver fell asleep and his rig hit a guardrail and a bridge support beam that tore the trailer open and spilled hundreds of cartons of eggs along a 300-foot stretch of I-94.
Single-digit temperatures made for a frozen mess that Smiley says was scraped up by front-end loaders and put in dump trucks.
