Death Wish Coffee is a cold-brewed, canned coffee its maker touts as \u201cfiercely caffeinated.\u201d (It has as much as 4 1\/2 times more caffeine per ounce than regular coffee.) The company recalled its 11-ounce cans on Sept. 20 because they could contain the deadly toxin botulin. Company founder Mike Brown, 37, said no incidents have been reported, but he is very serious about the safety of his product. \u201cI know our logo and name might not seem like it reflects that,\u201d Brown told The Washington Post. Production has been halted, and customers can request refunds from Death Wish\u2019s website.<\/p>\n
Mother Of The Year<\/strong><\/p>\n Ebony Woody, 34, of Columbus, Ohio, was nothing if not thorough on the morning of Sept. 18 when, following an argument with her daughter, she purposely drove her car onto the sidewalk and struck the 17-year-old, who was walking to school. After knocking the girl down and running over her leg, Woody stopped and backed up, driving over the leg a second time. QFM96 reported Woody generously gave the girl a ride to her father\u2019s house, where she dropped her off without reporting the incident. Woody later turned herself in at police headquarters and faces charges of felonious assault, aggravated vehicular assault and endangering children. The daughter was treated for two fractures to her left leg.<\/p>\n Underwear Lacks Superpowers<\/strong><\/p>\n Even Superman underwear couldn\u2019t protect Nathan French, 19, from Halewood, Merseyside, England, as he climbed to the top of the highest mountain in Wales, 3,600-foot Snowdon. French managed to hike to the summit on Sept. 9, but he quickly succumbed to the elements \u2014 perhaps because he was wearing ONLY Superman underwear, shoes and gloves. French, who is studying sport, nutrition and health in college, told The Guardian, \u201cIt was when I was at the top I was shaking uncontrollably.\u201d He rode the Snowdon mountain railway back down, but fell ill on the train. \u201cI started to go deaf and my sight started to go funny.\u201d Paramedics said his blood sugar had dropped and he was showing signs of hypothermia. Miles Hill of the Llanberis mountain rescue team noted, \u201cWe hope Mr. French is back in the mountains soon, perhaps in the full suit (cape optional), rather than just the underwear.\u201d<\/p>\n Please Don\u2019t Pee On The White House<\/strong><\/p>\n Timothy Bates, 37, of Collierville, Tenn., was arrested by the Secret Service after he urinated at the corner of 17th and Pennsylvania Avenue NW, near the White House in Washington, D.C. WTOP-FM reported that Bates explained to the officers that he was headed to the White House, where he hoped to meet with National Security Agency Director Adm. Mike Rogers and Defense Secretary Gen. James Mattis to find out \u201chow to get the dog chip out of my head.\u201d He explained that he is part of the MK Ultra project, which, he said, is managed by the CIA, and that he had chips implanted in his head that cause headaches, shaking and convulsions. Bates also told officers he had weapons in his car; these amounted to nine firearms, brass knuckles, a black jack and three knives. A former Memphis police officer, Bates has been involuntarily committed twice this year for mental health reasons.<\/p>\n Wait. The World HASN\u2019T Ended?<\/strong><\/p>\n Cable television viewers in Orange County, Calif., were stunned on the morning of Sept. 21 when an ominous message accompanied by an \u201cEmergency Alert\u201d banner flashed on the screen. At increased volume, a man\u2019s voice boomed: \u201cRealize this, extremely violent times will come,\u201d said viewer Stacy Laflamme of Lake Forest, who was watching HGTV on the Cox Communications cable system. Spectrum customers also received the alert. The warning seemed especially timely given that doomsday writer David Meade had predicted the end of the world \u201cas we know it\u201d to occur two days later. Laflamme told the Orange County Register the message \u201csounded like a radio broadcast coming through the television.\u201d Dennis Johnson, a spokesman for Spectrum, said: \u201cWe have confirmed that we were fed an incorrect audio file,\u201d but neither company could determine where the audio had come from.<\/p>\n This Is Not A Real Body!<\/strong><\/p>\n The Greene County, Tenn., Sheriff\u2019s Department alerted drivers along Chuckey Pike on Sept. 20 not to be alarmed by a body that appeared to have been crushed by a house\u2019s garage door. \u201cTHIS IS A HALLOWEEN DECORATION!\u201d the department\u2019s Facebook page warned. \u201cDo NOT call 911 reporting a dead body.\u201d Officers had rushed to the scene with sirens blaring after a caller reported the body. They then discovered the clever (but really early) holiday tableau.<\/p>\n Animals On The Lam<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2014 Auburn, Mass., police received a number of calls over the weekend of Sept. 15-17 about a wayward goat. But it wasn\u2019t until the wee hours of Monday, Sept. 18, that No. 448 was finally corralled at the La Quinta Inn in Auburn. The mischievous runaway was seen on surveillance video entering the lobby of the hotel and wandering the halls, \u201cpresumably to rest a bit,\u201d said police. Peter Blash, No. 448\u2019s owner, said the goat jumped a 5-foot-high fence and \u201ctook off like a criminal.\u201d However, Blash said, \u201cI had one that made it all the way to Sturbridge.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2014 Just north of Benton, Kan., a rancher posted signs promising a reward to anyone who could help him find his missing longhorn cow, Mercedes. The Wichita Eagle reported the 3-year-old black-and-white bovine went missing on Sept. 11 during Cross Trails, a weekly cowboy church service at Greg Johnson\u2019s Prairie Rose Ranch. Friends, neighbors and family have searched high and low for Mercedes, who is recognizable by her 5-foot-wide horns. But the only sighting of her has been near the El Dorado, Kan., Walmart, about 10 miles away. Johnson says this isn\u2019t the first time she\u2019s run off: \u201cShe is more of a loner.\u201d<\/p>\n Questionable Judgment<\/strong><\/p>\n Coolidge, Ariz., resident Victor Pratt boasts that he\u2019s played with snakes his whole life. So when a rattlesnake slithered by during a family party at a nearby lake on Sept. 7, Pratt grabbed the snake and showed the kids \u201chow to catch it. I was playing with it like little kids do. I wasn\u2019t thinking. I was showing off,\u201d he told FOX 10 News. The rattler bit Pratt on his face and neck. Pratt\u2019s sons quickly drove him to a nearby emergency room, and he was later airlifted to Banner-University Medical Center Phoenix, where Dr. Steven Curry treated him. \u201cThere is a 100-percent chance he would have died if he\u2019d not made it to the hospital within minutes,\u201d Curry said. Pratt remained unconscious for several days. He told reporters he had learned his lesson and would not play with rattlesnakes again.<\/p>\n Government In Action<\/strong><\/p>\n Texas state Rep. Dawnna Dukes\u2019 corruption trial is scheduled for Oct. 16. She will face charges of giving a taxpayer-funded raise to a legislative aide as compensation for ferrying Dukes\u2019 daughter between school and home. The Austin American-Statesman reports that prosecutors in Travis County also plan to present evidence of 19 additional \u201cextraneous acts,\u201d including accusations that Dukes spent $51,000 in taxpayer money on an online psychic; was absent for roll call 65 percent of the time; and appeared impaired at a House committee meeting when she showed up late, explaining: \u201cI know I\u2019m talking a lot. I\u2019m full of morphine and will be headed out of here soon.\u201d<\/p>\n Bright Ideas<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2014 Kevin Michael Cook, 24, of New Castle, Penn., was too drunk to drive, so he enlisted the help of an 8-year-old girl. WPXI News reported the girl told Darlington Township police that Cook, a family friend, ordered her into a car at her grandmother\u2019s house and forced her to drive him toward East Palestine, Ohio. The car stopped after nearly wrecking twice. Bystanders called 911. Police tried to give Cook a sobriety test, but he was too impaired to finish it. He was charged with endangering the welfare of a child, driving under the influence and driving without a license.<\/p>\n \u2014 Prosecutors in Geneva, Switzerland, are looking for the culprits who flushed $100,000 in 500-euro notes down four toilets in the city in May. One of the tiolets was in the vault area of the UBS Bank, and the other three in nearby bistros. While neither throwing money away nor blocking a toilet is a crime, Vincent Derouand of the Geneva Prosecutor\u2019s Office told the Tribune de Geneve, \u201cwe want to be sure of the origin of the money.\u201d The cash was confiscated during the investigation. Derouand said there was no immediate reason to think it was dirty money.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Death Wish Coffee is a cold-brewed, canned coffee its maker touts as \u201cfiercely caffeinated.\u201d (It has as much as 4 1\/2 times more caffeine per ounce than regular coffee.) 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