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COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A man wearing a chicken suit robbed a Kroger grocery store last week in Columbus.


Police said a white man wearing a mask and bright yellow chicken suit with orange chicken feet entered a Kroger store about 11:30 p.m. Friday. The robber showed employees a gun and demanded cash from the store's safe.

A store surveillance camera captured the robbery on tape.

"It's pretty extraordinary," Columbus police Sgt. Shaun Laird said. "We've never had something like this. We've had guys wear fake mustaches now and again, but nothing like this."

The robber was not caught, even after he left the store in costume.

"The person either has access to some type of chicken costume or owns a chicken suit," Laird said. "So, if you know of someone, please call the robbery squad."

The robber faces several charges, including robbery, aggravated menacing and intimidation.

Police said they can't make a connection between the Kroger robbery and one in Delaware in December when a man wearing a Santa costume robbed a Wendy's fast-food restaurant. The Santa robber also may have hit a grocery story on Columbus' north side.

Anyone with information should contact police at (614) 645-4665.

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[jethro]

thats crazy! but hey ,I live here and I"m not surprized!

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Nude Man Shows Up At Airport Security Checkpoint
Screeners Corner Streaker Near Beignet Shop Until Police Arrive

KENNER, La. -- There was little need to search 34-year-old Kent Hoffmann when he approached a security checkpoint Tuesday at Louis Armstrong International Airport.

Officials said the man arrived at Concourse C just before 5 a.m. completely naked.

U.S. Transportation Security Administration spokeswoman Andrea McCauley said a nude Hoffmann ran back into the terminal and was cornered near a beignet shop, where screeners covered him with a sign until Jefferson Parish sheriff's deputies arrived to arrest him.

They booked him with obscenity.

Because of the time of day, the strip show was seen by few people aside from a pair of security screeners and a handful of passengers waiting for early morning flights.

Airport spokeswoman Michelle Duffourc said Hoffman was the airport's first streaker, and she hopes he's the last.

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Condom-in-soup lawsuit settled
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U.S. seafood restaurant chain McCormick & Schmick's has settled a lawsuit brought by a California woman who said she suffered severe emotional distress after she discovered a condom in her clam chowder.



The settlement was reached the day the Portland, Oregon-based chain was to go to trial in Santa Ana, California. The settlement terms are confidential.


"The case has been resolved... in its entirety in a manner acceptable to both sides today," McCormick & Schmick's spokesman Brian Douglas said. "The parties have chosen to resolve it without further court intervention. Both sides are happy with the outcome."


The privately held company, which operates 42 restaurants nationwide, maintained that Laila Sultan's claims that she suffered anxiety and depression were "frivolous".


"We still believe that's the truth but in this day and age it's the price of doing business," Douglas said. "You have to deal with scenarios like this."


Sultan's attorney could not immediately be reached for comment.


Sultan, 48, said the trouble began February 26 when she and three companions sent their soup back to the kitchen to be reheated while dining at the Irvine, California, restaurant.


Sultan said she was treated rudely by the waiter, and when she began eating the soup she encountered a chewy, rubbery object that she first thought was calamari or shrimp, she told local media. She spit the offending object into her napkin and discovered it was a rolled up condom, she said.


"I said, 'Oh my god' and ran into the bathroom with another friend of mine and I started throwing up," she said.


The restaurant chain launched an investigation but had no idea how the condom got into her soup, Douglas said.