Welcome to Our Great Country, a look at some of the lighter happenings across our planet.
Disrupting the (10) peace
SALT LAKE CITY — Four teens are making their way to trial after irritating staff by rapping their order.
The Associated Press reports that Spenser Dauwalder, 18, and four friends were cited for disorderly conduct at a McDonald’s restaurant.
Duwalder said staff told him and his friends to leave the premises because they were holding up the line and disrupting business.
But he said nobody else was waiting for service and was merely imitating a YouTube video showing someone rapping their order.
They left without buying anything and complied with requests to leave, but they’re still being pursued in a court of law.
I, for one, completely understand the store manager’s stance.
I cannot stand when people abuse the voice boxes at fast food restaurants. This is a growing problem that needs to be stopped, now.
After all – I rarely get the right order whenever I get my food. The last thing I need is to order a burger and end up with an order of nuggets.
Plucked from the headlines
DURANGO, Colo. — Cue the chicken puns.
A concerned citizen took to his city council meeting earlier this week, flapping his golden, feathered wings, pecking the air before sitting in an empty seat.
This news is great for two reasons – it allows the AP to have chicken headlines, "Man ruffles feathers," and because it gives me a great idea to spruce up Morgantown’s own City Council sessions.
Outside of a few students required to attend them for public-affairs journalism, few college students attend with any frequency.
This isn’t their fault – council meetings are notoriously procedural and rightly so.
But if each Morgantown City Council member were to dress in a rotation of selected costumes and themes, it might jazz things up a bit.
Or, if attendees are required to dress up like some form of animal.
I’m just thinking on my feet here.
I see a great opportunity for City Council to expand its reach to younger citizenry here.
Whether or not it decides to take my advice ... well, to that I cry fowl.
War on Christmas, Round 1
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Christmas has been hijacked ... by the mail service.
The United States Postal Service began answering letters to Santa – typically written by children wanting to send their Christmas lists to the jolly red one.
It was a quaint service unfortunately stopped due to the postal services’ allowing sex-offender employees to take part in it and write to children.
While it’s important to protect children, it’s a shame to see such an institution gone. It’s exciting for kids to receive letters from "Santa" and helps build the illusion.
Instead of destroying such an innocent, harmless program, greater emphasis should be placed on screening and care on who gets to help with it.
Don’t ruin a good thing for so many children because of an oversight.
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