Former Subway Employee That Spit Lettuce Into A Tray Should Make You Think Twice About Eating Out!

What a filthy douchebag!Richard Shannon thought that playing with the food that people consume was hilarious.He put this disgusting video on youtube.Even though he claims that this was just a prank,I can tell you that even more disgusting things have been done by food service workers.

Don't make a mentally unstable food handler mad.Because if you do,they will compromise your food when you're not looking!Like the time a baker I worked with dropped some sugar on a dirty floor,scooped it up,& put it back in the sugar bin.In one instance,20 tartlets for a special order fell on the floor.Since there were time constraints,this same baker picked all 20 tartlets up & put them on a catering tray.When the customer came,she handed the lady her order as if nothing had happened.I'm telling you from experience.Eat out as little as possible.Since the economy is so shaken,now would be a great time to cook at home!

Here's more on this slimeball from Express & Star:

"The Brownhills sandwich bar worker who posed on a video shoving lettuce into his nose and mouth before spitting it out into a tray used to serve the public was today sentenced by magistrates.

The disgusting stunt which has appeared on an internet site, had already led to the sacking of 22-year-old culprit Richard Shannon, of Castle Street, Brownhills, but he was today ordered to carry out 300 hours of unpaid work.

Walsall magistrates handed him a 12-month community order and told him to pay £60 in costs.

The images were originally posted on internet site YouTube but were later removed.

As a fellow member of staff films from a mobile phone, Shannon, who was working at the Brownhills branch of Subway, takes a handful of lettuce and stuffs it into his mouth and up his nose, before spitting it back out into the containers used to serve customers.

The grinning worker then puts the tray back on the counter to be added to sandwiches customers at the High Street shop.

Subway spokeswoman Sally Lloyd today said the chain’s franchisees “take food safety extremely seriously”."(END OF EXCERPT)Read the rest here.

Is Highway Robbery Still An Issue? Texas Police Have Been Doing Illegal Search & Seizures On Black Motorists!

When people were using horses & carriages as transportation,highway robbery was a huge issue.But,that's not something modern day folk have to concern themselves with,right? Well,it is if you are driving while black in Texas.Most of us already know about racial profiling.I've included a CNN report on Bobby Tolan's story.It is an obvious case of racial profiling that the police tried to deny instead of rectify.

Now,we find that racial targeting is an issue that is coming to the forefront in Texas.The police are acting like the lawless bandits & outlaws of the Wild West.Non-whites have been victims of illegal searches that have resulted in their material goods being confiscated.Since the police are basically robbing these folks,it is being called highway robbery.Here's more on that from The L.A. Times:

"You can drive into this dusty fleck of a town near the Texas-Louisiana border if you're African-American, but you might not be able to drive out of it—at least not with your car, your cash, your jewelry or other valuables.

That's because the police here allegedly have found a way to strip motorists, many of them black, of their property without ever charging them with a crime. Instead they offer out-of-towners a grim choice: voluntarily sign over your belongings to the town, or face felony charges of money laundering or other serious crimes.

More than 140 people reluctantly accepted that deal from June 2006 to June 2008, according to court records. Among them were a black grandmother from Akron, who surrendered $4,000 in cash after Tenaha police pulled her over, and an interracial couple from Houston, who gave up more than $6,000 after police threatened to seize their children and put them into foster care, the court documents show. Neither the grandmother nor the couple were charged with any crime.

Officials in Tenaha, situated along a heavily traveled highway connecting Houston with popular gambling destinations in Louisiana, say they are engaged in a battle against drug trafficking and call the search-and-seizure practice a legitimate use of the state's asset-forfeiture law. That law permits local police agencies to keep drug money and other property used in the commission of a crime and add the proceeds to their budgets.

"We try to enforce the law here," said George Bowers, mayor of the town of 1,046 residents, where boarded-up businesses outnumber open ones and City Hall sports a broken window. "We're not doing this to raise money. That's all I'm going to say at this point."

But civil rights lawyers call Tenaha's practice something else: highway robbery. The attorneys have filed a federal class-action lawsuit to stop what they contend is an unconstitutional perversion of the law's intent, aimed primarily at blacks who have done nothing wrong.

Tenaha officials "have developed an illegal 'stop and seize' practice of targeting, stopping, detaining, searching and often seizing property from apparently non-white citizens and those traveling with non-white citizens," asserts the lawsuit, which was filed in U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Texas.

The property seizures are not just happening in Tenaha. In southern parts of Texas near the Mexican border, for example, Hispanics allege that they are being singled out.

According to a prominent state legislator, police agencies across Texas are wielding the asset-forfeiture law more aggressively to supplement their shrinking operating budgets.

"If used properly, it's a good law-enforcement tool to see that crime doesn't pay," said state Sen. John Whitmire, chairman of the Senate's Criminal Justice Committee. "But in this instance, where people are being pulled over and their property is taken with no charges filed and no convictions, I think that's theft."

David Guillory, an attorney in Nacogdoches who filed the federal lawsuit, said he combed through Shelby County court records from 2006 to 2008 and discovered nearly 200 cases in which Tenaha police seized cash and property from motorists. In about 50 of the cases, suspects were charged with drug possession.

But in 147 others, Guillory said the court records showed, police seized cash, jewelry, cell phones and sometimes even automobiles from motorists but never found any contraband or charged them with any crime. Of those, Guillory said he managed to contact 40 of the motorists directly—and discovered all but one of them were black.

"The whole thing is disproportionately targeted toward minorities, particularly African-Americans," Guillory said. "None of these people have been charged with a crime, none were engaged in anything that looked criminal. The sole factor is that they had something that looked valuable."

In some cases, police used the fact that motorists were carrying large amounts of cash as evidence that they must have been involved in laundering drug money, even though Guillory said each of the drivers he contacted could account for where the money had come from and why they were carrying it—such as for a gambling trip to Shreveport, La., or to purchase a used car from a private seller.

Once the motorists were detained, the police and the local Shelby County district attorney quickly drew up legal papers presenting them with an option: waive their rights to their cash and property or face felony charges for crimes such as money laundering—and the prospect of having to hire a lawyer and return to Shelby County multiple times to attend court sessions to contest the charges.

The process apparently is so routine in Tenaha that Guillory discovered pre-signed and pre-notarized police affidavits with blank spaces left for an officer to describe the property being seized."(END OF EXCERPT)Read the rest here.

Chris Brown Wants The World To Know That Rihanna Hit Him First!

Who cares who threw the first punch? I didn't see one damn mark on Chris Brown & I never have for that matter! While Rihanna has had an eye patch over her eye & mysterious bruises in the past,we're learning that she may have hit him first.Well,I've got a question for Chris Brown.Why did she get pummeled & not you?That was overkill,buddy!You can't justify that by saying she hit you first.Rihanna has said that this was not the first time,just the worst time!Did she provoke you in those instances,too? Own up to what you did & stop trying to place the blame elsewhere!And Rihanna,take Oprah's advice."Love doesn't hurt!"

Here's more from The Gawker:

"As Chris Brown negotiates a plea deal, the R&B singer is making it known Rihanna struck him first that infamous night in Los Angeles. Why does he think it matters?

Because he's negotiating a plea deal, according to TMZ, and has been charged with two felonies for allegedly beating his girlfriend Rihanna. If she hit him first, his lawyers believe, it's not a felony:

Sources say Rihanna was the first one to strike — slapping and striking Brown "numerous times" while he was driving, after seeing the text message from another woman.

Supposedly, this version of events is reflected in the official police report. Floating the story publicly fits perfectly into Brown's dual PR strategy of appearing remorseful even while shifting some blame for the beating to Rihanna.

But Brown needs a swift resolution. As this story drags out in the press, the singer's onetime fans are just growing more disgusted. After seeing Rihanna's police photo, or knowing what it shows, no one really cares what she did to Brown, who emerged physically unblemished."(END OF EXCERPT)Read the rest here.