Just plain fucking weird

Okay, so some time ago, the philly steak place and the little convienence store around the corner closed. Might have been as early as last January, might have been even earlier, I can't recall. (I may have mentioned their closing here on LJ, but I can't be arsed to go back and check.)

Annnnyway.... they left a great deal of stuff behind. How much stuff? Well, the philly steak place left all the tables and benches (which, well, were kinda attached to the tables), the counters, the cooking surfaces, the soda fountain, etc. and so on. Hell, I could see pallets of bottled energy drinks from the windows of the store.

Same with the convienence store. Literally, anything that wasn't sold by their last day of business was left behind and the doors locked. If you looked in through the glass, you would see the shelves of various goods, including non-prescription medicines, candy bars, sodas, and yeah, quite a number of packs of cigarettes.

So, both places, closed for months now. No sign that anyone is coming back to collect all that stuff, right? It took until this last weekend for someone to break in and try and steal stuff. No idea if they got away with anything, and the glass panel they kicked out (presumably kicked, that is... it was stationed that low to the ground) has already been covered over with a board and nailed into place, but damn.....

Coincidence that it happened less then a week after the University right across the street came back into session? I think not.

Bwa-huh?

Rose said the ailing patient, a man whom she wouldn't identify, consumed "several bags of extra butter flavored microwave popcorn" every day for several years.

Also from the article:
He described progressively worsening respiratory symptoms of coughing and shortness of breath. Tests found his ability to exhale was deteriorating, Rose said, although his condition seemed to stabilize after he quit using microwave popcorn.

Now, I don't know if the "fumes" from the microwave popcorn had anything to do with the man's lung problems, but the fact that he was eating several bags of the shit a day, for years.... you know, that's an addiction. Eating that much of anything is going to lead to some problems. Doesn't matter if it's good for you, or not. (I would place microwave popcorn in the category of "not good for you", especially if you eat several bags of it a day.)

Well, dip me in bronze and call me a knick-knack

Ric Flair has apparently given his notice of intention to quit to the WWE.