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Woman Finds Frog In Packaged Salad, Keeps It As Pet

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Woman Finds Frog In Packaged Salad, Keeps It As Pet

So, this is gross. A woman in Corona, California found a live frog in a salad mix she had just bought from her local Target. But instead of freaking out and killing the thing, she welcomed it into her family.

Becky Garfinkel tells ABC 7 News she was getting ready to go in for another bite when:

I see a frog sitting in my salad plate after I’ve eaten almost the entire salad. Completely freaked out, screamed. I threw up afterward because I was traumatized. I’m a vegetarian and I couldn’t believe there was a frog in there.

And because the frog was barely hanging on to life (a layer of salad dressing didn’t help), Garfinkel’s husband GAVE IT CPR!

With his finger — I’m not kidding you —  barely pushes on the little frog and he breathes and turns around. I’m like OK. We have to keep him.

Here’s a photo of the newest member of the Garfinkel family, “Lucky”:

https://www.facebook.com/target/posts/10155807507288120

As for Target’s response, they told the Garfinkels they have contacted Taylor Farms, which grows the lettuce she purchased. They also offered her a $5 gift certificate, which, unless they sell PTSD therapy kits at Target now, seems pretty useless.

I will tell you right now, I have no desire to ever eat a salad again. I’m petrified of the thought of a salad.

How do you think the frog feels?

Richard Branson Will Ride Out Irma In Wine Cellar

Brendan Bures
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Richard Branson Will Ride Out Irma In Wine Cellar

Richard Branson will ride out Irma in wine cellar.  He is one adventurous man and his recent decision might be one of his wildest yet, as the billionaire mogul has decided to ride out Hurricane Irma on Necker Island, Sir Branson’s own private island in the British Virgin Islands.

The island is at risk to receive a direct hit to the Category 5 Hurricane, a storm that will sustain 185 mph winds with gust over 200 mph. Branson, however, will have some protection. As he wrote on Virgin’s blog, he will hide in the home’s concrete wine cellar for protection.

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Branson is not alone, though. He writes that he is with a great group of young people. Accompanied with the post is pictures of the group drinking fancy red wine while playing a dice game called Perudo.

Here is how Branson describes the calm before the storm:

The atmosphere is eerie but beautiful. Everyone is willing the eye of the storm to veer away from the BVI in these last few hours. As I wrote yesterday, our main concern is safety, for everyone here and for all the people in the BVI and in the path of the hurricane.

Sean Ash of WTHR-NBC tweeted out that Branson and his crew didn’t receive any luck. Instead the eye of the hurricane passed directly over Necker Island. Here’s how that looked.

This comes on the heels of Hurricane Harvey that devastated the city of Houston and other Texas towns along the coast. Here’s how you can help victims affected by the storm.

Necker Island is a 74-acre island in the British Virgin Islands just north of Virgin Gorda. The island is entirely owned by Sir Richard Branson, chairman of the Virgin Group, and is part of the Virgin Limited Edition portfolio of luxury properties. The whole island operates as a resort and can accommodate up to 40 guests, with additional room for six children.

We Want It Right Meow: ‘Super Troopers 2’ To Release On 4/20

Brendan Bures
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We Want It Right Meow: ‘Super Troopers 2’ To Release On 4/20

Calling the 2001 movie Super Troopers a cult classic is like saying a soft pretzel is a denomination of bread. Like, sure, I see what you’re going for there. But you’re just using familiar language to explain why weirdos love their insular toys and food.

(If you’re about to argue something like soft pretzels persist as a staple of German beer houses and sporting events yet refuse to acknowledge how downright strange football fans and Germans as a collective whole are, then we’re pretty much done here.)

Regardless, for the weirdos of the world, myself included, that Super Troopers would be releasing a sequel was something to cheer. The folks at Broken Lizard were able to raise $2 million in funding over the course of 24 hours through crowdfunding efforts. That guaranteed fans they would produce another movie starring everyone’s favorite Vermont Highway Patrol.

But that news came back in 2015. Now they’ve dropped a trailer to the movie and announced a release date: 4/20 of next year. We trust you weirdos to know what that means.

Gossip: Tori Spelling’s Husband Looking At Jail Time; Kim Kardashian And Beyonce Still At War

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Gossip: Tori Spelling’s Husband Looking At Jail Time; Kim Kardashian And Beyonce Still At War

Tori Spelling’s husband narrowly avoided jail in March after his ex-wife agreed to allow him to pay overdue child support and alimony in small monthly installments — rather than see him locked up by an LA judge.

But now McDermott has missed multiple payments on their $1,500-a-month agreement, according to sources. And his furious ex, Mary Jo Eustace, is hauling him back to court — which once again means he’s looking at a stay in the slammer.

In March, McDermott was almost arraigned for criminal contempt of court for not keeping up with child-support payments. When he appeared to face the charge, McDermott told the judge that he had “fallen on hard times,” according to reports. He was read his rights and asked if he needed a public defender, but the judge allowed McDermott a reprieve if he and Eustace could reach an agreement.

Said an insider, “It’s crazy that all this is over $1,500. He could get a job at the Gap and pay that off every month.”

A source close to McDermott told us that Eustace had been warned that the August payment would be late.

“It’s not like it came out of left field,” said the insider. “It was late because Dean was paying their son Jack’s first-month rent, security deposit and several other college expenses, which Mary Jo would not contribute to.”

The source says that a payment was made to Eustace on Friday.

Meanwhile, we’re told that it was not lost on Eustace that, after skipping the payments, Spelling and McDermott took their kids on a luxurious vacation to the Four Seasons in Punta Mita, Mexico.
[From Page Six]

Kim Kardashian And Beyonce Still At War

THE WAR CONTINUES …. As their hubbies continue to publicly battle, sources say Kim Kardashian and Beyonce’s relationship is also in awful shape.

AN insider says that Kim sent a HUGE bouquet of flowers and gifts to Beyonce after the birth of twins … But Beyonce IGNORED the gifts and never even acknowledged them! The insider adds, “There’s NO peaceful resolution in sight.”

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Big Pharma Is Developing Cannabis-Based Painkillers

Maria Loreto
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Big Pharma Is Developing Cannabis-Based Painkillers

The success that medical cannabis has seen in the past five years has prompted researchers and scientists to dive deep into the plant’s medicinal properties and uses, one of the most important being the aid that cannabis can provide for victims of opioid addiction and chronic pain. 

The pharmaceutical industry has millions of dollars to lose from these new developments where people have begun to replace opioids with medical marijuana to treat the symptoms of a plethora of different diseases. 

Several publications claim that pharmaceutical industries are gearing up for these new developments, looking into other options where they can use cannabis as a way of replacing opioids and also avoiding the spread of the opioid crisis that’s taking place in America. It may take a while for this to happen though, especially considering the government’s history with the drug and the fact that marijuana is still considered a schedule I type of drug.

While marijuana can be a good way and a really great option of preventing an even larger spread of the opioid crisis and for providing relief for patients that suffer from different kinds of diseases, it may still not be enough for more serious types of issues that will surely need the strength of opioids to help patients cope with their more serious symptoms. 

Roast Chicken And Milk? A Look Back At 50 Years Of School Lunches

Jillian Peterson
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Roast Chicken And Milk? A Look Back At 50 Years Of School Lunches

Along with dress codes, standardized testing and technology, school lunches have also evolved over the years, and not always for the better. Back in the day, health was a real issue, and moms took classes that educated them on how to pack nutritious school lunches.

Kids were often fed hearty meals they wouldn’t otherwise have available at home. Today, kids often use their own money to buy pizza, burgers and ice cream; dessert is no longer an unexpected treat, it’s one of the main food groups. As kids across the country head back to school for the start of a new year, here’s a look back at school lunches in the U.S. from the 1930s to the 1980s.

Why Marijuana Is Dividing This Small Alaskan Tourist Town

Brendan Bures
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Why Marijuana Is Dividing This Small Alaskan Tourist Town

Even in states where cannabis is legalized for medicinal and recreational usage, marijuana can remain a divisive issue. Such is the case in the small quirky town of Talkeetna, Alaska. The town is a tourist attraction, as art galleries and souvenir shops and bread and breakfasts line the streets in historic log cabins.

Now included in that strip of log cabin businesses is a marijuana shop. It’s named The High Expedition Co., a nod to the longstanding climbing history of the town that supposedly inspired the 1990s television series Northern Exposure.

Joe McAneney co-owns The High Expedition Co. and the shop took about two years for him and his partner to open. Outside the shop doesn’t have any normal distinction of a marijuana shop. Its log cabin feel fits right in line with the main drag. The name itself, The High Expedition Co., serves as a tribute to the climbing tradition to the town as much as the high consuming marijuana gives. The only mention a cannabis shop resides inside? A small wooden “Cannabis Purveyors” sign that hangs outside.

“The sky hasn’t fallen on Talkeetna, the sun is shining, and this is now the most photographed shop in town,” McAneney told the Associated Press.

Via AP:

His store got its approval from the borough on a technicality when the assembly was writing regulations for marijuana businesses in unincorporated areas, like Talkeetna, and inadvertently omitted special land use districts – like the town’s Main Street. Talkeetna has no local governing body, only a nonvoting community council whose sole power is sending recommendations to borough officials roughly 75 miles (120 kilometers) away.

The biggest issue for critics of the small Alaskan town worry over tourists obeying cannabis laws. It’s illegal to smoke weed outside in Talkeetna, and like in other heavy tourist destinations, the question becomes where do visitors consume their weed?

However, Alaska state troopers have stated that they have issued no citations for public consumption of marijuana from April 1 to July 1, the same as it was last year.

To learn more about the divide in this Alaskan tourist town, watch the video above.

WATCH: 3 Grandpas Smoke Marijuana Together For The First Time

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WATCH: 3 Grandpas Smoke Marijuana Together For The First Time

Senior citizens tend to have very strong opinions about the world – about everything, really – and they tend to stick with those opinions through thick and thin, no matter what others tell them, and how much times have changed. The people from Cut Videos like to do social experiments on camera, and their best ones always include the unlikeliest groups of people getting together and smoking copious amounts of weed.

The protagonists of this video are three older men who’ve never ever smoked weed, and who’ve, for most of their lives, never felt curious about the herb. Not even during the 70’s.

The video starts off by introducing its leads, Robert, Melvin and Graham, who each explain their backstory and the reason why they’d never consumed marijuana before. The three of them express a certain fear towards the drug, which is definitely related to how marijuana was viewed a few years ago, and the stigma it used to carry. Melvin explains his catholic upbringing and the fact that drugs were almost never discussed in his house. He also compares marijuana to “needles” and other kinds of drugs that are definitely more serious, but that in his mind, are still grouped together. 

After their initial introductions, the video producers hand them a bong, a joint, and a pipe, which they all look at with trepidation, referring to it as “paraphernalia”. Robert and Melvin stick with the joint and at first don’t seem to feel much, but half an hour in you can tell they’re super high even if they don’t want to admit that they are. Graham was a trooper and decided to try the joint and then to take a hit off of the bong. We believe that he became to a stoner really really fast, proving that it’s never too late to try new things.

Gossip: George Clooney Discusses Twins’ Personalities; Quantasia Sharpton Claims Usher Sex Tape

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Gossip: George Clooney Discusses Twins’ Personalities; Quantasia Sharpton Claims Usher Sex Tape

George and Amal Clooney looked completely stunning on the red carpet at Venice Film Festival and now, George has opened up about becoming a father to twins, and revealed what exactly inspired the names Alexander and Ella.

Speaking to Entertainment Tonight, Clooney explained, “We figured these kids are going to be looked at a lot and watched and [have their] every move sort of judged… So we looked for some sort of normal names. We didn’t have any great inspiration. It wasn’t Alexander the Great and Ella Fitzgerald.” Above all, though, Clooney revealed that it was important that the twins didn’t have “really dumb names.”

Clearly, Clooney is adjusting to fatherhood pretty well, and lovingly discussed what family life is like now that the babies have arrived. He told Entertainment Tonight, “They start out with a personality right off the bat. [Alexander] is a thug already… He’s a moose! Literally, he just sits and he eats.” But as for his daughter, Ella, Clooney revealed, “She’s very elegant, and all eyes. She looks like Amal, thank god.” The actor is obviously very smitten with his wife and children.

Quantasia Sharpton Claims Usher Sex Tape

Quantasia Sharpton says that not ONLY did she and Usher have sex after he was allegedly diagnosed with herpes — but she got their acts on tape.

She also claims there’s security footage of Usher at her hotel.

via TMZ:

Quantasia also said her rep, celeb attorney Lisa Bloom, is attempting to subpoena hotel surveillance video which she claims shows Usher going to her hotel room in 2014.

As we reported … an ex-hotel staffer claims she saw Usher walk into the Days Inn lobby in Atlantic City where she says Quantasia came down and took him up to her room a little after midnight. Usher’s denied this, saying he couldn’t have been there ’cause he was too busy falling in love with his now-wife … plus, Quantasia isn’t his type.

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Washington State Marijuana Has Seen A 70% Price Plunge

Mary Schumacher
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Washington State Marijuana Has Seen A 70% Price Plunge

The jury is still out on all the effects that legalization has had on the market, but one consequence is plain to see: the price of pot hasn’t been this low in years.

Steven Davenport of Pardee Rand Graduate School has tracked the retail prices in Washington since legalization opened for business in 2014. His findings show that the price of cannabis has dropped, every single quarter.

The current average price of a gram in Washington is $7.38, a 67 percent drop in just three years. Even with taxes tacked on, the prices are still lower than they were. And they’re likely to go down even more.

That’s not to say that pot’s no longer a profitable enterprise. In fact, these falling prices are great for the cannabis economy. Just as there are a variety of strains and forms of pot, people’s tastes vary wildly, and there will always be the consumer who loves the pricier, higher end weed and there will always be those who love a good deal on some good herb.

The steady decline in the price of marijuana has far reaching implications for how we handle drug policy all together. The reality unfolding in Washington – and the other legal states – show just how much prohibition raises the price of a drug. In one good example, it took heroin ten years to drop 16% in price, something that took legal marijuana only eight months to achieve.

Prohibition is a dated practice with much proof in its pudding that it accomplishes very little but to drive up drug prices and put otherwise innocent human beings in jail. High prices and the fear of incarceration keep many people out of the black market and sitting much more comfortably with their alcohol, cigarettes and doctor prescribed pills.

With cannabis, we can watch the stripping away of prohibition in real time. So far, even beyond monetarily, the results are good. It gives us an idea of what might happen if prohibition was lifted off all drugs. One thing’s for sure, people would be getting their fixes on the cheap.

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