Bizarre News - August 26, 2015

Greetings fellow Bizarros:

There has been a lot of racial tension in the country lately, what with cops shooting minorities, minorities shooting cops, psychotics shooting minorities, minorities shooting other minorities, and rednecks harassing illegal aliens. People have understandably been getting a little touchy.

But where does racism end and hypersensitivity begin? Let's look at a recent case from Denver, Colorado.

A restaurant is defending its image after a customer received a racially offensive message on her receipt.

"I grabbed the check and I'm looking at it, and that's the first thing that caught my eye, and I was like 'whoa!'" Beatriz Castorena said.

As she looked over her receipt, she noticed that below her food were the words, "you fucking Mexicans."

The woman and her husband flagged down their waitress to show her what was written on their receipt.

"She grabbed it and she seen it and she was like, 'oh how funny,'" Castorena recalled. "I was like, 'that's not funny.'"

The couple paid their bill and left the restaurant. The next day Castorena said she returned to the restaurant for an explanation and an apology.

The owner of the restaurant said he and his staff apologized for what happened and refunded their meal.

Sure, it seems racist, but the fact is that Castorena and her husband were in a Mexican restaurant, owned by a Mexican-American and staffed by Mexican-Americans. The waitress, the cooks, the dish-washers; all Mexican.

So the question: is it racist?

Bizarrely,
Lewis

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*-- Woman chugs entire bottle of cognac at airport security --*
BEIJING - Police in Beijing said a woman who wasn't allowed to bring a bottle of expensive cognac on a plane chugged the entire bottle at airport security. Police said a woman identified by the surname Zhao had the bottle of Remy Martin XO Excellence cognac in her carry-on luggage Friday at Beijing Capital International Airport when security workers told her the item would not be allowed on the plane. Zhao apparently decided to drink the entire bottle on the spot rather than allow it to go to waste, and police officers said they found her shouting and screaming on the floor at her boarding gate, unable to stand on her own. The woman was taken in a wheelchair to a room where she could rest after the captain of her Wenzhou-bound flight decided not to allow her on board, police said. Zhao, who police said had purchased the liquor for about $200 during a trip to the United States and was at the airport to transfer to a domestic flight, woke up a few hours later and thanked police for taking care of her. They said she was not detained or charged with any crime.


*-- Boy, 12, trips and puts hole in $1.5 million painting --*
TAIPEI, Taiwan - Security cameras at a Taiwan art exhibition captured the moment a 12-year-old tripped and punched a hole in a $1.5 million Paolo Porpora oil painting. Organizers of the "Face of Leonardo: Images of a Genius" exhibition at Huashan 1914 Creative Park in Taipei released footage of the beverage-holding boy tripping next to the still life and putting his fist through the bottom of the canvas before freezing in apparent horror at his mistake. Sun Chi-hsuan, the exhibit's organizer, said the boy's family will not be charged for restoration costs and the $1.5 million painting, titled "Flowers," was insured. "The painting's bottom right is damaged," Sun told reporters. "The boy's hand made contact with the artwork and left a hole the size of a fist." A post on the exhibition's Facebook page thanked restoration specialist Tsai Shun-jen for helping to quickly restore the 350-year-old painting. The post included photos of the experts working to repair the canvas.


*-- READER COMMENTS --*
Lewis, For what it's worth ... I read that the '1 year old' is in fact THREE years old, and that the 'young child' was playing hide-and-seek when he or she went into the safe. As always enjoy 'Bizarre News'. -Tom
[Well, the kid lost.]

Lewis; About the child left in the hotel safe while it's parents went sightseeing, they are extremely lucky that the infant survived its ordeal. Safes are not designed to hold live breathing infants. There is no air circulation within a safe. Maybe this couple placed their baby in the safe then realized their mistake but forgot the combination and called maintenance because, had they left for sightseeing and been gone for any more than about 10 minutes, they would have returned to find that their child had died. -Wes

Hello Lewis, The news of this seems contradictory. One version said the child was 3 years old but another source says that the safe was 1 x 1 x 1 feet.
[Maybe it was a midget 3-year-old.]

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