Pa. Restaurant Creates 123-Pound Burger
Feb 26, 11:29 PM (ET)
CLEARFIELD, Pa. (AP) - The newest addition to the menu at Denny's Beer Barrel Pub is one whopper of a burger. The Beer Barrel Main Event Charity Burger weighs in at 123 pounds, a meaty monstrosity that its cooks maintain shatters the world record of 105 pounds shared by two restaurants in New Jersey and Thailand.
The sizable sandwich features an 80-pound beef patty, along with a pound each of lettuce, ketchup, relish, mustard and mayonnaise, 160 slices of cheese, up to five onions and 12 tomatoes.
It's topped with a couple of pounds of banana peppers, then sandwiched into a 30-pound bun. Don't forget the garnish of 33 pickles.
There's a pretty hefty price tag, too: $379.
The Clearfield pub unveiled the menu item over the weekend. Restaurant owner Denny Leigey said he plans to submit paperwork on his colossal culinary creation to the Guinness Book of World Records.
It's not the first time that Leigey has waded into the competition for the world's biggest burger. He drew headlines a couple years ago when he unveiled the Beer Barrel Belly Buster, which weighed in at a mere 15 pounds.
Leigey said he didn't know how many calories were stuffed into his latest gigantic entree.
"If you were worried about calories you would be at home eating Kellogg's," he said.
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Iowa Man Discovers He's a Lucky 'Idiot'
Feb 26, 11:29 PM (ET)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Ed O'Neill's bank account just got a lot bigger, thanks to a co-worker who told him some "idiot" hasn't claimed an $800,000 Powerball lottery prize.
O'Neill, 58, who works for the Clinton Chamber of Commerce, bought the ticket for a Jan. 6 Powerball drawing. He told Iowa Lottery staffers he didn't think to check the results until a couple days afterward when a chamber receptionist pointed out an article in the local newspaper.
"She said, 'Read this article about the idiot that hasn't claimed his ticket.' So I read it and noticed where the ticket was bought," O'Neill said. "I thought, 'Gee, I better look at my ticket.' That's when I said, 'I think I won.'"
Then he called his wife, Diane, 58, who thought he was pulling a prank.
O'Neill said his wife told him to "quit horsing around. I'm watching Oprah."
O'Neill countered: "No really, Diane. I won."
Hysteria soon ensued as Diane realized he wasn't joking.
On Monday, the couple cashed in the ticket at the lottery headquarters in Des Moines, but not before meeting with an accountant and planning how to handle the winnings.
"There's a lot of responsibility that comes with that kind of money," O'Neill said.
O'Neill won by matching five white balls in the Powerball game. He also had purchased the Power Play option, multiplying a $200,000 prize by four.
After taxes, the couple will get about $560,000 - much of which will go to pay off their mortgage, pay off their children's mortgages and save for retirement.
There will be a little left for fun, too. O'Neill said he and his wife are planning a trip to Ireland.
They also plan to donate money to Prince of Peace Catholic Parish in Clinton to help pay for construction of another church.
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S.C. Kids Find Find Practice Bomb
Feb 26, 10:55 PM (ET)
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - Two young siblings playing in the woods near their home found a small, inactive military practice bomb. The device was found Saturday and after the children dragged it to their house, authorities identified it as an inactive military round, WCSC-TV reported.
"It did look like a missile to me but I didn't think it was anything to be concerned about because how often do you find a missile in your backyard?" the children's mother, Lisa Wishman, told the television station.
Neighbor Paul Krakeel moved the device to the sidewalk across the street.
"They said it was a practice bomb, a military type device and was more of a flare type bomb," Krakeel said.
North Charleston Police spokesman Spencer Pryor did not immediately return a telephone call Monday from The Associated Press.
A spokeswoman at the Charleston Air Force Base said the base did not respond and she had no information about it.
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Philly Boutique Gets Two Buckets of Pot
Feb 26, 11:29 PM (ET)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Workers at a downtown boutique called police after unexpectedly receiving two buckets of marijuana worth $90,000. Police were called to Fusion on Saturday after employees received the two packages of marijuana totaling about 20 pounds.
"Officers received a call that the manager of the store had received a package from FedEx and when he opened it there was a five-gallon bucket inside," said Capt. Chris Werner. Inside that bucket was 10 pounds of marijuana. The second package arrived about an hour later, this one from a different delivery service but with similar contents.
Both packages were from California and addressed to the store, but there were no names on the address labels.
"It was obviously intended for someone in the Philadelphia area," Werner said. "We are trying to find out who."
