Police are looking for a thief or thieves who took off with four commercial coffee machines valued at $29,000 from a private home in the Isle of Capri. The resident planned to show off his Barista machines to friends in preparation for opening a new coffee vending business. While a robbery might seem run-of-the-course, it might not be so easy to pawn such large machines in such a small area. Good luck, robbers! Read the story at the St. Petersburg Times.

I reported earlier this month about some Orangeburg, South Carolina, police who might have been affected by coffee cleaner as they sipped their morning brew. But, it turns out that nothing was found to justify this claim. The S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) completed tests on coffee samples taken from the Orangeburg IHOP restaurant where four Orangeburg County Sheriff’s deputies became ill earlier this month. The tests results have been forwarded to the State Law Enforcement Division. This is turning into a real mystery! Read more at the Times and Democrat.

Starbucks is stranger than any truth, but they’ve really stretched the limits this time. Chinese authorities are training their official censorious guns on a Starbucks retail shop nestled subversively in Beijing’s famed Forbidden City compound. It seems that this Starbucks is an insult to down-home, homegrown, true-red Chinese culture. According to Tom Plate, “In truth, any Starbucks is a kind of unintended insult to any local culture — everywhere, period. Starbucks infest the planet like corporate locusts that quietly but steadily eat away at local cultural foliage.” Read his opinion and facts about the Chinese connection at Asia Media.

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Ok professionals - clean those coffee pots or you might be a subject for a lawsuit. The latest incident involved four Orangeburg County, South Carolina police officers who became ill while at a local IHOP. Two were nauseated and one felt faint and developed a rash. Adam Myrick with the Department of Health and Environmental Control says health officials examined the coffee pot and are looking at a brand of cleaner used at the restaurant. Read the rest of the story.

More violent coffee: A thief used a cup of coffee Saturday to rob a West Side convenience store in Youngstown, Ohio. The cashier at Valley View Gas, 1822 Mahoning Ave., told police a man walked in about 7 a.m. and made himself a cup of coffee. When he went to the counter, he threw the hot coffee on the cashier, reached over the counter and grabbed an undisclosed amount of cash from the register and fled out the front door. Another employee in a back room at the time heard the commotion and ran outside to see the robber flee in a red car.

Hey! Dr. Garret Rock of Louisville, Colorado, Chiropractic Clinic understands senior health and the issues that surround it, and his knowledge goes FAR beyond the back and neck. In fact, it extends as far as free coffee on Thursday mornings from 8-10 am. But, that’s not all - you also get a free consultation. How can you beat that treat?

State and local police responded to a rollover accident Tuesday morning after the driver of a 2005 Chevrolet van spilled his coffee and lost control of the car in New Hampshire. Do you not believe me? Then read the story.

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