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Taco Bell Employees Win ‘Taking Out the Trash’ Award

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CBS Pittsburg reports, “Police: Taco Bell Employees Fatally Shoot Armed Robber“.  Who says you “don’t bring a burrito to a gunfight?”

Police say three employees of a Cleveland Taco Bell opened fire on two armed robbers, killing one.

Police have said two masked robbers entered the restaurant early Wednesday and ordered three employees to lie on the floor. Police say three other employees pulled out handguns and opened fire, shooting one of the suspects six times. The other suspect ran off.

Investigators say ‘the armed robber’ Jackson was found with a loaded gun in his hand. He was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead.

***Hmmmm? Half of the Taco Bell crew was armed? Hmmmm? Just sayin’.

Hurricane ‘Irma’ Advice For Floridians

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From the Miami Herald, “Irma becomes strongest Atlantic hurricane outside Gulf and Caribbean ever recorded“.

Irma spun into a monster storm Tuesday morning with sustained winds topping 180 mph, becoming the strongest Atlantic hurricane ever recorded outside the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean, National Hurricane Center forecasters said in their 11 a.m. advisory.

Do to the bigly strength of the winds, the Weather Service offers this additional warning.

**Almost FakeNews Alert

Little Kim Jong Tests the ‘Big Un’

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As reported in The New York Times, “North Korea Says It Tested a Hydrogen Bomb Meant for Missiles“. The ‘kimchi‘ keeps getting deeper.

North Korea carried out its sixth and most powerful nuclear test in an extraordinary show of defiance against President Trump on Sunday, saying it had detonated a hydrogen bomb that could be mounted on an intercontinental ballistic missile.

The test, which the North called a “complete success,” was the first to clearly surpass the destructive power of the bombs dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II.

A gallery of Kim Jong playing with his little ‘un’.

 

Cricketeria, Too

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From FastCompany, “This Giant Automated Cricket Farm Is Designed To Make Bugs A Mainstream Source Of Protein“.  Eeewww!!!

Inside a new building in an industrial neighborhood near the airport in Austin, a robot is feeding millions of crickets, 24 hours a day. The facility–a 25,000-square-foot R&D center that opened this month for the startup Aspire–uses technology that the company plans to soon duplicate in a farm 10 times as large. It’s a scale that the startup thinks is necessary to begin to make cricket food mainstream in the United States.

 

Eating bugs–or at least products made from bugs–has been growing in popularity. For a few years, it’s been possible to buy cricket snacks such as protein bars made with cricket flour or cricket chips (like Chirps) at some grocery stores or online. But for insect food to fulfill its sustainable promise of supplying protein without the massive carbon and land footprint of beef, it will have to be much more widely available, and more affordable. Aspire believes its farms can make that possible.

Here’s the actual ‘Automated Cricket Factory’. And I thought all you needed to do to ‘farm’ crickets was drop some crumbs on the floor and turn off the lights.