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Would you sit all night in a parking lot to get free combo meals?

That's what over 100 people did in Phoenix yesterday. They stayed overnight in the parking lot of Chick-fil-A to get 52 free combo meals. The doors opened at 6:30am and the customers (who brought along tents and sleeping bags and TVs so they'd be at home in the parking lot) walked through the door for their free meals. Reminds me of that Seinfeld episode where Jerry dated the woman who worked in the soup kitchen and he was amazed that people would eat soup all day, even in the morning.

Wait a second, 100 people got 52 free combo meals each? Is that what the article says? Yikes.

[via The Obscure Store & Reading Room]

If there's a moral from this story, it's "always check the label."

Three restaurant customers in South Carolina were injured - one was in intensive care - when the sugar on the rim of their martini glasses was found to be not sugar at all but industrial fryer cleaner. Yikes. It seems that one of the new bartenders didn't know where the sugar was, so he asked a dishwasher that didn't speak much English. Not sure why the bartender didn't check the label before using the cleaner.

Another question: the martinis where dipped in sugar? Do they mean margaritas?

Update: Oh, that's right, margaritas have salt around the rim, not sugar. Sorry 'bout that. Thanks to the commenters who pointed that out.

[via The Obscure Store and Reading Room]