Impersonating a Denny's manager

"80% of success is just showing up." Woody Allen

We're all actors in life. This guy just took it a little too far. James Summers, 52, wore a suit and tie and carried a briefcase to his local Denny's Restaurant in Madison, Wisconsin. He told the staff he had been sent by "corporate" and was immediately taking over as the new General Manager. The whole ploy was all so he could fix himself a cheeseburger and french fries without paying...

Madison's police said the real restaurant manager, Tracy Brant phoned her supervisors. When she discovered Summers was not an employee she asked him to leave.

Unmoved, Summers shot back that he had worked for Denny’s for 30 years, and Brant wasn’t going to tell him he couldn’t work there. When Brant asked him how he planned to pay for his $10 meal, he told her he wouldn’t – and couldn’t pay.

In addition to the fraud charges, Summers was also charged with felony possession of an electric weapon, (stun gun) as well as disorderly conduct and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Fake Denny’s Manager Arrested After Cooking Own Meal

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Lovin it

"If I'd known I was going to live this long, I'd have taken a lot better care of myself."
-Mickey Mantle, football player Bobby Layne, and others


57 year old Don Gorske, no relation to former Erie County Executive Dennis Gorski, will eat his 25,000th Big Mac on Tuesday. What I find funny, is how thin he looks. Doctors don't have a clue...

FOND DU LAC, Wis. (AP) - Don Gorske plans to eat his 25,000th Big Mac on the 39th anniversary of eating his first.

A special ceremony is planned at McDonald's in Fond du Lac Tuesday afternoon.

The 57-year-old Fond du Lac man says he ate nine on May 17, 1972 and has only missed nine days since then, for various reasons. He usually eats two a day.

He has kept most of the boxes or receipts or has made specific notes in calendars that he's kept.

Gorske says he probably has an obsessive-compulsive disorder but he doesn't consider it a problem.

He jokes that 25,000 is a milestone because people didn't think he'd live this long. But he says he recently saw a doctor who said he was in good health and his cholesterol is low.

This story reminded me of a promotion McDonalds had in conjunction with the 1984 summer Olympics. Every time you purchased food that summer, you were given a card with a specific event. If an athlete or team from the USA won a gold medal, you won a free Big Mac. If they won a silver medal, you got an order of fries. Bronze-a large Coke.

Well, the Soviets and the Eastern Bloc countries all pulled out as a payback to the US, for pulling out four years earlier in Moscow. So pretty much, any kid (or adult) could eat every day for free that summer at McDonald's, assuming the US athletes could beat out traditional Olympic heavyweights like Trinidad & Tobago. I just remember going to McDonald's like ten days in a row to the point where I didn't even want it anymore. They had a big board in the lobby with each event and the events' winners listed. Hey, the USA beat Liechtenstein in Water Polo! Great. I'd like another Big Mac, please. Puke...

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Exotic pet guy

Here's a story from Milwaukee about a man bitten by one of the 36 snakes he had living in his house...

Monday night, St. Francis police seized dozens of reptiles from the home in St. Francis this 22-year-old shares with his grandparents. He had a total of 36 snakes in various containers in his bedroom. Sixteen of them were venomous.

It's hard to believe. This guy doesn't look anything like the type of guy you would expect to have 36 snakes crawling around his grandparents' home...

Snake Bite Victim: "I Love Those Snakes." | Newsradio 620 - Milwaukee, Wisconsin News, Talk, S

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Wisconsin Cheeseheads

Wisconsin is turning into Cairo, Egypt overnight as the public employee unions battle the newly elected Governor Scott Walker. I wonder how long it is before this scene gets played out in Albany. I don't know who is right or wrong in this debate. I expect the truth lies somewhere in the middle. Here are my two favorite signs from the protests.


Here is a clip on the story from the Associated Press: From what I hear, Ritchie Cunningham and Carmine Ragusa support the governor's bill, while Laverne Defazio and Shirley Feeney think it will have a devastating effect on the Shotz Brewery...


Tommy used to work on the docks. Union's been on strike. He's down on his luck. It's tough. So tough...

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Didn't Elvis do this once?

A man in Madison, Wisconsin was so upset that Sarah Palin's daughter was on Dancing with the Stars, he shot a gun at the TV.

According to the criminal complaint, Steven Cowan's wife says "Steven was upset that a political figure's daughter was dancing on [Dancing with the Stars] when Steven did not think that she was a good dancer." Cowan's wife says he went upstairs and got his gun.

I can only imagine how upset he would get if she was on American Idol. The shocking part of the story is that his middle name isn't even Wayne. Apparantly, he's a Town Supervisor...

Neighbors of Cowan tell 27 News in Madison that everyone knows who he is in the Town of Vermont, where he is a Town Supervisor, and many of the neighbors we talked to had known him for at least 20 years. One neighbor told 27 News he considers Cowan a good friend and never saw any signs of anything unusual in all his years of knowing him.

Hey, the guy went off the deep end. I'd say he took the show a little bit too seriously but Reality TV will do that to you. We found some exclusive footage of the incident...

Man Shoots TV Over Dancing with the Stars! | WKBW News 7: News, Sports, Weather | Buffalo, NY.

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