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A creepy individual dressed in a gingerbread man costume wreaked havoc on a Virginia neighborhood this week by attempting to force his way into multiple homes. CBS affiliate WUSA9 reports the incidents took place Wednesday night in Arlington. As seen in the video below, someone wearing an inflatable gingerbread costume was captured on a doorbell camera trying to enter the witnesses' residence. "My wife said, 'Hey listen, there's this guy, he didn't ring the doorbell, he's just standing there, and he's in this gingerbread man costume,'" one man told the news station. Unsure of how to handle the situation, the...

Pret a Manger introduced female character Annie alongside a male snack Godfrey but decided to rebrand them as gingerbread biscuits. Lovers of the snack have blasted the sandwich chain and labelled it PC madness. Annoyed customers took to Twitter to vent their frustrations with many asking why they just couldn’t be called a gingerbread man and gingerbread woman. One posted: “The world is going mad it’s a biscuit. “We will end up calling them ‘the gingerbread treat shaped like a person that you can have one of once a week as they are too high in calories for a daily...

Giant Gingerbread Man Is One Tough Cookie Wed Dec 10,10:08 AM ET VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - Doormen at a luxury hotel have an unusual rival for guests' attention this month: a giant gingerbread man cookie that chef Othmar Steinhart hopes will earn immortality as a Guinness world record. Taking Christmas cheer to new heights, Steinhart, a chef at the Hyatt Regency, baked the 13-foot, 9-inch sweet and spicy cookie using 220 pounds of flour, cupfuls of ginger spice, 44 pounds of sugar, and 5.3 gallons of molasses and butter. The downtown Vancouver hotel is awaiting confirmation from Guinness World...