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A Jack in the Box customer got a beating after attacking restaurant staff for forgetting her curly fries. The dramatic incident - which is believed to have occurred at the Spartanburg, South Carolina location - quickly escalated as the irate customer screamed at the staff for failing to add her three orders of curly fries to her combo meals. In a viral video first shared Sunday, as the woman yelled that she would 'blow this whole motherf****** up' if her order wasn't fixed. She continued to scream at the workers and even started throwing signs at them before the incident...

Western Iowa man killed after potato gun explosion HULL (AP) --- A potato gun stuffed with explosive powder ignited and erupted, killing a Hull man on Friday night. The potato gun apparently ruptured when it was fired by Ryan Meerdink, 21, authorities with the Iowa State Fire Marshal's Office said. Hull authorities discovered Meerdink outside a residence around 8:20 on Friday night. He was then taken to Sioux Center Hospital, where he later died. Authorities believe the explosion was an accident. "It's just been real blurry today," said Betty Meerdink, Ryan's grandmother. Funeral arrangements are pending.

Man In Florida Accused Of Trying To Use Potato As Silencer   POSTED: 11:43 pm EDT June 3, 2006 UPDATED: 11:54 pm EDT June 3, 2006  MIAMI -- A man is accused of putting a potato on the barrel of a gun, believing the spud would act as a silencer and muffle the shooting of a woman, according to Miami-Dade police. Police said Shane Thompson carved a hole in a potato with a spoon, stuck his gun inside and threatened to shoot the mother of his child. Thompson reportedly told her that no one would hear the shot, because...

Two Boys Hospitalized After Potato Gun Accident In NW Minnesota Apr 21, 2003 1:58 pm US/Central (AP) (Erskine, Minn.) Two boys remain hospitalized after a bizarre accident on a farm near Erskine in northwestern Minnesota. Polk County Sheriff Mark LeTexier says the two friends were shooting a screwdriver from a homemade potato gun when the accident happened Friday night. When the potato gun failed to discharge, the boys put it down. But when one of the boys went to pick it up, it went off. The sheriff says the screwdriver struck one of the boys in the chest. It narrowly...

Teen blinded when frog shot from potato gun Associated Press DALLAS - A teenager was blinded after being struck in the face with a frog shot from a so-called "potato gun." Daniel Benjamin Berry, 17, received the injury after he looked down the barrel of the gun's PVC pipe barrel and was hit in the face by the frog. "He is going to be blind in both eyes," Daniel's mother, Lisa Berry, said. Potato guns are made of pipe with one end sealed. A potato is wedged into the open end and a flammable liquid put into a sealed chamber...