Infamous lion burgers merely one mind-blowing meat from Chicagoland business
Since sifting through dull newspapers, hyperbolic blogs, and overflowing RSS feeds for meaningful news can be an arduous process, News Net catches and compiles both the amusing and the significant reports that were overlooked throughout the week. Here are some things to think about as the weekend begins. (To send a tip for News Net, e-mail newsnetchicago@theonion.com)
• To celebrate the World Cup, an Arizona restaurant served an extra-special burger made from lion meat, sparking enough controversy to elicit about 150 angry e-mails. Turns out, that meat was purchased from a Chicagoland business, Czimer's Game and Sea Foods in Homer Glen, and its owner went to jail in 2003 for selling tiger and leopard meat that was disguised as (apparently) legal lion meat. A quick scan of Czimer's website shows the business sells quite a few "You can legally eat that?" types of meat, like kangaroo (in Slim Jim varieties), rattlesnake, snapping turtles, and camel. America may not win the World Cup, but this delicious alligator tenderloin proves we are No. 1 in killing things.
• A semi-truck rollover on the Edens Expressway on early Tuesday caused 1,200 cases of Miller Lite to be spilled across the highway. Within seconds, an impromptu commercial was filmed, featuring Burt Reynolds and four high-fiving regular guys "swimming in a sea of frosty Miller Lite."
• The Lake Forest house of Vince Vaughn's mother Sharon Vaughn is on the market, with the five-bedroom, six-bathroom mansion priced at $2.395 million. A small price to pay to be able to say, "I live in the house that Fred Claus built."
• An 18-month-old boy survived a fall from the third floor of a South Austin building, merely crying after landing on a wet patch of grass. Doctors kept the boy in the hospital overnight, but he broke no bones and suffered no major injuries, which leads us to believe that this little snot-nosed dude is the living incarnation of Bruce Willis' character from Unbreakable.
• The "huh?" Internet clip of the week: Former Chicagoans OK Go, former Chicagoan Ira Glass, and Muppetland's Animal and Sgt. Floyd Pepper star in a pretty off-the-wall video. There's also a silent, lurking-in-the-background cameo from Zach Galifianakis:
