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A birthday party for an employee at Gravi- ty Diagnostics in Kentucky cost the company $450,000, but it wasn’t an expensive cake and deco- rations that ran up the bill,
Man Wins Lawsuit After Surprise Party Snafu
his car to eat his lunch. The next day, the birthday boy was called into a meeting and scolded for his reaction and was later fired “because of the events of the previ- ous week,” according to a lawsuit he filed against the company.
Wing Nut
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WLKY-TV reported.
The employee, whose
On March 29, an un- identified man scaled the barbed-wire fence at Mid- way Airport in Chicago and approached a private jet that had been cleared for takeoff, CBS News reported. As he tried to stall the plane, he re- moved his shirt, shoes, jacket and pants. Police said he ap- peared to be intoxicated. He jumped up on a wing of the plane; the pilot, in contact with air traffic control, said, “He’s right here at the front of the jet. He’s trying to get in. Our door is open here.”
On April 11, ITV News reported that a dead body had been left in a side room at the Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital in Grimsby, England, for four days. Once discovered, the body was removed to the hospital’s mortuary, and the deceased’s family was notified.
birthday fell on Aug. 7, asked the office manager days before to forgo the usual celebration because such affairs trigger his anx- iety disorder, and “being the center of attention” would cause him to suffer a panic attack. However, the man- ager went ahead with plan- ning a lunchtime to-do in the break room, which caused the guest of honor to flee to
In the lawsuit, the for- mer employee claimed the company didn’t accommo- date his anxiety disorder and caused him to suffer a “loss of income and benefits and emotional distress and mental anxiety.” The Ken- ton County jury agreed and awarded him the six-figure amount.
Officials, who chose not to reveal the identity of the body, have launched an in- vestigation and offered their apologies to the patient’s family.
In ‘Plane’ Sight
ILLUSTRATION BY MARK GALACGAC
In other Weird happen- ings:
Chicago police apprehend- ed him and took him to a local hospital for evaluation. The plane eventually took off.
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