Some foods give eaters more than relief from hunger and nutrients for health.
When an American pilot ate so-called magic mushrooms for the first time to experience its psychedelic effects, it led to an emergency landing of a passenger plane last week.
Joseph Emerson, 44, was off-duty and hitching a ride aboard an Alaska Airlines flight from Everett, Washington, to San Francisco, California, when the mushroom's hallucinogenic effects began to hit him.
While sitting in the cockpit jump seat behind the pilots, he tried to pull two red handles that would have activated the plane's emergency fire suppression system and cut off fuel to its engines, Agence France-Presse reported.
Fortunately, the alert pilots thwarted him, and the crew restrained him until the plane could make an emergency landing in Portland, Oregon. Police picked him up, and he was charged with the attempted murder of the crew and the plane's 80 passengers.
In Atlanta, Georgia, a woman was recently invited for a drink by a man at Fontaine's Oyster House.
The woman with the TikTok handle EquanaB posted her experience with her date on the video-sharing platform, complaining that the man excused himself to go to the bathroom but never returned.
Her date was apparently disgusted by her successive orders of oysters and how she slurped 48 of the shellfish. EquanaB also posted screenshots of her date's text message telling her their meeting was only for drinks. He offered to pay for their cocktails through his e-wallet.
Lasagna may not be as exotic as magic mushrooms or oysters, but the baked layers of pasta with sauce, cheese, meat and vegetables were too irresistible to a food thief.
While homeowner Helena Richardson of Barkhamsted, Connecticut, was out early this month, her home security camera caught an intruder entering through the screen door and proceeding to the kitchen.
The burglar quietly opened the refrigerator and its freezer drawer, taking out a frozen lasagna by the mouth and exiting through the kitchen window.
Richardson got a notification from the CCTV and was shocked to see the uninvited bear getting takeout from her fridge.
