OFFBEAT NEWS:

People Wait Outside For 10 Days To Try “World’s Best” Ramen

What’s the longest you’ve ever waited for a table at a restaurant? In Taipei, Taiwan there were some people willing to wait outside for 10 days in order to try Ichiran Ramen. That’s 240-hours. Outside.

What’s more, the long line probably didn’t surprise the restaurant staff. Back in 2013, the wait outside the new Hong Kong location reached 192 hours, or eight days.

So what’s all the fuss about this particular ramen restaurant? According to Forbes, it’s the best ramen in the entire world.

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Denmark Creates Beer Out Of Urine

It turns out you could be flushing perfectly good beer ingredients down the toilet. The Danish Agriculture and Food Council collectedmore than 14-thousand gallons of urine from the Roskilde Festival back in 2015 and now, they’ve brewed beer with it.

Last year, the wee was used as fertilizer, yielding 11-tons of malting barley, which was then used to produce the beer.

In all, about 60-thousand bottles of the beer were brewed, but it’s unclear if any will make it’s way to the US.

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Deep Fried Bubble Gum Is A Thing Now

What’s more American than a State Fair? Fried foods. At the 2017 State Fair in East Rutherford, New Jersey, vendors are getting creative with their fried fair. One option for attendees? Deep fried bubble gum.

Aside from gum, Crazy Fried Things also offers deep fried oatmeal creme pies, peanut butter and jelly sandwich, pickles and Twinkies.

The 2017 State Fair is open now through July 9th outside MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey.

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STUPID CRIMINALS:

Suspect crashes street sweeper after taking it for a joyride:

Police in Patterson, New Jersey are on the hunt for the man who decided to steal a street sweeper and take it for a joyride. Probably not surprisingly, the unidentified man decided to take the vehicle for a drive at 2 am and made it about a half mile before crashing into into several cars and running away. No one was injured, but several parked cars were damaged.

Woman Is Busted For Shoplifting 18 Fidget Spinners From Walmart:

I don’t think anyone needs to stock up on fidget spinners . . . especially since they’re ALL going to be collecting dust pretty soon.  But no one told this woman.

A 23-year-old woman in Bellevue, Nebraska was busted last week for shoplifting 18 FIDGET SPINNERS from a Walmart.  The employees saw her shoving them in her purse, and they stopped her as she was trying to leave.

According to a police spokeswoman, the woman’s plan was to resell them for more than they were worth.  Is there a fidget spinner black market?  Apparently she thought so, even though they’re super cheap to buy legally and there’s NO shortage.