Taco Bell is saying it believes a photo posted to its Facebook page of an apparent employee licking a stack of taco shells is a prank but it is "conducting a full-scale investigation."
A photo of a man in uniform in a Taco Bell restaurant is seen licking a stack of about 30 taco shells.
A spokesman for Taco Bell, owned by Yum! Brands, said the company is investigating in which store the photo was taken and will issue a full statement.
Here's more about the Taco Bell photo and seven other examples of fast food mayhem that were posted to the Internet.
NCRI - At least seven people have died and dozens more blinded or sent to hospital after drinking poisoned alcohol in southern Iranian city of Rafsanjan.
Another 300 more people were said to have suffered from the toxic effects of the illegally distilled brew on Sunday that has shocked clerics, authorities, and military officials in the city of 300,000 people.
Last week local media reported that another 10 people had died and 15 others went into comas from the same poisoned batch of alcohol - however victim's families believed the number of deaths so far was much higher.
The governor of Rafsanjan - a relatively wealthy region at the center of Iran’s pistachio cultivation - said the incidents may be part of a plot to influence the June 14 presidential election by lowering voter turnout to undermine the regime.
Friday prayer leader Abbas Ramezani-Pour said: "Some of the city's youths have been poisoned by drinking ergogenic drinks.
"Some people are trying to question the revolutionary and religious face of Rafsanjan by spreading rumors. Similar incidents have caused up to 20 deaths in other cities but nobody has said anything."
Ali Rassoulian, head of martyr foundation and veteran affairs in Rafsanjan, described the poisoning as 'the enemy’s new conspiracy to ruin Rafsanjan’s religious face'.
He said: "All agencies and institutions of Rafsanjan will stand up to thwart these enemy conspiracies."
And governor Akbar Pourmohammadi told the state-run Fars news agency: "We are creating a political epic in this election, but some people are trying to create an atmosphere in which they can achieve their mischievous goals."
Hamid Najmedin of the Rafsanjan Medical Science University also told a news Web site: "All of the victims were young. Those who died were men under the age of 27."
Alcohol consumption is illegal under Iran's Islamic laws and punishable by lashing or even death, yet the mortality rate due to its consumption has risen by 23 per cent since last year, according to regime officials.
A group of Israeli female soldiers have been disciplined after posting
pictures of themselves in their underwear on Facebook in the latest social media
embarrassment to hit Israel's armed forces.
Israeli female soldiers have
been disciplined after posting pictures of themselves in their underwear on
Facebook in the latest social media embarrassment to hit Israel's armed forces.
One picture showed four women, who are new recruits, dropping their army
trousers to reveal the thongs they were wearing underneath. One woman in the
photo was dressed only in her bra and pants.
Another image showed five scantily clad recruits wearing only helmets and a
small covering of combat equipment.
Walla, an Israeli news website, showed the pictures with faces and exposed
areas partly blurred.
The pictures received multiple "likes" on Facebook, along with numerous
enthusiastic comments.
The enthusiasm was not shared by Israel's commanding military
brass, who announced that the women had been given stern "educational lectures"
about their future conduct.
BUENOS AIRES – The
chief of the Argentine Federal Police’s dangerous drugs division was shot
outside his house and investigators do not consider the incident a random crime,
Security Secretary Sergio Berni said Sunday.
Nestor Roncaglia was shot in
the chest and hand Saturday night in Olivos, a northern suburb of Buenos Aires,
Berni said.
“We are not ruling out any theory because it would be
irresponsible to say what happened, but we are convinced it was not a common
assault,” Berni told the press.
Roncaglia is out of danger but remains in
the intensive care unit of a Buenos Aires hospital.
The drug enforcement
chief was shot after overseeing several raids, police spokesmen told the
official Telam news agency.
Roncaglia spotted two suspicious men outside
his house and ordered them to halt.
The suspects opened fire on
Roncaglia, who returned fire with his service weapon.
Investigators are
trying to determine whether a man taken to a hospital in the Buenos Aires suburb
of Pilar with a gunshot wound was one of the criminals involved in the attack on
Roncaglia, officials said.
GUATEMALA CITY –
Drug enforcement agents seized 1,048 kilos of cocaine hidden in a van in Puerto
Quetzal, a city in the southern Guatemalan province of Escuintla, but no arrests
were made, a police spokesman said Sunday.
The cocaine arrived in the
Central American country from Guayaquil, Ecuador, and was to be delivered to a
Guatemalan company, a National Civilian Police, or PNC, spokesman
said.
The drugs were found Saturday packed in plastic bags hidden in a
shipment of tile.
“The shipment came from the Ecuadorian city of
Guayaquil and was destined for a transportation company in Mixco (west of the
capital) that we are investigating,” the PNC spokesman said.
The cocaine
was discovered during a routine inspection by drug enforcement agents in Puerto
Quetzal, Guatemala’s main Pacific port.
BUENOS AIRES – The
chief of the Argentine Federal Police’s dangerous drugs division was shot
outside his house and investigators do not consider the incident a random crime,
Security Secretary Sergio Berni said Sunday.
GUATEMALA CITY –
Drug enforcement agents seized 1,048 kilos of cocaine hidden in a van in Puerto
Quetzal, a city in the southern Guatemalan province of Escuintla, but no arrests
were made, a police spokesman said Sunday.