Fast food rumors

[Floater]

I fail to see how that could be a problem for someone eating a hamburger there.

[damian]

Originally Posted by snopes

I heard that when Col Sanders was alive, even after he had sold KFC, that he would visit KFC restaurants at random and if he was
displeased with the gravy, he would order the restaurant closed. Is this
true?

He would often demand KFC restaurants be closed. But then again, in his later years, he would also be seen standing at the intersection yelling obscenities at clouds.

[boogers]

No, you took him for our local activist Schrader who protests shoes, circumcision,meat, war, the tatoo on your face, and if he screams at the clouds because their politics where wrong, it's a sort of habit amongst street activists.

Most of whom are unrelated to Colonel Sanders.

[snopes]

Comment: I am a law student in Texas, one of my professors told me a story
that I can't verify as being true or not. The professor said that
whenever there is an execution in the State of Texas, the Dairy Queen
gives out free food. The reason being that back when Texas used the
electric chair it would knock out the power to much of the city, including
the DQ. So the story goes that in order to avoid food spoiling the DQ
would give it away for free on execution days and that the tradition
continues on despite the fact that the electric chair isn't used anymore.
I would like to know if this is true or not (without driving to
Brownsville).

[RichardM]

1. You don't have to drive to Brownsville to find a Dairy Queen. There is even one with easy driving distance of SMU (which has a big law school just to let non-Texans know).
2. Find your nearest DQ using Google and wait until the next execution. Sadly, you won't have to wait too long.

[Beachlife!]

If using the electric chair caused a blackout, wouldn't the chair lose power too?

[Gayle]

Is the Uvalde Mini-Mart, Subway Shop, and Law School back open? ‘Cause Texas executions are in Huntsville which is about 400 miles from Brownsville. Hope Sparky here isn’t planning on being a criminal lawyer.

“The DA’s on the phone; where’s your lawyer, son?”
“’parently, about half way to Mexico, sir.”

[RichardM]

Originally Posted by Beachlife!

If using the electric chair caused a blackout, wouldn't the chair lose power too?

I don't think I have to call on my education and years of experience as an electrical engineer to answer this, but I do need to research at great length how to get Scotch and water out of my keyboard.

By the way, Thomas Edison tried to show how dagerous alternating current (AC) electricity was by electrocuting an elephant. Edison held the patents on direct current (DC) power equipment while Westinghouse and Tesla had the patents on AC equipment.

Also, the electrical chair was invented by a dentist who had seen someone die an apparently peaceful and quick death while accidently coming in contact with some trolley wires.

[Hero_Mike]

A fair number of prisons which used the electric chair had their own diesel generator for it, as some public utilities did not want to be associated with the practice of state-mandated killing. The "execution house" was in a separate building for that very reason.