Hungry diners, Dangerous fries

The Mississippi legislature is considering a bill that would ban restaurants from serving food to very fat people. The proposed law would revoke the license of any restaurant caught repeatedly feeding the obese. Mississippi has a 30 percent obesity rate, the nation’s highest, and the bill’s sponsor,

state Rep. Ted Mayhall, said he was trying to call attention to a neglected public-health crisis. “No one’s doing anything about it,” said Mayhall. “They just keep going to the buffets and eating.”

Two Wyoming junior high school girls who threw fries at each other during lunchtime have been cited by police for “hurling missiles." Laramie Junior High had recently been abuzz with rumors of an imminent food fight, explained Police Chief Bob Deutsch, and the principal had warned students just the day before of serious consequences for food throwing. School officials, therefore, were right to bring in the police. “They saw it as really the planning of a riot,” said Deutsch.

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