By Chris Morran on August 27, 2010 1:15 PM 0 views

When security workers at a Bangkok airport thought they’d spotted a real cat hidden among the plush toys of a passenger’s suitcase, they were right… in a big way. That feline was more than your garden variety house cat; it was a 2-month-old tiger cub.

Airport Security Discovers Real Tiger Cub Among Toy Tiger Dolls In Suitcase – The Consumerist

Would You Like Fries With Your Lion Burger?

By Chris Morran on June 24, 2010 2:15 PM

By now, you’ve probably heard about the small Mesa, Arizona, restaurant that caused an up-roar this week by making a limited-time addition to its menu — Lion Burgers. If you hadn’t heard about it, well now you have. But putting any judgment aside for the moment, one has to ask — Where in the world do you get lion meat from?

Would You Like Fries With Your Lion Burger? – The Consumerist

Yesterday, US Fish & Wildlife Services agents issued a search warrant on Gibson Guitars’ manufacturing plant in Nashville, TN. The Nashville Post writes that they “seized wood, guitars, computers and boxes of files from Gibson Guitar’s Massman Road manufacturing facility.”

At issue is whether Gibson violated the Lacey Act, which prohibits the importation of rosewood from Madagascar because it serves as a home for lemurs; the Nashville Post suggests Gibson may be suspected of routing the wood through Germany first.

http://consumerist.com/2009/11/feds-raid-gibson-guitars.html

Every wonder what happens to the plastic trash in the streets after a big rain? Some of it gets washed out to sea and makes its way to the Pacific Trash Vortex, where it is fed to baby albatrosses by their confused parents.

http://consumerist.com/5385798/your-bottlecaps-found-in-dead-birds-bellies