Ohio's supreme court is divided over whether "boneless wings" should be allowed to contain bones.
Welcome to another entry in our column, The Week's Weirdest World News. The world, you might have noticed, is a very strange place — so every seven days, we'll be rounding up the most bizarre things that have happened across the globe, purely for your enjoyment.
From a paltry apology for a global tech meltdown to scientists discovering cocaine in sharks, these stories are sure to inspire wonder — or, at the very least, befuddlement — at the weird ol' world around us.
CrowdStrike apologizes for major tech outage with $10 gift cards
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After a faulty software update by CrowdStrike triggered a global tech meltdown last week, the cybersecurity firm was looking to make things right — with $10 gift cards.
This week, the company offered $10 Uber Eats vouchers to partners to say sorry for the July 19 outage, according to several people who said they had received one.
In an email allegedly sent to CrowdStrike partners, the firm said it sent its "heartfelt thanks and apologies for the inconvenience" that disrupted banks, airports, hospitals and other major business around the world.
"To express our gratitude, your next cup of coffee or late night snack is on us!" the email read.
Norwegian soccer game disrupted by fish cakes
@tv2sport 🚨Kampen mellom Rosenborg og Lillestrøm er avlyst etter gjentatte VAR-protester. Banen ble pepret med fiskekaker 🐟 #protest #eliteserien #var #rosenborg #lillestrøm ♬ original sound - TV 2 Sport
A professional soccer match in Norway was suspended after fans threw fish cakes onto the pitch to protest the use of a Video Assistant Referee (VAR).
The Sunday game between Rosenborg BK and Lillestrom was canceled just two minutes in, when the referee sent the players back to the locker room.
The teams returned to the pitch, but the match was canceled for good after just over half an hour, as fans from both sides continued to bombard the field with fish cakes — and added tennis balls and smoke bombs into the mix.
VAR is a controversial subject in the Norwegian professional league. Fans and a number of supporter unions have complained that it results in referees taking too long to make decisions, and disrupts the game.
Ohio supreme court rules 'boneless' chicken wings can have bones
Ohio's highest court ruled Thursday that chicken wings advertised as "boneless" can actually contain bones, rejecting a lawsuit brought by a restaurant customer who got a bone stuck in his throat.
Michael Berkheimer developed a fever days after eating boneless wings at a wings joint in Hamilton, Ohio. When he visited the emergency room, a doctor discovered "a long, thin bone that had torn [Berkheimer's] esophagus and caused an infection."
In his lawsuit against Wings on Brookwood, Berkheimer accused the restaurant of negligence and argued that it should have warned him that the "boneless wings" could have bones in.
The Ohio supreme court ruled 4-3 in favor of the restaurant, with Justice Joseph T. Deters writing: "A diner reading 'boneless wings' on a menu would no more believe that the restaurant was warranting the absence of bones in the items than believe that the items were made from chicken wings, just as a person eating 'chicken fingers' would know that he had not been served fingers."
The court's dissenting justices, however, described Deters's reasoning as "utter jabberwocky."
"The question must be asked: does anyone really believe that the parents in this country who feed their young children boneless wings or chicken tenders or chicken nuggets or chicken fingers expect bones to be in the chicken?" Justice Michael P. Donnelly wrote. "Of course they don't. When they read the word 'boneless,' they think that it means 'without bones,' as do all sensible people."
Scientists find cocaine in Brazilian sharks
Sharks off the coast of Brazil have tested positive for high levels of cocaine, according to new research by marine biologists.
All 13 of the Brazilian sharpnose sharks tested by scientists were found to have cocaine in their muscles and livers. Concentrations of the drug were as much as 100 times higher than those previously discovered in other marine animals.
The new study, titled "Cocaine Shark," is the first to confirm the presence of cocaine in wild sharks.
Theories for the phenomenon include cocaine being excreted through drug users' urine and feces, or seeping into the water via illegal drug manufacturing labs.
Enrico Mendes Saggioro, the study's coordinator, told the Guardian: "Cocaine has a low half-life in the environment... so, for us to find it in an animal like this, it means a lot of drugs are entering the biota."
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