Apr 3rd, 2008
Texas family finds bullet in rump roast
LOCKHART, Texas (KXAN) - A Lockhart family got more than they bargained for when they purchased a rump roast from a Sam's Club in San Marcos.
The couple said they were shocked to see the piece of meat contained more than a healthy dose of iron; it also contained a bullet full of lead.
“I noticed this little brown mark that's right in here, OK, and at first I just thought it was dye,” said Angie Caruso Hernandez. “I wanted to see what it was underneath, so I had taken a knife, and I hit something hard. At that point I flipped it over, and the bullet was right in here, and I stuck it in there, and it popped right out onto the counter.”
The mother of a boy with a weakened immune system, Hernandez said she immediately had lead-poisoning concerns.
“Oh my God, I said that could have been dangerous, especially for my son,” she said. “I could have killed him. He is already on medication, and if I had given this to him with his immune system so low, I could have … it might have killed him.”
The Hernandez family said they have spoken to the Food and Drug Administration U.S. Department of Agriculture, and no one had an answer for them, at least not a satisfactory one.
“The lady that answered the phone at the USDA just said, ‘Well, you know kids could be having fun out in the field and shooting the cows,'” Hernandez said.
Hernandez said Sam's Club told her to just bring the meat back for a refund. “They weren't concerned about anything else,” she said.
When KXAN Austin News contacted the USDA and Sam's Club, representatives said they take food safety issues very seriously and will be investigating.
The Hernandez family said they feel someone should have taken a better look at the meat before selling it.
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16 Responses to “Texas family finds bullet in rump roast”
I miss him too, mordekai. I miss him too.
In fact there is no such person as Alan Greenspan.
Former head.
Oh my god, someone go back in time so he’s not appointed Fed chairman.
You mean the work-life credit that is poopooed now by the schools? I guess if he was living in modern times he would have had to gone to U. Phoenix.
<Although Auerbach’s evidence is circumstantial
Honesty? What is that? Is it tested on the SAT? GPA? Oh yea… the personal statement. eye roll
It is true the Greenspan did not write a Ph.D. thesis. However, his degree was not a sham. He had already started publishing articles as an undergrad at NYU (decades before his Ph.D. was awarded). After his undergrad, he started grad studies at Columbia but dropped out to work on the National Industrial Conference Board. Then, he started a successful economic consulting firm and slowly started his grad studies over at NYU. His studies were put on hold again when he served as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers where he advised President Ford. After he left that position, he started his studies and finally completed his coursework at NYU. At this point, NYU simply gave him his degree because he had continued to publish articles and was a respected economist.
That’s probably not a PhD but another type of doctorate. There are about a dozen types of doctoral degrees. PhD are based on research so it would be very strange to get one for financial contribution.
Fair enough, but as far as i’m aware none of them ever pretended otherwise. They especially didn’t use fake(?) credentials as evidence they were really smart and we should all listen to them.
I don’t think anyone has any issue with someone being particularly brilliant business leader with little formal training. While more rare today, there are still people who didn’t complete college who go from fairly little wealthy to multimillionaire in a few years.The real issue is that if he really didn’t earn the degree it is dishonest. Furthermore, not being able to get access to a doctoral thesis seems rather odd. I have a few friends who have a doctorate and I can easily read their thesis if I wanted to read it. Increasingly a lot of this stuff is available through electronic databases where you don’t even have to find the physical copy. Worst case scenario is that I have to ask a librarian at the university library where to find it.When you can’t get a copy of someone’s thesis something smells fishy. Unless there has been a fire that destroyed his thesis there should be at least one copy.Finishing a degree in a few years isn’t unheard of, but somehow I doubt that he seriously completed a 100+ page document of original work of any notable value in a few months. I’ve met some geniuses as an undergrad who took graduate level coursework while they were still an undergraduate allowing them to complete any required coursework early so that they could get a jump start on their thesis, but even they took a few years to complete their thesis.Something doesn’t add up about this story. Either the author is dramatically exaggerating how short he studied for his doctorate or Greenspan’s doctorate may be only marginally more meaningful than his honorary degrees.
My theory: The probability that Greenspan’s thesis was archived out of public views is because NYU may have considered his as ‘plagiarised’ or in any manner related to that kind of action. NYU may have allow the awarding of his PhD (because at that time, Greenspan was already publicly well-connected) with an agreement that his shall not be catalogued in the school’s library system!This maybe the only plausible explanation on why NYU issues identical reply that Greenspan personally wants his thesis kept out of public views.
This is not true. I know at Cornell’s engineering graduate school where I am you can in several departments get a PhD either as the result of creating a dissertation, or a certain number of published papers. Quite a few people go the route of skipping the thesis and going for publishing work.
Instead he spent years as a political hack, kowtowing to politicians, then he used that influence to get a quick Ph.D. so he could pass himself off as a legitimate economist and his political friends could appoint him to the Fed.Not much different really.
So Barron’s printed an article with a questionable source because they could not wait for Greenspan and/or NYU to respond. That is just wonderful. Let’s drag a man’s reputation and an academic institution through the mud because some guy has a grudge. And let’s not even bother to confirm any of this first.BS journalism (or maybe AS journalism…or HS).