ODDLY ENOUGH | TGI Friday’s has beef with burger-trophy thief

ODDLY ENOUGH

TGI Friday’s has beef with burger-trophy thief

AMMON, Idaho

A TGI Friday’s in Idaho has a beef with whoever took its giant hamburger trophy.

The restaurant in Ammon received the trophy from Idaho Falls Magazine for having the best hamburger in the area. General Manager Tim Coleman tells KIFI-TV that the trophy disappeared two days after the staff received the award.

This is the third consecutive year the restaurant won the honor, and it’s not the first time the trophy was pilfered.

Two years ago, it disappeared for six weeks, but someone left it outside the restaurant.

Coleman says he just wants the trophy back and is willing to reward whoever brings it back by serving up one of those trophy-winning hamburgers — on the house.

City hall in Lorain truly runs behind the times

LORAIN

Residents of one Northeast Ohio community would be right to complain that City Hall is behind the times.

The large clock on the building is running about one hour and 20 minutes slow.

Officials in Lorain say its timekeeper is off partly because of the recent daylight saving time change. The clock is still programmed to move an hour ahead on the old, pre-2007 schedule that started daylight saving time the first Sunday in April, instead of in mid-March.

Jim Dillon with the city’s traffic-signal tech crew tells The Morning Journal of Lorain that reprogramming the clock would mean a bill of up to $500 for the city about 25 miles west of Cleveland.

He says a power outage probably put the clock behind the other 20 minutes.

Boy who cried will become honorary governor of NJ

TRENTON, N.J.

A New Jersey youngster shown complaining on a YouTube clip that he can’t be governor of New Jersey can stop crying.

Gov. Chris Christie will sign a proclamation today making Jesse Koczon the state’s honorary governor for the day.

On the video, the 4-year-old’s mother asked him why he was upset.

Jesse replied, “Cause everyone tells me I’m too small to be the governor of New Jersey.”

Christie responded on Twitter: “Don’t worry Jesse, people gave plenty of reasons why I couldn’t be Governor, though being too small wasn’t one of them.”