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Marijuana-soda bottles explode at Washington shop

BELLINGHAM, Wash.

Bottles of legal marijuana-infused soda delivered to a Washington state pot shop started exploding on the store shelf.

The manager of Top Shelf Cannabis, Zach Henifin, told KOMO that “it sounded like a shotgun going off.”

No one was injured at the store in Bellingham in northern Washington, where recreational pot is legal.

Henifin wore a face guard and protective clothing to move more than 300 bottles to a steel trash bin, and most had exploded by Tuesday.

The sparkling pomegranate soda was made by Mirth Provisions and delivered Sept. 28. Employees found a sticky mess the next day and heard and saw bottles randomly explode.

Mirth Provisions founder Adam Stites says there was too much yeast in the soda, and fermentation caused excess carbon dioxide to build up.

Police arrest tar-covered man on gas-station roof in Florida

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.

When police in Daytona Beach, Fla., found a man covered in tar on the roof of a closed gas station before dawn, he told them he was visiting family.

They didn’t believe it.

The Daytona Beach News-Journal reported Thursday the 30-year-old man then tried to convince officers he was a repairman who was atop the Sunoco station at 3 a.m. Tuesday because he heard the air conditioners making noise. Officers didn’t believe that one, either.

Finally, police say, he told them he had been sleeping on the roof and had smeared tar on himself so he wouldn’t be seen.

Police say that since he had a prying tool with him, they think he was a would-be burglar and arrested him for attempted burglary of an unoccupied structure, possession of burglary tools and criminal mischief.

Suit: Cold Burger King onion rings sparked attack

BLOOMFIELD, N.M.

A New Mexico man is suing Burger King after he says a manager attacked him for complaining about cold onion rings.

KRQE-TV reports the lawsuit filed in state district court says Robert Deyapp was assaulted in June 2013 when he told a manager at the fast-food restaurant in the northwestern New Mexico city of Bloomfield about his cold order.

The lawsuit claims that when Deyapp asked for a refund, manager Francisco Berrera lunged at him with a stun gun and switchblade.

Court records show Berrera later pleaded no contest to aggravated assault.

Ronald Adamson, an attorney for Berrera, did not immediately return a phone message from The Associated Press.

A spokesman for Burger King also did not return an email.

Associated Press