A Florida woman was fired by a restaurant owner for laughing.
Darra Kollios, who works at the Trinity Grill in New Port Richey,
Florida, said her boss approached her in front of a customer
with one of the oddest requests she's ever heard.
"I had a customer at the bar and the owner came up to me
and said, 'Please stop laughing,' Kollios said. "We giggled --
the guy at the bar and myself. And then I said, 'Are you
serious?' And he said, 'Yes, if you laugh again, you will
have to go home."
Kollios said she was then fired on the spot.
Kollios said she was shocked by her employer's actions.
"I will say that I don't have an odd laugh," Kollios said. "I
did ask a few people but it's not."
The restaurant owner said a customer did not complain
about the laughing. However, he prefers the restaurant to
be quiet and cozy and Kollios' laugh prevented that from
happening.
Under Florida law, employees are considered "at will," which
means they may be terminated for any reason as long as
they're not under contract and it doesn't involve age,
sex or race discrimination.
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A dog stood guard over her owner's body for up to
six weeks after the man committed suicide on the
remote northeastern Colorado plains, authorities
said.
The body of 25-year-old Jake Baysinger of La Salle was found Sunday on the Pawnee National Grasslands
about 75 miles northeast of Denver. Cash, his
German shepherd, was found beside him, thin and dehydrated but still alive. The dog had apparently survived by eating mice and rabbits, authorities said.
The Weld County coroner ruled Baysinger's death a suicide. The cause of
death wasn't immediately determined but authorities found a gun nearby,
the coroner's office said Tuesday.
"At least we know it's over now," said Baysinger's wife, Sara. "We'd been
looking for my husband for six weeks, and this isn't how we wanted it to
end. At least we can close this."
Baysinger was reported missing June 28. An extensive search failed to
locate him, but Kip Konig, a rancher, saw the dog last weekend, went to
investigate and discovered Baysinger's body and his pickup.
He said Cash kept running back to the pickup and jumping into the front seat.
"I got the sense she was trying to tell me where her master was," Konig said.
Cash was reunited Monday with Sara Baysinger and her 2-year-old son,
Lane. She said her little boy is "very close to that dog" and happy to see
her again.
Investigators said the dog probably kept coyotes away from the body.
Authorities say a grandmother was arrested for driving around the parking lot of a Marathon grocery store with her 3-year-old child sitting on the roof of the car.
Monroe County Sheriff's Office deputies were called to the Publix store Tuesday and arrested a 54-year-old woman after she was driving around with her three-year-old granddaughter on the roof of her car.
The grandmother was released from jail 15 hours later.
The woman said Thursday she would never let anything hurt her granddaughter. She says she was driving at "snail-speed" and holding the child's leg.
Authorities say the woman told police she was giving t he child some air and letting her have fun.
She faces charges of child abuse. The child is back with her mother.
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