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Cop bugged by cockroach in coffee

CLEBURNE, Texas, June 1 (UPI) -- McDonald's is reviewing security videotape to see if a cockroach found in a Texas policeman's coffee was placed there deliberately.

Officer Kevin Dupre pulled into the parking lot in a marked patrol car late May 22 in Cleburne, south of Fort Worth, Texas, and ordered coffee. He said he found the roach in the first sip and spit it out, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported Wednesday.

The employee who served him the coffee offered him another one but he refused and was given a refund.

He then went to another officer to file a report alleging tampering with a consumer product, as he believed he had been targeted because of his uniform, the report said.

Jacque Robson, a McDonald's marketing manager in Dallas, said the company will review the closed-circuit video from that night but said not just because Dupre is a police officer.

"We absolutely would do this for anyone," said Robson.

The tampering charge carries a maximum punishment of 20 years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

Cops name new doughnut-eating champ

ELKHORN, Wis., June 1 (UPI) -- A southern Wisconsin sheriff's deputy has set the new law enforcement record for speed-eating doughnuts, wolfing down 13 of them in three minutes.

Walworth County, Wis., Jail Training Sgt. Howard Sawyers says he hasn't eaten a doughnut since winning the title at the International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association convention last month in Arlington Heights, Ill.

Apart from a wall plaque for his home in Elkhorn, Wis., Sawyers won a free street survival training seminar valued at $400 and a Sig Sauer .40-caliber pistol, which has a $969 suggested retail value, the Janesville (Wis.) Gazette reported.

He said the secret to averaging one doughnut every 13.8 seconds was dipping them in water first to allow less chewing and more lubricated swallowing.

"When you have 13 doughnuts in three minutes, you're not worried too much about taste," Sawyers said.

Britain may allow double burials

LONDON, June 1 (UPI) -- Britain may allow for double burials in the same plot to address a shortage of cemetery space.

Harriet Harman, Britain's minister responsible for cemeteries, was quoted as telling London's Evening Standard she is willing to tackle the "political taboo" against such a practice since the space shortage problem can no longer be ignored.

Harman said the problem is particularly bad in London, reports the Independent newspaper.

"They have been put off because people do not want to make the decision about whether you do what is described as 'lift and deepen'," she was quoted as saying.

"This is where you use space -- I am phrasing this delicately -- in a vertical as well as a horizontal way."

The plan calls for opening graves that have been untended for more than 75 years and transfer the remains to a smaller container which then would be buried deeper. Another coffin could be lowered into the original space. Harman said the government is consulting with local authorities, churches and communities for a "sensible solution."

40,000 undelivered pieces of mail found

YSTRADGYNLAIS, Wales, June 1 (UPI) -- A retired Royal Mail postman is under investigation for failing to deliver 40,000 pieces of mail found at a Ystradgynlais, Wales, recycling center.

While the vast majority of the undelivered mail was advertisements, it did include 3,000 letters that were at least a year old. It took three Royal Mail vans to haul everything away, Web site icWales reported.

The government agency promised to make certain the 3,000 letters are delivered with a written apology to each postal patron in the Swansea and Amman valley areas of Wales.

"All the letters will be re-delivered as soon as possible, probably within the next week," a Royal Mail spokeswoman told the Web site.

"We are conducting an investigation and it involves a former postman who is now retired," the spokeswoman said.

The spokeswoman also pointed out that the Royal Mail's lost-or-stolen rate is just 0.006 percent of 22 billion items handled each year.

That would translate into about 1.3 million pieces of mail.