Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe Order up! Obama hits another burger joint WASHINGTON, May 29 (UPI) -- President Barack Obama satisfied another burger fix Friday, this time chowing down at Five Guys in Washington. Advertisement Obama ordered burger and sandwiches for himself and members of his staff and media, including an NBC News crew shadowing the president for a "day-in-the-life" documentary to air next week. Obama, his staff and reporters assigned to him arrived at Five Guys -- as cries of delight and repeated "Oh, my God! Oh, my God!" filled the air. The jacketless commander in chief began ordering with his preference -- "one cheeseburger and one fries for me. Jalapeno, tomato, mustard. ... Plus lettuce." -- as aides Reggie Love and Marvin Nicholson passed along to him requests from the crew. Obama rattled off the other orders, took a number -- 41 -- and milled about the restaurant, talking to patrons and posing for pictures. Advertisement After his number was called, Obama went to claim his burgers and such, taking time to pose for a group picture with Five Guys staff before taking off with two large brown paper bags. Obama visited Ray's Hell Burger in Arlington, Va., a few weeks ago. LA high selects male prom queen LOS ANGELES, May 29 (UPI) -- This year's prom queen at Fairfax High School in Los Angeles has announced he'll be wearing a suit instead of a dress at Saturday's dance. "But don't be fooled, deep down inside, I am a queen," says Sergio Garcia, the school's first gay male prom queen. Garcia says his run for prom queen originally started out as a stunt but later turned serious when it sparked a dialogue about gender roles on campus, the Los Angeles Times reported Friday. The 18-year-old said he wanted to be part of the school's prom court but not as prom king. He decided to run against a handful of female classmates because vying for prom queen would better suit his personality, Garcia said. Garcia is among the first male students in Southern California to take the title usually reserved for a coed. "It just shows how open-minded our class is," says Vanessa Lo, Fairfax senior class president. Advertisement Mom, son reunite after 27 years POOLE, England, May 29 (UPI) -- A British woman said she has reunited with her son 27 years after he was kidnapped to Hungary by his father thanks to the social networking site Facebook. Avril Grube, 62, from Poole, England, said her husband took their son, Gavin Paros, on a weekend visit to Hungary in 1982 as their marriage was failing and never brought the boy home, The Daily Telegraph (Britain) reported Friday. Grube said she contacted the authorities and wrote to then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, but it was 27 years before Grube's sister, Beryl Wilson, 59, found Paros' profile on Facebook, complete with a message bearing his mother's name. Paros had been using the social networking site to try to find his family following his father's death in 2006. Grube said Paros came to visit her at her home, but there was one hurdle to their reunion -- Paros does not speak any English, so for now, all conversations involve a translator. "It was the happiest day of her life when she met her son. She said there were no words to describe it," Wilson said of her sister. "Gavin has got a family and three children and they are desperate to come to England and live but he needs help to find a house and job." Advertisement Parrot steals tourist's passport TE ANA, New Zealand, May 29 (UPI) -- Police in New Zealand said a Scottish tourist's passport was stolen by a kea, a large wild parrot, during a bus tour in the Fiordland region. A spokesman for police in Te Anau, the nearest town to the scene of the incident, said the kea snatched a brightly colored bag containing the man's passport when the bus driver opened the vehicle's luggage compartment, Britain's Daily Telegraph reported Friday. The spokesman said the passport is unlikely to be recovered given the 4,600-square mile side of the alpine national park in Fiordland. The tourist, who asked to remain anonymous, said the British High Commission in Wellington, New Zealand, told him it could be up to six weeks before he gets a replacement for the lost document. He said he is planning to return to Scotland in August. "Being Scottish, I've got a sense of humor, so I did take it with humor, but obviously there is a side of me that is still raging," he said. "My passport is somewhere out there in Fiordland. The kea is probably using it for fraudulent claims or something."
