It's been a hot summer so far in the city. Perhaps the heat motivated a Brooklyn restaurant cook to steal frozen lobster tails from his restaurant by stuffing them down his pants. Raymundo Flores was arraigned by the Brooklyn District Attorney on charges of petit larceny and criminal possession of stolen property. Police, responding to a 911 from restaurant workers, said they found lobster tails that Flores allegedly stole hidden in his pants and in bandages on his legs.

A 21-year-old prankster suffered deep cuts in his bare buttocks after pressing them against a restaurant window, breaking the glass. According to local authorities, the man, along with two other friends, decided to run around the area with their pants down and their bottoms exposed.

Somerset County has placed a 14,000-square-foot county jail on the market with a price tag of $200,000. In its marketing ad, the county advertises the property as a "roomy brick-and-stone Victorian, complete with security system and razor-wire fencing. "

A restaurant in Manhattan is challenging the economic downturn by offering a $175 burger with gold toppings. And Heather Tierney, one of the burger stand's co-owners, says sales are brisk.

While Canada reviews the use of Tasers arising from the death of a Polish migrant zapped by a stun gun at the Vancouver airport, two Colorado men tried to settle a parking lot argument using Tasers. Harvey Epstein, co-owner of Mamacitas restaurant and Casey Dane, a supervisor with Colorado Security Services, hit each other with Taser guns over an argument after Dane clamped the wheel of a vehicle parked behind the Epstein's eatery.