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.

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

A man dressed in drag recently robbed a New Orleans Burger King at gun point. The man, dressed in a floral print dress and a wig, was caught on BK's security camera last week when he climbed, barefoot, into the restaurant through the drive-through window. He is seen holding a gun as a cashier gives him money from the cash register.

Reminiscent of the Y2K jitters that agitated the world at the change of the millenium eight years ago, a similar scenario is taking place in some gas stations across the country that still use mechanical pumps. Their gas pumps lack gears to register a sale beyond $3. 99 a gallon. Gas prices, however, have exceeded $4 a gallon.