Find out about the latest cell phone trend, plus an interesting hold up story.
CELL PHONE FOOD CASES
Smartphone cases that look like food, even if made from non-edible materials, are the latest craze among Japanese women, marketers say. The cases may look like taiyaki, bean paste-filled pancakes that are themselves gussied up to look like fish, or like steaks or pies, The Asahi Shimbun reported. They go for about $42 each. Tsukasa Sample in Kawasaki, a small company that manufactures displays of plastic food for restaurants, branched out into smart phone cases as a sideline, selling them online. An executive said 3,000 have been sold in 18 months, 80 percent of them purchased by women. ”We cannot keep up with orders,” he said.
A HOLD UP WITH A PLUNGER
A 49-year-old man from Utica, New York tried to hold up a bank with an unusual “weapon”. He chose to hold up the bank with a plunger!
