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  • 26
    Jan
    2013
    9:57pm, EST

    Man gets his last Whopper Jr. during his funeral procession

    By Gil Aegerter, Staff Writer, NBC News

    A Pennsylvania man who died at age 88 was buried Saturday -- but not before a stop at Burger King on the way to the cemetery for a Whopper Jr.


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    The York Daily Record reported that David S. Kime Jr. of West York loved those burgers -- along with other fast food -- so his family and friends followed the hearse through the drive-through window at the Manchester Burger King. The manager said 40 Whopper Jr. burgers were prepared, including one for Kime, who died Jan. 20.

    "He always lived by his own rules," Linda Phiel, one of Kime's three daughters, told the Daily Record. "His version of eating healthy was the lettuce on the Whopper Jr."


    Phiel said her 5-foot-tall father was a borderline diabetic for years and had pacemaker, but he began eating what he wanted after his wife died 25 years ago, according to the Daily Record.

    "He was not prejudiced," Phiel told the Daily Record. "He would go to any fast food place anyone invited him to."

    After a while, she said, she gave up lecturing him: "When you're 88 years old, I guess you've earned the right to do what you want to do."

    A photo in the Daily Record shows Phiel placing her dad's last burger atop his casket amid a spray of flowers.

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    Yep, nothing like BK Steakhouse when you have the drunk hunger or about to be buried. I am glad he had it his way in old age, RIP..........

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    1:03pm, EDT

    Robber in Obama mask -- or was it Reagan? -- strikes Florida fast-food restaurants

    Was he Ronald Reagan or Barack Obama? Seems the people who witnessed a masked man robbing a Burger King restaurant in Lake Park, Fla., weren’t so sure.


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    Employees initially reported that a man wearing all-black clothing with red gloves and sporting a Ronald Reagan mask held up a Burger King at gunpoint on Tuesday morning, Palm Beach County sheriff's office spokeswoman Teri Barbera told The Palm Beach Post News.


    The robber, who had a woman accomplice also wearing a mask (president not specified), demanded money from the cashier and made off with about $400, according to the Miami New Times.

    Detectives who reviewed the restaurant’s surveillance video determined the gunman was actually wearing a mask resembling Obama, the Palm Beach Post reported.

    There was no explanation for the presidential discrepancy.

    It’s not the first time a masked Obama bandit has struck a fast-food restaurant.

    On Jan. 28, a man robbed a McDonald’s in Riviera Beach, also in Palm Beach County, while dressed in black wearing an Obama mask, according to the Palm Beach Post.  This time, he had white gloves.

    Sheriff’s officials didn’t immediately return a call to msnbc.com about whether they think the same person is responsible for both holdups.

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    Jakta, Yabecoo can say whatever he likes. That's the nice thing about being an American. We have the freedom to say whatever. I do believe that is why I spent 28 years in the miltary so y'all can say what you want to. By the way, I agree with Yabecoo!! Have a wonderful day.

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