Newsbreaks for Tuesday

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Last week the staff of an Applebee’s restaurant here in California mistakenly served a two-year-old a margarita. The mother of Julian Mayorga didn’t understand why her son kept refusing to drink from his sippy cup. Then she sniffed it, and realized what was wrong: “Oh—he wants salt on the rim.”

“It was an honest mistake,” the bartender said. “I thought that order was for the bachelorette party two tables down.”

Is it too much to say when you’re getting it in a sippy cup, you’ve been overserved?

Customs officials in Australia are reporting that rare and endangered reptiles are being smuggled in garden gnomes. Now that’s a Travelocity commercial I’d like to see.

“Hello! Watch me reenact that famous scene from Alien.”