Man Robs Hotel With Hot Coffee

We now take you to Arlington County Virginia where a local hotel was robbed after the thief threw hot coffee at the front desk clerk.

After the bad person threw the scalding coffee at the Arlington Best Western employee, he stole $450 cash from the drawer and a cell phone behind the counter.

Wasn't it only a few months ago when  a TSA screener was arrested at JFK Airport for throwing a cup of hot coffee at an American Airlines pilot who told her and some colleagues to tone down the profanity?

How about the guy (photo below) who threw coffee at a barista employee over his $2.40 sandwich?

What have we become?

How can we treat coffee like this?

We thank the Oatmeal.com for the following:

Two cups of coffee a day can reduce the risk of heart failure and other ailments

 

Two cups of coffee a day can lower risk of heart failure, and that's good news, because heart failure has a worse survival rate than many cancers. 

The research suggests that regularly drinking moderate amounts of coffee can cut the odds of the cardiac trouble.

But on the other hand, drinking coffee all day is counter-productive.

The research showed that those who drank one or two cups of coffee a day were 11 per cent less likely to develop heart failure than those who don't drink coffee.

Heart attack survivors gained as much benefit as those with healthy hearts.

But before anyone starts thinking about drinking five or more, not so fast, researchers say, the extra cups a day isn't good for the heart.

Researchers really don't know why coffee seems to cut the odds of heart failure.

But other research also indicates that drinking coffee can help people live longer.

The US government researchers found that coffee you drink may be beneficial for people with ailments such as: heart disease, respiratory disease, stroke, injuries, accidents, diabetes and infections, but not cancer.

It is also known that some people inherit genes that make them more reliant on caffeine than others.

Those with the 'caffeine addict' genes, need to drink more coffee to get the same buzz.

AeroShot - quick energy boost - inhalable caffeine

 A Harvard professor believes  that people will soon be inhaling their caffeine from a lipstick-sized tube. 

It's called AeroShot, it went on the market late last month, a single unit costs $2.99 at convenience stores.

Biomedical engineering professor David Edwards said AeroShot is safe and does not contain common additives, like taurine, used to amplify the caffeine effect in common energy drinks. Each grey-and-yellow plastic canister contains 100 milligrams of caffeine powder, about the amount in a large cup of coffee, plus B vitamins.

AeroShot, we are told, safely delivers caffeine into the mouth, just like coffee.

There are some concerns about how safe is AeroShot is, but professor David Edwards says,"Even with coffee — if you look at the reaction in Europe to coffee when it first appeared — there was quite a bit of hysteria," he said. "So anything new, there's always some knee-jerk reaction that makes us believe `Well, maybe it's not safe.'"

Once a user shoots a puff of calorie-free AeroShot into his or her mouth, the lemon-lime powder begins dissolving almost instantly. Each single-use container has up to six puffs.

Dr. Lisa Ganjhu, a gastroenterologist and internal medicine doctor at New York-based St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital, said people need to be aware of how much caffeine they are ingesting.

"You want those 10 cups of coffee, it will probably take you a couple hours to get through all that coffee with all that volume that you are drinking," Ganjhu said. "With these inhale caffeine canisters you can get that in 10 of those little canisters — so you just puff away and you could be getting all of that within the hour."

Even the product packaging warns people not to consume more than three AeroShots per day.

Northeastern University students who sampled the product gave it mixed reviews.

"This tastes really good and I think it rocks," student Zack Huang said after puffing onto a free sample before rushing to join a group of friends who were walking away from campus.

Still, one student was not happy with the taste, echoing sentiment expressed online by some consumers.

People elsewhere vowed they would never give up their morning coffee.

The makers of AeroShot say that the product isn't about switching away from coffee, but rather making it easier for people with active lifestyles to get their caffeine fix.

"AeroShot can be used in a variety of settings inconvenient for liquids, such as when you study in the library, board an airplane or get into the car for a long drive," they say in the section dedicated to frequently asked questions on their website. "It's easy to take AeroShot with you when you go biking, skiing, curling, or any other activity that consumes energy."

AeroShot, manufactured in France and the flagship product of Cambridge-based Breathable Foods Inc.

We think we'll give it a try.