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Questionable Judgment

News of the Weird

By News of the Weird

Published July 15, 2026

Questionable Judgment

In Johnson County, Kansas, the district attorney charged 21-year-old Jace Christian Hanson, of Kansas City, Missouri, with unlawfully adulterating or contaminating food, a felony, at the Hereford House restaurant in Leawood, Kansas.

The Kansas City Star reported that Hanson was connected with videos posted online showing him urinating into restaurant-style food containers and rubbing food on his body parts, including his feet.

The FBI, which received a tip, contacted the restaurant after pinging Hanson's phone and finding his car in the parking lot; the head chef confirmed that the au jus container shown in one video belonged to the Hereford House.

When asked about it, Hanson said, "I'll just be straight up, yeah."

He said men online, whom he had met through dating apps, had asked him to make the videos and revealed that he had committed more than 20 incidents of contaminating food.

The restaurant destroyed all its food and sanitized the kitchen and adjacent areas.

Gives a whole new meaning to "au jus."

Firelands Elementary School in Henrietta Township, Ohio, was locked down after a sasquatch was spotted running past classroom windows, WKYC-TV reported.

Superintendent Michael Von Gunten said a person in a Bigfoot costume parked in one of the district's lots, "crossed our campus and caused the district to enter into a lockdown."

Kids outside on recess were quickly moved indoors.

Bigfoot never made it inside any of the buildings; the Lorain County sheriff's office revealed the person in the costume was a parent pulling a prank.

The parent was pulled over in a traffic stop, but no charges have been filed yet.