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AMERICAN POLICE BEAT: MAY 2009 33 be labeled a "dietary disas- ter" that increases the risk of cancer and heart disease. The 4-pound, $20 burger features five beef patties, fi ve slices of cheese, nearly a cup of chili and huge doses of salsa and corn. The ques- tion is this – if you're about to eat a burger bigger than your own head, do you re- ally need a warning? Pidgey I n Brazil, inmates have devised an innovative way to smuggle cell phones into a prison farm: they are using carrier pigeons to ferry their cells in and out. Guards at the Danilio Pinheiro prison near the southeastern city of Sorocaba last week no- ticed a pigeon resting on an electric wire with a small cloth bag tied to one of its legs. "The guards nabbed the bird after luring it down with some food and discov- ered components of a small cell phone inside the bag," police investigator Celso Soramiglio told reporters from UPIU news. Do as I say… I n California, an Internal Revenue Service agent who audits taxpayers has agreed to plead guilty to cheating on his own taxes. In a plea agreement filed recently in Orange County, 43-year-old Jim H. Liu of Diamond Bar admitted that he fi led a tax return claiming a loss on a real estate trans- action. In fact he had seen a large profi t on the deal. He pleaded guilty to one federal count of subscribing to a false tax return, a charge that carries a penalty of up to three years in prison. Prepared I n Michigan, a teenager has been charged with lighting an unconscious man's pants on fire and causing a third-degree burn to the man's private area, police told reporters. Tyler Quick, 18, was arraigned Friday on a charge of assault, according to police in the Detroit suburb of Ferndale, Michigan. Lt. William Wil- son told the Daily Tribune of Royal Oak that Quick was attending a party at the home of a 51-year-old man when the host passed out. Is that any way to treat a guy that's letting you party in his house? Child care I n Maryland recently a pris- on work crew kept a tod- dler safe after the child was found wandering alone on a rural highway, Maryland au- thorities said. According to local media reports, the six minimum-security inmates shared their lunches with the boy and played with him, while authorities spent hours trying to locate the 2-year- old's relatives, a corrections offi cer said. A truck driver had spotted the toddler early Friday on a hilly quarry road near the Pennsylvania line, a trooper said. The trucker then handed the boy to the litter-picking crew for safe- keeping. Runs in family " Call his Dad to come get him." "I tried, Sarge, but the Dad's wasted too!" A county coroner in Indi- ana was arrested recently on charges of driving while intoxicated soon after state troopers had also arrested his son for the same offense. State police said a trooper stopped a 19-year-old Sun- day night for going 73 mph in a 60-mph zone. They determined he had a blood-alcohol level of 0.17 percent. That's more than twice the legal limit of 0.08 percent. Troopers contacted his fa- ther, the county coroner, to pick up the vehicle, but he also was intoxicated. Police said his blood-alcohol level was 0.10 percent. Circle number 177 on the Reader Service Card.