McDonald’s ad that said eating a Chicken McBite was less risky than petting a stray pit bull, shaving your head, naming your son Sue or giving friends your Facebook password has enraged pit bull owners and their supporters —
The radio ad for Chicken McBites only ran for a few days in the Kansas City area before the complaints started —
McDonalds’s has appologized on social media sites along with a toll-free number with a recorded apology — Rachele Lizarraga of Sacramento said she found it extremely offensive and reckless, with the quesiton of why would they try to promote the safety of food — Lizarraga, who owns a pet-sitting business and is social media coordinator for Chako Pit Bull Rescue, started a Facebook page called “Pit Bulls Against McDonald’s,” launched an online petition calling for an end to the ad ## Nearing make-or-break time is one man’s quest to make a record-breaking leap from near the edge of space — Sponsored by energy drink Red Bull, Austrian athlete Felix Baumgartner, intends to skydive from a balloon in the stratosphere at an altitude of 120,000 feet — If he is successful, he will become the first person to break the sound barrier outside of an aircraft — He will also break a trio of other records that have stood for more than 50 years: Baumgartner’s plunge would mark the highest skydive, the highest manned balloon flight and the longest free fall, at about 5 minutes and 30 seconds — To make the dive, Baumgartner will ascend higher than four times the height of Mount Everest inside a custom-made pressurized capsule pulled up by a single helium-filled plastic balloon about 600 feet wide — Roughly 35 seconds after he jumps out, Baumgartner will reach supersonic speeds and will continue freefalling until he is about a mile above the ground, when he will deploy his parachute — Baumgartner says he is jumping for science with a goal to improve the safety for space professionals as well as potential space tourists

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