Celebrity chef Paula Deen got an unexpected serving of ham — across her face.
The Food Network star was helping unload 25,000 pounds of donated meat for an Atlanta food bank on Monday when someone threw one of the hams like a football and accidentally smacked her.
Deen tells WGCL-TV: "I thought it busted my lip, but it didn't."
Though smiles and laughter, Deen added: "I'm OK. It just knocked me for a little bit."
She says she was unloading hams when she tossed one to a man, who then said "Back at 'ya." Thinking he meant it only as a sentiment, she turned around to get another ham when the errant swine came at her.
"He really meant, 'Back at 'ya.'"
Later, she tweeted: "I haven't met the ham that could stop me yet!"
Court drops case in nude photo shoot at NYC museum
Nude, yes. Lewd, no.
A New York judge dismissed public lewdness and other charges Monday against a model who posed for a nude photo shoot at a museum while visitors looked on.
Kathleen "K.C." Neill was arrested in August during photographer Zach Hyman's shoot in the arms and armor department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Defense lawyer Thomas J. Hillgardner says Neill did nothing indecent while posing in an institution full of depictions of nudes. He says she was making art and he noted court rulings saying public nakedness isn't necessarily lewd.
Prosecutors say they aren't sure they could prove the charges beyond reasonable doubt.
The museum had no immediate comment. Hyman calls the charges "completely absurd."
Mass. woman seeks funds for turkey's eye surgery
A Massachusetts woman is seeking donations from fellow pet lovers to help pay for eye surgery for Jerry - her pet turkey.
Lyndsey Medeiros and her husband adopted three-year-old Jerry and another turkey from a Rhode Island farm last week.
But Jerry has cataracts, and the eye problems mean he can't eat independently or join his female companion, Penelope, in flying.
Medeiros has posted an ad on Craigslist seeking donations for the surgery. She says the procedure could cost up to $2,600. Her farm in Rehoboth, Mass., cares for other animals with health problems.
Georgia court rules mower isn't a motor vehicle
And, Georgia's Supreme Court says a riding lawn mower is not a vehicle if you steal it.
The court issued the ruling Monday in the case of a man convicted of auto theft for stealing a riding lawnmower from Home Depot.
Because Franklin Lloyd Harris was a repeat offender, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
His public defender argued that Harris should have been charged with theft.
Four justices agreed, ruling that even if a lawnmower has a powerful engine, and can drive on the streets, it's still not a motor vehicle.
Three of the justices dissented, saying that Georgia law is broad enough to include mowers as motor vehicles.
