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-- Matthew C. Wright
The Correct Tip on $26 Is $10,000
All in all, it was a good night tending bar in Hutchinson, Kan., for Cindy Kienow.
Her best customer was there, and it wasn't unusual for him to leave a 50 percent tip on a $30 tab. But he floored her with the figure he wrote on his latest credit card receipt -- for a $26 bill -- at Applebee's: $10,000.
"I asked him if he was serious and he said, yes, that it wasn't a mistake, that he wanted me to have it," Kienow, whose story quickly ricocheted around the world, told CNN. "And I kind of went into shock."
Kienow, 35, has told all questioners that she talked about ordinary events with the man, whom she has declined to describe or identify. She told one interviewer, "I think he just appreciated the fact that I took the time to talk with him."
Last week, the restaurant owner gave her a check for $6,300, after making sure the credit card payment cleared and deducting taxes. The customer, she said, suggested she get something nice for herself.
Kienow's list includes helping her father pay for knee surgery, having fun in Las Vegas and buying a Jeep.
-- Peter Slevin
Walking Horse Contest Kicked Aside
Cheating scandals have in recent years cast a cloud of suspicion over track stars, baseball sluggers and bicycle racers.
Now they've reached into the small world of Tennessee Walking Horses.
For the first time in 68 years, there will be no World Grand Champion.
The competition of the high-stepping horses had to be canceled last weekend after all but three horses in the event, which draws thousands annually to Shelbyville, Tenn., were disqualified over suspicions that the animals may have been harmed to exaggerate their signature high gait, or "The Big Lick," as it is called. The unlawful method is known as soring and consists of damaging or irritating the animal's legs in order to have them step that way.
Rick Abee, a trainer from North Carolina, had planned on showing a horse -- one of the three not disqualified. "You work a lifetime to get the opportunity to get in a show like that," he said. "It's just a misfortune for everybody."
-- Catharine Skipp
