Fortune Cookies Help Cops Nab Suspect

Two fortune cookies helped Tulsa police make an arrest after a pair of break-ins Chinese restaurants. Terrence Middleton, 30, was booked Friday on charges of second-degree burglary and attempted second-degree burglary after police responded to a burglar alarm to find him with more than $20 in coins and the cookies in his pockets, Officer Leland Ashley said.

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With the Olympics kicking off in China last week, we decided to take a look at an item that many Americans see as a symbol of Chinese culture: the fortune cookie.

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The fortune cookie isn't from China?

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....The messages in fortune cookies are typically vague, banal and optimistic. But some cookies are now serving up some surprisingly downbeat advice. "Today is a disastrous day. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em," reads one fortune showing up around the country.

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From the page: -- Why are businesspeople so enamored of Chinese quotations? And is there some secret little red book of proverbs that CEOs pass around in samizdat form at Bohemian Grove or Augusta National? --

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