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Lost and Found II

Former baseball star Lenny Dykstra, 56, went to eat lunch at a Jersey Mike’s Subs restaurant in Linden, N.J. “The bread is so hard on those subs,” Dykstra told a reporter later. “I took my teeth out and put them in a napkin, folded it up and forget them there.” He was nearly home when Dykstra realized he’d forgotten his dentures in the napkin. “When I went back, the workers said they threw all the napkins in the garbage,” he said. “I told them there was no f-----g way I was leaving without my f------g teeth..” He and a friend, tag-team wrestler Sprinkles the Clown (no, really!), started digging through the restaurant’s dumpster to find them. The teeth — custom made by a fan using bone marrow and valued at $80,000 — were finally located after nine hours of searching. (MS/Newark Star-Ledger) ...Note: there may have been some extra sprinkles on the teeth.