OTHER DINGES 5TH ED

5th edition

Aug 05

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overseas

Florida A disabled gran was nicked for selling crack COCAINE by putting it in her purse and lowering from her window.	Romania Tourism chiefs are suing weathermen for predicting showers that made crownds stay home - rain never fell.
Cumbria A center for teaching RECYCLING skills is built from bales of straw, old tyres and sheep's wool.	Columbia Not helping with the WASHING will be grounds for divorce in a new law.
LA Florida, Chile A firm is flogging a cough remedy made with SNAIL SLIME - because it has antibiotic properties.	British Columbia A SQUIRREL was blamed for a bush fire when it's tail caght light as it walked on a power cable.
London A 5,000 year old clay tablet giving a recipe for BEER is set to fetch £90,000 at auction.	America BEER made form rice, honey, grapes and hawthorn fruit from a 9,000 year old chinese recipe.
Chicago A street light was turned off after brawls broke out when crowds claimed it cast Christ's SHADOW.	California A man spent a month in prison on a drug rap, until tests revealed he was only carrying his late grandmother's ASHES.
Lancashire A man who sneaks into fields and gives horses bizarre HAIRCUTS is being hunted by police.	Moscow Raiders dressed as cops to rob trucks to Moscow of their cargo of LOO ROLLS.

the law

Food scares
The law requires manufacturers and retailers to publicaly withdraw products if they are "injurious to health".

Hundreds of other products withdrawn under "trade withdrawal" are rarely publicised.
A secure removal of products from the food chain without the media.

from the UK about the SA

Zulu virginity
King Goodwill Zwelithini and supporters of the zulu long-standing cultural TRADITION are to defy the government who want to outlaw viginity testing.

6m, one in five of the population are HIV and 40% of women aged 25 to 29.

The test encourages girls to abstain from sexual intercourse til married and restores diginity among the youth. Hundreds of bare breasted girls marched through Pietermaritzberg to protest the ban.

what I call news

Whales
Boffins are flying 50 grey whales from California to set up a colony off the coast of Cumbria.
The 40-ton mamals died out in the UK 400 years ago.

The beach
Foe of surfers and paddlers, the weaver fish. The little critter lies just beneath the sand in shallow waters, it's spinal spikes pointing upward. Tread on those spikes and expect severe pain for about an hour.

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