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Best PR stunt ever: A Spanish hotel chain is running a competition for executives to de-stress like a rock star and smash up a room. As part of their refurbishment, NH Hotels will allow 30 people to help demolish the interior of the 11-year-old NH Alcala hotel in central Madrid. The winners will be given a mallet, hard hat and a licence to run riot - smashing windows or demolishing walls - in any part of the 146-room building, the hotel said. (Source: Reuters)
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Sarah Matheny has another trout-fishing yarn. "A few years ago my father also landed a trout while fishing, but as it was still early morning he decided to hang it from a tree branch over the river, in a nice shady spot. With the fish hanging a 'safe' distance above the water, he continued on his way, only to return an hour later to find the trout's head swinging in the breeze and a few eels swimming below. So not only are eels strong, they appear to be able to jump as well."
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Children should be allowed to play dangerous games and risk injuries as part of a wider lesson in life, says the British equivalent of our ACC. By scraping knees, grazing elbows and getting bruises, children learn "valuable lifelong lessons" that will help them avoid more serious injuries in later life. Peter Cornall, head of leisure safety at the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, said: "We need to ask ourselves whether it is better for a child to break a wrist falling out of a tree, or to get a repetitive strain wrist injury at a young age from using a computer or video games console." (Source: Times Online)
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Low-slung trousers are considered indecent exposure in one Louisiana town, which made it illegal to wear overly baggy pants that show your underwear. In the town of Delcambre, the fashion crime carries penalties of up to six months in jail and a $650 fine. The trend is mostly adopted by young men in the hip-hop culture but Mayor Carol Broussard denied the move was racially motivated. "White people wear sagging pants, too," he said. "Anybody who wears these pants should be held responsible."
