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JESSE STEVENS of Kingsland, writes: "One night last month right around dinner time I had a man come to my door selling Sky Digital, a pair of Mormons offering salvation, a woman collecting for charity, and then a guy from a holiday camp in Paihia called out of the blue asking if I needed a holiday. All in the space of 15 minutes. I think I need a holiday from people interrupting my dinner."
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NOT A CELEBRITY in sight: A reader took this photo at 6.45am in Pujiang, China. "The local council provides the music (traditional Chinese) and hundreds of people join in the ballroom dancing in the city park. Everyone seems to be having a great time. An amazing sight first thing in the morning."
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A THIEF in the UK who sped off in a stolen car glanced in the rear-view mirror to see a shocked elderly couple staring at him from the back seat. The joyrider spotted the keys had been left in the ignition as the owner went into a nearby shop. He jumped behind the wheel, not realising the driver's parents, both in their early 90s, were sitting together in the back.
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THIS YEAR the University of Minnesota campus newspaper reported that some students are combining trips to the blood bank to make donations with quick trips to local bars, because they report a quicker and more powerful "high" immediately after blood loss. Said one, "As soon as the needle's out of my arm, I'm out the door [headed for a bar]. The rest of the night's a good one." (Source: News of the Weird)
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VEGAS wedding? How about a TV divorce? For the first time ads for cheap and quick divorce will screen on television in the UK. The company divorceonline.co.uk is offering a divorce online for just £65, plus value-added tax, the equivalent of our GST. Customers are posted all their forms to sign and don't even have to attend court.
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A CAR filled with five teenagers drove illegally into a bus lane at a bus terminal in Reykjavik, Iceland, and was stopped by police, according to the Iceland Review. Police searched the car and found something wrapped in foil underneath one of the seats. They arrested the teens, strip-searched them and held them in jail overnight on suspicion of possessing drugs. But it turned out the tin foil contained only chewing gum. (Source: Reason.com)
