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Strange News From Europe
July - 2001
Phone Company Tries to Stimulate New Customers
NETHERLANDS - Instead of reaching out to "touch someone," a
Dutch telephone dealership in encouraging customers to touch
themselves. When a person orders a subscription to telephone
company KPN with Tring, they are reportedly given a free
Nokia phone and a sex toy. Both Nokia and KPN are said to be
disgusted with the promotion and are encouraging Tring to
drop the deal.
Bizarre Practical Joker Fools Doctors And Police
MADRID - A passer-by in the south Spanish town of Armilla
found what he thought was a three-month-old fetus on a the
sidewalk. Emergency services took it to a local hospital
where two doctors, who gave it a preliminary examination,
immediately suspected an illegal abortion. They alerted the
police who began a search for the mother. It wasn't until
the doctors started an autopsy two days later that they
discovered the fetus was a doll. "It was a very real looking
doll, covered in liquid," a police spokesman said. "It looks
like a joke in very bad taste."
Stampeding Pigs Kill Animal Rights Workers
MUNICH, Germany - The city has been abuzz about a neighboring
town's pig incident. It seems that two animal rights
protesters broke into a slaughterhouse to free thousands of
pigs before they met their fate. Armed with bolt cutters,
they managed to clear the way for the soon to be liberated
pigs. As the doors opened, a stampede of pork rushed through
the opening, trampling the crusading protesters and crushing
them to their doom.
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