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Daily Snopes

1 September 2004
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  Yahoo! Awards World's Best Cybercafes   (Reuters)
  • A San Francisco laundromat may be the one of the world's most unusual places to surf the Internet, but a sleek club on Moscow's Red Square is definitely the sleekest, according to a Yahoo! survey of the globe's best cybercafes.


    •   Wearing a Smile and Nothing Else   (Reuters)
  • Two thousand pamphlets promoting nudity were handed out in Barcelona by nudists wearing only a smile.


    •   Dog Bites Off Man's Genitals   (Associated Press)
  • A man whose genitals were bitten off by a pit bull remained in serious condition, and the dog remained on the loose.


    •   Want a Sex Change? Vote Green   (Reuters)
  • Australia's election campaign took a wacky turn with claims the Greens party wanted to allow the sale of "party" drugs, state funding for sex changes and laws to make people ride bicycles and eat less meat.


    •   Pentagon Censors 'Right to Know' Video   (Associated Press)
  • The Defense Department spent $70,500 to produce a Humphrey Bogart-themed video called "The People's Right to Know" to teach employees to respond to citizen requests for information. But when it came to showing the tape to the public, the Pentagon censored some of the footage.


    •   Woman Hands in Weapons After 30 Years   (Reuters)
  • A Chinese woman in her 60s has handed in weapons and ammunition to police after 30 years of agonizing over what do with them.


    •   Bikini-Clad Vendor Draws Complaints   (Associated Press)
  • For the past decade, a bikini-clad Katharine Schultze has parked her 1953 Ford pickup at the corner of routes 11 and 109 where she hawks hot dogs and lemonade from a small red-and-white cart.


    •   Bog-Snorkeling Champion Claims Third Crown   (Reuters)
  • Philip John from south Wales has won his third straight World Bog Snorkeling championship, a bizarre title which requires swimming through a weedy, muck-filled trench.


    •   8,076 Foot Burrito Built at Nevada Fair   (Associated Press)
  • If accepted by the Guinness Book of World Records, the giant burrito crafted at the Nevada State Fair will be the one to beat.


    •   Curvy Shop Mannequins Must Cover Up   (Reuters)
  • Iran's moral crackdown has widened its focus from stylishly dressed women to curvaceous shop-window mannequins.


    •   Pennsylvania City Receives Toilet Paper Donation   (Associated Press)
  • York, a city struggling with its finances, has received a most practical gift. An anonymous donor dropped off a case of toilet paper at City Hall.


    •   'Miracle Babies' Scandal Grabs Headlines   (Reuters)
  • A Kenyan court has charged a woman whose husband, an evangelical pastor, claims to make infertile women pregnant, with baby-snatching.


    •   80-Year-Old Farmhouse Accidentally Razed   (Associated Press)
  • Three generations of James Wheeler's family were sheltered by a farmhouse built by his grandfather about 80 years ago. Now, there is only red dirt, weeds and scattered debris where the farmhouse once stood, thanks to a bulldozer that accidentally razed the house for a new subdivision.


    •   Police Catch 80 Revelers with Pants Down   (Reuters)
  • Around 80 men were caught with their pants down at a men-only nightclub when detectives burst in on a late-night drug raid.


    •   10-Year-Old Caught Driving After Wreck   (Associated Press)
  • Firefighters got a surprise when they cut a driver from a wrecked car — he was 10 years old.


    •   King's Dancers Seek to Trade Life of Poverty   (Reuters)
  • Thousands of young women bared their breasts and danced in Swaziland in the hope of trading a life of poverty for one of royal comfort as one of King Mswati's many wives.


    •   Regulators Shut Down Phony Bedrock Bank   (Associated Press)
  • Federal regulators shut down a phony Internet bank claiming to be located in the tiny Colorado town of Bedrock near the Utah state line.


    •   Noisy Sex Session Awakens Entire Street   (Reuters)
  • A pair of young lovers so annoyed their neighbors with a noisy sex session that police had to go and ask them to lower the volume.


    •   Teenager Shoplifts Winning Lottery Ticket   (Associated Press)
  • Swedish teenager who shoplifted a winning lottery ticket that could be worth as much as $1 million has discovered the truth in that old adage 'crime doesn't pay'.

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