奇聞：世界各地聖誕怪事大PK

Jingle-Bang! Bah Humbug. Bizarre rules at Christmas

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Santa shot at in Rio. Electric eels light up Japanese Christmas tree.Singapore elephants get festive gift of boots for jumbo pain.
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* U3 T6 V6 L: `9 o4 {2 H, ~: ]Around the globe, Christmas invariably offers tales of the wacky, wildand downright weird -- and the 2007 festivities are certainly noexception.
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In a Rio de Janeiro slum, drug traffickers opened fire on a helicoptercarrying Santa Claus to a Christmas party, apparently mistaking it fora police helicopter.

% a6 X9 M+ U2 }( C: M1 J, W8 xPoor Santa is also under fire for being too fat.

The acting US surgeon general said a thinner Santa would be a better role model for kids in a land battling obesity.
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* R8 e! u5 j& O/ W1 i2 ]$ E* E% n1 aA British shopping centre ordered its Santas to attend a month-long boot camp with exercises before greeting children.

5 P1 _- U* Z5 f2 {In the season of mass consumption, going green can win brownie points.
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  Y" S0 U9 q( m1 q) C5 E  \In Hong Kong, environmentalists are not amused, arguing that all theglittering neon Santas and rainbows of flashy lights are devouring toomuch electricity.
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But, in sharp contrast, a Japanese aquarium decided on a novel way tosave energy -- it used electricity generated by an electric eel tolight up its Christmas tree.

/ Z  y' i9 A+ W- j9 TA Canadian man said he sold his son』s video game, a prized Christmas gift, on eBay after catching him smoking marijuana.

In Singapore, vets gave Asian elephants Tun and Jamilah the perfectChristmas gift -- specially made waterproof boots to relieve chronicfoot lesions.

And cheeky Australian thieves stole 16 tonnes of ham and bacon from aSydney warehouse and then wrote "Thanks. Merry Christmas" on a wall.

But surely the prize for the most bizarre Christmas charity gift mustgo to the International Rhino Foundation -- an auction of rhino dungwhich could be presented as Christmas gift！
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+ B* c# R5 K* E聖誕老人在里約熱內盧遭到槍擊。日本用電鰻點亮聖誕樹。新加坡的大象收到了聖誕禮物「止痛靴」……
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; F! c- c% s* A+ F, P' Q2 q3 n每到聖誕節，世界各地總會上演千奇百怪的聖誕故事，今年的聖誕節當然也不例外。
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! t- x4 A2 K/ s) J& w在里約熱內盧的一個貧民窟附近，一架載有「聖誕老人」的直升飛機遭到販毒分子的槍擊。這架直升飛機送「聖誕老人」去參加聖誕晚會，顯然被販毒分子當作警察的直升機了。
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' m6 n" P" x0 u: z不僅如此，可憐的聖誕老人還因體形過胖而遭到「炮轟」。
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% R5 `# N5 }8 p美國公共衛生署代理署長稱，在一個與肥胖進行「艱苦鬥爭」的國度，聖誕老人如果能變得更苗條一些，也許能成為孩子們更為理想的行動榜樣。

英國的一家購物中心要求其「聖誕老人」在聖誕節與小朋友們見面之前，必須參加為期一個月的「身體集訓營」。

9 F- l* G5 f: v3 ]* [7 Z作為一年中的消費旺季，聖誕期間更應該加強環保意識。
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' y- y4 f: ~. W: U* p* l- @7 N香港的環保主義者們可不會被五光十色的節日霓虹所迷惑，他們稱帶有霓虹燈的聖誕老人和七彩閃光燈消耗了大量電能。

與此相反，日本一家水族館則想出了一個新奇的節能辦法。它利用電鰻魚發的電來點亮聖誕樹綵燈。
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( W' Q* y' T( z# z5 _) y, p7 Y# i在加拿大，一名男子由於發現兒子吸食大麻，因此他在eBay上賣掉了兒子心愛的聖誕禮物——一款電腦遊戲。
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在新加坡，獸醫為兩頭名為圖恩和雅米拉的亞洲大象帶來了最合適的聖誕禮物——特製防水止痛靴。
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( q% O; x  D  {: D2 [. v; s澳大利亞的一群厚顏無恥的小偷從悉尼的一家肉店倉庫偷走了16噸的火腿和燻肉，還在牆上留言說「謝謝。聖誕快樂！」。

而「最奇異的聖誕慈善禮物」大獎應該屬於「國際犀牛基金會」。近日，該組織舉辦了一個「犀牛糞」拍賣會，有興趣的人可以拿它作聖誕禮物哦！