Jingle-Bang! Bah Humbug. Bizarre rules at Christmas6 i) ^/ [1 F. |
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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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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.8 b: g5 K/ X i5 a& Z
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Poor Santa is also under fire for being too fat.) f* Z9 h3 O7 |6 v
1 f$ [5 m5 g4 P2 {) c0 GThe acting US surgeon general said a thinner Santa would be a better role model for kids in a land battling obesity., n' z U8 {) R* Z7 o8 o2 X0 M7 r
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A British shopping centre ordered its Santas to attend a month-long boot camp with exercises before greeting children.
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5 ]3 ?9 y/ L: T" TIn the season of mass consumption, going green can win brownie points.
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+ `/ p& Q3 v4 DIn 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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/ r/ l& F4 l) U- F" H1 {+ OBut, 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.$ f: O! o8 F( q/ s/ z) b
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A Canadian man said he sold his son』s video game, a prized Christmas gift, on eBay after catching him smoking marijuana.
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In Singapore, vets gave Asian elephants Tun and Jamilah the perfectChristmas gift -- specially made waterproof boots to relieve chronicfoot lesions., O- E9 T7 `# u$ [# ~- Q( U
2 i1 g) \$ X0 z/ P5 A/ `: b' R7 b% _And cheeky Australian thieves stole 16 tonnes of ham and bacon from aSydney warehouse and then wrote "Thanks. Merry Christmas" on a wall.
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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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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」……$ Y0 C4 |5 p+ ?
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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。5 R0 N: `; x, [ |( u, ?' p
! d R- K$ z# q3 e J0 ^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。* r( U: z( }$ S7 `
! o$ s x) A; [3 e( v; `" V7 [不僅如此，可憐的聖誕老人還因體形過胖而遭到「炮轟」。+ x k3 `! `% x% D& \) r
' U+ \5 _+ f2 B' v8 s U6 h' u ?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。% x0 a9 d) Q' c( D1 f4 @2 A- b
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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」。
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6 T8 |: y' O: N {. i1 a, g作為一年中的消費旺季，聖誕期間更應該加強環保意識。! n$ C" u2 G& e& q T0 g* G6 @
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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。% {1 G) i+ t1 ~8 v1 ], L
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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。! [3 S: M% W9 F" V; O# E: R7 N
- N6 ?, y d% {) |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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- J* r- b6 v& h2 f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！」。9 O' b: M7 c5 L$ @: o, ]
& x) q& ]8 y& C$ f; Y7 X' s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！ |
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