Lucky-Van smashes into store, nearly crushes clerk
Wow-Brazilian woman sells virginity for $780,000
Try-Hotel offers up coffee made from elephant dung
Nice-World’s biggest bra put up for auction for Charity
Viral-Gangnam Style Halloween house (video)
Lucky-Van smashes into store, nearly crushes clerk
QUEBEC CITY — A receptionist says it was either luck or a guardian angel that saved her life when an out-of-control minivan smashed through the front of a store and crushed her desk. Nathalie Lacroix escaped with minor injuries Monday when an elderly man crashed his minivan through a medical supply store in the provincial capital. Surveillance video obtained by QMI Agency shows the van lurching forward and driving right into the Medi-Select store where Lacroix was sitting at the front desk. She didn't seem to notice the van until it had smashed her desk to pieces, but she was somehow squeezed out of the way and into the arms of a colleague. "All I remember is feeling the counter hit my arm and my back," she told QMI Agency. "I ran off, screaming in the store, then I fell into my friend's arms."
Try-Hotel offers up coffee made from elephant dung
A luxury Thai hotel chain is offering a coffee blend made from elephant dung. The Black Ivory blend, made from coffee beans digested and excreted byThai elephants, is billed as producing a particularly smooth cup.But it is not cheap, with Anantara Hotels saying the "naturally refined" coffee costs $1,100 (£680) per kilogram – making it one of the most expensive blends in the world. "Research indicates that during digestion, the enzymes of the elephant break down coffee protein," the Thai-based hotel group, which is selling the pungent brew at around $50 for two cups, said in a statement sent to AFP Thursday. “Since protein is one of the main factors responsible for bitterness in coffee, less protein means almost no bitterness."Once the elephants have digested the coffee berries, the beans are picked out of their dung by mahouts – their trainers – and then sun-dried.
Viral-Gangnam Style Halloween house
Earlier this week, United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon surprised everyone by going Gangnam with South Korean pop sensation Psy. And now a US lighting expert has
arguably gone one better after decorating his Virginian home with 8,500 bulbs synced to the mega pop hit.The property has been given a colourful makeover in time for Halloween season and it's proving a hit with residents and internet users.Every night in the run up to Halloween locals can pull-up in their cars outside the property for the 25-minute light shows which features a number of well-known hits.
Wow-Brazilian woman sells virginity for $780,000
A 20-year-old Brazilian woman has sold her virginity for $780,000 in an online auction to a Japanese man known simply as Natsu. Catarina Migliorini's virginity auction was organized by Virgins Wanted, the project of Australian filmmaker Justin Sisely. Both Migliorini and a young male virgin, Alexander Stepanov, hocked their virginity online.
Stepanov's first time went to a buy identified as Nene B. from Brazil for a mere $3,000 US. The auction had been live since Sept. 17, but until Wednesday - the last day of bidding - the highest bid for Migliorini had been $150,000. Natsu beat out five other high rollers who all bid in excess of $600,000 for the chance to bed the virgin. Under the rules of the auction, Migliorini will be examined by a gynecologist and will "provide the winning bidder with medical evidence of her virginity." Stepanov's virginity cannot be medically proven, so he and two of his family members will give "statutory declarations to support his claim."
Speaking last month with the Folha de S. Paulo newspaper, Migliorini said she got involved with the project two years ago when she saw a story about an Australian filmmaker who was looking for a virgin. She claims she wants to open an NGO with her winnings and invest in a public-housing project for poor families in Santa Catarina, where she was born. But speaking with the Huffington Post recently, Sisely said he was skeptical of Migliorini's purported good intentions. "I was surprised she said that because in all my dealings with her, she made it clear that it was a business decision for her," he said. "Now, given how big this story is in Brazil, she's trapped. If she doesn't give any money to charity, she's going to look bad." The winning bidders must submit to a medical examination and a police check, and cannot be intoxicated during their time with the virgins. No kissing or fellatio is allowed, and although the virgins and the winners are to agree about the length and duration of the sex, "the minimum consummation time is one hour," the rules state. Migliorini, who said she doesn't think of it as prostitution, said the sex will happen in a private airplane. The Virgins Wanted website said only that "the sexual act will take place where it is not illegal."
Nice-World’s biggest bra put up for auction for Charity
EBay users will be hoping to bag a bra-gain when bidding on the item, which has a starting price of £500 and the size of a mega 1,360B. It is modelled on a 34B t-shirt bra and is almost the size of two tennis courts, weighing the equivalent of 1,800 traditional bras. The director of Chillisauce.co.uk, Adrian Simpson, whose group is auctioning off the bra, said he hoped the auction would do a great deal of good for the campaign. 'Our aim in auctioning the bra is to build awareness and involvement in Wear It Pink Day as well as raise money for Breast Cancer Campaign in the process,' he said. Those interested in the item don't have much longer to bid, with the auction coming to a close this Sunday.
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