Thursday, December 30, 2010

love seats-offbeat stories from 2010

PARIS (AFP)  Some weird, wild and wonderful stories coloured the news in 2010: - A Copenhagen bus company has put "love seats" on 103 of its vehicles for people looking for a partner. "Even love at first sight is possible on the bus," said a spokesman for the British owned Arriva company to explain the two seats on each bus that are covered in red cloth and a "love seat" sign. - Shoppers at an international luxury fair in Verona, Italy, found a cell-phone-equipped golden coffin among the items on display. The phones will help "the deceased" contact relatives if they have been buried alive by mistake. - Inmates at an infamous Moscow prison where a lawyer died last year in a case that sparked global anger will get a full suite of new cr... Read the full story at Yahoo! News

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