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Archive for June 15th, 2009

Australian belatedly wins $10 million lottery

Monday, June 15th, 2009

Holy Cow Batman, I’ve just won 10 million dollars!

10 Million Dollars - No More Dollar Menu Items for Her

10 Million Dollars - No More Dollar Menu Items for Her

PERTH, Australia (AP) — An Australian student worried about her parents’ money problems rifled through a pile of her lottery tickets Thursday and discovered that she had won 13 million Australian dollars ($10 million) 10 months ago, a state lottery agency said.

The student, living in the west coast city of Perth, received the winning ticket for a draw on July 22 last year as a gift from her father, Western Australia state agency Lotterywest said.

She had been unaware that it would have expired after 12 months, it said in a statement.

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Yellow lobster is a 1 in 30 million

Monday, June 15th, 2009

AP Photo: Nathan Nickerson, owner of Arnold's Lobster and Clam Bar, holds up a rare "yellow lobster," right, and a normally pigmented lobster, left, at Arnold's Lobster and Clam Bar in Eastham, Mass., on Cape Cod Wednesday.Look Ethel, we won the lottery, wait no, it was a yellow lobster!

EASTHAM, Mass. (AP) — This lobster will catch your eye, but not because you’re imagining its tail dipped in butter. It is bright orange and yellow, even though it’s never been near a boiling pot.

Specialists tell The Boston Globe it’s called a “yellow lobster” and it’s one in 30 million.

The lobster now named Fiona was recently caught off Canada. It was given by a friend to Nathan Nickerson, the owner of Arnold’s Lobster and Clam Bar in Eastham, on Cape Cod.

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Russian police employ Brad Pitt to fight speeding

Monday, June 15th, 2009
WHAT THE HECK?  I know I wouldn’t slow down for a Brad Pitt cutout, maybe Angela Joley
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MOSCOW (AP) — Brad Pitt is accustomed to stopping passersby in their tracks. The Hollywood heartthrob’s next job is slowing traffic in Siberia — or so Russian traffic police hope.

A Russian newspaper reports that cardboard cutouts of Pitt dressed as a traffic cop have been placed by the most dangerous intersections in the city of Omsk.

It’s the latest move by authorities in their endless battle against speeding. Traffic accidents in Russia are among the highest in Europe.

The campaign seems to be working. Omsk officials say accidents are down as star-struck drivers ease off the gas to gaze at the unusual image.

The paper, Argumenty i Fakty, quotes Dmitry Ziryanov, a local official who came up with the idea as saying Pitt is “kind of like a colleague for us.”

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