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August 3, 2003

FOR THE SAKE OF EFFICIENCY: A supermarket in Mendoza has ordered the female cashiers to wear adult diapers for their entire eight-hour shift so they won't have to take bathroom breaks.     
Sandra Varela, a local official who is investigating the matter, said, "In seventeen years as a labor lawyer, I've never heard anything like this before."

A PENNY SAVED...: A London man, who was so frugal that he watched his neighbor's television to save on electricity, died at age 90 and left an estate of $1.77 million.

KA-BOOM! ARGUMENT OVER! An elderly man in Zrenjanin, Yugoslavia, got into a ferocious argument with his next-door neighbor, and could not convince him of his point of view. So he threw a hand grenade at him. The explosion blew off the man's arm.

SHUT ME OFF, WILL YOU, FZZZZZT! After the power company shut off the electricity to an Arizona business for nonpayment, the owner tried to illegally turn it back on himself. He was electrocuted.

SNIFF, DOES ANYONE SMELL GOATBURGERS? A pile of goat manure spontaneously ignited in the animals' pen in the Mojave Desert, killing 67 of them.

 

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