Monthly Archives: July 2013

Tokyo women become ‘walking advertisements’

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The thigh's the limit with this new advertising campaign. Image from HuffPo

The thigh’s the limit with this new advertising tactic. Image from HuffPo

Young women in Tokyo, Japan, are earning a little extra cash by taking part in the new trend for ‘body advertisement’, in which they become walking billboards for new products.

Public relations consultant Hidenori Atsumi “spotted the potential” in body advertisement and realised that adverts placed on people’s legs could attract a huge amount of attention as they walk around the city.

The women – who must be aged 18 and over to take part in the body advertisement concept – walk around central Tokyo for eight hours each day with images advertising products or promos for music groups painted onto their thighs.

Mr Atsumi encourages his walking advertisements to dress in short skirts and long socks so as to best display the images. “It’s an absolutely perfect place to put an advertisement as it is what guys are eager to look at and girls are okay to expose,” he told Metro newspaper.

As well as meeting the minimum age requirement, the models must also have “at least” 20 connections to other people on social networking sites in order to qualify to be one of the walking advertisements.

 

Man dies after cow crushes him in bed

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CowA Brazilian man has died after being crushed to death by a cow which fell through the roof of his home.

Joao Maria de Souza, 45, was asleep in bed next to his wife Leni at the home in Caratinga, southeast Brazil. A cow had escaped from a nearby farm and clambered onto the corrugated roof of the couple’s home, which sits on a steep hill.

The weight of the animal – which was estimated to be around one and a half tonnes – caused the roof to collapse and the cow fell eight feet onto the bed, crushing Mr de Souza.

He was taken to hospital suffering from a fractured leg, but had no other obvious injuries, and was said to be communicating normally. However, he later died from internal bleeding whilst waiting to be seen by doctors.

Maria de Souza, the victim’s mother, told Brazil’s SuperCanal TV channel: “I didn’t bring my son up to be killed by a falling cow.”

Police in Caratinga, Minas Gerais state, have confirmed that they have now launched an investigation into the death, and stated that the owner of the cow could be charged with involuntary manslaughter.

Men under arrest for stealing 9ft chicken statue

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Cock a doodle doo.

Cock a doodle doo.

A trio of young men have been arrested after stealing a statue of a chicken which measured in at 9ft.

Putnam County, Florida-based Darrin Edwards, 19, Tyler Jones, 21 and James Smith stole the statue – which is made from aluminum and weighs around 42 stone – from the home of local resident Ben Smith.

According to the Metro newspaper, Mr Smith was getting ready for a day at work when he heard a commotion outside his home. Amid the “screaming and hollering” he could hear, Mr Smith went outside and saw his statue – which is worth around £1,500 – being dragged away behind a Chevrolet truck.

The statue was dragged down the road for around a mile with one of the riding with it, before it was unhooked from the van. The men then drove away.

Detective Shannon Depew, leading the investigation into the stolen chicken statue, told the publication that the three men were arrested the following day and were charged with theft.

“The chicken sustained a broken leg, broken claw and there was extensive damage to one side,” Detective Depew said.

Woman superglues lips together in New Zealand

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Some lips. Not necessarily representative of those that were glued together.

Lips.

A New Zealand-based woman accidentally superglued her lips together when she mistakenly applied the glue instead of her lip cream.

The Dunedin resident, 64, reached for what she thought was lip cream in the dark in the middle of the night, and was horrified to discover that it was in fact superglue.

According to the Otago Daily Times, the woman was only able to make grunting sounds on the phone when she called the emergency services to come and help her out of her predicament.

Senior Sergeant Steve Aitken told the publication: “[The] ambulance received a call, but due to the muffled speech, they were unsure whether it was a medical event or whether someone had been gagged.

“Basically, she could only grunt. She got up in the middle of the night, in the dark, and grabbed what she thought was the tube of medication”, Senior Sergeant Aitken went on to say.

As a result of the grunting sound, ambulance staff alerted police who then went directly to the woman’s home. She was admitted to hospital where she received treatment to unglue her lips, and has now been discharged.

US couple let Starbucks’ customers name their new baby

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Coffee and baby names. A natural union?

Coffee and baby names. A natural union?

When a couple based in New Haven, Connecticut, could not decide on a name for their baby, they turned to the customers of their local Starbucks coffee outlet to help them make a decision.

Mark Dixon, 24, and Jennifer James, 25, were tired of trying to decide on a moniker for their unborn son, and decided to open up the decision to a public vote.

The young couple made a sign saying that their baby would be called either Jackson Logan or Logan Jackson, and put it in the New Haven Green branch of Starbucks.

Customers then wrote their vote onto a piece of ballot paper and dropped it into a coffee cup underneath the sign when they went in to pick up their coffee fix.

The couple said that they picked up the inspiration for the voting system from a Starbucks’ employee of the month system, where customers cast votes for their top employee. “We saw that and thought we might as well see how it works,” Dixon told the New Haven Register.

Almost 2,000 customers voted on the name, and, despite some odd suggestions for alternative names which include Barack Obama, Hulk Hogan and even ‘Latte’, the votes helped the couple decide on a name – Logan Jackson Dixon.