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Some strange,wi1d and wonderful stories colored the news in 2011：
★A Copenhagen(哥本哈根)bus company has put “love seats” on its vehicles for people looking for a partner．“Even love at first sight is possible on the bus”, said a spokesman to explain the two seats on each bus that are covered in red cloth and a “love seat”sign．
★Shoppers at an international fair in Verona, Italy, found a cellphone-equipped golden coffin(棺材)among the items on display．The phone will help“the dead” contact relatives if they have been buried alive by mistake．
★A man in New York came up with a disarming(解除疑虑的)way to set off his latest bank heist(盗窃), approaching the clerks window with a large bunch of flowers and handing over a hold-up note saying “give me the money”!
★An Englishman who lost all his legs and arms in an electrical accident successfully swam across the Channel, a challenge he had been preparing for two years．The whole cost is 400 dollars．
★A set of artificial teeth made for British war-time prime minister Winston Churchill known as “the teeth that saved the world ”sold for nearly 18，OOO pounds(21,500 Euros, 24,000 dollars)at auction．
★A British woman caused an Internet hate campaign after she was caught on camera dumping(丢弃)a cat in a rubbish bin．She was fined 250 pounds(280 Euros, 400 dollars)after admitting guilty．
★The BBC apologized completely and without any doubts after a radio presenter jokingly announced that Queen Elizabeth II had died．
★TWO Australian men who needed surgery(外科手术)after shooting each other in the bottoms during drinking to see if it would hurt were charged 400 dollars separately．
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