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Bizarre but true stories about real people collected by syndicated columnist Chuck Shepherd.
The Cadbury company launched a major promotion campaign throughout Britain to fight childhood obesity by donating sports equipment to schools in exchange for candy bar purchases. For example (according to an April report in The Guardian), the company will donate a volleyball net and poles to a school if it hands in labels from 5,400 Cadbury chocolate bars. (In fact, a 10-year-old child getting a basketball for his school would have to play basketball for 90 hours just to burn off the calories in the candy he’d have to eat to get enough labels for the ball.)
Detroit City Council member Kay Everett outdid colleagues who use the city’s printing plant for mere personal fliers and business cards; she had the plant publish for her a 12-month calendar of herself, “Hat’s on Me in 2003,” featuring a different, fashionable photograph of herself for each month.
An international organization of gay men who raise money for charities through drag shows came to the rescue of straight high school girls by providing loaners for those who could not afford gowns for prom night (Houston).
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