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Approved By The Authorities


From the submitter: On the first day of a 3-day trip, I rear-ended this rental car into another car. Instead of trying to find a replacement rental on the 4th of July weekend, I (with the help of the local police!) “fixed” the bumper that was hanging off the car.

 

Symptoms of Putin Include Fever, Chills


From The Moscow Times: Siberian investigators are seeking jail terms over a prank in which a billboard for a clinic treating sexually transmitted diseases was doctored to include less-than-flattering portraits of Dmitry Medvedev and Vladimir Putin. The original billboard for the Barnaul clinic depicted gonorrhea, candida and ureaplasma as ugly monsters under the slogan: “Do you need such companions?” The pranksters added a row of personified disease photos, including a ghastly white President Medvedev, a light green Prime Minister Putin and similarly ill-looking likenesses of Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov, Liberal Democratic Party leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky and Altai Governor Alexander Karlin, according to photos posted on the local anarchist web site Anarhobarnaul.org. Just make sure to keep both Medvedev and Putin as far away from your genitals as possible.