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Elephant attack boosts business at eatery
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SEOUL (Reuters) - A Seoul eatery that was trampled by elephants is back in business with a new name and a new menu that aims to capitalize on its bout with pachyderm pandemonium.
The restaurant that serves barbecue and other traditional Korean foods was closed for a month for repairs after three elephants rampaged through its plate-glass front. It has just reopened with a new name: "Restaurant Where Elephants Have Been."
Owner Keum Taek-hoon said Monday she had used the 18 million won ($18,000) insurance money to remodel her eatery.
It now has a sign featuring three elephants and a new, 7,000-won menu item called an "elephant set" that consists of seven vegetable side dishes and a hot soup.
Keum, who plans to decorate the restaurant with pictures of pachyderms, said the elephant set has proved wildly popular.
On April 20, six elephants escaped from a zoo and roamed around the South Korean capital.
Three of them crashed through the eatery, sending staff and patrons fleeing in terror. The elephants crushed tables and stools and also munched on carrots.
Keum said patrons have been heading to her newly reopened restaurant out of curiosity and sales have doubled.
"What can I say about the elephants? Thank you for causing the trouble? Well, that just might be right," Keum said.
Police officer fines driver for his resemblance to a big imbecile monkey
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A Romanian police officer was reduced in his rank after he stopped one of the cars and fined the driver $42. The officer fined the driver because the latter looked like a big imbecile monkey. The officer explained his decision with a wish to make a joke.
The driver apparently had a different sense of humor. He filed a complained against the police officer, Za Rulyom magazine wrote. As a result, the officer was reduced in his rank for the behavior, which did not correspond to the status of a policeman and defamed law-enforcement authorities. The officer currently works with papers in a remote Romanian village.
Russian suicidal chicken hangs itself on a fence
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A chicken killed itself on the fence of one of the village residents in the Tula region of Russia. An eyewitness of the unimaginable bird suicide says that he was resting on a couch, when his wife rushed into the house and said that a chicken had just committed suicide by hanging itself on the neighbor's fence.
When then man came out to have a look at what was happening, he saw a chicken hanging on the fence indeed. The chicken was apparently trying to fly over the fence, but did not have enough force to surmount the obstacle.
The man's son said that the chicken probably decided to kill itself being unable to lead the horrible life in the provincial village. The chicken is a vulnerable and sensitive bird that might not have the energy to handle stressful situations. Most likely, the Russian suicidal chicken has lost the will to live.
The poor bird was not left hanging on the fence: it was cooked and eaten.
Something to tide you guys over
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SEOUL (Reuters) - A Seoul eatery that was trampled by elephants is back in business with a new name and a new menu that aims to capitalize on its bout with pachyderm pandemonium.
The restaurant that serves barbecue and other traditional Korean foods was closed for a month for repairs after three elephants rampaged through its plate-glass front. It has just reopened with a new name: "Restaurant Where Elephants Have Been."
Owner Keum Taek-hoon said Monday she had used the 18 million won ($18,000) insurance money to remodel her eatery.
It now has a sign featuring three elephants and a new, 7,000-won menu item called an "elephant set" that consists of seven vegetable side dishes and a hot soup.
Keum, who plans to decorate the restaurant with pictures of pachyderms, said the elephant set has proved wildly popular.
On April 20, six elephants escaped from a zoo and roamed around the South Korean capital.
Three of them crashed through the eatery, sending staff and patrons fleeing in terror. The elephants crushed tables and stools and also munched on carrots.
Keum said patrons have been heading to her newly reopened restaurant out of curiosity and sales have doubled.
"What can I say about the elephants? Thank you for causing the trouble? Well, that just might be right," Keum said.
Police officer fines driver for his resemblance to a big imbecile monkey
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A Romanian police officer was reduced in his rank after he stopped one of the cars and fined the driver $42. The officer fined the driver because the latter looked like a big imbecile monkey. The officer explained his decision with a wish to make a joke.
The driver apparently had a different sense of humor. He filed a complained against the police officer, Za Rulyom magazine wrote. As a result, the officer was reduced in his rank for the behavior, which did not correspond to the status of a policeman and defamed law-enforcement authorities. The officer currently works with papers in a remote Romanian village.
Russian suicidal chicken hangs itself on a fence
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A chicken killed itself on the fence of one of the village residents in the Tula region of Russia. An eyewitness of the unimaginable bird suicide says that he was resting on a couch, when his wife rushed into the house and said that a chicken had just committed suicide by hanging itself on the neighbor's fence.
When then man came out to have a look at what was happening, he saw a chicken hanging on the fence indeed. The chicken was apparently trying to fly over the fence, but did not have enough force to surmount the obstacle.
The man's son said that the chicken probably decided to kill itself being unable to lead the horrible life in the provincial village. The chicken is a vulnerable and sensitive bird that might not have the energy to handle stressful situations. Most likely, the Russian suicidal chicken has lost the will to live.
The poor bird was not left hanging on the fence: it was cooked and eaten.
Something to tide you guys over
