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Sunday Mail

August 26, 2007, Sunday

STRANGE BUT TRUE: A TOPLESS SHOCK AT CARWASH; BIZARRE STORIES FROM AROUND THE WORLD

BYLINE: By AVRIL CADDEN

Taxi's rank

SHANGHAI cabbies have been banned from eating and yawning to help keep their grubby cars clean.

They've also been given "spit sacks" to stop them doing it out of windows.

MEN lured into a carwash by the promise of topless valets were stunned to discover the supposedly sexy scrubbers were blokes.

Drivers paid pounds 2.50 for the clean in Long Island, New York, with the cash going to charity.

Mad stocker

A HOUSEWIFE made pounds 1.7million on the stock exchange - then got fined pounds 146,000 for dodging tax.

The 60-year-old, of Tokyo, used relatives' names to make her gains look smaller and avoid paying duty.

Pot clot

AN OAP was arrested after police found a knee-high marijuana plant in her garden. She claimed she used the drug to keep animals off her property.

Cheeky monkeys

A GROUP of monkeys are driving farmers ape - by sexually harassing the girls guarding their crops.

The cheeky chimps point at the Kenyan women's breasts and some say they make explicit gestures.

Sole-d out

A SHOPLIFTER was nabbed in Israel after taking a swiped pair of shoes back to a store because they didn't fit.
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