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February 5, 2007
Mexican wave campaigner Matthew Newton says his $25 ticket to the Australia-New Zealand cricket match was worth the national publicity to bring back the Aussie crowd tradition. Newton was ejected from the MCG after instigating a stadium wide Mexican wave, which has been banned by Cricket Australia.
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January 23, 2007
A two-year-old girl's temper tantrum got her and her family removed from their flight home to Boston from Fort. Myers, Fla. An Airtran spokeswoman said Elly Kulesza was climbing under her seat, hitting her parents and refused to buckle up during boarding. She said Airtran was only following Federal Aviation Administration rules that say children age 2 and older must have their own seat and be buckled into their seat by take-off.
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January 8, 2007
A 28-year-old man wanting to take his wife on a second honeymoon, has converted a bottle of beer into a camper van, in just five swapping deals. Pete Genders from Lincoln, England said he wanted to have a motor home so he could take his wife Verity on a tour. He set up a Web site offering a $5. 20 beer and told himself he will not stop until he acquired a van.
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December 18, 2006
A Chinese Airline was fined after it sold airline tickets for prices as low as 1 yuan or 13 cents. The discounted flights usually sell for 910 yuan or $116 including taxes. An official from the Jinan Price Buearu said airlines are restricted from offering dicounts for more than 45 percent on the government-set price.
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December 8, 2006
Topics orange, office, clock, icon, motorcycle, tickets, santa, christmas, holiday, cars, gun, law, people and florida
The Orange County Sheriff's Office has launched an initiative that has deputies dressing as elves to clock in cars using a radar gun then sends a motorcycle deputy to pull the offender over and issue a ticket. Since implementing Operation ELF: Enforcing Limits and Fining speeders, more than 150 tickets were written in just over two hours Thursday.
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