A Romanian entrepreneur has come under fire for putting plastic prostitutes on the street to advertise his garden gnome business.
Neighbours in Lilieci, Bacau county, complain the realistic figures distract motorists and are an unsuitable sight for local children.
Cristi Birgu, 27, who has just set up his business, defends his "aggressive advertising" and says the dummies will remain outside his house to drum up trade.
Apart from garden gnomes and prostitutes, he makes reproductions of Laurel and Hardy, Elvis, sports stars, cartoon characters and animals.

Mr Birgu said: "So far, my girls have attracted a lot of beeping from truck drivers but not too many customers. Sometimes I am afraid somebody might have an accident, arrested by the view, you know."
Resident Gheorghe N said: "I don't think it's moral to display such objects on the street.
"They are a bad influence especially for children not to mention there are a lot of people with respect for God here and who don't tolerate such things."

Doctors have replaced a man's penis with one grown on his forearm.

The 30-year-old Russian, named only as Sergei, has his 2-and-a-half-inch penis removed and attached to his arm.
Using tissue it grew to 6-and-a-half inches and was sewn back on his groin in an 11-hour operation reports The Sun.
A Moscow surgeon said the man will be able to have sex in a few months. He said: "Women will never suspect."

A Chinese man who had the world's biggest hand is hoping for a normal life after undergoing surgery.
Liu Hua, 24, from Jiangsu Province, had fingers thicker than his arms before the operation to remove 11lbs of bone and tissue, reports Xinmin Evening News.

His left thumb, index finger and middle finger were deformed at birth but they have since grown to an amazing size.
Liu said: "My thumb and index finger are even thicker than my arms, and make my left hand useless.
"When I go out, I have to wrap my left hand in clothes and pretend I’m holding a bag."
Doctors at Shanghai City 9th People’s hospital took seven hours to do the surgery. They plan another operation in about six months.
"We kept his five fingers, and hopefully his left hand will eventually regain normal function," a spokesman said.
Liu was suffering from a rare disease called macrodactyly, a birth defect in which toes or fingers are abnormally large.

Edna Townsend ,70, and David Martin, 31, met and fell in love at an organ society meeting. Despite the age gap, David - who had never had a girlfriend before - said it was love at first sight. Organist David proposed to Edna under Weston-super-Mare pier on Valentine's Day this year. The couple, from Worle in Somerset, said the age differences was not a consideration because they both have "artistic temperaments".
Ms Townsend said she had settled for being single but a chance meeting with Mr Martin had made her change her mind.
Mr Martin, who has been profoundly deaf since the age of nine, is an accomplished organ player. Ms Townsend said: "I had heard quite a lot about this extraordinary young man and it really was love at first sight.
"With me it's always been men's minds that has attracted. He is the friendliest, funniest and most beautiful man and we are very much in love."
Mr Martin added: "I've never had a relationship before. Before my life was all about music."

   A song that contains the word f**k 20 times is heading for the top of the UK charts. The song, F**k It (I Don't Want You Back) by Irish-American singer Eamon, sold 65,000 copies in only two days. That's more than double the next highest new entry by D12, says The Sun.
The track, which has 33 swear words including six sh*ts, has been described as a ghetto version of Nothing Compares 2 U by Sinead O'Connor. The man behind the song is not a hard man gangster brought up in the ghetto. Instead he's a well educated, middle class guy from New York. He said: "When I was young, my mum washed my mouth with hot pepper when I cursed. It hurt bad!"
Eamon's single has been a smash in the US and he has even been credited with creating his own genre called "ho-wop" - a combination of hip-hop and doo-wop.

	eamon - Don't Want You Back	03:23

LIMP BIZKIT
"Hot Dog"

	Limp Bizkit - Hot Dog	03:49

Ladies and gentlemen!
Introducing the Chocolate Starfish!
and the Hotdog Flavored Water
Bring it on!
Get the fuck up!
Yeah!
Check, one, two

Listen up, listen up!
Here we go
It's a fucked up world
A fucked up place
Everybody's judged by their fucked up face
Fucked up dreams
Fucked up life
A fucked up kid
With a fucked up knife
Fucked up moms
And fucked up dads
It's a fucked up a cop
With a fucked up badge
Fucked up job
With fucked up pay
And a fucked up boss
Is a fucked up pain
Fucked up press
And fucked up lies
Well, Lethal's in the back
With the fact of the fires

Hey, it's on
Everybody knows it's on
Hey, it's on
Everybody knows it's on

Ain't it a shame that you can't say "Fuck"
Fuck's just a word
And it's all fucked up
Like a fucked up punk
With a fucked up mouth
A nine inch nail
I'll get knocked the fuck out
Fucked up aids
From fucked up sex
Fake ass titties
On a fucked up chest
We're all fucked up
So whatcha wanna do?
We fucked up me
And fucked up you

You wanna fuck me like an animal
You'd like to burn me on the inside
You like to think that I'm a perfect drug
Just know that nothing you do
Will bring you closer to me

Ain't life a bitch?
A fucked up bitch
A fucked up sore with a fucked up stitch
A fucked up head
Is a fucked up shame
Swinging on my nuts
Is a fucked up game
Jealousy filling up a fucked up mind
It's real fucked up
Like a fucked up crime
If I say "Fuck", two more times
That's forty six "Fucks" in this fucked up rhyme

It's on
Everybody knows it's on
Hey, it's on
Everybody knows it's on

You wanna fuck me like an animal
You'd like to burn me on the inside
You like to think that I'm a perfect drug
Just know that nothing you do
Will bring you closer to me

Hooo Haaa Haaaw!
Listen up baby
You.. can't.. bring.. me.. (bring me).. down
I.. don't.. think.. so
I don't want some
You.. better.. check.. your.. (check it).. self
Before.. you.. wreck.. your.. self
Kiss.. my.. star.. fish
My.. choco.. late.. Starfish.. punk
Kiss.. my.. star.. fish
My.. choco.. late.. Starfish.. punk

You wanna fuck me like an animal
You'd like to burn me on the inside
You like to think that I'm a perfect drug
Just know that nothing you do
Will bring you closer to me

A missing cat turned up at his own funeral.Owner Will Massingale from Bude, Cornwall, was stunned when Timmy wandered into the garden during the burial. Will then realised the dead cat was his neighbour's, reports The Sun. He said: "I thought I was hallucinating."

A German inventor says he's found a way to make cheap diesel fuel out of dead cats. Dr Christian Koch, 55, from Kleinhartmannsdorf, said his method uses old tyres, weeds and animal cadavers. They are heated up to 300 Celsius to filter out hydrocarbon which is then turned into diesel by a catalytic converter. He said the resulting "high quality bio-diesel" costs just 15 pence per litre. Koch said the cadaver of a fully grown cat can produce 2.5 litres of fuel - meaning around 20 cats are needed for a full tank. He said: "I tank my car with my own diesel mixture and have driven it for 105,000 miles without any problems." Annelise Krauss of the Dresden Animal Protection Association blasted Koch's new diesel though, saying: "This is as bad as experimenting on animals."

Russian leader Vladimir Putin has inadvertently become a gay icon after stripping down to the waist on a fishing trip.
The pictures were taken while the President was on holiday with Prince Albert of Monaco in the Siberian mountains.

They have had a huge impact in Russia, turning the president into a sex symbol, an inspiration for men to start pumping iron, and the new darling of the gay lobby.
Newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda published a huge colour photo of the bare-chested President, under the headline Be Like Putin.
The picture illustrated a guide to the exercises needed to build up a torso like that of the Russian leader.
The paper reported that women who visited its website had posted comments on Mr Putin's "vigorous torso" and said they "were screaming with delight and showering him with compliments."

Russian gay chatrooms and blogs were also particularly intrigued by the photos. One satirical photo circulating on the internet compared the fishing and riding adventure with gay cowboy movie Brokeback Mountain. The 54-year-old leader, who is married with two daughters, has cultivated a macho image. He is a keen downhill skier, has a black belt in judo, and has appeared on television driving a truck, operating a train, sailing on a submarine and co-piloting a fighter jet.

Girl's button terror
A Hampshire student has spoken out about her rare phobia - a paralysing fear of buttons. Gillian Linkins, 22, can't even stand to be in the same room as friends and family who wear them. She first realised her fear aged seven, when she refused to put on her school blouse, reports The Sun. The sight of buttons sends her into panic attacks and boyfriend Nate Dorrington, 23, can only wear clothes with zips.
She said: "I've had the fear as long as I remember. My mum says I freaked out when it was time to get dressed.
"For me touching a button would be like touching a cockroach. It feels dirty, nasty and wrong. When I was younger my brother used to tease me by opening my mum's button tin. I hid in my bedroom until he put them away."
Gillian, of Waterlooville, tried in vain to hide her phobia from school pals in case she was picked on and has tried hypnotherapy, without success. Her phobia, koumpounophobia, affects one in 75,000 people.
She added: "Watching the children's TV show Button Moon is like being made to watch a horror movie. People just think I'm weird."

Swiss couples are flocking back to church - to get divorced.
An official liturgy for divorce ceremonies is now being determined as so many couples want to end their marriages where they started.Zurich-based Protestant pastor Frank Worbs who is working on the liturgy said: "A ritual or symbolic process includes meetings with the priest beforehand in the same way that married couples have a meeting. He said: "It helps divorced people to get over the separation and achieve definite closure. Sometimes there is no other solution but to separate. "In such situations it is important to make the divorce as amicable as possible for the couple so that they can begin a new chapter in their lives. Other members of the family can also take part and come to terms with things more easily. "
President of the Zurich Reform Church, Ruedi Reich, said: "Going through a ceremony like this is a way of showing God that the marriage is over."

Fucking (IPA: [ˈfʊkɪŋ]) is an Austrian village in the municipality of Tarsdorf, in the Innviertel region of western Upper Austria. The village is located 33 kilometres north of Salzburg, four kilometres east of the German border and half an hour by car from the town of Petting, in Bavaria. The village is known to have existed as "Fucking" since at least 1070 and is named after a man from the 6th century called Focko. "-ing" is an old Germanic suffix indicating the people of the root word to which it is attached; thus Fucking means "(place of) Focko’s people." The village has a population of 93. Fucking's most famous feature is a traffic sign with its name on it, beside which tourists often stop to have their photograph taken. It is a commonly stolen street sign. Significant public funds have been spent on replacing the stolen signs.
In 2004, mainly due to the stolen signs, a vote was held on changing the village's name, but the residents voted against doing so.[4] In August 2005, the road signs were replaced with theft-resistant signs welded to steel and secured in concrete to prevent further chances of the sign being stolen.

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7. Crackpot, England
8. Crotch Lake, Ontario, Canada
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21. Holy Moses, Colorado, USA
22. Hot Coffee, Missouri, USA
23. Humansville, Missouri, USA
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25. Intercourse, Pennsylvania, USA Jot 'em Down, Texas, USA
26. Knockemstiff, Ohio, USA
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28. Looneyville, Texas, USA
29. Mary's Igloo, Alaska, USA
30. Monkey's Eyebrow, Arizona, USA
31. Nameless, Texas, USA
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48. Waterproof, Louisiana, USA
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Do you think ABC TV should have picked a different anchor to do this story?

From "Monty Python"
Perhaps one of the most interesting words in the english language today, is the word fuck. Out of all the english words that begin with the letter 'f' ...fuck is the only word refered to as 'the f word... It's the one magical word. Just by its sound can describe pain, pleasure, hate and love. Fuck, as most words in the english language is derived from german ...the word fuieken, which means to strike.
In english, fuck falls into many grammatical categories:

As a transitive verb for intance ...John fucked Shirley.
As an intransitive verb...Shirley fucks.

Its meaning is not always sexual, it can be used as...

An adjective such as ...John's doing all the fucking work.
As part of an adverb ...Shirley talks too fucking much.
As an adverb enhancing an adjective ...Shirley is fucking beautiful.
As a noun ...I don't give a fuck.
As part of a word ...absofuckinglutely -or- infuckingcredible.
And as almost every word in a sentence ...Fuck the fucking fuckers.

As you must realize, there aren't too many words with the versatility of fuck...such as these examples describing situations such as:

Fraud ...I got fucked at the used car lot.
Dismay ...ahhh fuck it.
Trouble ...I guess I'm really fucked now.
Agression ...Don't fuck with me buddy.
Difficulty ...I don't understand this fucking question.
Inquiry ...Who the fuck was that?
Dissatisfaction ...I don't like what the fuck is going on here.
Incompetance ...He's a fuck-off.
Dismissal ...Why don't you go outside and play hide and go fuck yourself...

I'm sure you can think of many more examples.
With all these multi-purpose applications, how can anyone be offended when you use the word. We say use this unique, flexible word more often in your daily speech.
It will identify the quality of your character immediately.
Say it loudly and proudly...
...FUCK YOU!