Sep 12
2008What a weird day it has been. Oddities around the world just don’t seem to stop
In southern Vietnam airport officials found a dead baby in the suitcase of a passenger who was about to board a flight.
Security personnel at Ho Chi Minh City’s main airport discovered the corpse of a day-old girl when they scanned the suitcase of 20-year-old Vu Van Dat before he boarded a flight to to Hanoi.
Dat told investigators that the baby belonged to one of his relatives and had died of natural causes shortly after it was born.
Quat says Dat told them his relatives asked him take the body to the family’s home village in northern Thanh Hoa province, some 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of Hanoi.
In Melbourne a minister was today forced to step down just three days after assuming the post amid reports that he danced in his underpants at a parliamentary office party.
The Australian newspaper had earlier reported that Brown, who at the time held the housing and tourism portfolios, stripped to his underwear during the party and allegedly simulated a sex act on a woman
In Michigan a businessman said he was so frustrated with the condition of a public bathroom in the western Michigan tourist town of Saugatuck that he cleaned it himself, and billed the city $156 for his work.
Steve Oswald said that customers of his shop complained about the condition of the bathroom. He said the bathroom typically is cleaned twice daily, and he thinks it got dirty quickly because it was a busy tourist weekend. Since then, the city has increased cleanings.
City Manager Kirk Harrier says the city appreciates Oswald’s effort, but city council hasn’t decided whether to pay him.
