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Pee-ty stupid

March 10th 2011 02:47
: Vyoos news
STORIES OF THE NEARLY NORMAL
You would think that a bank robber who can get himself into a bank vault without being seen, spend the night removing cash and jewellery from 140 safety boxes, and then get out of the vault and clean away the following morning, would have some brains.

Instead, we have our newest member of the Nearly Normal Club.

The trouble with our bank robber, a Swede who got himself into a bank vault in Denmark, is that he couldn't go all night with having a you know what. He actually brought two empty bottles for this contingency, which was thoughtful of him.


Where his thinking broke down was the next morning, when he left the two full bottles of pee in the bank vault.

The consequences might have been different if he hadn't been dumb enough to have have engaged in criminal acts in the past, and get caught for doing so.

The Danish police called to investigate the empty security boxes took the full urine bottles, tested them and got a ding when they compared the DNA to the convicted crim list.

The result was a 21-month stretch in a place the size of a bank vault which has its own toilet.
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Oh happy Danes

July 3rd 2008 18:42
Professor Ronald Inglehart, of the University of Michigan, has been conducting an annual study of global happiness since 1981. The latest survey results have just been published, revealing that Denmark, this year at least, is the happiest country in the world.

Prof Inglehart was reported as saying that, unlike other studies, which have focused on economic factors, his research has found that financial prosperity is not the only reason for happiness. "Personal freedom is even more important, and it's freedom in all kinds of ways. Political freedom, like with democracy and freedom of choice," he said.


This is not exactly breaking news, and it is not exactly precise language, but it is happy news in Denmark, and in Puerto Rico and Colombia, which came second and third in the latest Inglehart World Values Survey.

At the other end of the scale, Zimbabwe was found to be the least happy, with Russia and Iraq also in the bottom 10. The US was found to be the 16th happiest country, behind Switzerland, Canada and Sweden.

The home page of the survey, which describes itself as "The world's most comprehensive investigation of political and sociocultural change", can be found at (www.worldvaluesurvey.org).

Scientific study of happiness appears to be flourishing. We note that the BBC aired a six-part television special in 2006 entitled The Happiness Factor, which looked at research from around the world on the subject. The show suggested that our levels of happiness were largely pre-determined by our genes and our upbringing, varying slightly but always returning to our set point of happiness.

This doesn't quite sit with the Inglehart version of things, so we look forward to some spirited debate amongst the happiness experts.

Not that it's likely to make the citizens of Zimbabwe any happier.
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