Dispensary Corner 19 Jul 12
July 19, 2012
GETTING down and dirty.
As many as three million tourists
are this week flocking to South
Korea’s Daechoen beach for the
city’s 13th annual mud festival.
Activities include mud wrestling,
mud baths and mud slides - all in
the name of the local wet dirt’s
alleged powers to “refresh the
skin and soothe the soul”.
The festival is helped along with
liberal amounts of alcohol, and
there are also hundreds of beauty
and skincare products made with
the local mud for sale.
According to the New Zealand
Herald, the festival is “pretty
much the same for all visitors.
“Step one: arrive in clean clothes.
“Step two: get muddy, often
while enjoying a tasty beverage”.
TWO crows are being blamed for
a major incident in the US state of
Washington which involved some
suspicious white powder.
A hazardous materials team was
called to a highway intersection
after reports of a possible
mysterious chemical on the road.
Investigating firemen were
eventually told that a couple of
crows were to blame, with a
woman saying she noticed two
large crows dragging a bag of
white flour.
The woman took the bag away
from the birds and threw it in a
rubbish bin, but later other
passers-by raised the alarm.
According to the Edmond Daily
Herald it took the HAZMAT crew
about an hour to clear the scene.
THERE has been a groundswell of
protest in Key West, Florida about
the possible introduction of
genetically modified mosquitoes
into the local ecosystem.
The special insects have been
created by UK firm Oxitec to die
off more quickly, with hopes that
when they breed with local
mozzies they will eventually
reduce rates of dengue fever.
However 100,000 locals have
signed a petition against the plan.
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