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"A car driver in Australia has been fined for strapping down his beer rather than his young child."
http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7397867.stm

ETA: "A man has been given a suspended jail sentence for attacking two Star Wars fans while dressed as Darth Vader."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/north_west/7398202.stm

ETA2: "University staff have been caught pressuring students to dishonestly answer an official funding council survey of student satisfaction."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7397979.stm

Tolkien slept here

"Grassington, England - If it were not for the odd cow on the horizon, visitors to this remote part of northern England might feel marooned among the thousands of sheep. It is silent here too, apart from the almost indignant "baaing" of these fluffy wool donors. A latticework of drystone walls like silvery grey veins divides up the "dales," as the lush, green valleys of this upland landscape are known, and it is not hard to see why English author JRR Tolkien found inspiration hereabouts for his Lord of the Rings trilogy. A few elves and dwarfs or even a hobbit would not seem out of place."

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/204965,striding-out-among-the-sheep-in-the-tranquil-yorkshire-dales.html

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