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Hot for each other: a forty-seven-year-old man and a forty-year-old woman shock passers-by in a park near the city centre of Cheb by giving in to the urge to have sex here-and-now. Dogs get a coin-operated dog wash franchise, and the country has a shortage of grave-diggers. Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarova.
The ministry for local development has a problem. It is looking in vain for gravediggers. Grave-digging as a profession is simply not “in” these days and people are not willing to do it. A law stipulating that grave-diggers need to be qualified is not helping much and individual towns and villages complain that they are unable to meet the requirement that each municipality should employ its own qualified gravedigger. The local development ministry is offering re-qualification courses at the price of 4,000 crowns, at the end of which a potential gravedigger will have to pass an exam – digging a grave within the space of a set time limit and answering questions on hygiene and safety at the workplace. People who fail can take the test again, the ministry says. Not very encouraging clearly, and so far it has not met with a positive response. Meanwhile, the shortage gets more pressing and some gravediggers are now expanding their locations, working in as many as seven graveyards. Maybe the ministry will have to offer some perks and put up a few action-packed billboards advertising the grave-digging profession. Come to think of it, pictures of the grave-diggers scene from Hamlet might give the profession more glitz…
Anyone who has ever heard the song Roll out the Barrels must instinctively know that it has Czech roots – although the original Czech version is called Škoda lásky or Wasted love. In any case, rolling out the barrels is something Czechs do plenty of and every summer there is a barrel-rolling competition on the outskirts of Brno. Contestants roll a beer barrel over a 50 metre stretch, staying on course and going as fast as possible. Twenty-two-year old Tomáš Durkech is the local beer-rolling champion having won several years in succession and covering the distance in 13 seconds flat. However this year the organizers changed the rules – taking into consideration the age of contestants and giving older people bonus points. So although Tomas reached the finish line first as usual – he ranked fifth – while the beer medals went to contestants in their 80s and 60s. Tomáš is naturally somewhat disappointed, but he says things can only get better with age. As for the senior beer rollers – they thought they’d not live to see the day….
A forty-seven-year-old man and a forty-year-old woman shocked passers-by in a park near the city centre of Cheb this week by giving in to the urge to have sex here-and-now. The couple simply tore their clothes off and went about it without a thought for the dozens of passers-by and children running around the park. They didn’t even stop when the police arrived and started taking snapshots of them to document the scene. “A number of people rang our hot-line and we had to physically separate them and get them on their feet when we got there,” one of the officers told journalists later. More surprising yet, it appears that the couple only knew each other for about two hours having met at a nearby restaurant. The police say they’d never witnessed a similar incident with people their age, although sixteen year olds could be fairly uninhibited. Whatever the reason for their behavior, one can only hope that the sex was good, because it will most likely be the most expensive sexual encounter they will ever have!
