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Gollywog
Joined: 14 Jun 2008
Location: Debussy's brain
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 Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 8:01 pm Post subject: Help write a better headline for this story |
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CNN's headline, while accurate, does not seem to do this story justice.
Can you write a better one?
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Leaky toilet exposes corrupt China official
BEIJING, China (CNN) -- A former Chinese government official has been sentenced to death after a leaky toilet led police to a stash of cash he'd collected in bribes, state media reported.
Yan Dabin was the former director of transportation for Wushan County in southwest China. He was sentenced Friday for accepting bribes totaling 22.3 million yuan ($3.2 million) in exchange for awarding contracts for road and bridge construction, the news agency Xinhua said.
He was arrested after a resident called a police station to complain that water was leaking through the ceiling from the vacant apartment above. Yan owned the unit.
A police officer sent to help a maintenance worker enter the property discovered the cause of the overflowing toilet: eight soaked cardboard boxes containing 9.39 million yuan ($ 1.3 million), Xinhua said.
Yan's wife was sentenced to three years in prison after she was found guilty of laundering more than 9 million yuan ($ 1.3 million) in a series of house purchases, the news agency said.
Beijing has been trying to rein in corruption after a series of several highly-publicized corruption cases involving officials who steal. |
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/08/03/china.toilet/index.html |
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bejarano-korea
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| Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 8:21 pm Post subject: |
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Tell you what - today is a day for ice cream..
When I was in Argentina, you could order ice cream by phone and they
would deliver - a bucket of ice cream for 3 dollars - value for money is that but you know what my favourite ice cream there was - celeste - which means sky and it was blue ice cream!
Whats your favourite ice cream? |
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bejarano-korea
Joined: 13 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 8:57 pm Post subject: |
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Hahahaha! 
I have just had a PM from the OP who told me to stick my ice cream and my anti american posts where the sun don't shine! 
Anti American? ME!
I don't think so - I'm just anti-halfwit - wherever they may come from.
Anyway folks - back to the topic of ice cream - whose tried that tolberone ice cream?
I like snickers ice cream bars too!  |
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 10:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Chink in toilet flushes out dirty business |
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The Hammer
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Ullungdo 37.5 N, 130.9 E, altitude : 223 m
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| Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 8:33 am Post subject: |
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| State Flushes Official Over Shitty Yuan. |
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Its just a ride
Joined: 25 Dec 2007
Location: A galaxy far, far away.
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| Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 5:49 pm Post subject: |
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| You can't launder dirty money in toilet, official discovers. |
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browneyedgirl
Joined: 17 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 2:44 pm Post subject: |
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It reminds me of a high school Confucius joke,
Confucius says man standing on toilet high on pot |
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bobbyhanlon
Joined: 09 Nov 2003
Location: 서울
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| Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 6:30 am Post subject: |
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| hush-hush slush fund is a busted flush |
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The Hammer
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Ullungdo 37.5 N, 130.9 E, altitude : 223 m
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| Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 5:51 pm Post subject: |
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Breaking News
Toilet Booty Linked to Olympic Gold. |
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