奇聞：世界各地聖誕怪事大PK

Jingle-Bang! Bah Humbug. Bizarre rules at Christmas
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, j; @4 r+ G7 n% P# uSanta shot at in Rio. Electric eels light up Japanese Christmas tree.Singapore elephants get festive gift of boots for jumbo pain.
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1 J# [, j) S4 W* GAround the globe, Christmas invariably offers tales of the wacky, wildand downright weird -- and the 2007 festivities are certainly noexception.

( z# P& t( c6 I; \" e7 v& R5 P& z" u. ]In a Rio de Janeiro slum, drug traffickers opened fire on a helicoptercarrying Santa Claus to a Christmas party, apparently mistaking it fora police helicopter.
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Poor Santa is also under fire for being too fat.
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The acting US surgeon general said a thinner Santa would be a better role model for kids in a land battling obesity.

A British shopping centre ordered its Santas to attend a month-long boot camp with exercises before greeting children.
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% V* d" x) h1 ]) Z3 EIn the season of mass consumption, going green can win brownie points.
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3 a6 @1 @1 Y& w$ \* T3 }In Hong Kong, environmentalists are not amused, arguing that all theglittering neon Santas and rainbows of flashy lights are devouring toomuch electricity.

  o, K: u( j. A$ m9 q4 b" n' zBut, in sharp contrast, a Japanese aquarium decided on a novel way tosave energy -- it used electricity generated by an electric eel tolight up its Christmas tree.
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6 |# m1 {2 {6 lA Canadian man said he sold his son』s video game, a prized Christmas gift, on eBay after catching him smoking marijuana.
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In Singapore, vets gave Asian elephants Tun and Jamilah the perfectChristmas gift -- specially made waterproof boots to relieve chronicfoot lesions.
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% {: l- D  k. f, O" R+ FAnd cheeky Australian thieves stole 16 tonnes of ham and bacon from aSydney warehouse and then wrote "Thanks. Merry Christmas" on a wall.
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But surely the prize for the most bizarre Christmas charity gift mustgo to the International Rhino Foundation -- an auction of rhino dungwhich could be presented as Christmas gift！

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" `8 P& V  `' s7 [. G* B聖誕老人在里約熱內盧遭到槍擊。日本用電鰻點亮聖誕樹。新加坡的大象收到了聖誕禮物「止痛靴」……

2 T3 ?% _& N& f8 E& y1 n每到聖誕節，世界各地總會上演千奇百怪的聖誕故事，今年的聖誕節當然也不例外。

在里約熱內盧的一個貧民窟附近，一架載有「聖誕老人」的直升飛機遭到販毒分子的槍擊。這架直升飛機送「聖誕老人」去參加聖誕晚會，顯然被販毒分子當作警察的直升機了。
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9 y' h; x. b0 m+ L. P  z! t不僅如此，可憐的聖誕老人還因體形過胖而遭到「炮轟」。
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美國公共衛生署代理署長稱，在一個與肥胖進行「艱苦鬥爭」的國度，聖誕老人如果能變得更苗條一些，也許能成為孩子們更為理想的行動榜樣。
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# f  ~$ x" [0 `1 m& a& ~6 |% B9 |英國的一家購物中心要求其「聖誕老人」在聖誕節與小朋友們見面之前，必須參加為期一個月的「身體集訓營」。

1 |: l2 j( E1 h3 O2 \( X作為一年中的消費旺季，聖誕期間更應該加強環保意識。
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) F( n% d% @9 K( l: Y1 @; G  ?8 x, Y- Y香港的環保主義者們可不會被五光十色的節日霓虹所迷惑，他們稱帶有霓虹燈的聖誕老人和七彩閃光燈消耗了大量電能。
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與此相反，日本一家水族館則想出了一個新奇的節能辦法。它利用電鰻魚發的電來點亮聖誕樹綵燈。
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在加拿大，一名男子由於發現兒子吸食大麻，因此他在eBay上賣掉了兒子心愛的聖誕禮物——一款電腦遊戲。
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在新加坡，獸醫為兩頭名為圖恩和雅米拉的亞洲大象帶來了最合適的聖誕禮物——特製防水止痛靴。
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澳大利亞的一群厚顏無恥的小偷從悉尼的一家肉店倉庫偷走了16噸的火腿和燻肉，還在牆上留言說「謝謝。聖誕快樂！」。

而「最奇異的聖誕慈善禮物」大獎應該屬於「國際犀牛基金會」。近日，該組織舉辦了一個「犀牛糞」拍賣會，有興趣的人可以拿它作聖誕禮物哦！