<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><h2 class="ari-title" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0.3em; padding-right: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.1em; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1.2em; "><span style="color: red; ">You couldn't make it up: offbeat stories from 2010</span></h2><div><span style="color: red; "><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: red; "><b>1. Love Seats</b></span></div><div><span style="color: red; "><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: red; "><img src="/imagedata/2011/jan/Love-seats1.jpg" border="0" align="" alt="" /><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: red; "><br /></span></div></span><div>A Copenhagen bus company has put "love seats" on 103 of its vehicles for people looking for a partner. "Even love at first sight is possible on the bus," said a spokesman for the British owned Arriva company to explain the two seats on each bus that are covered in red cloth and a "love seat" sign.</div><div><br /></div><div><b><span style="color: red; ">2. Gold Coffin</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: red; "><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: red; "><img src="/imagedata/2011/jan/golden-coffin.jpg" border="0" align="" alt="" /><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: red; "><br /></span></b></div><div>Shoppers at an international luxury fair in Verona, Italy, found a cell-phone-equipped golden coffin among the items on display. The phones will help "the deceased" contact relatives if they have been buried alive by mistake.</div><div><br /></div><div><b><span style="color: red; ">3. Paul, the Worldcup Octopus</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: red; "><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: red; "><img src="/imagedata/2011/jan/Paul.jpg" border="0" align="" alt="" /><br /></span></b></div><div><br /></div><div>Paul the octopus, who shot to fame during this year's football World Cup for his flawless record in predicting game results, died peacefully in his sleep in an aquarium.</div><div><br /></div><div><b><span style="color: red; ">4. Langurs for security?</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: red; "><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: red; "><img src="/imagedata/2011/jan/Langurs.jpg" border="0" align="" alt="" /><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: red; "><br /></span></b></div><div>Delhi authorities deployed a contingent of langurs -- a large type of monkey -- at Commonwealth Games venues to help chase away smaller simians from the sporting extravaganza.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b><span style="color: red; ">5. An amputee a swimming champion?</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: red; "><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: red; "><img src="/imagedata/2011/jan/French-amputee.jpg" border="0" align="" alt="" /><br /></span></b></div><div><br /></div><div>A Frenchman who lost all his limbs in an electrical accident successfully swam across the Channel, a challenge he had been preparing for two years.</div><div><br /></div><div><b><span style="color: red; ">6.u00a0</span><span style="color: red; ">Winston Churchill's dentures sold for 18,000 pounds</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: red; "><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: red; "><img src="/imagedata/2011/jan/Winston-Churchill.jpg" border="0" align="" alt="" /><br /></span></b></div><div><br /></div><div>A set of dentures made for Britain's war-time prime minister Winston Churchill known as "the teeth that saved the world" sold for nearly 18,000 pounds (21,500 euros, 28,000 dollars) at auction.</div><div><br /></div><div><b><span style="color: red; ">7.u00a0Strongest and most expensive beer</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: red; "><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: red; "><img src="/imagedata/2011/jan/Brew-Dog.jpg" border="0" align="" alt="" /><br /></span></b></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: black; ">The strongest and most expensive beer ever created sold out within hours, a Scottish brewery said, as they courted controversy by packaging the bottles inside the bodies of stuffed squirrels and stoats.</span></div><div><span style="color: black; "><br /></span></div><div><b><span style="color: red; ">8. A British woman sparked an Internet hate campaign after she was caught on camera dumping a cat u00a0 u00a0 u00a0 in a rubbish bin</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: red; ">u00a0</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: red; "><img src="/imagedata/2011/jan/Internet-campaign.jpg" border="0" align="" alt="" /><br /></span></b></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: black; ">A British woman sparked an Internet hate campaign after she was caught on camera dumping a cat in a rubbish bin. She was fined 250 pounds (400 dollars, 280 euros) after pleading guilty.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><b><span style="color: red; ">9. u00a0Dead cannot escape internet!</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: red; "><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: red; "><img src="/imagedata/2011/jan/Hong-Kong-Dead.jpg" border="0" align="" alt="" /><br /></span></b></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: black; ">Even Hong Kong's dead cannot escape the Internet. In Chinese culture, relatives are expected to visit the cemetery at least once a year to pay their respects. But now, mourners can simply visit memorial.gov.hk set up by the government and set up a page free-of-charge.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><b><span style="color: red; ">10. BBC's goof up</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: red; "><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: red; "><img src="/imagedata/2011/jan/Queen-Elizabeth.jpg" border="0" align="" alt="" /><br /></span></b></div><div><span style="color: red; "><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: red; ">u00a0<span style="color: black; ">The BBC apologised "unreservedly" after a radio presenter jokingly announced that Queen Elizabeth II had died.</span></span></div><div><br /></div><span style="color: orange; ">        </span>

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