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DON'T EAT THE YELLOW SNOW -- IT'S ART
In 1991 British artist Helen Chadwick came to Canada to create a series of 12 artworks: bronzed "urine flowers." She formed round piles of densely packed, fresh snow, and peed on them (to turn them yellow). Then she had a male friend "draw" (pee) a circular pattern on it. The combined result looked something like a daisy. Then, before it could melt, Chadwick made a bronze casting of the snow, to create a lasting, one-of-a-kind sculpture. (She sold all 12 for $2,000 each.)
STICKY SUBJECT
Jason Kronenwald of Toronto makes busts of celebrities for a living. He doesn't use stone or clay -- his artworks are made out of chewing gum. (Kronenwald actually hates to chew gum, so he has a friend chew it for him.) His most recent works: portraits of "Gum Blondes," including Britney Spears and Pamela Anderson.
GOAL
Corey Hirsch, goalie for the 1994 Canadian Olympic hockey team, threatened to sue the Swedish government in 1995. Sweden planned to issue a postage stamp commemorating the Swedish hockey team's come-from-behind defeat of Canada to win the gold medal at the 1994 Winter Olympics. Hirsch's objection: The stamp would depict Peter Forsberg scoring the game-winning goal -- against Hirsch. That, said Hirsch, is "not the way I want to be remembered." (Sweden issued the stamp anyways.)
EAT MY SHORTS
Alberta police stopped David Zurfluh for driving erratically, suspicious that the teenager was drunk. But before he could be given a breath analysis, Zurfluh, who was sitting in the back of the squad car, ate his own underwear. Questioned in court, Zurfluh later admitted that his intention was to eat enough cotton so that it would absorb the alcohol in his system. Amazingly, it may have worked: the breath test showed his blood alcohol level to be at the legal limit. Zurfluh was acquitted of all charges.
DRILLED TO MEET YOU
Donald Wright was installing a sliding glass door in his Toronto apartment building when he fell off a stepladder and knocked himself unconscious. When he woke up, he discovered that he'd fallen head first onto a power drill, which had bored three inches into his right temple. He tried to pull the drill out, but it wouldn't budge, so he set it on reverse, turned it on, and removed it from his head. (Doctors later removed the bone fragments from Wright's brain.)
BUT OFFICER, IT WAS A MOOSEUNDERSTANDING
Police in Bonavista-Clarenville, Newfoundland, stopped a driver and gave him a ticket for having an illegal radar detector. His explanation: the black box on his dashboard wasn't a radar detector -- it was a moose detector.
DON'T EAT THE YELLOW SNOW -- IT'S ART
In 1991 British artist Helen Chadwick came to Canada to create a series of 12 artworks: bronzed "urine flowers." She formed round piles of densely packed, fresh snow, and peed on them (to turn them yellow). Then she had a male friend "draw" (pee) a circular pattern on it. The combined result looked something like a daisy. Then, before it could melt, Chadwick made a bronze casting of the snow, to create a lasting, one-of-a-kind sculpture. (She sold all 12 for $2,000 each.)
STICKY SUBJECT
Jason Kronenwald of Toronto makes busts of celebrities for a living. He doesn't use stone or clay -- his artworks are made out of chewing gum. (Kronenwald actually hates to chew gum, so he has a friend chew it for him.) His most recent works: portraits of "Gum Blondes," including Britney Spears and Pamela Anderson.
GOAL
Corey Hirsch, goalie for the 1994 Canadian Olympic hockey team, threatened to sue the Swedish government in 1995. Sweden planned to issue a postage stamp commemorating the Swedish hockey team's come-from-behind defeat of Canada to win the gold medal at the 1994 Winter Olympics. Hirsch's objection: The stamp would depict Peter Forsberg scoring the game-winning goal -- against Hirsch. That, said Hirsch, is "not the way I want to be remembered." (Sweden issued the stamp anyways.)
EAT MY SHORTS
Alberta police stopped David Zurfluh for driving erratically, suspicious that the teenager was drunk. But before he could be given a breath analysis, Zurfluh, who was sitting in the back of the squad car, ate his own underwear. Questioned in court, Zurfluh later admitted that his intention was to eat enough cotton so that it would absorb the alcohol in his system. Amazingly, it may have worked: the breath test showed his blood alcohol level to be at the legal limit. Zurfluh was acquitted of all charges.
DRILLED TO MEET YOU
Donald Wright was installing a sliding glass door in his Toronto apartment building when he fell off a stepladder and knocked himself unconscious. When he woke up, he discovered that he'd fallen head first onto a power drill, which had bored three inches into his right temple. He tried to pull the drill out, but it wouldn't budge, so he set it on reverse, turned it on, and removed it from his head. (Doctors later removed the bone fragments from Wright's brain.)
BUT OFFICER, IT WAS A MOOSEUNDERSTANDING
Police in Bonavista-Clarenville, Newfoundland, stopped a driver and gave him a ticket for having an illegal radar detector. His explanation: the black box on his dashboard wasn't a radar detector -- it was a moose detector.
