Thursday March 1 11:19 AM ET

Student Dies in Trash Bin Prank

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - A New Zealand university student died Thursday when she careered down the world's steepest street in a rubbish bin and crashed into a parked trailer.

Ana Louise North, 19, was killed instantly in the early morning crash in Baldwin Street in Dunedin, a city around 600 km (375 miles) south of Wellington, the police said.

A second student in the bin, Lindsay Peter Roxburgh, also 19, suffered a serious head injury.

The Guinness Book of World Records lists Baldwin Street as the steepest in the world with a maximum gradient of 1 in 2.66 (38 degrees).

The pair met up in a bar after New Zealand beat Pakistan in a one day international cricket match in Dunedin Wednesday night and ended up pushing the two wheeled bin up Baldwin Street around 2:30 a.m., the police said.

They then lay it on its side, climbed in and used it as a sledge down the road.

North, who is from Blenheim and Roxburgh, who is from Pukekohe, traveled around 50 meters down the road, a popular spot for student pranks, before hitting the legally parked trailer.

-- (not@very.bright), March 02, 2001

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Wednesday February 28 10:45 AM ET

Drunk Finds Cigarettes And Gasoline Don't Mix

BRISBANE (Reuters) - A drunk man who lit a cigarette while filling a jerry can with gasoline blew himself into the air and landed in the arms of the law, Australian police said on Wednesday.

The 40-year-old motorist drove into a gas station on the Gold Coast tourist strip of Queensland early on Wednesday and began filling the can from a gas pump.

His pit stop came unstuck when the cigarette in his mouth ignited the gas in the can.

The petrol exploded, his car burst into flames and the man was blown 15 feet through the air, crashing to earth on a nest of angry ants.

The man suffered minor burns to his legs which did not require hospital treatment, police said. Fire crews put out a blaze in his car, which was badly damaged.

``He suffered a few small burns and some ant bites, a police spokesman told Reuters.

``We took a vote and this is one of the stupidest things we've ever heard of.''

Police arrested the singed and groggy man and charged him with drink-driving, driving without a license and driving an unregistered vehicle.

The man, whose name was not released, will appear in court in two weeks.

-- (related@to.dumbya?), March 02, 2001.

Who's the idiots!!!!

"...The Ways and Means Committee approved the sweeping rate cuts after rejecting a Democratic alternative the Democrats said would get more money into the hands of lower- and middle-income families faster than Bush's proposal and at about half the cost to federal revenues.

The Democrats' bill would create a 12 percent rate bracket for the first $10,000 of income for a single taxpayer and the first $20,000 of income for married couples. There would be no change in higher tax brackets under the Democratic plan. It also would expand the earned income tax credit for poor working families."

The Dems offer no tax relief to anyone basically making more than the minimum wage!!! What assh_les!

-- dems are the idiots (moreinterpretation@ugly.com), March 02, 2001.

You can't light gasoline without an open flame, dumbass.

You may take a lighted cigarette and put it out in gas, it won't ignite it.

-- George W. Bush (GWB@whitehouse.gov), March 02, 2001.

"You can't light gasoline without an open flame, dumbass."

Yeah right. Ever hear of fumes, dumbshit? Gas vapors can explode with even a tiny glowing spark, and that ignites the liguid, DUMBASS!

-- (try.it@you'll.like.it), March 03, 2001.