Running On Empties
Posted June 23, 2006 12:00 pm.
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Stuart Smith is running for city council in the southwestern Ontario town and plans on financing his campaign with empty beer bottles.
At 10-cents-a-piece, if he can collect and return 25,000 empties he’ll have $2,500 to help him win the election.
He’s still short on campaign cash and he doesn’t drink beer so he’s hoping his funny “Running On Empties” slogan will attract donations.
Perhaps he should try to crack the neighbourhood kids’ monopoly on pop bottles.
Unpleasant Prank
Speaking of pop bottles..
A convenience store worker in Delton, Florida will spend six months in jail for peeing in a bottle of Mountain Dew.
The worker pleaded no contest to tampering with a consumer product.
Anthony Mesa and another clerk are accused of urinating in a bottle of pop and putting it back in the fridge as part of a practical joke.
But the customer who drank it didn’t find the prank too amusing and filed a civil lawsuit.
Let’s just hope they didn’t get their hands on those convenience store hot dogs.
