WEIRD & BIZARRE : Weird & Bizarre January 2004 Turning Tricks & Buying Stocks SYDNEY, Australia - Success in the stock market is heavily rested upon choosing the right company to invest in. In the near future, the public will be able to purchase shares in a company that causes more that just stock to rise; an Australian whorehouse. Marketing itself as a "very busy five-star hotel", the Aussie bordello is hoping to become the world's first listed brothel on the market. The reason for its listing is to pay off debts and expand to more locations. As an investor in this particular venture know that the more things go down, the higher the stock goes up. Here's A Man Who Cares About His Parking It was in 1989 that a shabbily dressed man went up to a teller at the U.S. Bank of Washington in Spokane, and asked her to validate his 60 cent parking ticket. She refused. The man asked to talk to a bank manager about the matter. The manager also refused. So 59-year-old John Barrier withdrew all the money he had on deposit -- $1 million -- and took it down the street to the Seafirst Bank. "If you have $1 in a bank or $1 million, I think they owe you the courtesy of stamping your parking ticket," he said. British MENSA Candidates Mistake Canada for Australia When she stepped off the plane, 19-year-old Emma Nunn from Great Britain thought to herself, 'oh my gosh, we're in Canada!' Her surprise is understandable since she and her boyfriend thought they were going to Sydney, Australia, not Sydney, Nova Scotia. They chalk it up to a mistake while ordering their tickets online, and thought nothing of it when they started the first leg on their journey "down under" aboard an Air Canada flight in London. But they began to get suspicious when the jet touched down in Halifax, Nova Scotia. When they finally realized that was as far as they were going they made the best of their stay soaking up the culture of the small industrial town on the coast of Cape Breton Island. BACK TO TOP

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