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Across China: Hunan
(China Daily)
Updated: 2010-01-15 07:51
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Sleeping with the enemy
A woman tried making love to a burglar, mistaking the intruder for her husband, in Changsha, capital of Hunan province, last Wednesday, the Xiaoxiang Morning Post reports.
The woman, surnamed Qiu, woke up when she heard someone enter the room and threw herself on the person, thinking it was her husband.
The man pushed her down on the bed and started cuddling her.
That's when Qiu realized her husband's hair had suddenly grown unusually long.
She switched on the lights to find a stranger on her bed and raised an alarm.
Qiu's husband, who was playing mahjong at a neighbor's house, rushed in and subdued the intruder.
Tiger beards on sale
The Changsha zoo, in Hunan province, has put tigers' beards on sale for 30 yuan ($4.39) to 100 yuan, depending on its length, the Changsha Evening News reports.
A 15-cm beard is being sold for 100 yuan while the shorter ones are going for at 30 yuan and 50 yuan each, a zoo staff said.
Tiger beards are expected to help residents ward off evil and avert calamities in the Year of Tiger that begins Feb 14, according to an old Chinese saying.
(China Daily 01/15/2010 page6)
