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2010年度最离奇新闻大全You couldnt make it up: offbeat stories from 2010 [ 2010-12-31 15:36 ] A file photo of the love bus. A Copenhagen bus company has put love seats on 103 of its vehicles for people looking for a partner. Some weird, wild and wonderful stories coloured the news in 2010: - A Copenhagen bus company has put love seats on 103 of its vehicles for people looking for a partner. Even love at first sight is possible on the bus, said a spokesman for the British owned Arriva company to explain the two seats on each bus that are covered in red cloth and a love seat sign. - Shoppers at an international luxury fair in Verona, Italy, found a cell-phone-equipped golden coffin among the items on display. The phones will help the deceased contact relatives if they have been buried alive by mistake. - Paul the octopus, who shot to fame during this years football World Cup for his flawless record in predicting game results, died peacefully in his sleep in an aquarium. - A Mozambican prisoner who had been released on parole broke back into jail after discovering he didnt like life on the outside. - A robber in New York came up with a disarming way to pull off his latest bank heist, approaching the tellers window with a large bouquet of flowers and handing over a hold-up note. - A Kuwaiti MP proposed state-aid for male citizens to take second wives, in a bid to reduce the large number of unmarried women in the oil-rich emirate. - A Frenchman who lost all his limbs in an electrical accident successfully swam across the Channel, a challenge he had been preparing for two years. - A set of dentures made for Britains war-time prime minister Winston Churchill known as the teeth that saved the world sold for nearly 18,000 pounds (21,500 euros, 28,000 dollars) at auction. - The strongest and most expensive beer ever created sold out within hours, a Scottish brewery said, as they courted controversy by packaging the bottles inside the bodies of stuffed squirrels and stoats. - A Brit