They’ve given their lives time and time again to keep drivers safe.
And now they’re being honored for their sacrifice.
Celebrity crash dummies Vince and Larry, the stars of highway-safety ads for 25 years, have a new home — they’re on display at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington.
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There was a full moon off Bainbridge Island, Wash.
A ferry had to take evasive action to avoid a sailboat in its way.
When it passed the much smaller craft, the four sailors aboard it all dropped their pants and mooned the ferry’s passengers and crew.
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It was manatee insanity in Miami.
A group of horny males had to be rescued from a shallow canal after they pursued an attractive single female who had taken refuge there.
Wildlife workers distracted the Romeos by dragging a rope in the water. Then everybody swam off into Biscayne Bay, where there’s more room for romance.
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Speaking of love among wild creatures . . .
A male llama chased his girlfriend onto a busy German highway, forcing police to rescue her.
He got so amorous, his prospective mate, Luisa, apparently decided she’d take her chances by jumping a fence into the traffic.
“She was trying to save her skin from the lovesick male llama,” said Thomas Reuter, a police spokesman in Gifhorn. “She was in a state of panic.”
The officers coaxed Luisa into a forest, where they lassoed her.
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It’s a lot cheaper than paying for a shrink.
A mall in Shenyang, China, has opened a women-only frustration venting room, where, for only $5.61, they can smash items like TV sets and cellphones and hurl dishes.
All of it is cheap, secondhand merchandise purchased by the mall just to be destroyed.