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Fake Brands (Weird News No. 4)


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These are some of the fake brands that can be found at a new shopping mall in Nanjing, China. Maybe you’ll see Rnoald McDnoald there.

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Fake Brands Shopping Centre Set to Open in China

By Hannah Wood

Monday, January 1, 2009

China has confirmed itself as the ‘king of counterfeiters’ with the building of a new shopping centre dedicated to fake brands.

Some of the brand impostors at the mall in Nanjing, east of Shanghai, include a McDonalds look-a-like burger bar called McDnoald’s, a Starbucks-style coffee shop called Bucksstar Coffee, and a wannabe Pizza Hut called Pizza Huh.

City bosses are under pressure to ban the soon-to-be opened mall after pictures of the fake stores were leaked, causing uproar amongst angry consumers who feared they’d be ripped off.

"Not every shopper is brand conscious so a lot of people will walk into these stores thinking they are getting the real thing," said an angry shopper in a local newspaper.

"The whole idea of this mall is plain dishonest.

"Some fakes are done light-heartedly to be funny, but these stores look so much like the real thing people are going to feel cheated," the shopper added.

This may be the first ‘fakes only’ mall but copycat brands are rife around the world.

Source: Wood, Hannah. "Fake Brands Shopping Centre Set to Open in China." Mirror UK. 1 Jan. 2009. <http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/01/05/fake-brands-shopping-centre-set-to-open-in-china-pictures-115875-21018152/>

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I have to find a “weird news” article for thursday sept. 11 2008. It has to be current which is my biggest problem. If you could help me find a weird news article and copy/paste the article in your answer, that would be great!

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Gunshot Victim Sues To Get Prosthetic Leg Back
Nebraska Gunshot Victim Sues To Get His Prosthetic Leg Back From Prosecutors

ALLIANCE, Neb., Sep. 3, 2008
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(AP) After being shot five times last weekend, a western Nebraska man had to go to court to get his prosthetic leg back from prosecutors. The Box Butte County Attorney’s office gave Val McCabe’s leg back Wednesday after a judge ordered it returned.

McCabe, 58, shot during a roadside incident on Friday, was listed in good condition at a hospital in Scottsbluff. Prosecutors wanted to run tests on the leg and the bullet lodged inside.

McCabe, who lost his leg below the knee in a railroad accident roughly 30 years ago, filed his lawsuit Tuesday.

McCabe lawyer argued it wasn’t practical for him to replace the specially built, $ 28,000 prosthesis.

Alliance Police removed the bullet from the leg before returning it. No arrests had been made by Wednesday.
found at : http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/03/ap/strange/main4413883.shtml?source=RSS&attr=_4413883

Elvis Presley’s Fingerprints Sell For $ 81K
Hendrix’s Burned Guitar Also Sells For Big Money At Auction

POSTED: 9:02 am EDT September 5, 2008
UPDATED: 9:16 am EDT September 5, 2008

LONDON — An application to the state of California for a concealed-gun permit by Elvis Presley and a set of his fingerprints fetched $ 81,740 at an auction Thursday in London.

The King’s personal one of the many music lots sold at Specialist auction house The Fame Bureau. Also sold was a guitar set alight onstage by Jimi Hendrix during a concert in London was for $ 497,557 to a collector from the United States.

The Fame Bureau said Hendrix’s guitar, which he set alight during a concert at London’s Astoria in March 1967, was purchased by enthusiast Daniel Boucher, from Boylston, Mass.
The auctioneers said a copy of The Beatles’ first contract with manager Brian Epstein sold for $ 426,478.

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