Police in a small village in southeast France are probing a mystery that is as puzzling as it is insalubrious: a rain of faeces that has dirtied houses and cars for years.The main lead being followed up is the hypotheses that the excrement is being dumped by some of the many aircraft that use a flight path above the village of Mauguio on their way to the nearby Montpellier airport.
An attempt by French officials to tempt a group of 50 runaway bulls back to their pasture near Marseille by using heifers in heat has proven unsuccessful...The wild bunch of bulls wandered away from their enclosure near the village of Saint Remy de Provence December 7 and have resisted efforts to tempt them back.
On Tuesday, local authorities fearing for the animals' safety and that of residents and tourists introduced the females into the grazing land, saying they would be the "ultimate weapon" to lure the vagrant bovines back.
But Wednesday, the village's mayor, Lucien Palix, admitted that the bulls had not heeded the call to their baser nature, probably because 45 of them had been castrated.
Duh.
French films have generated 11 percent fewer ticket sales so far around the world in 2004 compared to 2003, making it an average year for the second-biggest international movie industry after Hollywood, the state body promoting the movies said Wednesday.Some 33 million people in different countries saw a French movie between January and November this year, down from the 37 million recorded over the same period in 2003, Unifrance said.
But those preliminary results were likely to get a significant end-of-year boost from the big-budget production "A Very Long Engagement"* [Un long dimanche de fiancailles] by Jean-Pierre Jeunet - the maker of the biggest French box-office success to date**, 2001's "Amelie".
* "A Paris court ruled yesterday that the latest hit film from Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Audrey Tautou, the director-actress duo responsible for the blockbuster Amelie, was too American to compete in French film festivals or win a French prize."
** Amelie total lifetime worldwide gross $173,921,954. For a sense of proportion, Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ, an American independent film, grossed $83,848,082 its opening weekend, $125,185,971 in its first five days of domestic release, $370,274,604 total domestic gross to date, and $609,493,825 worldwide to date.
Damian
A french town getting covered in shit for years on end, that is too rich for words.
Could it be even God is paying France back for some of it's bad behavior.
BWAHAHAHAHA - too funny.
For a sense of proportion, Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ, an American independent film, grossed $83,848,082 its opening weekend, $125,185,971 in its first five days of domestic release, $370,274,604 total domestic gross to date, and $609,493,825 worldwide to date.
Wow, how insightful Damian, I wonder what would Jesus say.
M. Zmx,
If you've nothing to say then why post? If you think my post bland then what is your game, to be blander still? To be the blandest possible? Congratulations, your witless comment wins. You've bored everyone to tears.
DGB
