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fpb ([personal profile] fpb) wrote2005-09-13 06:38 pm

You couldn't make it up dept. no.16: with heartfelt apologies to [profile] bufo

From the Italian newspaper La Repubblica

ELBLAG (POLAND) - A quite unusual promotional campaign. One hour's worth of free sex in a neighbouring brothel is the prize offered by a large builder's merchant store in Elblag, a town in northern Poland, for regular customers, every time they spend at least 10 thousand zloty (2.500 euros). So reports the newspaper Zycie Warszawy. The store owner, Roman Myszko, told the newspaper that thus far almost nobody has claimed the prize.
Legal experts interviewed by the newspaper claim that, whether or not anyone took up the offer, Myszko is in danger of a charge of pimping. He, however, sees nothing indecent about his idea. "Business has been going from bad to worse for the last three years," the salesman explained, "so I am trying several new promotional techniques." Long before this new idea, he had offered a free beer from another neighbouring shop to anyone spending at least 100 zloty (25 euros).

[identity profile] fpb.livejournal.com 2005-09-14 07:54 am (UTC)(link)
Oh. If I had been aware of the political features of the case, the man would have ended up not under "you couldn't make it up", but under "villains of the world".

Unfortunately I have a worse example from my own country. See my next post, http://www.livejournal.com/users/fpb/130813.html?mode=reply.

[identity profile] bufo-viridis.livejournal.com 2005-09-14 01:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Nay, there are no political features.
It's just funny that the same guy offers (indirectly) prostitute's services and at the same time collects small change for a man, who would like to brandish prostitutes with hot iron (metaphoricaly, but only barely metaphorically speaking).