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UK lawmaker gives advice on curbing sex drive
LONDON
A British lawmaker has updated his guide on how his colleagues can stay true to their constituents while staying true to their partners.
Labour lawmaker Paul Flynn said his new version of “How to Be a Backbencher” will include tips on drafting pithy Twitter messages and tongue-in-cheek ways to dampen what the 76-year-old described as parliamentarians’ “sexual magnetism.”
Flynn said Wednesday in interviews with British media that it was a mystery to him why elected officials were so attractive. His tips on how to stay faithful include taking cold baths.
In British politics, backbenchers refer to parliamentary rank-and-file who sit near the back of their respective party’s benches.
Glitch gives fans free tix to Pa. Train show. Not!
ERIE, Pa.
A glitchy computer gave a few fans free tickets to an upcoming Train concert in northwestern Pennsylvania before officials at the arena discovered the problem and rescinded the tickets.
Officials at Tullio Arena tell the Erie Times-News that a software problem allowed a “handful of tickets” for the band’s Aug. 27 concert to be ordered for free Thursday morning through the arena’s ticketing website, www.erieevents.com .
Box-office manager Ann Noble says arena officials know who got the free tickets, however, and they will not be honored. Instead, those customers will be sent letters and given the opportunity to purchase the new tickets for the same seats.
Noble says of the glitch, “It’s a first. We just recently got into electronic ticketing, and that’s where the error occurred.”
Tickets for the concert are $47.50 and $35.
Police: Duo sold bongs at western Pa. county fair
DUNBAR, Pa.
A drug task-force detective says two people openly sold marijuana pipes and bongs at a southwestern Pennsylvania county fair.
Thirty-three-year-old Stephen Krug and 24-year-old Maria Zelik, both of Freedom, are charged with possession, conspiracy and possession with intent to deliver drug paraphernalia.
County task-force Detective Ryan Reese says they rented a booth at the Fayette County Fair where they displayed a water bong, dozens of glass and wooden pipes, a digital scale and other drug-related products.
A sign said the products were for tobacco use only. But Reese says he asked the couple, “When did you ever see anybody smoke tobacco out of a water bong?” and why they needed a digital scale, which is commonly used to weigh marijuana but not tobacco.
Associated Press