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Swedish politician: officials should have sex during lunch break

COPENHAGEN, Denmark

A politician in northern Sweden wants to list sex as an officially approved activity for civil servants during their daily paid lunchbreak.

Per-Erik Muskos of the city council of Overtornea on the Arctic Circle says he made “a serious and formal” proposal recently to add sex to the list of acceptable activities, which also include going to the gym or getting a massage as well as eating.

He said that benefits could include improving employee morale and increasing the population of the town of about 4,500.

Muskos said the municipality’s 550 employees are assessing his proposal before it is discussed in the city council in a few months.

The 42-year-old lawmaker said negative reactions to his proposal came chiefly from “some elderly employees who find it embarrassing to talk about what happens in the bedroom.”

Altar in Mexico town hides illegal fuel tap

MEXICO CITY

Altars to the Virgin of Guadalupe are ubiquitous at businesses across Mexico. Now federal police say one has even been used in a gasoline smuggling racket in the central state of Puebla.

Police said that a trail of fuel leaking into the street in the town of San Martin Texmelucan recently led them into a lot where they found an altar to Mexico’s patron saint with an unusual red hose protruding from it.

As they approached, a man carrying a gun got out of a vehicle and tried to flee. Police say they eventually caught him, and five other people accused of filling up from the Virgin’s tap.

Thieves drill into thousands of pipelines across Mexico each year to steal fuel, creating heavy losses for the state-owned oil company, Pemex.

Man tries to enter courthouse with roaches

VIENNA

Security guards at an Austrian court might need to put up a sign at the screening gate to let the public know about another item prohibited on the premises – cockroaches.

State broadcaster ORF said Wednesday that security personnel in the western city of Linz turned away a man a day earlier after he tried to enter the court building with a sack full of the six-legged pests.

ORF did not say why the man had the roaches or what he planned to do with them.

Associated Press