It’s time for a new segment at Electric Heavenland! The mid-week news round-up is going to give you the best, weirdest and most interesting news of the week so far. So without further adieu, here we go.
Canadian Teens Having Less Sex, Lying More
Forty-three per cent of youth aged 15 to 19 reported having had sexual intercourse at least once in 2005, compared to 47 per cent in 1996-1997, the agency found in two comparative surveys.
The decrease is attributed to more teenage girls choosing to wait before becoming sexually active. In 1996-1997, 51 per cent of girls said they had had sex at least once. In 2005, that figure dropped to 43 per cent.
The majority of sexually active teenagers of both genders said in 2005 that condoms were used the last time they had intercourse.
By contrast, the proportion of teenage boys having sexual intercourse during this period remained steady at 43 per cent.
Good news for Canada, this means hopefully less STD’s and less skanks, but let’s be reasonable for a moment. that 8% drop in female activity is definitely interesting. Either more girls are sleeping with more guys or they’re just learning how to lie a lot better.
A 56-year-old New York Police Department dispatcher, who went by “Dirty old Ira” in Internet chat rooms, thought he was going to meet a 14-year-old girl at the Deptford Mall for a sexual tryst.
Ira Shimshi of Queens, NY was actually chatting with an undercover FBI agent, and was arrested Friday on charges which could send him to prison for life.
The arrest culminated a 10-month investigation that comprised of many sexually-explicit online chats, including one where he allegedly told the undercover officer that “14’s the new 18.
Sucks to be this guy, maybe he should have heeded the words of The Vandals a little better.
Burger King Completely Flips Out
At the airport yesterday afternoon, after pulling our luggage off the arrival carousel, we decided we needed a bite to eat. What the heck… let’s get something at Burger King.
Divvying up our food items revealed the “Veg City Airport” themed artwork on the Burger King paper tray liner.
Burger King is using the airport security screening metaphor – blocking bad people from getting through the gates – as a way to convey that they (Burger King) similarly screen for only quality ingredients.
But what the hell is going on in this picture?
First I saw a nervous looking onion.
Then I noticed it had its pants down.
Then I noticed the angry pickle… and then the examination glove?!
Apparently Burger King has decided to take their marketing in…a fresh new direction. As follows you are able to see a few different menus from Germany.
The first ad in question:
And the rest of the ads:
This one is my personal favourite for being so insane.
Burger King has definitely done some strange stuff in the past. This is definitely kicking it up a notch though.
That’s it for strange news until the Saturday Round-up everyone, until next time.
-Binder
