> But in America (!!!) that small anecdote make top news. OTH1H this might increase the "Aachen awereness" within the Amrrican population, OTOH I am not sure whether it is necessarily a good thing, ie. to be known in such a context context :-)

Just because somebody in America heard about this incident doesn't make it "Top News." It's not uncommon for American papers to run a "Weird News" column that collects these sorts of things from the wire services. They're generally put on the back page of a section or something, but I can assure you this never made the front page of any paper.

Ste "I didn't hear about it, but I'm sure Elly did" phen