> > 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 :-)
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> 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.
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> Ste "I didn't hear about it, but I'm sure Elly did" phen

As a matter of fact, I did hear about it as I was driving to work yesterday morning. It was mentioned by a couple of disc jockeys on a local morning radio show. It's not exactly what I would call a leading news source, as these DJs also discuss such things as their personal dating lives.

Ell"Yes, it was mentioned because it was a weird story"myruh