Peace Prize for the Destroyer

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Car-Crushing Mayor Wins Ig Nobel Peace Prize

Winners Also Include Beetle and Beer Bottle Sex Researchers

Posted by AYoungEd 30 September 2011 07:50

The winners of the 2011 Ig Noble awards have been announced and they are the usual mix of wacky and wonderful.

Arturas Zuokas, mayor of Vilnius, Lithuania, won the Ig Nobel peace prize for his heavy-handed way of dealing with parking offenders. He demonstrated that the problem of illegally parked luxury cars can be solved by running them over with an armoured tank.

The Ig Nobel prize for medicine went to Peter Snyder and his colleagues, who found that having a bladder at its bursting point reduced attention span and the ability to make decisions to the same degree expected with low levels of alcohol intoxication or 24 hours of sleep deprivation.

Will driving while desperately needing to answer nature's call soon become a crime?

"When people reach a point when they are in so much pain they just can't stand it anymore, it was like being drunk," said Mr Snyder, a professor of neurology at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. "The ability to hold information was really impaired."

The biology prize went to a team from Australia who found that certain types of beetle will try to mate with certain types of beer bottle. The bottles have to be brown, with bobbly bits on them; the beetles were not aroused by green or white beer bottles.

The chemistry prize went to Japanese researchers who invented a fire alarm that emits the pungent odour of wasabi, the sinus-clearing green paste served with sushi.

Sensation aside, what do you think of what this mayor did? Awesome? Awful? Your argument?

  Edited October 6, 2011 by larelo6  

[Easy Bakes 253]

What a great idea, those ceremonies need to be televised.

Ignobel Prize.

  Edited October 6, 2011 by Easy Bakes  

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Tankety tank, ... tankety tank.

[emperordaniel 1,281]

I always love the Ig Nobel prizes