An art installation in Kiev features five real-life sleeping beauties who have to marry a man who kisses them if they open their eyes.
The women are to lie ‘sleeping’ for three days as part of artist Taras Polataiko’s installation in the National Art Museum of Ukraine.
As they sleep, men survey and kiss the women, trying to wake them, reports the Daily Telegraph.
If the sleeping beauties open their eyes, both man and woman are contractually obliged to tie the knot.
Polataiko explained: “Everybody, any viewer, will have to sign the contract, which says if… I kiss the beauty and she opens her eyes while being kissed, I marry her.”
Requirements for both men and women are the same: they must be over 18, single, and have a sincere desire to get married.
Men were allowed to kiss the beauty only once, and only on the lips.
Polataiko said he hoped the exhibit would attract plenty of male visitors.
“I hope they come, so it will be more interesting for the beauties. But I really don’t know. It’s a really serious thing, it’s marriage,” he said.
Limbless swimmer braves Alaskan waters
A French swimmer without legs and arms has successfully swum the frigid waters separating Alaska and Russia.
Philippe Croizon, whose limbs were amputated after a 1994 electrical accident, completed his swim from Alaska’s Little Diomede Island to the Russian maritime border near Big Diomede Island.
Croizon had intended to swim all the way to the shoreline of Big Diomede, but regional Russian authorities denied him permission to enter the territory.
His swim to Russian waters took about an hour and 15 minutes and he was accompanied by his friend, Arnaud Chassery.
Croizon uses paddle-like prosthetics to swim, and has completed crossings of the English Channel, the Red Sea and other major waterways.
His Baring Strait swim was the last in a series of expeditions across waterways that separate continents, according to Handicap International, the nonprofit organisation that helped organise the Alaska swim.
“I wanted to say that we both linked the five continents despite one country’s objection,” said Croizon.
“Just to say that nothing is impossible. We can all succeed in life despite what happens to us. There is no difference. We are all equal.”
He now plans to travel to London to work as a radio and television commentator during the Paralympics.
Sleepwalking woman swam in river
A US woman who went missing in the early hours of the morning had gone for a swim in the river, while sleepwalking.
The 31-year-old, of Burley, Idaho, was reported missing by her husband who awoke to find her gone, reports the Magic Valley Times-News.
She had left the home barefoot, wearing only pyjamas, and had left a sliding door open, he told police.
Deputies found her a quarter of a mile downstream from her home on the bank of the Snake River.
She was safe but disorientated and soaking wet after apparently swimming while still asleep.
Sleeping woman misses plane stop
A Frenchwoman who flew from Pakistan to Paris slept through her arrival and didn’t wake up until she was on the way back to Lahore.
Pakistan International Airlines is investigating how ground crew at Charles de Gaulle Airport failed to notice the sleeping Patrice Ahmed.
Ahmed, who is married to a Pakistani national, left Lahore to fly to Paris via Milan, reports the BBC.
After having slept through landing and disembarkation at Paris, Ahmed did not mention her misfortune to cabin crew on the return flight.
It only came to light when she was stopped by immigration officials in Lahore after her 7,700 mile round trip.
PIA later arranged for her to fly back to Paris. However, it said that whoever was at fault would pay for the extra ticket.
Spokesman Sultan Hasan said the airline was investigating the incident and also the French subcontractor responsible for passenger handling in Paris.
“If it is a mistake by the local firm, they will pay and if the woman herself is responsible than she will have to bear the cost,” he said.
Police issue warning after paint mishap
Police in Australia put out a public safety warning on Facebook, after a driver and his passengers ended up whitewashed.
The man and his friends were driving in a Sydney car park, with a 25-litre bucket of white paint on the back seat, when they were involved in a minor shunt with another car.
Nobody was hurt but the bucket flew open, sending white paint flying over the car and its occupants.
Local police in the Sydney suburb of Chifley posted a picture on the incident on their Facebook page as a warning to others.
Officers posted: “Safety tip of the week. Always put the paint in the boot! Although funny, it’s a clear example of how an unsecured item in the back seat can cause so much damage/possible injury when involved in an accident.”
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