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Tattoo space on backside, online auction

A cash-strapped New Zealander is auctioning off the chance to put a tattoo on her derriere so she can pay her bills.
Wellington woman Tina Beznec, 23, says she needs the money after being made redundant twice in the past year, have bills to pay including airfare to get a job teaching overseas.
She set up an online auction under the title “Your Tattoo on my Bum” and within 24 hours bidding had reached NZ$10,250 (USD 8,135) while another three people have followed suit with auctions offering body parts to be tattooed.
“You might think I am crazy for doing this! But yes, the winner of the auction gets anything they like tattooed on my bum!” Beznec said in her auction notice.
She said 20 percent of the winning bid would go to charity “and the rest will go to me, I deserve it, I have been made redundant twice over the past year.”
The tattoo would be 9x9 centimetres (3.5x3.5 inches), it could be on either cheek and could be something personal or “a business promotion” she said.
“The way I see it is it’s going to be on my bum and it is something I can look back on in the future and remember this point in my life,” she told the Stuff.co.nz website.

Bomb hoax to stop errant husband

A US woman called in a bomb threat to an airline to stop her husband flying from Los Angeles to Atlanta to see another woman, the FBI said last week.
Johnna Woolfolk, 50, pleaded guilty to making a bomb threat after calling AirTran Airways in November to report that her husband was carrying a bomb onto a flight at LAX international airport.
“We had a fight and I called the airline and reported that he had a bomb to stop him from taking that flight to see another woman,” Woolfolk told US District Judge Jacqueline H. Nguyen.
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) officers stopped the man at the airport and questioned him, and he missed the flight, said Assistant US Attorney Edward E. Alon.
Woolfolk will be sentenced on April 2, when she faces a maximum of five years in jail and a USD 250,000 fine, Alon said.