Women spin wheel for free breast implants

[Champ]

PENTICTON, B.C. (CP) - Hours before a 22-year-old personal banker won a free set of breast implants, elderly churchgoers in this Okanagan Valley city did their bit to change the minds of 36 contestants in the controversial competition.

Mildred Wakefield and her Holiness Bible Movement supporters sang out to Jesus, beat a drum and danced on the sidewalk across from the Element Nightclub.

"We need to show these young girls there's something better out there for them, they don't need to be exploiting their sexuality," said Wakefield. "Why don't they come sing with us?" She made her point as club manager Florio Vassilakakis stared on from the other side of the street, waiting for guests to start arriving to take in the Sextreme Makeover competition, an event that raised the ire of not just Wakefield but women's groups and the B.C. College of Physicians and Surgeons.

Vassilakakis wasn't worried by the small but eye-catching and loud group of about 15 protesters.

"They don't realize they're doing exactly the opposite from what they want to achieve. They're just giving me more publicity," he said.

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2005/07/24/1145894-cp.html

[Zuni]

1. woah...

Penticon you say? Hmmmmm....

[nine23]

2. The quaint, charming part of this story...

...is that Penticton is in the middle of BC's so-called conservative "bible belt". And the best "they" can do is show up, sing a few church tunes, then it's off to bed by eight...

Yep, it's gonna be light years before Canada sees the emergence of a really creepy, vocal, sleezy religious right. In the meantime, we just try to be nice to them; they were probably handing out nice fresh peaches, too. Fruit harvest, gift from god, etc.

This is HeyHey's home turf. He should get a kick out of it...

[CanuckAmok]

3. You know who broke this international story, right...?

...

[nine23]

4. I was actually thinking just that...

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

5. I do I do!