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A Spanish driver who fatally collided with a cyclist is suing the dead youth’s family 20,000 Euros (£14,830) for the damage the impact of his body did to his luxury car, a Spanish newspaper reported.

Businessman Tomas Delgado says 17-year-old Enaitz Iriondo caused 14,000 Euros (£10,384) of damage to his Audi A8 in the fatal 2004 crash in La Rioja region, the El Pais newspaper reported.

Delgado, who has faced no criminal charges for the incident, wants a further 6,000 Euros (£4,450) to cover the cost of hiring another vehicle while his car was being repaired, El Pais said.

The youth had been cycling alone at night without reflective clothing or a helmet, according to a police report cited by El Pais.

His family won 33,000 Euros (£24,479)compensation from Delgado’s insurance company after the firm acknowledged he had been driving at excessive speed and this could have contributed to the incident, El Pais reported.

“I’m also a victim in all of this, you can’t fix the lad’s problems, but you can fix mine,” Delgado told the newspaper, ahead of a January 30 legal decision on his suit.

The family said they had previously pitied Delgado for the guilt he must feel at killing their son but were now disgusted that his greatest concern appeared to be money.

“This was the final straw, a kick in the teeth,” the youth’s mother Rosa Trinidad told El Pais.

Source: DailyMail

Follow-up of the “Great Guerilla Advertising” article on funnymos. Simple and yet brilliant guerilla ads that guarantee a buzz. With a good idea, you don’t need a big budget to make yourself known or promote your brand.

All you can eat motorway rest stop at the entrance in a tunnel

Axe was always good with advertising… this one is placed next to an exit sign

Yoga center ad on a straw

Superman returns ad

“Use only what you need” from Denver Water

DHL: If it is where it belongs, it was probably delivered by DHL (click for larger view)

DVD Rental company ad in the bathroom of a cinema: “At home, you could have pressed pause”

Heineken ad with the figure of a hand reaching out to the bottle. Beats the regular printed posters.

Holidays: Everyone is going on a Virgin Holiday. Suitcases placed in the hands of statues

Jeep: The 4 door Wrangler is coming. Handle added to a regular Jeep.

Jeep Parking: Painted parking spaces to advertise Jeep’s ability to be driven on rough terrain.

Mini: showing the maneuverability and driving fun

Crashed car placed in a parking lot to announce a Monster Trucks show

Volkswagen Polo guerilla campaign: small, but tough.

Have fun: Sex shop advertising on the streets of a city

Slim: same idea, 3 different products: Slim Fast

Pepsi Light

Ulta slim Sony Cyber-shot T1

Quit smoking sticker for cars:

ScienceDaily (Jan. 4, 2008) — Asteroid impacts or massive volcanic flows might have occurred around the time dinosaurs became extinct, but a new arguemet is that the mightiest creatures the world has ever known may have been brought down by a tiny, much less dramatic force — biting, disease-carrying insects.

An important contributor to the demise of the dinosaurs, experts say, could have been the rise and evolution of insects, especially the slow-but-overwhelming threat posed by new disease carriers. And the evidence for this emerging threat has been captured in almost lifelike-detail — many types of insects preserved in amber that date to the time when dinosaurs disappeared.

“There are serious problems with the sudden impact theories of dinosaur extinction, not the least of which is that dinosaurs declined and disappeared over a period of hundreds of thousands, or even millions of years,” said George Poinar Jr., a courtesy professor of zoology at Oregon State University. “That time frame is just not consistent with the effects of an asteroid impact. But competition with insects, emerging new diseases and the spread of flowering plants over very long periods of time is perfectly compatible with everything we know about dinosaur extinction.”

This concept is outlined in detail in “What Bugged the Dinosaurs? Insects, Disease and Death in the Cretaceous,” a book by George and Roberta Poinar, just published by Princeton University Press.

In it, the authors argue that insects provide a plausible and effective explanation for the slow, inexorable decline and eventual extinction of dinosaurs over many thousands of years. This period is known as the famous “K-T Boundary,” or the line between the Cretaceous and Tertiary Period about 65 million years ago. There is evidence that some catastrophic events, such as a major asteroid or lava flows, also occurred at this time — but these provide no complete explanation for the gradual decline of dinosaur populations, and even how some dinosaurs survived for thousands of years after the K-T Boundary.

Insects and disease, on the other hand, may have been a lot slower, but ultimately finished the job.

Oregon State University (2008, January 4). Insect Attack May Have Finished Off Dinosaurs. Full Story: ScienceDaily

Dice Wars is a simplified Risk strategy game in flash. You can play against 1 to 7 computers. It’s fun and very addictive. Enjoy!