Man Fights Aliens, Then Pops the Question & Eggs in Undies
Man Fights Aliens, Then Pops the Question & Eggs in Undies
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Posted: 7/18/06 at 6:19pm
"Man Fights Aliens, Then Pops the Question
By Associated Press
Mon Jul 17, 10:44 PM
ROSWELL, N.M. - Ross Savedra fought aliens to rescue his girlfriend, then popped the question in an out-of-this-world proposal. Savedra, 32, staged his elaborate proposal Sunday afternoon for Ariana Ash, 23, with the help for family members and Roswell's UFO Museum.
Savedra and Ash were touring the museum when a silver-suited, masked alien from an exhibit called "alien autopsy" suddenly abducted Ash from in front of a group of tourists. Savedra dashed through the crowd, fought two aliens and rescued her.
Then he dropped to his knees, presented her a ring and asked her to marry him.
They embraced in a cloud of shiny colored confetti tossed by onlookers and were applauded by tourists who had been tipped off by the aliens _ Ash's brother-in-law and stepfather.
"By the way, everyone, she said yes," Julie Shuster, the museum's director, announced over the sound system.
Savedra, a Roswell native, chose the museum for his proposal because of its uniqueness. Shuster said it was a first for the museum.
"She's always calling me her alien man," Savedra said of his fiance.
Savedra and Ash, of Albuquerque, have been seeing each other for about three years.
Ash's family traveled secretly to Roswell to witness the proposal after a month of planning beforehand.
Her mother, Margie Farrar, and sister Naomi sneaked through the museum behind the couple, waiting for them to get to the alien autopsy display, and working to keep Naomi's young daughter from getting a glimpse of Ash and yelling for her.
"It was fun," said alien Nick Caffey, Ash's brother-in-law.
"It was great," said the other alien, John Farrar, her stepfather.
Ash had celebrated her birthday in Roswell, but her family couldn't let her know they were in town, Farrar said.
"We had to call her on our cell phones, even though we were in the same hotel, upstairs," he said."
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"Eggs in Undies
By Associated Press
Mon Jul 17, 5:24 PMUPDATED 1 DAY 30 MINUTES AGO
SYDNEY, Australia - A man caught with six eggs from endangered species in his underwear as he was preparing to fly to Bangkok was fined 25,000 Australian dollars ($20,000) Monday by a judge who rejected his claim that he only wanted to surprise his girlfriend.
Wayne Frederick Floyd pleaded guilty in February to exporting regulated native specimens without a permit or exemption, an offense that carries a maximum 10-year prison sentence.
Although Judge Martin Sides called it a commercial venture, he said he didn't mandate jail time because the eggs had come from a collection of birds at Floyd's home and hadn't been taken from the wild.
Floyd was about to board a flight from Sydney to Bangkok, Thailand, last November when a customs officer frisked him and noticed a suspicious bulge around his groin, the New South Wales District Court was told. A strip search revealed six eggs hidden inside a stocking in his underwear.
The judge rejected Floyd's claim that he was trying to take the eggs overseas "to surprise his girlfriend."
Two of the eggs never hatched. The others contained two gang gang cockatoos and two galahs, both listed under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, which includes species facing extinction unless trade in them is controlled. A galah or cockatoo egg can fetch tens of thousands of dollars when sold overseas."
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