<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/65fa7a14-32f6-4c0b-a50f-5af4a971583b/2C1FE07F-DE4E-469F-878E-08620CB56B43/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/090818/oddities/france_lottery_road_offbeat" href="http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/090818/oddities/france_lottery_road_offbeat" style="font-size: 11px;">ca.news.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/090818/oddities/france_lottery_road_offbeat"><DIV class="header"> <A href="http://ca.rd.yahoo.com/headlines/afp/brand/SIG=114tvq0og/*http://www.afp.com/english/home/"><IMG height="45" border="0" width="100" alt="AFP" src="http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/afp_lo_1.gif" /></A> <H1> Drunk-driving lottery winner tries to bribe cop </H1> <DIV></DIV> </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/090818/oddities/france_lottery_road_offbeat"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/ca.news.yahoo.com/img/F9DA1FCB-3A10-491D-A66D-00C5B08A35FA" alt="Pascal-Jerome Brun, a butcher from suburban Bordeaux in southwestern France, poses in Paris after receiving a check of 26,215,627 euros, 2006. 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