Russian Governor Offers Coal Reward to Slimmers

A Russian regional governor today proposed an inventive way to try to convince hefty local residents to lose weight offering them prizes of tonnes of coal for slimming down.

Governor Aman Tuleyev of the country’s main coal-producing Kemerovo region in Siberia told local lawmakers he had been inspired by an earlier plan in Dubai to reward people with gold if they shed weight.

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