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At $3,700, it had better be smooth

BOWMORE, Scotland, July 17 (UPI) -- Whiskey collectors, if not drinkers, note: An exclusive, 40-year-old whiskey from the Scottish island of Islay goes on sale this week at nearly $3,700 a bottle.

The Ardbeg distillery is releasing 261 bottles of a 1965-vintage single-malt whiskey, with 41.3 percent alcohol by volume, at a price of 2,000 British pounds, or nearly $3,700, The Independent reports.

Each bottle is made of hand-blown glass and includes a numbered wax seal to prove its authenticity.

"There is a demand for it (despite its high price) simply because there are a number of connoisseurs who love collecting something very rare and very prestigious -- and then there are the people who actually drink it," said Andre Dang, a food spokesman for London's high-end Harrods department store.

If people actually drank it, what would they taste?

"If they choose to drink it rather than collect it, (they) would expect a smoky whiskey with the aroma of the sea and saltiness coming through it," said Campbell Evans, the Scotch Whisky Association's director of consumer affairs.

Las Vegas wants tourists to use toilets

LAS VEGAS, July 17 (UPI) -- Las Vegas city officials say they were not thinking of bodily fluids when they coined the "What Happens in Vegas, Stays in Vegas" slogan.

But since Sin City's ordinance banning "immodest, improper or indecent behavior" was ruled too broad by a judge hearing a prostitution case, there is no law on the books against urinating, defecating or vomiting in public, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported Sunday.

"You want to urinate anywhere you want in the city, feel free to do it," Mayor Oscar Goodman told the newspaper in disgust. "My understanding is there won't be any criminal prosecution."

However, there is a law against indecent exposure and the city attorney's office plans to use the "filthy fluids" law originally intended to ban oil dumping as a stopgap measure, the newspaper said. However, the "filthy fluids" would only apply to liquid waste.

City officials are drafting a new ordinance specifically addressing bodily waste. Doing the deed as well as failing to "clean or remove the material deposited" will earn a $1,000 fine or six months in jail. The City Council aims to have the law on the books next month.

'Pontoon potty' floats in city reservoir

SAN DIEGO, July 17 (UPI) -- Residents around San Diego's scenic Miramar Reservoir say the city has fouled their view with a floating outhouse in the middle of the lake.

The S.S. Relief -- a hut-type, two-seat outhouse on a floating platform -- was anchored about 70 yards from the shore so boaters could answer nature's call without having to dock, the San Diego Union Tribune reported Sunday.

Residents with lake views from their canyon homes have been aggressively lobbying city officials to deep-six the "pontoon potty boat," which appeared with no warning in May, the newspaper said.

In addition to the obvious "aesthetic abomination," the reservoir residents cite the fact that the loo is floating in the drinking water of thousands of San Diego residents. What if it tips, they ask.

But city water officials, who used a $50,000 grant from the state to build and install the facility, said it would take a Category 5 hurricane to tip the structure into the drink.

San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders is not overly sympathetic to the homeowners' arguments, either.

"When you've got to go, you've got to go," his spokesman told the newspaper.

No love lost for nude sculpture

LOVELAND, Colo., July 17 (UPI) -- Members of the Abiding Love church in Loveland, Colo., say they have no abiding love for a nude statue set to be placed a mile from their new church building.

The congregation and pastor object to the statue of two nude women and one man as inappropriate for its planned location, at a traffic roundabout, the Denver Post reports.

A city board last week approved the placement of the sculpture at the roundabout, which is also near a high school.

"It just doesn't make sense to put it in such a public place where kids can see it," said Pastor Kevin Klug of Abiding Love Lutheran Church.

The sculpture is a 13-foot-tall design featuring three nude figures, two holding the third aloft.

Sculptor Kirsten Kokkin said her creation tries to show how everyone is dependent on someone else's support.

The church is constructing a building less than a mile from where the sculpture is scheduled to be dedicated in August.

Most attendees at the city board meeting last week said they supported the work.

"I think most people will embrace this sculpture," resident Kimberly Kreutzer said.