Today's Quirky News

Make a baby - win a car

A Russian province is today holding a Conception Day in an effort to boost flagging birth rates.

September 12 is officially called Family Contact Day in the Ulyanovsk province, reports The Sun.

The day is about "encouraging procreation" and was the brainchild of the governor Sergei Morozov.

The event is timed precisely nine months ahead of Russia's next year's Constitution Day so that mothers "ideally should give birth on June 12", said a spokeswoman for the administration.

Prizes ranging from a television to a Russian-made all-terrain vehicle will be given out to people who give birth on June 12.

A series of concerts and exhibitions are being organised to promote family values and employers are being encouraged to grant a discretionary day off, said the spokeswoman.

But local human rights activist Alexander Bragin complained: "We've already sunk to the level where the governor is ordering us on what day to conceive a child and on what day to give birth."

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I will be moving in time for this next year! Me likey!

Re: Today's Quirky News

didn't a country in Europe do something similar to this years ago? but insteasd of giving away cars, they flooded the TV networks with porn

and it worked!