A PAIR of women's underwear
that fell out of a Brazilian legislator's briefcase on the floor of Congress
has been incinerated.
A group of five legislators
was rushing into the Chamber of Deputies to vote on a cybercrimes-related bill
on the evening of May 15, when one of them apparently dropped the offending red
and white panties.
Security guards quickly, but
discreetly, swooped in to pick up the panties and turn them over to the
chamber's lost and found office.
O Globo newspaper said
security staff then decided to incinerate the underwear late on Wednesday -
shortly after a story about the incident went viral on Brazilian social media.
Legislators told the daily
they were aware of the incident, but sought to play it down.
"It must have been a
trick they played on somebody," said Marco Maia, the ruling Workers
Party's leader in the chamber.
"I was in the coffee
shop and two colleagues called me in to show me the panties," said
Francisco Everardo Oliveira Silva, a professional clown known as
"Tiririca" who won a seat in Brazil's Congress in 2010 as a kind of
protest candidate.
"We have a suspicion as
to who the owner is," Oliveira said, "but we're not going to turn him
in." (Reuters)
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