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票价蝗虫三万八 Price of Elton John Tickets? 38,000 Grasshoppers
流行歌星艾尔顿·约翰的演唱会使歌迷们在加拿大的农业中心地带忙个不停。为了一个不寻常的目标——赢得两张门票，他们英勇地对抗蝗灾。“我一直在想的只是，够了吗？”布兰迪
·埃利奥特说，她捕获了3万8千只蝗虫，赢得了电台举办的以门票为奖品的竞赛。“我知道我 已经受不了了，说真的，我每天睡觉都只能梦到蝗虫——一袋又一袋的蝗虫。”有100多个萨斯喀彻温省居民参加了里贾纳市（萨省首府）一个流行广播节目举办的这次竞赛，埃利奥特是其中之一。竞赛规则很简单：谁在两天时间里抓到的蝗虫最多，谁就可以获得两张十分抢手的门票，去看早已售磬的艾尔顿·约翰演唱会。搞出这次捕虫噱头的Z99电台晨间节目主持人巴茨·埃利奥特说：“刚开始筹划比赛的时候，我们想也许会有人交来几百只，甚或是一千只蝗虫。她（布兰迪）带着3万8千只蝗虫来了，让我们目瞪口呆。”埃利奥特用窗纱和塑料管做了一张1.5米长的网，然后拉上室友和几个侄儿侄女来帮着捉蝗虫。以拥有广袤麦田著称的萨斯喀彻温省同时也以严重的周期性蝗灾闻名。
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concert by pop star Elton John had music fans hopping in Canada's farming
hear tland as they braved a plague of grasshoppers in an unusual quest
to win a pair of tickets. "All I kept thinking is, is this enough?"
Brandy Elliott said after winning a radio contest for the prized tickets
by capturing 38,000 grasshoppers. "I knew I was grossed out and,
honestly, everynight I went to bed all I could dream about was grasshoppers
--- and just bags and bags of grasshoppers."Elliott was one of
more than 100 Saskatchewan residents to respond to the contest launched
by a popular Regina radio show. The rules were simple: whoever collected
the most grasshoppers over a two-day period, would win the two highly
coveted tickets to see Elton John at a sold-out concert. "When
we first thought of this contest we thought, oh you know, we might get
a few hundred, maybe even a thousand grasshoppers from people. She (Brandy)
showed up with 38,000 grasshoppers which blew us away," said Buzz
Elliot, a morning show host on Z99, the station that launched the bug-g
athering gimmick. Elliott rigged up 1.5-meternets made out of window
bug-screens and plastic tubing. She then recruited her roommate and
some young nephews and nieces to help with the harvest. Saskatchewan,
a province known for its vast fields of wheat, also has a reputation
for vast, cyclical grasshopper invasions.