NATIONAL POST ONLINE | News story
CHAMAN, Pakistan - U.S. aircraft over southern Afghanistan have scattered US$100 bills tucked into envelopes bearing a picture of George W. Bush, the U.S. President.
Some of the envelopes were carried by the wind and fluttered to earth over the Pakistan border town of Chaman, sending people scrambling for the cash.
"C-130 planes dropped white-coloured paper envelopes with a photo of President Bush and two bills of $100 each," said Abdul Hadi, a resident of Chaman, which is close to the border with southern Afghanistan.
"They are actually dropping these over areas across the border but a few were carried away by the wind to this side. People pushed and fought with each other to get their hands on the envelopes."
The envelopes bore no message

--say it again:
The envelopes bore no message.
uh..isn't that what all that semiotics stuff was about? hermeneutics? epistimology? Marshall McLuhan anyone? Did this really happen?