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Posted by Jennifer on October 2nd, 2008

Prophylactics swiped from Mexico condom-mobile
By MARIA GALLUCCI, Associated Press Writer
Wednesday, October 1, 2008

(10-01) 19:46 PDT MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AP) –

Missing in Mexico: 5,000 condoms, sound equipment and a motor used to inflate a giant prophylactic, all stolen from a “condom-mobile” used to promote HIV/AIDS awareness.

The coordinator of an HIV/AIDS awareness tour, Polo Gomez, said the truck was taken Sunday from its parking spot in front of a friend’s house in Mexico City.

It was recovered Wednesday in a shopping mall parking lot in a northern suburb — minus the condoms and the equipment. Gomez said the thieves left some 800 HIV tests and a 23-foot inflatable prophylactic, which were also in the vehicle.

The truck wasn’t hard to locate. It features painted images of a peeled banana, the exposed part shaped like a condom, and a shirtless man saying: “I protect myself. Do you?” Read More Here