IT MUST BE TRUE…

I read it in the tabloids

The Swedish city of Malmö has installed “erotic” bins to tempt people to dispose of their rubbish. The dustbins play the voice of a woman in a state of great ardour, using phrases such as “mmm, yeah”, “just to the left”, and “that was crazy good” when people put rubbish in them. Marie Persson of Malmö’s road department explained that the bins are part of a drive to “get more people to talk about the dirtiest thing there is – littering”. A Michigan man has built a mini cinema for squirrels – complete with handmade promotional posters, a snack stand and a screen. Jason Lenzi, 30, spent two months and $600 creating the cinema, which will show a film he made – Revenge of the Squirrels – on a tablet computer. “I really wanted to know what squirrels would do with their own mini movie theatre,” he explained. “Honestly, they loved it! They got to experience what a movie theatre is like and I’m glad I could be the one to show them.”

A four-year-old boy caused a stir in his local branch of B&Q – by relieving himself in a display toilet. Caroline Akhtar and her partner Aaron were browsing the shop in Glastonbury with their son Jacob and two daughters when nature called.The kids had been “running around”, explained Caroline, and “the next minute we notice Jacob, shorts down, sat on the toilet. We ran over, but it was just too late.” She said the shop assistant “couldn’t stop laughing but also completely ignored the situation“– leaving the parents to clean up. “We were mortified,” she said, “but then we found it funnier and funnier.”