A shop in Muswell Hill, North London, is selling painted logs for £10 ($22) each.
Shhhh ... just move on
China is to displace more than 9000 people so the world's largest radio telescope the Government is building in the hope of finding extra-terrestrial life can be in a quiet place. The 500m-diameter device in Guizhou province will cost China 1.2 billion yuan ($280.2 million) and will be the world's biggest telescope. But don't worry, the 9110 poverty-stricken residents of the area will be given 12,000 yuan ($2801) in compensation to relocate their homes/lives more than five kilometres away. (Source: Independent)
Extreme measures to hide hit-and-run
Christopher Lemek was arrested in Palmer, Massachusetts, last month and charged over a New Year's Eve hit-and-run accident that took a pedestrian's life. Lemek emerged as a suspect a few days after the collision when police, visiting his home, noticed freshly disturbed earth in his backyard. Eventually, Lemek confessed to literally burying the evidence by using a construction vehicle to crush his truck and an excavator to dig up his backyard and drop the truck into it.
