John Gin was driving along and saw this car with a protruding wheel. "Initially I thought it was a fancy mag wheel but in fact it was just a space-saver wheel which had been put on inside out."
A fast-food restaurant owner in Beirut has gone with the war-torn concept to market his eatery. Buns and Guns (motto: A sandwich can kill you) is made out to look like a military post and diners eat to the sound of gunfire instead of music. Owner Yousef Ibrahim
offers Lebanese favourites such as the "rocket-propelled grenade" (chicken on a skewer) and "terrorist bread". Buns and Guns is located in a strongly Hizbollah-supporting area, where the group's militia is lionised by many. "My goal was to make people laugh before they ask me why weapons." (Source: BBC News)
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Women with long fingernails are complaining that iPhones are sexist, according to the Los Angeles Times. The iPhone's virtual keyboard responds to the electrical charge emitted by fingertips, not fingernails. "Considering ergonomics and user studies indicating men and women use their fingers and nails differently, why does Apple persist in this misogyny?" says Erica Watson-Currie, 39, a consultant and lecturer.
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Eighteen British police officers have been disciplined after bragging on Facebook about crashing cars and hitting pedestrians. One picture showed a police vehicle in an accident with a small white car. The officer who posted it wrote: "I did him a favour. At 82 years old you just shouldn't be on the road and if you are, then most certainly don't go through a green light into the path of an innocent police car." An investigation has begun. (Source: Times Online)
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