A guest who fled without paying his bill has been tracked down using DNA found on the toothbrush he left behind. Stephen Evans, checked into a £32 ($62)-a-night guesthouse in his hometown of Llandudno, Wales under a false name and address in June, claiming to be "Paul Jones of Chester". He told the receptionist he would be staying for three nights, but left after two days without paying for his stay, the Daily Mail reports. Police noticed the toothbrush in his room when they were called to investigate. They had it forensically tested and discovered a DNA match on the police database. (Source: Digital Spy)
Aye, blame L&P's Facebook followers
The ad folk at Saatchi's who came up with the new L&P line 'Bit Different Aye' were criticised yesterday for their spelling of the word. But they say they spent a long time trying to decide between 'aye', 'ay', and 'eh'. They put the question to their 190,000 strong L&P Facebook community and 3132 (out of 4084) people came back with 'aye'.
Rites of long appeal
Max Cryer writes: "The young man being a 'human scarecrow' in Wales is following an ancient British practice. The expression "stone the crows" derives from exactly that: generations of British children stationed in crop fields to scare away hungry birds. British MP Sir George Edwards, called his autobiography From Crow Scaring to Westminster and told of his childhood, when like many children in rural districts he was sent out to the fields to throw stones and scare the crows away from crops. He explained that this was once common practice in country areas, and the children were paid sixpence a day for crow scaring."
