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Denmark’s so called Bikini Bandits, strangely without bikinis, have stopped people speeding, but unsurprisingly have caused major traffic jams. The perky spokesbusom is endearing and sincerely believes she is first and foremost saving lives by slowing drivers down. Bless.

Watch the news item above… (NSFW)

(Via Scanner blog).

Forget about Fenchurch Street and Marylebone Station; this customised monopoly board can be made to your specifications and include streets in your local hood.

My Monopoly lets you to build a property empire based on the likes of Mt Albert Road and Karangahape Road (or Dundas Street and George Street if you want). You can name spaces on board after real streets, pretend places…anything goes, but keep it clean.

Check it out here.

Cost: 79 quid and you’ll probably have to get a mate in the UK to order it for you…but where there’s a will….

NB: Anyone thinking of making a filthy version, or using brand names, can think again. Hasbro are not about to sully this iconic game.

Ready, willing, not quite able: Maria and Brian Wright are raising money to reverse Brian’s vasectomy

Crazy things do happen over the internet. Some people set up websites and find an advertiser for each pixel, some trade up from a paperclip to a house, and others put up a world map, selling virtual countries in order to finance their OE.

But Whangaparaoa couple Maria and Brian Wright are raising money for a slightly different purpose. Brian had a vasectomy ages ago, before meeting Maria. Now they’re married and want to have children together, but a reversal operation, worth NZ$7,000, is out of their reach.

Maria, who owns her own beauty therapy business, and Brian, a bricklayer formerly of Gloucestershire, decided they weren’t going to let a few severed, cauterised tubes get in their way…

We thought the Sedgeway had it tough, what with the recall and all. But this photo of a woman modelling some “Motor Shoes”, published in 1952 (that’s what it says in tiny print at the bottom) proves that the idea of motorised pedestrian transport has been around for quite some time.

Presumably the art to operating this form of transport is in pressing the throttle buttons simultaneously, so that both feet go at roughly the same speed and hopefully in the same direction…

Those wags at the Onion have come up with this nifty prankster’s item, called the GotchaBox. You’re supposed to put the actual intended gift inside it and watch as the recipient graciously accepts what he or she thinks is a USB powered one-slice toaster.

Other boxes available include…