Most public transport commuters keep their eyes rigidly fixed on the newspaper. Not so in Seattle, where a new train route provides free female-friendly entertainment. Women commuters are being treated to a brief full-frontal view of a male nudist beach on each journey in and out of the city, says The Seattle Times (September 5). A male commuter said: “All the women pile themselves up against the window.” A woman added: “Sometimes we get kind of rowdy.”
Trying to get a closer look at women in the buff proved costly in Russia, where police are chasing a gang of thieves who stole a fleet of luxury cars. Businessmen driving past Balashikh beach on the Moscow RIver were lured out of their cars by the sight of three women stripping naked and washing each other on the beach, reports Russiatoday.com (Sept 4). The men learnt that their BMWs and Mercedes had been stolen only when the women picked up their clothes and escaped in a waiting van.
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People become firefighters for many reasons, but shovelling honey while being attacked by several thousand bees probably isn’t one of them. A 22-tonne shipment of Mexican honey developed a leak after being delivered to Basle, Switzerland, according to the Tribune de Genève (Sept 5), but by the time firefighters arrived, so had swarms of bees, which buzzed off only once all the honey had been shovelled away.
After the story this week about the dangerous driving conviction for a West Midlands man with no eyes (see Media Monitor, page 5) comes word that an armless driver in New Zealand has been declared harmless, reports the New Zealand Herald (Sept 6). When police stopped Colin Smith for speeding, they found that not only did he not have a licence, but that he could drive only with his feet. Charges were dropped when police decided that he was capable of steering with his feet.