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Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Spiky park benches

Anybody remember the benches in Transmetropolitan, that heated themselves overnight to stop people sleeping on them? Somewhere in China has gone one step further:

Park officials in China have found a way to stop people from hogging their benches for too long - by fitting steel spikes on a coin-operated timer.

If visitors at the Yantai Park in Shangdong province, eastern China, linger too long without feeding the meter, dozens of sharp spikes shoot through the seat.


[Caution about the limited reliability of 'funny old world' type stories about China, of course]
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