Robot pole dancers to gyrate at French nightclub
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Robot pole dancers are set to be launched at a French nightclub this month. Each dancing droid will wear high heels and have a CCTV camera for a head. Laurent Roue, the owner of the SC-Club in Nantes, said the club’s human dancers will also continue to gyrate there. “To each his own,” he added.
Builder photographed pooing on roof
A builder defecated on a roof he was working on and got a friend to take a photograph of the act. “I was a bit disgusted,” said the homeowner after discovering the roof-top stool. “They'd even shoved some down my chimney stack. It's dreadful behaviour.” He was even more appalled later when he discovered the photo was being sent around via email.
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Speeding driver said he ‘needed a number two’
Meanwhile, a motorist caught driving at 110mph on the A1 told police he was speeding because he needed “a number two”. A silver Mercedes was stopped by an unmarked police car near Yaxley in Cambridgeshire. An officer tweeted: “The driver was very sorry but he ‘needed the toilet, a number two’. Err that’s okay then. Reported.”
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