The Western Mail reports that a controversial film comedy about two friends who buy Tom Jones’s dismembered manhood on the black market has caused a stir among fans of the Welsh singer. A Bit of Tom Jones?, which will be released in Cardiff next month, has come under fire from subscribers to the largest internet site dedicated to the star. The writer-director Peter Watkins-Hughes says he got the idea for the film when he was thinking what to get his wife for her birthday. The man is obviously a prick!
Meanwhile the Western Morning News tells us that hundreds of thousands of pounds have been spent building two bridges to help bats cross the A38 bypass at Dobwalls. Now a Highways Agency survey has found that just 12 to 14 of the nocturnal animals use the bridges — equating to about £21,400 per bat. Sorry, but I though bats could fly!
To Birmingham’s Mail which has a report of Mr Plod putting his foot in it once again. An innocent man has been left with a £1,217 bill for a new front door because police spotted air-conditioning units and thought he was growing cannabis. Officers smashed their way into Steve Ogilvie’s Sutton Coldfield home. “I installed them myself when I moved in because I hate the heat,” he said. “They are from B&Q.” Let’s hope the Old Bill will pick up his bill.
AND A BIT OF THE BLARNEY
According to the Press Association a survey in Ireland shows that more than half of employees would continue working if they won the lottery. The survey reports that 62 per cent of nine-to-fivers would still clock in if they struck it lucky. One in two workers said they would share some of their prize with colleagues or put it another way, 50 per cent - the tight fisted gits - said they wouldn’t.
AND A TASTE OF WHAT WE ARE MISSING!
In Canada the Regina Leader Post tells the story of how police had a warrant for the arrest of David William McKay, 28, and went to a house looking for him. The man who answered the door matched McKay’s description, but the man insisted he wasn’t McKay, but admitted knowing him. McKay was “a badass,” he said. The man said his name is Matthew but was unable to spell that name. When an officer pointed out that the man had the name “David McKay” tattooed across his back, the man still insisted he wasn’t McKay. Officers arrested him anyway. It was McKay, and he was given 45 days in jail for obstructing police. You could say the tattooist pinned it on him.
