AWOL 2014 Issue 284 30th May | Page 5

Advertise here from only 40 baht per week weird NEWS south korea South Korea introduces extra-large parking spaces for women Are women worse drivers than men? South Korea certainly seems to think so. The capital city, Seoul, has introduced larger parking spaces just for lady drivers marked out in pink paint with a mini-skirted logo. Apparently this is part of a $95 million to make the city more friendly to women. These ‘lady-friendly’ parking spaces, like disabled spaces, are closer to entrances and lifts. That is not all – the city has also installed squishy stiletto-friendly pavements near the spaces. Not at all patronising. usa Burger King car park flasher blames itchy brozilian and bad flatulence for indecent exposure What do you say if you are caught by the police naked in a bush in a Burger King parking lot? Tough one one to talk yourself out of… but we all like a trier. The ‘hero’ of this tale came up with best answer he could when caught in flagrante. He told police he was hiding naked in the bush because he needed to fart – and didn’t want to do it in his car. His elaborate excuses for his public nudity did not stop there. Officers had contacted the man to follow up on complaints that the flatulent flasher had previously exposed himself while driving. His explanation for this separate exposure was equally audacious. Our windy pal claimed that his ‘brozilian’ wax had left his genital area on the itchy side. For the uninitiated, a brozilian is the male version of the all-off Brazilian wax, where the hair is ripped from man’s most intimate parts, including the testicles. Officers refused to buy the excuse after checking his car and finding a neatly folded blue towel on the driver’s seat with an open packet of condoms on the passenger seat. 24-year-old David Foskette was subsequently charged with a count of indecent exposure and booked into jail. norway ‘Artist eats his own deformed hip’ after it’s removed by doctors A man has reportedly eaten his own hip after originally telling doctors who removed it he was going use it for art Alexander Selvik Wengshoel, from Norway, had the deformed bone cut out four years ago and replaced with a metal one. Prior to the operation he was only able to move using crutches and a wheelchair. The 25-year-old has now revealed he feasted on his hip instead of using it in an art project as he originally intended to. ‘I just wanted to