Sleuth 20/01/2012

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Sleuth's Maddest Prank Of The Month

We don't think the image at the top of this page is photoshopped. We just think it's frightening. And certainly stupid. Here's a man sliding down the outside of the Manchester Arndale escalator ramp. We never actually thought the Food Hall at Manchester Arndale was that bad. Or that anybody needed to do such a desperate runner. Or slider.

Let's hope the strange proclivities of this man don't catch on. Although the back of that Urbis looks like fun.

Massive Orderly Moles Infest Spinningfields

Sleuth couldn't believe his eyes yesterday. A family of disciplined moles had colonised the formerly green spaces of Spinningfields and produced a series of beautifully co-ordinated molehills.

More Enigmatic Heels

After these rather lovely but enigmatic shoes (click here) were discovered by Sleuth a couple of weeks ago, it appears there's an epidemic of the phenomenon. This week these shoes turned up on a city street. What is happening? Are ladies in despair over an unhappy purchase abandoning heels in the street?

Sleuth's Surprising Food

Sleuth popped into Urban Deva's food event with Tantra organisation, Shakti Tantra at the Mark Addy pub in the city centre - click here. He arrived at the end of the meal to a wonderful sense of well-being amongst the diners. Although he did wonder what had been going on when a gentleman walked passed and said, "In the dark I licked chocolate off the nose of a woman I didn't know." Sleuth also heard someone saying that parts of the meal had been fashioned by chef Robert Owen-Brown to look like body parts. Urban Deva herself showed him a picture - see below. Sleuth who is very innocent in such matters, asked, "Is it an ear?" 

Still The World's Ugliest Statue Of A Woman Not For Sale In A Dodgy Garden Centre

We keep trying to give the World's Worst Set Of Sculpture award to other establishments across the world, but it's useless. The Trafford Centre wins again with it's terrible work from sculptors who obviously can't afford enough pink marble to fashion a full dress for their statues and have no skill in making the musculature of any of their females look vaguely convincing.

Mother Pushes Child Into Cannibal Choirs' Mouths

Sleuth was up in the Ribble Valley for a food tasting this week when he picked up the free fortnightly paper, The Castle View, and saw this shocking picture. How could  this mother push this child into this cannibal choirs' mouths so enthusiastically?

The Kind Boy Of Bolton

Sleuth's most heartening picture of the week is below. What a lovely sentiment being expressed on that Bolton News A-board. Sleuth has no idea what the story's about and doesn't want to know because the paper might have been guilty of exaggeration and that would ruin it.