Guest blogger David Hort brings you your dose of follyness for this week… and my god, is it folly.

This week in Folly Friday: Chinese motorists in nine-day pile-up; Welsh introduce mesh bridge infastructure; Cupcake Lady is no more; farmer becomes one with hay-bale; figure skater Porsche-drying fail; Russian mechanics invent Cold-War whoopee cushion; and Top Gear speaks out about The Stig.

China traffic woes continue

The impressive Chinese traffic jam – it lasted 9 days and stretched over 100km- has disappeared overnight.

The jam was reported all over the world and didn’t show China in the best of lights. What, with the environment, poor road system and those mercenary locals; overcharging the stranded drivers.

In the press recently there have been a lot of articles, interviews and debate around the state of British roads- potholes, too many signs and laughably congestion.

Here’s a much needed bit of context for British motorists.

It’s not that bad is it?

Discuss.

Quite a mice story

Apologies for the pun.

For years we’ve had cattle grids, now Wales have got their very own bridge for mice.

At a cost of £190,000, mesh walkways have been built 1.6m over a stretch of road between Pontypridd and Talbot Green.

The Welsh Assembly has also dug new ponds for displaced newts and toads.

If only this had been thought of years ago, it would’ve saved a lot of us from the traumas of Animals of Farthing Wood.

Cops ice Cupcake Lady

Now, there’s not much credit given to American business innovation, but by God, they’ve got this one right.

Philly, the city synonymous with The Fresh Prince of Bel Air theme tune (just me?), otherwise known as Philadelphia, is home to the Cupcake Lady.

Cupcake Lady is an apt American superhero. She saves the general public from average sponges and the arduous, “walk to the shop” by baking delicious cakes and then selling them from the back of a modified postal truck.

That was before the police got involved.

*Insert police-cake/doughnut/frosted treat pun here*

Instead of inundating her with orders, they seized her truck and its contents, as she didn’t have a permit.

Farmer Bales from Tractor

It’s like Spongebob Squarepants. But made from straw. And on land. And naked.

Silly Kurt…

Four time world figure skating champion, Kurt Browning gutted his house by starting a fire with a leafblower.

No, not a gardening faux-pas, but a misinformed attempt to dry his Porsche Boxster.

Mistake 1: Silly Kurt had left his Boxster with its topdown during a rainstorm at his Toronto home.
Mistake 2: Silly Kurt thought he could dry his car with a leafblower.
Mistake 3: Silly Kurt left the leafblower unattended, next to his Boxster, in his garage.
Mistake 4: Silly Kurt wore a lot of sequins.

Unfortunately for Kurt, the Boxster caught fire, and the rest, as they say, is history.

Not only did he lose his leafblower, but his Boxter as well. Added to that, his house is now structurally unsound, and it’s going to cost him about $1m in damages.

Russian whoopee cushion

To finish, we’ve found this video of a bunch of Russian mechanics.
MT had a feature this week called How to spot a cowboy mechanic.

We’d suggest that these lads should probably be avoided – as should sitting on airbags apparently.

Top Gear: The Stig is ours

The BBC and Harper Collins, the Stig’s potential publishers, have been in court this week.

Is the BBC being a bit harsh? They’re not allowing B*n Co*lins to cash in on his celebrity by trying to block his planned autobiography, which would break the Stig’s contractual agreements.

Harper Collins is vehemently defending the Stig’s right to publish his life story.

However, Top Gear’s Andy Wilman has hit back on a very strongly worded blog about the dispute. You can read about his view of the Harper Collins ‘bunch of chancers’ here.

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