Monday, October 11, 2010

The Irony of it all

I have unashamedly lifted this from http://www.metro.co.uk/news/843583-plumber-creates-bicycle-made-for-tools-to-beat-olympic-road-works

Plumber creates bicycle made for tools to beat Olympic road works

A plumber driven round the bend by Olympic road works has adapted a bicycle to keep his business running.

Chris JonesOn your pipe: Chris Jones dodges road works on his adapted bike (Dorset Media picture)
That's great, but I really can't help thinking that in most of the "developing world" this would be considered perfectly normal and hardly newsworthy.

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