Summer Time Show
25th August 2001

Hi to all our listeners … before I give you the links to this week's show, I'd just like to thank you all for your emails.. they are always very much appreciated!! Thanks!!! Anyway back to the job in hand, here are the links for this week!!

· Invention of the week!
A mobile phone that can be used to spy on unfaithful spouses (wives, husbands) as well as your boyfriend / girlfriend etc. might soon be on it's way to Britain. The phone is very popular with suspicious wives in Taiwan, transmits nearby sounds and speech to a caller who phones in with a special code. The manufacturer says it has been flooded with inquiries from women whose husbands take frequent business trips to China. Something to bear in mind if you're contemplating cheating on your nearest and dearest if the phone becomes available in Italy!!!!

· Obsessive of the week
American dentist Leonard Goldsmith has turned his dental surgery in Maryland into a shrine to Star Trek. Surrounding the dentist chair and drills are life-size cardboard cut-outs of Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock. Goldsmith says he thought the life size figures would put the patients at their ease!!! Giancarlo and myself believe it would have the opposite effect…… bringing to mind the mind crazy dentist from the film The Little Shop of Horrors! What do you think?

· Organisers of the week
Officials at a tug-of war contest in Plymouth, Devon, had to abandon the event after remembering everything but the rope!!!!!!!!! Well Done!!!!

· CV checkers of the week
Reginald Lyttle, a prisoner serving 28 years for arson that killed 15 people at a hotel in Sydney, Australia, in 1975, has spent 10 years of his sentence on day release as a volunteer with the fire service …… even gaining promotion for his good work. He has now been suspended. As they say in Blighty! "What were they on?????"

· Closest Scrape of the week
A carpenter in Houston, Texas, was described by doctors as "the luckiest man alive" when a 3inch nail was fired into his face and embedded itself deep in his skull. The nail passed through the 58 year old's eye socket, missing vital nerves by a fraction of an inch and coming to rest millimetres from his brain stem. After an operation and only a few days rest, the man left hospital with no brain damage!!