£460,000 Spent For Two Games Of Forest Football

A specially-created £460,000 football pitch created in the middle of a woodland in the Scottish borders has been used for two games. The Forest Pitch, near Selkirk, was built by Edinburgh-based artist Craig Coulthard as part of artistic celebrations of the 2012 Olympics. After the one day of football, yesterday, it will now be allowed to return to its natural state.


Mr Coulthard said: "Its legacy is more of a poetic legacy than a practical legacy." Four teams took to the pitch, two men's teams and two women's teams, kitted out in strips designed by Scottish schoolchildren. The teams of "new Scots" - people who have come to the country for a variety of reasons - were due to have been played in July, before the Olympics, but flooding saw the games postponed. Now the matches have been played, the land - owned by the Duke of Buccleuch - will be left to return to its natural state.

Mr Coulthard said: "I've created a full-sized football pitch in the middle of a spruce forest. The reason I did was I had very good memories of playing football in a forest myself. I wanted to create games between football players who are diverse and come from all over the world to live in Scotland and create a diverse football team within a monoculture of trees." The project, which has taken two years to build, has been controversial but Mr Coulthard insisted it was a work of art and it was worth the money.


He said: "I have done something which has not been done before. I have done something new and celebratory and hopefully makes people ask questions about their environment and about society. I would definitely say it is worth the £460,000." He added: "In the autumn of this year we will be replanting trees along the lines of the pitch that over the decades will grow into this big sculpture of a football pitch. And they are native trees so there is a nice combination of the non-native spruce and the native trees on the pitch."

15 Kilos Dead Caterpillars Found Under False Bottom Of Suitcase

An African man munched his way through hundreds of dead black caterpillars after they were discovered in his luggage by border guards at Switzerland's EuroAirport outside Basel.

Adrian Onobanjo, 47, had more than 15 kilos of dead black caterpillars in plastic bags hidden in his luggage when he was stopped and searched after arriving on a plane from Togo. Border guard spokesman Patrick Gantenbein said: "Even border guards hardened by the bizarre things we have had to deal with were shocked by this particular case.


"The man obviously knew he shouldn't have been trying to bring them into the country as they were hidden under a false bottom in his suitcase and only discovered with an X-ray. He tried to tell us that it was a special type of root, but some of them were still moving. "Then he claimed that as they were for personal use he should still be allowed to bring them into the country because they were a snack, and he was addicted to them."

Border Guard section chief Martin Leuenberger who was on duty at the time said: "The smell from the caterpillars that were mostly dead was pretty unbearable but it didn't seem to bother the man – and when he was told they would be kept and destroyed he grabbed as many as he could and started munching them. He said they were a delicacy and should not be wasted." The remainder of the caterpillars were stored in a sealed container in the fridge overnight and are due to be destroyed.

Fight Between Deer and monkey For Banana

Deer likes to eat grasses, weeds, and herbs to grow and where monkey is a primate of the Haplorrhini suborder and simian infraorder, either an Old World monkey or a New World monkey, Many time you might have heard that monkey like to eat banana, here is a amazing picture where a fight took place between Deer and Monkey for banana

Amazing Art With Eggshells

This is the work of Gary LeMaster. One thing that comes to the mind the minute one sees these carvings, are these real? On first glance these look like ceramic or plastic, but these are real.

Carousel

Jigsaw

Lotus

ReoGeo

Scimitar

Serenity

Swan Carousel

Unicorn

Spurce: www.theeggshellsculptor

Common Signs And Billboards Turned Funny In Street

While straight up defacing with gang tags or lame drawings doesn't make for a good sight for someone passing by a public sign, some pretty funny people got their hands on permanent markers and spray paint and made proper work of common signs and billboards. Below are the top 45 funniest defaced signs!