Caught in the net: ring pulled

Caught In The Net’s belief that relationship problems are best solved with a drunken late night call to your significant other isn’t shared by electronics giant LG who’ve fitted their new Korean mobile with a breathalyser.

“Users blow into a small spot on the phone, and if they’ve had too much to drink the phone issues a warning and shows a weaving car hitting traffic cones,” reads the report at abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=2125709. “Also, if you have a blood alcohol level over .08, it won’t let you call pre-programmed numbers in your phone book. So it not only promotes sobriety, but chastity – and probably your dignity, as well.”
Having sold more than 200,000 units last year in Korea, the LP4100 will hit the export market in early 2007.
Talking of being over the legal limit, an Aberdeen fan commemorated his club’s visit to Celtic last season by diving headfirst into one of the Parkhead urinals. You can get an action replay at www.youtube.com/watch?v=rC10SPesms4&search=aberdeen.
From there it’s but a mere mouse-click to www.newsobserver.com/102/story/457112.html, which has an, ahem, scoop on the newest flavour of ice cream being sold by a North Carolina parlour.
“Along with milk, sugar and the other usual ingredients, Cold Sweat is made with three kinds of peppers and two kinds of hot sauce,” they report. “Rod McCallum was one of the first regulars to try it – ‘I thought it was a cool idea, but didn’t think they’d make it that hot. It tasted like fire…with a side of fire'.
“After making the first batch, the parlour drew up a waiver that customers have to sign before a taste. It precludes anyone younger than 18 without consent of a guardian, and pregnant women and people with health problems.”
Caught In The Net’s new favourite site is www.silentagerecords.co.uk/ultraskull, a new online comic that gives Viz a serious run for its money in the poor taste department.
Which just leaves time for quick visits to www.priz.co.uk/build (lego reconstruction of The Prisoner); www.shanadoo.de (and you thought The Cheeky Girls were scary!); and www.widelec.org/zidane.html (ace Zidane headbutt game).