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EARTHDATE: October 23, 2011

Official News page 7


REAL LIFE NEWS: YOU CAN'T TURN GUANO INTO GOLD

by Hazed

A man in Northern Ireland fancied himself as a bit of an alchemist. He wanted to make gold out of a less valuable substance - I supposed that is one response to the current recession. But his chosen material wasn't the traditional choice of a base metal like lead... it was poo!

 

Yes, he tried to turn his own faeces into gold, using an electric heater. Not surprisingly, this didn't work. But it did set fire to the building, causing £3,000 of damage to the flat.

 

The fire brigade and police attended the scene, and an officer reported he heard the wannabe alchemist refer to putting "fertilizer" on a heater. Well, I suppose that's technically correct.

 

He has now been convicted of arson and endangering the lives of others, and sent to jail for three months.

 

Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/20/alchemy_sentence/


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