This thin house requires a bankroll that’s fairly fat.
A home in London that measures just over 5 feet wide at its skinniest and 9 feet, 11 inches at its widest is up for sale for $933,868, estate agents said Tuesday.
The narrow home is spread over five levels and used to be a hat shop before being converted into living quarters.
Real estate company Winkworths described the house as being “utterly amazing and almost certainly unique.”
Its bathroom features a medium-sized tub that takes up the entire length of the tiny room.
Other features of the property in the Shepherds Bush neighborhood of west London – popular with media professionals and close to the British Broadcasting Corp.’s headquarters – include a narrow kitchen, dining area, reception room, three bedrooms, dressing room, patio, small garden and a roof terrace.
‘Funny’ birthday joke ends with lights, sirens
Michael Lyons apparently had a funny practical joke planned for daughter’s birthday. In the end, no one was laughing – especially Lyons.
Lyons, 45, was arrested after he told a 13-year-old girl to hand a note to a bank teller in Savannah Ga., police said. The note said, “Give me all of your money, this is a stickup,” according to a police report.
The incident happened Friday when Lyons and a group of girls were celebrating his daughter’s birthday. While he was getting money out of an ATM, the girl went into the bank and handed the note to a teller.
The teller sounded the bank’s alarm, and police and FBI surrounded the building. Instead of robbers, they found Lyons and the girls.
Lyons was charged with criminal attempt of robbery by intimidation, police spokesman Bucky Burnsed said.
“You can’t yell ‘fire’ in a crowded theater, can’t joke about a bomb in your luggage at the airport, and you can’t write notes to cashier that say, ‘This is a stickup,’” Burnsed said.
Being a geek is good for a cheap movie ticket
Declaring yourself a “geek” might get you strange looks in some places. But a Japanese movie theater is offering outspoken nerds something positive: a discount.
A small movie theater outside Tokyo is offering cheaper tickets to so-called geeks for a summer romance movie about a nerdy guy who falls in love.
All that’s needed to get the discount is to ask for “one ticket for a geek” at the booth for the Japanese movie “Train Man.”
“Customers are getting a kick out of saying it,” said Koji Nitta, sales chief the Fujisawa Chuo theater, south of Tokyo. “There are only a few who look like typical geeks, though.”
The movie, “Densha Otoko” in Japanese, takes so-called geeks into a genre they’re not usually associated with: romantic love. The 22-year-old hero turns to a favorite geek refuge in search of girlfriend advice – the Internet.
Offering a discount seems to be widening the types of people eligible to be otaku, the Japanese term for geeks. Nitta said about 70 percent of the theater’s customers now claim to be geeks.
From Herald news services
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