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BEFORE YOU GO: GOLDEN EGGS / BURNING BINS

GOLD CREME EGG, ANYONE? YOURS FOR £31K

We all know that some shoppers like to trade up to more premium offerings around major seasonal opportunities like Easter, which is presumably why somebody has just paid £31k for a Creme Egg.

To be fair, it’s not your average Creme Egg. It’s made of 22ct gold and was apparently made in the 1980s by Garrard, the Queen’s official jeweller, for a nationwide treasure hunt competition run by Cadbury at the time.

The Cadbury’s Conundrum egg was one of 12 hidden around the UK which could be found by solving clues.

BURNING BINS TO GET HIGH? STOP ARSON ABOUT...

We had to check it wasn’t April already when we received a press release from waste removal specialists Divert.co.uk the other day. It concerned the return of ‘Britain’s stupidest craze’: burning bins to get high.

Many retailers will no doubt have suffered from some reprobate setting fire to one of their bins, no doubt putting it down to malevolence. But apparently there’s a darker side to it. Myth has it that burning wheelie bins and sniffing the fumes has the same effect as highs from recreational drugs.

You’ll be amazed to learn that sniffing burning wheelie bins doesn’t, in fact, get you high. Wheelie bins are made from high density polyethylene, which releases carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide into the air when set alight. So it’s more likely to kill you than get you high.

Regardless, there are apparently some bin-burning connoisseurs out there who believe that different colour bins giving different highs. The class A top doggy is apparently the brown bin which is highly prized among bin-burning aficionados.