21 April 2010

Identity crisis



This is from the same car park as the random bill board poster. This is the most unusual shaped cash machine I've come across!! (My thanks to Kim for modelling).

Typically you wait ages for a random sighting and then two come along at once...

Not so cunning marketing strategy volume 4



Saw this billboard in a service station car park on the way back from Wolverhampton at Easter. It looked to be advertising some sort of drink but I have no idea why hedgehogs... Anyone?!

25 March 2010

International Randomness

My thanks to my friend Colleen for this one...

Whilst in Canada recently a man was seen walking down the side of a highway pushing an office chair on which was sat a case of beer. According to Colleen there was no apparent destination for his wanderings so unfortunately the questions that immediately spring to mind with this story will remain unanswered. At least he had somewhere to sit when he got there.

22 January 2010

Been a while

It's been a bit of dry patch for random sightings... Not sure what's going on in the world but I've noticed a distinct lack of randomness or maybe it's just me growing up... I hope not.

Anyway to the point...

Recently in the UK (as the more eagle eyed readers (if there are any) will have noticed) it snowed. A lot. Whilst walking, sliding, falling over on my way home from work I saw a bloke with a cycle helmet on carrying a unicycle. I could barely stand up on two feet and know that cycling on a normal bike was difficult. But a unicycle?! Really?!

12 July 2009

Not so cunning marketing strategy volume 3

A while ago a man came to my front door selling laminated flyers for people to put in their windows asking people not to try and sell them things on their doorstep.

Not quite sure he got the irony...

Overheard gem


Whilst walking home from work last week I heard the following whilst walking past two girls stood outside a Burger King...

"Do they sell burgers?"

10 May 2009

Not so cunning marketing strategy volume 2


I went to the cinema last Wednesday. As I was going up the escalators from the car park I noticed two posters. One was a charity appeal asking for money to help children with cleft palates. There were several photos of children affected.

The poster next to it was for a well know brand of toothpaste with the tag line - 'Get the Smile'. Smiling down was a handsome man with a perfect smile.


Just struck me as a rather discordant piece of poster placement.