it's a funny old world ....

With their desire to sue everything that moves, its perhaps a bit unusual, even for the United States.

A company in Florida is operating a new tourist 'attraction' where visitors get to play Tarzan by jumping across lakes and walking planks across trees etc.

The obstacle course will have the added 'attraction' of alligators and crocodiles playing beneath you whilst you swing , meaning if you get it wrong, you wont have to worry about the journey home.

Perhaps that's what they mean by 'attraction' – that you get out of it alive.

A German based tourist agency is being sued by a polish hunter who wanted to shoot an elephant, and claims they sent him to the wrong part of Africa where there aren't any.

Wrong part of Africa, wrong snow on roads, wrong dust on lines, everything's just wrong these days.

Perhaps the tourist agency actually like elephants and sent hunters to the wrong place to make sure they don't get shot.

Anyway the defence by the  tourist agency is that the hunter should have seen 'elephant excrement' on the ground proving that elephants were there – and rather proving that they were taking the piss !

Tourists to Berlin will soon be able to enjoy something they weren't able to a few years ago – rolling around the city in an East German tank. 

The tank is built around around an east german car known as the Trabant

It will be painted camouflage green and have a fake cannon on the roof, and will give people an alternative to a tour bus to see the sights of the city.

The Trabant has a reputation somewhat like Skoda had a few years ago, so perhaps the manufacturer is hoping this will create a cult following.

The German daily Bild has called the idea 'tasteless', which no doubt will massively increase interest  (among brits at least)

and cracking bonus footage of a trabant being built