BMW pranksters spin web of deceit

IN the world of hoax couture this peachy little number would be hard to beat - the BMW coupe advertised for sale after a scorned wife gave it a paint job that never was.

The website carrying the advert for the peach paint-bombed car, said to have been placed following a hot-blooded woman’s discovery of her husband’s dalliance with another, recorded more than 6,000 hits.

The €90,000 motor, despite being unpretty in peach, was regarded by many to be worth the €10,000 asking price.

But there was no 05 D BMW, nor was there an irate, desperate Dublin 4 housewife selling the car.

The same car featured on a Canadian website, and the hoaxers merely flipped over the illustration to make the car a right-hand rather than left-hand drive.

Meanwhile, tongues were wagging yesterday in a tiny Midlands village when it emerged the community may be about to get its own version of Stringfellow’s.

Fewer than 600 people live in Tarmonbarry on the River Shannon, but an advertisement in yesterday’s Longford Leader said a lap-dancing club is planned for the village.

Would-be dancers have been invited to submit their CV to a box number.

Now locals are desperately trying to find out if the lap-dancing club is a genuine business proposition, or a zany joke.

There is some speculation that the club may be based on a barge on the River Shannon, which runs right through Tarmonbarry.

But a spokesperson for Keenan’s public house believes the “whole thing is a big joke”.

One local said “the odd set dance” was the most common form of dancing in the area.