The Supermercado Project

Now, i've spent time slagging the French off in here before. But this story proves that in those years when they're not being used as a staging post for somebody's attempt to take over the world that they are quite smart people

Absurd memorial plaques pop up all over Paris
A Paris city councillor is asking for an inquiry into a rash of false and absurd memorial plaques that have appeared on buildings around the French capital.

Paris newspapers say one of the inscriptions reads: "Here on the 17th of April, 1967, nothing happened."

While another plaque bears the words: "Karima Bentiffa, civil servant, lived here from 1984 to 1989."

The person in question remains unknown in the neighbourhood.

Other inscriptions on the formal rectangles of stone are similarly baffling, reading for example: "This plaque was put up on December the 19th, 1953", and nothing else.

Councillor Claire de Clermont-Tonnerre says the plaques are unauthorised and some are funny, but only for about five minutes.

And they steal garden gnomes too... Those crazy frenchmen!