Arnie Skelton

Do you remember the original film ‘The Italian Job’? It had one of the greatest endings ever, with the gang having escaped with the gold in a coach, which then swerved off the mountain road, leaving the gold hanging over the cliff at one end of the bus, and the gang at the other - afraid to move, in case everything tipped over the side and down the mountain…The film ends with the great line from Michael Caine: “wait, lads, I’ve got an idea…!”

well, did you read this week that that there’s been a competition to find out the best solution to this problem - ie ‘the idea’. the winner was announced, and it’s very ingenious:

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