Banana Straightener

German artist Karl-Friedrich Lentze has applied for a patent on his new invention: a banana-straightening device (thanks to Hairy Houdini for posting this in the hoax forum). Obviously this is just what the world needs. Basically Lentze's idea is to chop off the bent bits and then seal the banana back up with a "biologically safe plaster." Here are some of Lentze's other projects:

• He asked the Bonn City Council whether it would be possible for him to be buried with an inflatable sex doll (the council said yes)



• He wrote to zoos asking them whether they'd be willing to feed his body to piranhas after he died



• He applied for permission to open a restaurant that would serve urine goulash and 'Mommy's Muffins' (muffins made from breast milk)



• He tried to open a brothel service for dogs (he copied this idea from Joey Skaggs)



• He sued the Pope in the International Court in The Hague for opposing the use of condoms



• He tried to ban Santa Claus, arguing that the bearded old man scares children

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