High life | 3 October 2012

I don’t know who was the dumber of the two: the Greek banker apparently rushing to spend 100 million big ones on a London pad, or the American woman who fell off a cliff in Alaska while busy texting? Both dummies survived, which goes to show that the Almighty must have a weakness for the desperate. Lavrentis Lavrentiadis is the unusually named banker now under investigation in Greece for possible money laundering. It’s not unknown for Greeks to cheat on their taxes and purchase houses overseas, though the Russians are much better at it than the Greeks or even the Chinese. London is one big laundry machine; in fact, it should change its name and simply call itself Laundry.

Now please don’t ask me about the Alaskan. All I know is that she broke some bones after falling more than 100 feet off a cliff while texting. Apparently she continued to text while flying downwards.