The Last Straw

Welcome To The Beet Generation

Norfolk farmer Marlon Brooks was struggling to come up with a fearsome enough scarecrow until he created one that looks like singer Amy Winehouse. He says it's scaring off the pigeons that kept attacking his sugar beet. The scarecrow has her trademark beehive and tattoos, and Farmer Brooks reckons the real Amy should win another award - for services to the farming industry.

FOOTNOTE: Scare grow.

Trivia Pur$uit

The gun-firing scarecrow was patented in 1913 by John Steinocher of West Texas for ``scaring off birds, animals and suchlike as (they) tend to prey upon or devastate crops, stock or like property''.