Dowbrigade

A German
architect has filed an application for a new type of cement made of dog
poo.

Friedrich Lentze, 57, from Berlin, applied for a patent for his "odourless
heating and building material" made from the dog poo cleaned from
the streets of the German capital every day.

He said: "They thought I was joking at first, but it makes economic
sense as the stuff has to be collected anyway, so why not use it for something
useful.

"The loads of dog poo that are gathered every day actually make a
great mortar with fantastic insulating properties."

He added that dung had for centuries been used as building material and
he had combined it with modern materials to come up with a new type of
insulating cement.

from Ananova