AUTHORITIES in Indonesia have come up with a graphic way to encourage people to wear masks during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Rather than being fined for flouting the mask-wearing mandate, eight people in Gresik, East Java, have instead been ordered to dig graves for coronavirus victims.
"There are only three available grave diggers at the moment, so I thought I might as well put these people to work with them," said regional chief Mr Suyono, who added "hopefully this can create a deterrent effect against violations".
And while we're on the subject of COVID-19 precautions, a remote mountain community in the USA is this month celebrating Bigfoot as a "social distancing champion".
The residents of McDowell County in West Virginia hold an annual celebration of the wily creature, but this year instead of the regular festival they are instead hosting a "Bigfoot Scavenger Hunt" in which participants look for emblems depicting the allegedly mythical beast in local businesses across the county, taking photos and sending them in for a prize.
Let's hope some of those snaps are suitably grainy images of a bipedal mammal running through the forest, or curiously shaped giant footprints - but we doubt it, with Sasquatch having long proven he is way too tricky to be tracked by any feeble human smartphone.
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