The most exciting news of the week is that mushrooms were found growing on a seat of an active Bangkok bus. In addition to carrying passengers on the No 82 route from Phra Pradaeng to Phahurat, the bus featured a battered seat covered in newly sprouted mushrooms. Alas, the seat has now been replaced by spoilsport officials following complaints from passengers unimpressed by sitting next to a seat covered in fast-growing fungi.
It had all the potential of one of those wonderful killer plant horror B movies like Day of the Triffids, this time with mushrooms taking over Bangkok. That would definitely provide a whole new challenge for Governor Chadchart Sittipunt.
It is not entirely clear what happened to the rogue mushrooms, although rumours suggest they may well have ended up in the bus conductor's cooking pot.
