It looked like an average Nerang back yard with an above-ground pool and neatly trimmed hedges.

But a closer look at the shrubbery revealed they were actually cannabis plants and that put a new twist on the expression 'cultivating drugs'. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

At a snip, he could have made a clipper ship. But when keen gardener Glenn Tabor decided to trim his privet hedge into a nautical novelty, he launched a canoe.Using manual shears and an electric trimmer, the 51-year-old joiner carefully shaped his impressive piece of topiary. picked by cactushair 1 year ago

I knew people liked to keep the hedges trimmed, but this is a little far! picked by effektz 3 years ago

The long awaited turnaround story at Sears may never happen. Why? Because reclusive hedge fund impresario and Sears Holding Corp. Chairman Edward Lampert doesn't know how to run a retail business. picked by 2manyusernames 3 months ago

In the latest run-up in prices, Wall Street speculators - some of them recipients of billions of dollars in taxpayers' bailout money - may be to blame.Big Wall Street banks such as Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Morgan Stanley, and others are able to sidestep the regulations that limit investments in commodities such as oil, and they are investing on behalf of pension funds, endowments, hedge funds, a... read full post picked by TraumaMamma 6 months ago

A Senate subcommittee investigation last year found that hedge fund Amaranth Advisors LLC, which collapsed in 2006 after losing more than $6 billion in natural-gas trades, had shifted its activities to ICE from the regulated Nymex to avoid trading limits, and that the "excessive speculation" raised homeowners' heating bills.
*About time. picked by dollyllama 2 years ago

He looks like a cross between a battered children's toy and a pink potato.

Meet Spud, the spineless hedgehog. picked by funkfrost 9 months ago

When the student landed in the bush the jagged stumps of the freshly cut hedge tore through is shorts and ripped most of his scrotum and both testicles from his body. picked by Techted 2 years ago

Green-fingered John Dobson has spent 17 years trimming Nessie's head, tail and humps into this huge 4.6m high hedge in the back garden of his Polegate home. picked by Hoosker 3 years ago