Human femur bone and animal skulls: The strangest items offered to quirky emporium of the unexpected
A video report (click to play above) shows the inside of a quirky shop where you can buy a decommissioned light machine gun, a motorbike turned into a bar and a set of primate statues flipping the bird - so, obviously, we had to visit.
Named The Dog House, the quirky one-of-a-kind shop puts Lidl's famous middle aisle to shame. In the above video, Fay Rutter, 55, talks about some of the strangest items people have brought into the store.
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Hide AdThe family-run firm is now run by Fay, the original owners' daughter, who runs it alongside the rest of the team in Walsall. It's not just reselling, it's re-imagining and re-purposing, with a mission statement to 'never throw anything in the landfill' - even if said items happen to be a bag of animal skulls.
But Fay - also an antique dealer on Dickinson's Real Deal - admitted to drawing a line at human femur bones, as she explains in the video.
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