U.K. Sex Shop Opening a Hoax

What would have been the first sex shop in the Crouch End neighborhood has now been declared a hoax by builders.

A man working on the conversion of a shop in the area scrawled an announcement that a sex shop was opening. According to the Hornsey and Crouch End Journal, eyebrows were raised by shoppers and local business owners when the note appeared last Monday morning in the window of the former HAM Estates office.

The sign read "This is new Crouch Hill sex shop."

Nearby workers started asking questions, and soon after, a local journalist made some inquiries. The construction workers then admitted that the sex shop sign had been a joke.

The note was removed by noon on Wednesday.

Accoring to the report, “when the truth - that the shop was going to be a rather less racy estate agents - was revealed, some local shopkeepers seemed a little disappointed.”

"It would have been more exciting than another estate agent," one local business owner told the report. Another said, "My reaction was 'brilliant! At least it's not another clothes shop.’"