A British entertainment company wants to put ads on tombstones to promote its latest product.

Acclaim Entertainment has announced that ads for its game Shadow Man: 2econd Coming, for the PlayStation 2, are ready to appear on gravestones across Britain in what was described as “the first advertising campaign to use memorial plaques as part of a marketing strategy.”

The company said it would help subsidize the burial expenses of anyone who lets them turn the headstones into mini-billboards.

The ads feature the head of the game’s lead character, Mike LeRoi.

This guy floated an idea – and now he’s living on it!

Richie Sowa of Middlesbrough, England has built himself an island out of 300,000 plastic bottles.

His 65-by-52-foot island paradise off the coast of Mexico is held together with fishing nets, bamboo and plywood. It’s topped with soil and sand and plants and boasts a solar-powered oven and wave-powered washing machine.

It took four years of collecting bottles from restaurants before the 48-year-old divorced carpenter could create what he calls his “modern Noah’s Ark.”

And he’ll have someone to share it with next month – his mom and dad are coming for a visit.

Talk about big tip-offs!

A bank robber tried to escape capture in Salem, Ore., by slipping into a restaurant and handing a waiter a $100 tip for a seat away from the window.

Chris Ronemus was delighted to get the large gratuity on a slow day at DaVinci Ristorante.

Then police came into the restaurant, described the suspect, and asked if anyone had seen him. An employee pointed to the big tipper – and mentioned the $100.

The cops arrested the window-wary diner, Scott Michael Farrow, a 33-year-old unemployed painter from California.

They also confiscated Ronemus’ $100 tip – as evidence.

Pop goes the cow.

Pop artist Peter Max is providing a new, green landscape for a runaway cow that eluded capture for 10 days after jumping a 6-foot fence to escape a slaughterhouse in Ohio.

The 1,100-pound runaway ruminant will be taken to one of Max’s animal sanctuaries.

In exchange, the artist will donate paintings expected to net $180,000 for the Hamilton County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

Animal-welfare officers captured the fugitive bovine after shooting it with a tranquilizer gun.

Max and the cow are scheduled to appear in the Cincinnati Reds baseball team’s Opening Day parade Monday before the animal is taken to the artist’s farm.