Here's something you don't see every day.

A half-naked Nick Cave on horseback. Surrounded by Snoop Dogg, Russell Crowe and Kylie Minogue.

Back in June the Australian media couldn't get enough of a plan to erect a home town statue of Cave in his home town of Warracknabeal (340km north-west of Melbourne, population 3200).

Who says Cave doesn't have a sense of humour? He claimed he was serious about the proposal and would invite celebrity mates to any statue unveiling.

"Russell Crowe, my mate, has promised to attend," he told the Wimmera Mail Times by email. "Snoop Dogg, a rapper, says he'll come if they let him into the country. Kylie Minogue said she wouldn't miss it for the world; she even promised to wear her gold lame hotpants."

http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,23916405-5012980,00.htm...

To be fair, the local council and some residents got into the spirit of the increasingly bizarre story. After Cave upped the ante by announcing Mike Tyson would also attend, shire CEO Ray Campling vowed to take on Tyson in a bare-knuckled boxing match.

http://wimmera.yourguide.com.au/news/local/news/general/campling-says-br...

But the most amusing aspect of the whole saga was the OUTRAGED reaction of those who didn't get the joke.

I especially loved this "I knew his father and mother" letter from Audrey Hoffman in the Warracknabeal Times.

And despite being grateful for any possible increase in trade, publican Laurie Wall was only too happy to tell Cave - via the Wimmera Mail Times - that there would be no free ride were the prodigal son to return.