Monster solution for stadium

Here's a three-word answer about what to do with Beijing's beautiful, costly, often empty Bird's Nest: monster-truck shows.

This fits in with the city's growing car-culture. As the nation able to boast so many superlatives related to bigness, China's Olympic stadium is the perfect place to stage these eye-popping, ear-splitting, fume- and smoke-spewing celebrations of automotive mayhem.

Monster trucks, for those who haven't heard of them, are normal-sized pickup trucks transformed by huge tires, jacked-up chassis and big engines into behemoths. Sporting names such as Bulldozer, The Reaper, Grave Digger and Cardiac Arrest, they perform stunts involving speed, noise, danger, lots of crushed metal and occasional fatalities.