Litter pickers and those responding to finds of discarded drug litter know exactly how difficult it can be to find needles that might be hidden in the most unlikely of places – almost like trying to find a needle in a haystack.

As if to show that it can be done an Italian artist has tried to do just that and succeeded, to find a needle in a haystack.

Obviously short of a more constructive was to use his time, here is the outcome: