The SYDNEY MORNING HERALD claims that topless photos of Lara Bingle, Aussie model and companion to cricketer Michael Clarke, have appeared again on a German magazine’s website.

In March 2007, GQ’s German edition showed shots of Bingle in her birthday suit (possibly NSFW). The nudie pics caused quite a stir, as Lara was known for her brief bikini appearances in cricket ads - and for having an affair with married Australian football player Brendan Fevola.

The commotion was also felt by GQ’s website, as the torrents of traffic caused the mag’s Internet servers to crash.

But when we followed the Herald’s links to the supposedly new pics, we found something interesting. Or make that, didn’t find.

After jumping through various pages & numerous warnings about nudity, we had a long loading wait until we actually ended up at German GQ’s main web page.

And there was no sign of Lara. Unfortunately, we declined taking Deutch classes in school, so we didn’t spot any obvious links to any new Bingle boob photos. When we attempted a search, we received a bunch of “timed out” errors before coming up empty.

Seems like it may just be a false alarm. Or maybe a server crash happened again. You’d think GQ would have the IQ to fix this problem by now.