KEY POINTS:
Unit 6B has been vacant for months, says Annette Sabor. "Yet the junk mail continues to arrive and the mailbox is full to the brim. A special mention must go to the eager Property Press deliverers, who squeeze in their super-sized edition every week. What happened to Save
Our Trees?"
* * *
Florida police say a 7-year-old boy faces grand theft auto charges - although he's unlikely to go to court - after taking his grandmother's sports utility vehicle for a joyride. The eight-minute trek left a trail of damage in his Palm Beach Gardens neighbourhood. The boy smashed mailboxes and hit parked cars and signposts. He was unhurt. Police say he drove until a wheel broke off when he hit a sign.
* * *
Biologists at the California Academy of Sciences commissioned a wetsuit for Pierre, an African penguin, after he began shedding his insulating, waterproof feathers, leaving his behind embarrassingly exposed. "One concern was that the other penguins would reject Pierre in his new duds, which fastens with Velcro at the back, covers Pierre's torso, and has small openings for his flippers," said the Associated Press report. But they accepted his sleek new look."
* * *
Taken on Wellesley St by Grant Daniel of Devonport. "Perhaps the prospect of fleas on the buses deters Aucklanders from using public transport?" he says.
* * *
Judith Taylor writes: "On rising grocery prices, I did pretty well at New World the other day. I got $81 of groceries for the bargain price of $53, by going through the coupon book and only buying the specials, and using extra vouchers. And if something isn't on special? Don't buy it unless you have to. The specials seem to be cyclic, so if it's not on special today, chances are it will be soon."
* * *
Prosecutors in Scotland have failed in their attempt to have the truncheon used in a stripogram declared an offensive weapon. Judges at the Appeal Court in Edinburgh backed a decision by a lower court judge to throw out the case, the BBC reported. Stuart Kennedy - whose stage name is "Sergeant Eros" - was taken to court last year after being arrested while dressed in his fake uniform outside an Aberdeen bar. He told two female plainclothes officers he was a stripper. But they charged him with impersonating an officer and having an offensive weapon in public.
Today's Webpick: Models falling over to a cracker Gloria Gaynor number is more amusing that I thought it would be. Watch it here.
These are the very best online videos from Ana's online magazine Spare Room.
