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A San Antonio, Texas, man said he had a heart-to-heart conversation with an armed burglar over a cup of coffee after he found him stealing from his home. "I said, 'What are you doing here?"' Steve Swanson said. "He said, 'I'm taking your stuff, and it's too bad
you showed up."' Swanson said the man was carrying a knife and a gun but he didn't panic. "I said, 'You don't want to do this. First of all, if you harm me or kill me, I'm just going to go to heaven. You're going to go to prison forever."' Swanson said he gave the burglar all the money in his wallet and offered to listen to his problems over breakfast. Their conversation ended with a prayer and a hug. He convinced the man to give him back two pillowcases of stolen items, however, the burglar still got away with some of his wife's jewellery.
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Rosie was looking for cooking classes on the Yellow Pages website under the Adult Education category, where she had been directed by Google. "The category page displayed no less than three ads for sex toys, porn DVDs and a massage parlour," she says. "I wasn't looking for that sort of adult education!"
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Police car stolen from Mt Albert: while not equipped with CB radio, it did have flashing lights, a horn and a siren and will be greatly missed by children whose parents go to the Asian food mall at 955 New North Rd. Owner of NZ Kiddy Rides, Tony Price, says: "Local police have been alerted, although I doubt this will be an interesting enough story for their recruitment campaign. If spotted anywhere its whereabouts should be reported immediately to the real police. A Puff Dragon kiddy ride was also swiped and may be rocking along beside it somewhere."
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Sara Wright has a yarn that may outdo all on multi-tasking drivers: "A woman, with a broken arm in cast ALL the way up, filing an enormous stack of papers while driving around the notorious Panmure roundabout!"
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The final word on multi-tasking drivers goes to Anne Martin of Helensville: "The best (or worst) I ever saw stopped next to me at the lights in Mt Eden. A smart, 50-ish businessman-type, he had both hands on the wheel but between two fingers of one hand he held a fat cigar and in the other the stem of a half-full glass of wine."