A reader fails to impress visiting family with NZ seafood.
She writes: "I wanted to show my sister and her family how happy I was to see them again when they arrived here in New Zealand for the first time from Tonga. I took them to the Valentines restaurant on the North Shore. I showed them how to get food there: "Help yourself" I said, "eat as much as you can." I was happy to spot a few lobster on the seafood shelf. I rushed in there before a Palagi picked them up before me. I picked up three and went straight to our table. We started to share those lobster, but my sister started to sniff and said, 'these loppys are smelly'. I went straight to complain, but the lady told me that I should not have touched those lobster. They were not for eating, they were for decoration ... Oh my God ... I was so ashamed ... not for the lady ... but for my brother-in-law ..."
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A Denver sheriff's deputy pleaded guilty to a charge of animal cruelty after using Mace spray on a rabbit. Alvin Perez, 41, was suspended for two months without pay after an internal-affairs investigation and was then reinstated to the force. Perez saw a rabbit close to where he was standing outside the Denver County Jail during his break. He then got a can of Mace and sprayed the rabbit for no apparent reason in front of other deputies, the police report stated. (Source: DenverPost.com)
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James Newman of Mt Maunganui had a strange experience on the golf course last Saturday morning. "I noticed a strange effect around the sun. There was a perfect huge globe/ring around the sun which had a hazy light orange colour around the perimeter of the circle. But the most noticeable effect was that inside the ring, with the sun at its centre, it was darker than the rest of the sky. I pointed this phenomenon out to my playing partners and other golfers one suggested that it may have had something to do with the recent volcanic upheaval in Samoa." What gives?
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Mike and Cathy Grosse were shopping when they got a call from the Hamilton, Ohio, fire department. Firefighters had mistaken their home for a vacant house and knocked down the door during a training exercise. The firefighters caused about $1000 ($1792) in damage, but say they'll pay to fix things. (Source: Reason.com)
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