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Dan Clark saw this sign on the New Brighton Pier in Christchurch. He asks: "How would I know to ask someone to translate the sign for me if I don't understand English?"
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Go! Airlines flight 1002 left from Honolulu and was expected to land in
Hilo (Hawaii) around 10am, but had to turn around after flying past the airport. The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is investigating whether two airline pilots were asleep. The pilots did return to the airport and land safely. There was no indication that the pilots had to avoid landing because of aircraft or weather problems and air traffic controllers were unable to reach the plane for 25 minutes. A radar track of the flight provided by the website www.flightaware.com shows the plane remained at 21,000 feet as it flew past Hilo. There is no FAA regulation that allows pilots to sleep during a flight.
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Polish taxmen are offering Poles the chance to pay their tax bills in blood. Every donation to the local blood banks will allow Poles to write £30 ($73) off their tax bill. For every litre donated, donors have to get a certificate from the hospital that can then be sent to the taxman and written off against their final tax demand. Regular donor Dariusz Gryka said: "I learned about it from an accountant friend and started to give blood last year. I have only done it three times, but already it has been worth it." (Source: Ananova.com)
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A reader writes: "To the woman in the cat T-shirt at the Rod Stewart concert last Tuesday at the Vector Arena, who told us to sit down and not dance to Twisting The Night Away - get a life."
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Jeremy from Perth writes, with perhaps a touch of paranoia: "Regarding your piece about Baby On Board signs being used by the fire brigade to look for kids. An old aircraft engineer told me that when in an aircraft you are told to assume the crash position, it is not to make you safer - it doesn't. It is so that your face is protected and they have an easier job of identifying your body after the crash. Ditto, aircraft life jackets aren't to keep you afloat till the rescuers come; they are to keep your lifeless body floating and make it easier to collect later."
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I guessthe Baby On Board signs may have passed their use-by date, says Matt Bull, who admits to having one in his car. "I did laugh at the variation I spotted last weekend in the back of a two-seater sports car ... 'Baby, I'm bored'."
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Rachel once saw a vehicle with a Baby On Board sign and a "Hit This Car, I Need The Money" sign. Nice parenting, she says.
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The Baby On Board item reminded Titirangi's Julian Beer of his favourite Gary Larson cartoon: A fly driving a car down the street with a sign in the back window, "Maggot on board".
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Today's Webpick: Horrible People is an online soap opera parody staring Mel (aka Kristen Schaal) the Flight of the Conchord's number-one fan. It's a seriously evil soap opera that takes place at a cocktail party. Brilliant. Watch it here.
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