NZ at Noon: Precious children, surfing dolphins and a deep-fried iPad

Four-year-old Lincoln Roberts at Rainbow's End recently. Photo / Dean Purcell

Making headlines across New Zealand at noon include a 3 year old used for BB gun target practice, surfing dolphins and creating celebrity portraits out of burnt toast is not enough for one guy who is now deep frying expensive gadgets.

If you have young children, go home tonight and hug them and tell them you love them. Life can be too short. And who would do this to a three year old?

Sheena Margaret McIntosh Daisley said she did not notice the ten year old girl she whacked into on a pedestrian crossing and seriously injured because she closed her eyes "for the blink of an eye" while she sneezed.

Surfers at Mangawhai Heads had to wait their turn as a pod of dolphins moved in to show them how it's done. Here's a photo gallery of the dolphins.

Former Christ's College pupil Henry Hargreaves woke up one morning and decided to deep fry an iPad. "A lot of my ideas are fairly random," he was quoted as saying.

A guy has been wandering around the streets of Taupo randomly stabbing people.

This person dislikes one thing worse than tweenie pop stars and their "sickening" groupies and that is the "winner of the genetic lottery."

Katikati's luxury Fantail Lodge may or may not be for sale.

Just because you come from tough backgrounds doesn't mean you have to turn out bad.

There was a big surprise for Grandma!

There are very happy teachers all over the place including Northland, Bay of Plenty, Wanganui, Hawke's Bay and Mid Canterbury.

A truck flipped on its side on a busy Whangarei road. A motorcyclist is in Tauranga Hospital. A Hawke's Bay collision this morning involved hazardous chemicals.

Tauranga Intermediate School principal Brian Diver says he is not trying to hide anything.

A woman who casually wandered off with a $5000 ring in Napier later rolled a car taken from a salesperson during a test drive.

Here's a poll about UFO's.

Bystanders may have thought it was a bit odd as the cop stood there repeatedly honking the air horn on his patrol car, but it was for a reason.

Meanwhile you may be surprised who is lurking in Campervans outside Canterbury country pubs.

Hopeless romantic George Procter got the warm fuzzies he was hoping.

The state of the Gisborne economy depends on which survey you read.

Four historical Maori artefacts have been unearthed in Christchurch.

People are slipping over and injuring themselves in Ashburton as temperatures plummet to -10 degrees.