Spotted at Auckland Airport. A Hyundai with the question 'What can you tow?' printed on the back windscreen. The answer is, "very little", according to a reader because there is no towbar.
Moviegoer's nightmare
A witness at a Hollywood cinema described how a man politely asked a woman several times
to switch off her bright phone screen. He finally tapped her on the shoulder, saying, "You need to turn off your phone!" The woman then stood up and started swearing, saying "You hit me! You hit me! I'm going to call the police". She proceeded to shine the phone's flashlight at the man, as others asked her to turn it off. The two continued their exchange, and finally, the woman pulled out a can of Mace and sprayed him in the face. (Source: Mashable)
Woodhouse's way with words
Minister of Police Michael Woodhouse, who was recently outed as having a drink/driving conviction, must've raised a few eyebrows when he opened the Second International Symposium on Drugs and Driving with: "Ladies and gentlemen, it is a pleasure to join you this morning for the opening of what is the most significant drug-driving event to be held in New Zealand."
Hairy kind of terrorism
A Turkish company has inadvertently used an image of the imprisoned al-Qaeda figure Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in an advert for a hair removal product. The infamous photo of the alleged 9/11 mastermind, with chest and back hair spilling out of his white T-shirt, was taken after he was captured in Pakistan in 2003. The cosmetics company used it captioned: "That hair will not shed itself."
