"The Minneapolis runner's encounter with the kilt-wearing tuba player reminds me of running up Beresford Street in Auckland City early one Sunday morning," says Rowan Hill of Mt Eden. "As I struggled up the steep hill a group of all-night partiers outside the bar on the corner of Pitt Street cheered me on. When I came alongside them a young woman in high heels and not much of a dress began running alongside me. Amazingly she stayed upright and kept up with me till we reached K Road when she started to flag a little and turned back to her friends ..."
Roadblock for the fully-insured
Police in Victoria, Australia, stopped several cars and ordered them to fill all the lanes on the road. The motorists thought it was a routine traffic check, but then realised police were using their vehicles, which they were still in, as a roadblock to stop a fleeing driver. It worked after the driver stopped but slammed into the cars. (Source: Reason.com)
