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Sideswipe: Dec 26: Make way for me

Spotted in SkyCity car park in Auckland. Not only a tacky coloured Rolls-Royce, but the taking of three car park spots.

Sideswipe: Dec 24: Strange but true

After seeing a brown snake in the front yard of a neighbour's house, Rodney Williams of Glenroi, picked it up and bit its head off.

Dec 21: Merry jape backfires

Sideswipe: A real buzz kill

Doctors have discovered a baby tooth lodged inside an 8-year-old boy's ear three years after he placed it under his pillow for the tooth fairy.

Dec 19: Fake horse disaster

Dec 18: Blooping the blooper

Graeme spotted a story in the Northern Advocate, about a Nasa astronaut's photo of Everest, that wasn't actually Everest but a summit somewhere in India.

Dec 17: Converted at last

A reader writes: "Is the end of the world coming? Has the polarity of the earth shifted? Yes, it is happening - I have proof.

Dec 14: Family unfriendly

Sideswipe: Dec 13: Where to?

Sideswipe: Nov 30: A stern chalking to

Sideswipe: Nov 29: Past Middle-earth into Over the Top

Sideswipe: Nov 28: Little treats in the trolleys

Russell often wonders about the practice of parents trundling their mucous-filled, unwashed children round in the supermarket trolleys.

Sideswipe: Nov 27: Make sure your wallet's full

Caviar vending machines have been installed in three posh malls in Los Angeles.

Sideswipe: Nov 26: Psy gets Bieber fans all a Twitter

Sideswipe: Nov 23: Sweetness on tap

Sideswipe: Nov 22: Can't park where?

Sideswipe: Nov 21: Museum concrete not an exercise court

"Why does the Auckland Council allow a group of people to use the front of the museum as a gym area?"

Sideswipe: Nov 20: Fitness challenge

A reader writes: "Bleary-eyed, I drove down West Coast Rd toward Glen Eden about 7.30am on Saturday to get milk.