Wednesday, October 3, 2007
knickers appear like magic
Dodgy tales of underwear going missing off lines in the dead of night are old-hat.
Far more curious is the suburban phenomenon of random knickers and bras suddenly appearing on a line overnight - which has perplexed the residents of Ronald Ct, Pukete.
- Weird things started happening in the cul-de-sac about three weeks ago when Dave Lattimore planted a new front lawn and erected lines with plastic bags across it to keep the birds off.
A few nights later a pair of black female knickers appeared, pegged to the line.
Gradually, all sorts of unmentionables were added in the dead of night, until the street front at No 26 now looks like an ad from an Elle Macpherson catalogue. The range includes a black suspender belt, pink g-string, corset and 40C white bra.
"Every second day some more appear," Mr Lattimore said. "I figure if I leave it long enough I'll have some matching sets. Either that or do the Cinderella thing and go knocking on doors to ask if we can see what fits."
Neighbour Roy Wood is just as bemused.
"People must walk past and drop their knickers," he said. "They're like that around here."
But he didn't fancy a Cinderella survey.
"Some of this is more ugly sister stuff," he said, fingering a massive black bra. "It's been designed for an elephant."
The mystery underwear is intriguing the street's women as well. The Times listened in as several of Ronald Ct's female residents speculated on which of their neighbours was responsible for the pink g-string.
"Must be Trudy," they said.
Far more curious is the suburban phenomenon of random knickers and bras suddenly appearing on a line overnight - which has perplexed the residents of Ronald Ct, Pukete.
- Weird things started happening in the cul-de-sac about three weeks ago when Dave Lattimore planted a new front lawn and erected lines with plastic bags across it to keep the birds off.
A few nights later a pair of black female knickers appeared, pegged to the line.
Gradually, all sorts of unmentionables were added in the dead of night, until the street front at No 26 now looks like an ad from an Elle Macpherson catalogue. The range includes a black suspender belt, pink g-string, corset and 40C white bra.
"Every second day some more appear," Mr Lattimore said. "I figure if I leave it long enough I'll have some matching sets. Either that or do the Cinderella thing and go knocking on doors to ask if we can see what fits."
Neighbour Roy Wood is just as bemused.
"People must walk past and drop their knickers," he said. "They're like that around here."
But he didn't fancy a Cinderella survey.
"Some of this is more ugly sister stuff," he said, fingering a massive black bra. "It's been designed for an elephant."
The mystery underwear is intriguing the street's women as well. The Times listened in as several of Ronald Ct's female residents speculated on which of their neighbours was responsible for the pink g-string.
"Must be Trudy," they said.
Chinese Man duplicates official Olympics website...suprisingly, gets caught
This guy cloned the official Beijing Olympics website and made around $US50,000 ($56,077) from fake prize draws.
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toilet paper thief
FOND DU LAC, Wis. (AP) — Someone is either too cheap to buy his own toilet paper or planning a big prank.
Fond du Lac County Executive Allen Buechel said someone has been repeatedly stealing toilet paper from the men's public bathrooms at the Fond du Lac City County Government Center since June.
Buechel suspects the person comes in once or twice a week around midday and gets about six rolls a week from dispensers. Some rolls weren't even full, he said.
The thefts haven't been a big loss.
"We don't buy the best toilet paper," Buechel said.
"spacecakes" become chicken-friendly
Amsterdam's famed coffee shops are turning to free-range eggs for their hashish "spacecakes" to reduce the suffering of chickens. "Coffee shop owners were completely unaware and shocked that their spacecakes are not animal friendly," said a spokeswoman for Dutch animal rights group Wakker Dier, campaigning against the use of eggs from chickens kept caged on battery farms.
Four large shops have switched to free-range eggs and 20 more plan to follow, she said. The shops get through hundreds of eggs a week for their spacecakes, which are baked with marijuana or hashish and can give an intense high.
The coffee shops, where marijuana can be smoked openly in a relaxed atmosphere, are one of Amsterdam's big tourist draws.
The coffee shops, where marijuana can be smoked openly in a relaxed atmosphere, are one of Amsterdam's big tourist draws.
Soft drugs are officially banned in the Netherlands but under a policy of tolerance, buyers are allowed to have less than 5 grams of cannabis in their possession.
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