Sharp reply
A teenager on the run from police in Australia asked a TV station to use a "better photo" of her when reporting her escape. Amy Sharp is alleged to have broken out of a police station in Sydney before running away. Police issued a statement and photographs they had taken of her. But when the pictures were uploaded to Sydney's 7 News Facebook page, the first person to comment was Sharp herself. Clearly unhappy with how she looked in the police mugshots, in which she wore a glum expression and a red blanket draped over her shoulders, she uploaded a more flattering shot in the comments section of the page with a request to use the supplied shot.
Teaching disrespect
Douglas writes: "There was a standing committee at the Edinburgh boys school I attended in the 1950s/60s whose job was to identify the latest fashions, so they could ban them. When drainpipe trousers were all the rage the rule was that you had to be able to remove your trousers without taking your shoes off. Then flares came in so the rule became that your trousers could not be wider than the length of your shoes. The fashionistas among us favoured black jerseys, so these were banned. In response we got our mothers to knit us charcoal grey jumpers, and we carried the wrapping from the ball of wool in our pockets to prove they were grey. And so on; all those tiny-minded teachers did was create a group of young men with a very healthy disrespect for authority."
