National Party List MP and candidate for Hutt South Chris Bishop might need to do some profile building before the election. Here he is nabbed in the streets for a vox pop (When is the General Election and will you vote?) for the Wainuiomata News.
Sowing doubt
A reader writes: "The definition of millennial chutzpah: last week I had a guy turn up for a job interview wearing a black T-shirt with Bad Seed written in large white letters."
Dentist pulls crazy stunt
In the course of pursuing claims against Alaskan dentist Seth Lookhart for Medicaid fraud, government investigators found a video on his phone of him extracting a sedated patient's tooth - while riding on a hoverboard. He had apparently sent the video to his office manager under the title "New Standard of Care". Lookhart had been indicted in 2016 for billing Medicaid US$1.8 million ($2.5m) for patient sedations unnecessary for the procedures they received. (Source: News of the Weird).
