"This car has been on a Parakai road for a month now and I reported it when it first appeared," writes Andy. "Called again this morning to be told "it may take some months because parking have to determine whether it has been abandoned". I think you can safely say nobody will be coming to drive it away. If it was outside a councillor's house it would have been picked up within hours!"
Homer the great thinker
"I was having a bit of a yarn with one of my grandsons the other day, somehow we got on to the subject of great thinkers," writes Cally Clarke of Tokoroa. "I asked him what he thought of Homer. His reply was that he can't really say much about him as he doesn't really get home early enough to watch him. I am pushing 80 and he is nearly 21. I suppose that explains things."
An unbelievable excuse for red-light running
Matt received a call from Birkenhead Transport about a complaint he'd made on a driver running a red light. "The manager said he had spoken to the driver who said: "I stopped at the lights and the sun was in my eyes, so I asked a passenger what the lights were doing. They said 'green' so I drove through the intersection". Have any of your readers heard a more unbelievable excuse for a traffic violation?"
