"On TV's One News last night we saw the mud- and grass-covered rugby boots Nehe Milner-Skudder gave a fan after they arrived back in the country," writes a reader. "I have to wash every golf club to get through border biosecurity and last time they made me clean out the pockets in my golf bag to make sure no grass fell off my golf balls. Guess I didn't win a World Cup."
Bad day out
"I got nabbed by a cop coming into a 50km/h zone, from a 70km/h one," writes a reader. "He was seriously only about 100m away from the 50-sign and I was slowing down but obviously not enough. He clearly thought I was a crim-from-the-back-blocks as he inspected the car for anything incriminating. It probably didn't help that two weeks of recycling was in the back of the car, because he then asked if I'd been drinking. I said no but he insisted on a breath test. Then he said he was just going back to his car to check my criminal record! There wasn't one. When he came back he asked what my occupation was so I told him I was a mum. Then his mate in another cop car pulls up to have a chat and to see that he's not having any trouble with me-the-crim and blow me down ... he has two preschool children in the back seat with no car seats! So after I told the cop that that wasn't on and they should be leading by example, I looked down at the ticket and for the occupation of moi-the-accused it read UNEMPLOYED in capital letters! Yeah because mums are worthless and unemployable. If he'd pulled up a retiree, would he have put UNEMPLOYED? I don't think so ... "
