Sideswipe

Snapped by a reader at the Carlton Hotel in Singapore last week.

A reader writes: "To the Auckland City Council parking warden 613 who, on one of the quietest cul-de-sac streets in Mt Wellington, issued at 3am two parking infringements notices for parking on a grass verge, clear of the footpath. One was issued to my mother who had my elderly grandmother staying with her for the night, and one was issued to myself and my partner, who is 38 weeks pregnant. Our attempt to get both these women, who are in fragile states, closer to the door on a cold, wet night has cost the family $80, which we cannot really afford. Nevertheless, we will be paying as we know the council is relentless in gathering revenue no matter the sob story."

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Motley Crue were travelling from Germany to Britain this week. The band got into a bit of trouble at Customs as they were leaving Germany, because the already heavily pierced Tommy Lee was wearing extreme bondage trousers covered with zips and safety pins. Rather than remove it all, he came up with a great plan: he climbed on to the conveyer belt and got himself x-rayed. (source: popbitch.com)

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Over the top for an order confirmation note? "Your CDs have been gently taken from our CD Baby shelves with sterilised contamination-free gloves and placed on to a satin pillow. A team of 50 employees inspected your CDs and polished them to make sure they were in the best possible condition before mailing. Our packing specialist from Japan lit a candle and a hush fell over the crowd as he put your CDs into the finest gold-lined box that money can buy. We all had a wonderful celebration afterwards and the whole party marched down the street to the post office, where the entire town of Portland waved bon voyage to your package, on its way to you in our private CD Baby jet on this day, Friday, June 3. I hope you had a wonderful time shopping at CD Baby. We sure did. Your picture is on our wall as "customer of the year". We're all exhausted but can't wait for you to come back to cdbaby.com!!" Enough already.