A message for people in Dubai from a car hire company.
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Joseph writes: "My brother Samuel is working as a landscape architect in Dubai and is a keen surfer. One day last month, Dubai's keen surfers, including my brother, paddle out into the surf. They were soon interrupted by six police cars and municipality trucks, flashing their lights and blowing their whistles. They called everyone out of the water and demanded their driving licences, with no explanation. After all the commotion six of the surfers were issued fines for, according to the officers, 'sliding on the waves'. Samuel said the emerging market of Dubai is not accustomed to this increasingly popular water sport and appears to be looking at methods to control it. This is currently taking the form of a total ban and infringement penalty system."
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The members of Sir Thomas Lunsford's Regiment of Foote, a unit of re-enacters from the English Civil War Society, were rather excited by the chance to give an Easter demonstration at Clarke Hall in West Yorkshire. But they were told that as explosions could shatter the old windows, they should shout "bang" instead of firing their replica weapons. (Source: BBC.co.uk)
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North Shore traffic wardens are certainly working hard to meet their budgets, says Rachel. "I got a ticket this morning at 6.50am for parking in my own driveway. I live in a very quiet suburban no-exit street but apparently I parked on the footpath. As I was a good one and a half metres from the so-called footpath (in my own driveway) I am wondering if this particular warden needed more coffee or another job? I looked at the NZ Transport Authority website to see what the law says regarding parking in a residential driveway. The only law I could see that remotely fitted was the 'inconsiderate parking' law. Well that got a laugh."
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Swiss officials say they are powerless to act against identical twins who have run up hundreds of parking tickets and blamed each other for the offences. Harold and Michael Lengen, 38, have collected 29 parking tickets on a car which they share to drive around their home town of Winterthur. (Source: Ananova.com)
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See today's Herald cartoon
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Today's Video Webpick: Rugby players show off what's under their jersey and a guy in the stands goes all Footloose when he spots himself on the big screen... click here.
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