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US FANS of post-apocalyptic series Jericho, which screens here on TV3, have gone a little nuts over CBS network's decision to can the show at the end of season one, without resolving the cliffhanger. Adding to the huge number of written complaints, nut retailer NutsOnline has started a "Nuts to You, CBS" campaign, encouraging fans to send quantities of nuts to CBS in protest. Yesterday at midday outraged fans had ordered nearly 5000kg of nuts, making NutsOnline more than US$14,000 ($19,225). And it looks like the prank has worked. On the Jericho fan message boards, this from Nina Tassler, president of CBS Entertainment: "We truly appreciate the commitment you made to the series and we are humbled by your disappointment. In the coming weeks, we hope to develop a way to provide closure in the compelling drama that was the Jericho story."
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DAVE from Mt Albert witnessed a well-dressed woman in a late model Volkswagen empty her shopping trolley into her hatchback then push the trolley hard up against the side of the next car to stop it running away in the West Lynn Woolworths carpark. "She then climbed into her car and drove off because she was too lazy to push it 10m," he says in disbelief.
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A COUPLE of weeks ago, Roger from Ngaruawahia had reason to visit Spotlight Hamilton. "The female shop assistant was most helpful, making sure I had all that I needed. Then she asked: "Will you pay for it now or continue shopping?" To which I replied: "I'm a man. I come in for one thing and when I have found it, I go home." Her reply? "That's not much fun."
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IN THE UK, two members of an ambulance crew have been fired for gross misconduct after they laughed and joked as a man they were trying to resuscitate lay dying. As John Jones and Clive Greedy worked in the patient's kitchen, a prawn that had been on a bench fell on to the patient's chin and the men joked about frying it with the defibrillator they were using to try to revive him. During the resuscitation attempt Greedy picked up a stick of celery and ate it, a tribunal heard. An expert said that when someone is dying the last sense to be lost is hearing, which meant the dead man's last moments were spent listening to the pair mocking him.
