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Trying to pretty up their listed properties for sale, Real Estate outfit Harrisonburg Homes in Virginia has decided to make their properties seem more appealing by adding special touches with Photoshop, such as flowers, oversized Russian dolls and a fruity border. Subtle enhancements indeed.
(Source: lovelylisting.com)
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After almost getting run off the road while cycling along Tamaki Drive by some nutter in a white Toyota ute, Tom Blackhall of Glen Eden decided to take a Sideswipe correspondent's advice and cycle on the cycle/footpath. I slowed to a sedate 25km/h, which was lucky because in the first minute I had to take action to avoid three young children cycling towards me. I then had to get around a large family taking up the footpath and the cycle path, before almost getting my eye poked out by a guy with a fishing rod and run after by a large dog that wasn't on a leash.
To top it off, as I entered Mission Bay I was told by two large, tattooed Maori gentlemen that if I didn't get off the path they would "punch my white honky head in". I will stick to the road in future, it is a lot safer.
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James spotted this threesome in Parnell on Monday: "Auckland parking spaces aren't exactly easy to find, without idiots like this. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that all three were Auckland City Council vans," he says.
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Christine had a laugh at the mannequin story and recalled a time when she was feeling tired in a department store in Sydney. "Fascinating, I thought, that they put seats across the aisles. A bit of a nuisance for shoppers, but a kind thought for anybody needing a rest. I noticed another seat a little further on. And then a man swaggered towards me, with a leggy blond after him. Weird, but the brain cell finally clicked into action and I realised I was walking on an improvised catwalk. I disappeared into the clothes racks real quickly."
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Caroline Wade of Beach Haven writes: "My mother got a ticket taking me to hospital while in labour in 2006. Despite the letter from the midwife and a copy of the birth certificate, they would not waive the fine. No one gets away with speeding for any reason. We wrote in, though, and in my son's scrapbook is a rather expensive keepsake - a picture of the car he was sped to hospital in."
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I think Allan McInnarney and friends need to understand that having a baby does not turn your car into a soft and squishy fun ball when you crash into something. The speed limit is there to keep you and I safe. And the officer anecdote? I hardly think the police would encourage you to speed, and would instead take you in their car with the driver who is not, as you say, "anxious" and all sirens blazing.
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Today's Webpicks: A picture gallery of Air New Zealand meals, with customer reviews and harvesting a tree farm looks pretty brutal. Go here.
These are the very best online videos from Ana's online magazine Spare Room.
