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ORGAN Idol? A Dutch broadcaster plans to air a television show in which a terminally-ill woman will decide who out of three young patients will get her kidney. Viewers will be able to advise the 37-year-old woman, known as Lisa, via text messages, which of the candidates to pick.
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DAVID Thomas writes: "So The Warehouse is apologetic for sending 13,000 balloons out over the Hauraki Gulf to be washed ashore on pristine Great Barrier Island. Obviously it is too late to reverse the environmental outcome of this cheap stunt. However, to win back the cynical among us, the company might like to consider the removal of an equivalent 13,000 pieces of everyday litter off Auckland streets - it wouldn't be hard to find."
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A VISITOR to Middlemore Hospital attempted to steal a medical kit from the back of an ambulance. He was caught by a security guard, who took him to the security office. On the way the offender asked to use the toilet. The guard granted his request and waited outside the toilet door. All of a sudden he heard a loud noise two doors down. He rushed to investigate and found the offender face down on the floor. In an attempt to escape, the offender had crawled up into the ceiling space and along towards the main entrance. Unfortunately for him, when he broke through the ceiling he fell into the security office.
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A MAN who took his mistress to the beach made the mistake of waving to a film crew on a helicopter covering Italy's Giro d'Italia cycling race - and was discovered by his wife. Media reports said the man was with his younger mistress on a beach in northern Italy when the helicopter passed overhead with a crew covering the bike race. The man waved, the camera zoomed in, and the couple ended up on live television. The brother of the man's wife thought he was seeing his sister on television and called her on her mobile phone.
Instead, she was at home by herself and when her husband returned with a sun tan, he had some explaining to do.
