The marketing team who came up with this "Stalk A Person In A Wheelchair Day" didn't realise not all disabled people use wheelchairs. (Source: Failblog.org)
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Fifteen-year-old Jaz Bhogal tried to buy sweets from a store in Cambridgeshire, only to be refused service on the shopkeeper's mistaken belief that wine gums contain wine. He said they had wine in them and pointed to the word "wine" on the packet. "I was speechless," the teen told the Daily Mail.
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Monique Olivier of Oratia writes: "What is this obsession with warning signs everywhere on our beaches, spoiling the landscape and giving us useless information?"
About 20 tsunami evacuation signs have appeared at Piha. They tell people to jump in their cars to drive out. Piha has only one road in and out. The sign is at the end of North Piha, where the road runs along the beach for 2km. In the event of a tsunami warning I would be driving back parallel to the incoming waves, perhaps get stuck in a panic traffic jam, and get swamped before I reached Lion Rock. This while high ground is only a two-minute sprint across the road from the beach."
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A reader writes: "I was browsing the SkyCity Cinemas Facebook page and among the damning comments about how slow the website was on the night New Moon tickets went on sale at midnight were some suspiciously glowing ones. A quick Google search later showed one commenter, who wrote that she didn't know what everyone else was talking about, works for Rialto - a SkyCity joint venture. Another positive commenter, who wrote that the website was 'fantastic, quick', keeps his info a bit closer to the chest, but who wants to take bets he works in the marketing department? Subtle guys."
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Tania Brown writes: "Jetstar, shame on you. The Rimutaka Hill road was closed because of a serious accident, so making my flight was not going to happen. Trains run once a day from the Wairarapa on weekends and it had long gone. I was on the phone for 25 minutes to be told, 'tough'. A new same-day airfare during a long weekend has pretty much bankrupted this family."
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Gary Stewart writes: "No, I haven't opened a 'can of worms', Andrew. All of those people you mention are quite open and honest about their origins, however ASB touting for business by claiming it is still a Kiwi bank (and alluding to Kiwibank in the process) is lying to us."
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See today's Herald cartoon
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Today's Webpick: Dubious children's toys - Milky the the Marvelous Milking Cow and the Oozinator. Go here and make a comment.
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