This anti-burglar mat allegedly works just like super-sticky flypaper. The idea is to leave the mat inside your doorway when you leave or go to bed and the burglar will get stuck on it ... Or he'll just take off his shoes.
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Dutch pranksters have dumped dozens of the tiny two-seater Smart Cars into Amsterdam's waterways and police fear the bizarre trend will spread to the UK and the rest of Europe. Eco-friendly Smart cars are small enough to be picked up by just a few people and dumped into the Dutch capital's canals, reports De Telegraaf newspaper. One victim, Casper de Jong, was woken by police after they found his Smart floating in the waterway outside his apartment.
Mr de Jong said: "Several weeks ago the same thing happened to my companion's Smart. Both cars were a complete write-off."
One Smart sales worker said: "We're not supposed to talk about this because the police don't want the craze to spread but we've had quite a few drowned cars returned to us."
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Quiz for people who know everything:
1. Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends.
2. Of all vegetables, only two can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons. All other vegetables must be replanted every year. What are the only two perennial vegetables?
3. Name six or more things you can wear on your feet beginning with the letter S.
4. Name the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked or in any other form except fresh. (Answers tomorrow).
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Goodadvice for anyone thinking of a career in banking, from a reader of b3ta.com: "If you get a job as a cashier in a bank don't, on your first day serving customers, wonder what the button under the counter just by your knees does. Or if you do, try to remember what it was your manager told you about it. Don't press it. And don't, when you discover it doesn't seem to do anything, press it again, and again, and again. An armed response team WILL be called, and you WILL get sacked."
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Kelly Howell proves hotties are dangerous: "My mum has only four toes on one foot because as a toddler a hot water bottle burst on it and a toe had to be amputated."
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Will our ageing baby-boomers slip quietly into their golden years to become a burden on the young or will they reinvent the way we think of older people and the workforce? That's what Massey University student researcher Sharon Buckland wants to find out by asking boomers themselves. If you were born between January 1, 1946, and December 31, 1964, and want to share your plans and dreams once you reach 65, go to www.boomerdreams.co.nz and complete the survey.
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View today's Herald cartoon
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Today's Webpick: Strange put real products: This all over deodorant is specifically for "all your odour zones”. Watch the terrible ad here.
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