Sideswipe: The brutality of Facebook

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Salvage heroes face sack

Two employees of the Columbia, Missouri Solid Waste Division have rescued 50 cases of beer from being destroyed at the tip where they work. Sadly they may lose their jobs and face criminal charges. According to the Columbia Tribune around 1500 cases of beer were dumped by the makers because they had expired - but the two workers saved 50 cases for their own purposes. However, the bosses say anything in the landfill becomes council property and taking anything from it is theft.

Missing John

Des wonders if John Banks is unwell. "His face was nowhere to be seen in the latest Auckland City John Banks publicity publication the City Scene. This is a travesty of his personal publicity machine."

Move on GOD

The Roller with the number plate GOD isn't owned by Destiny Church, or Bob Kerridge with an unintentional misspelling... but it is owned by German hacker Kim "Kimble" Schmitz, allegedly the new owner of the Chrisco mansion in Coatesville. Tracy reckons the owner has no self-esteem issues: "We were at the zoo on Good Friday and there was a public announcement asking for the person who owned the black Rolls-Royce with the number plate GOD to please move it as it was causing a blockage. Apparently GOD thinks he can park wherever he pleases."

Those commas count...

"Is John Griffin serious?" asks Craig Stanton. "Vodafone haven't changed their pricing. Text messages have always been 160 characters, and spaces and punctuation have always been counted - as they are on every network."

... and here's why

Colin Law writes: "The gentleman who 'reveals' a mobile phone texting scam may be horrified to know the company also charge calls by the minute or second regardless of whether you speak or not. A text message full of dots or spaces takes just as much resource to transmit as a msg ful of txt and lol. And more shock horror - an aerogramme is still $1.80 at NZ Post even if you only write 'I'm fine how are you'?"