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More FM's Rotorua breakfast host Mike Baird writes: "On Saturday the More FM Rotorua team were in store doing a promotion with Harvey Norman. We set up a bouncy castle, face painting, free sausages off our BBQ outside. It was busy as and the bangers were going down a treat. But wait. A security guard turned up and said he was waiting for the police. The what? They did turn up with flashing lights and told us to shut down our operation, which we did. We believe a competing retailer had complained, worried that we may have taken money from the food court in the mall, despite the fact that we were way across the huge car park. So why didn't the security guard ask us to move on? And why on Earth did the police find time to come racing with lights flashing when they can't seem to cope with all their other work? I'm wondering if they were worried about what we called 'bangers'."
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This reader was not so lucky with the Jetstar $1 flight promotion. "My partner and I got on the site at 12 o'clock, punched in for two to Queenstown, got to the payment stage, $44 for both and baggage. Filled out the Visa order, hit pay, then it crashed at 12.08. I could not get back on to the payment page and it didn't register our payment. No cheap flights for us."
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BUT this reader managed to score two tickets to Queenstown for $1 a piece, as well as four tickets to Wellington for $1 one way and $29 the other. "Most people don't realise that it requires hundreds of thousands of dollars of servers and network equipment to cope with the huge surges of traffic like Jetstar experienced on Tuesday. Considering these types of surges may happen only a few times in a website's lifetime, it makes little sense to spend that amount of money on equipment which will sit idle for 99 per cent of the time."
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From Reason.com: London police arrested Bishop Jonathan Blake on suspicion of child cruelty for helping his sons with a school competition to see who could read a book in the most unusual place. Blake took photographs of Nathan, 8, and Dominic, 7, reading a book on the chimney on top of their house. A neighbour called the police, who hauled Blake off to jail in handcuffs.
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Christine Smith thought it was funny, after a Sideswipe reader said no one uses the term "manchester" any more, to see a full-page ad in the Herald for a sale - "50 per cent off All Manchester". So does that mean the English city or the Christchurch street, or sheets, towels and blankets, she asks.
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OMG! Someone didn't know what a PS3 and an MP3 were. LOL: Lynne's 14-year-old grandson, in his effort to bring Nana up to speed, told her it was cool to use TLAs these days. (Yes, "three-letter acronyms").
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An infant boy was married off to his neighbours' dog in India by villagers who said it would stop him from being killed by wild animals.
Around 150 tribespeople performed the ritual in a hamlet in the state of Orissa after the boy, who is under 2, grew a tooth. The Munda tribe see such a growth in young children as a bad omen and believe it makes them prone to attacks by tigers and another animals.
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