Wonder how many new-look Countdown signs carry this typo?
Avoid tailgaters ...
"Monique Hamlin was right not to stop for the tailgater," writes Jo. "I had this happen to me a few years ago. I was travelling from Canberra to Sydney and had to leave at 4am to arrive at my destination on time. A car followed me, putting its lights on high beam, flashing its lights, tailgating, then dropping back. I became so concerned I called the police. I had obviously awoken the constable out of her sleep: 'So what do you expect me to do about it?' Unfortunately for her, I am a former police officer and was lecturing at the Police Academy and her boss was one of my staff! Anyway, a few weeks later, a similar thing happened to some of the recruits, late at night on a country road. The person was caught. Then we found out this was the same ploy that the killer of Peter Falconio in the Northern Territory used to get Peter and his girlfriend Joanne Lees to stop, pretending to be a good Samaritan and claiming there were sparks coming out of the back of their Kombi. Peter Falconio's body has never been found."
... unless it's the police
Christine was driving through Remuera towards St Heliers one night and a car tailgated her, "flashing his lights and putting great fear into me. I drove faster, trying to get away from him, but eventually I was trapped into a corner. Turned out he was a plain-clothes cop. He wanted to warn me for driving dangerously - because I went through an orange light to get away from him. I was so angry and so frightened I told him in no uncertain terms that his behaviour encouraged recklessness. He apologised, and I went home."
Triple charging for parking
A reader writes: "I think the people should know that it is quite possible that Auckland City Council parking machines have been double and triple charging when you use a credit card to pay for parking! $2.50 per time! It starts to add up. My bank has confirmed it and it goes back a couple of months!! There must be others who have come across this."
By the book
Linda West spotted an unfamiliar car parked in her driveway around 3 one morning. So she and some of the people who work at her stud farm in Ansmark, Sweden, went out to see what was going on. The car contained two women from the social service agency who said someone had reported an infant had been born at the property without being properly registered. West explained that the only birth was a foal born to a young mare, but she says she still had to take them out to the stable, where they were able to confirm that the newborn "had four legs and weighed in at around 50 kilograms". (Source: Reason.com)
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