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Tuning to E Entertainment Channel and catching the 7.30 "news", Candice was indeed entertained to catch a piece on a march in the United States by the animal rights organisation Peta. "The march featured a B-grade celebrity actress leading a "naked" (bikini-clad) march to protest against the use of animal byproducts in the fashion industry. During a brief sound bite, the wannabe actor earnestly exhorted viewers not to wear fur. "Wear feathers instead," she enthused.
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Two keen runners caused a major bioterrorism scare in New Haven, Connecticut, by sprinkling flour in a parking lot to mark a trail for their running club. New Haven ophthalmologist Daniel Salchow and his sister, Dorothee, were organising a run for Hash House Harriers, a worldwide organisation that describes itself as a "drinking club with a running problem." The police were quick to get the store evacuated and it stayed closed the rest of the night. The hapless harriers were both charged with first-degree breach of peace.
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Further to the Taupo reader's account of the Millbrook Resort golfball, a Mangonui golfer says that when he was thrashing about in the rough on the tenth at Whangaroa Golf Club he picked up a ball labelled Wentworth Golf Club, Surrey, England. Surely a record-equalling drive but a slice even worse than his own.
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Matt Hancock writes: "I had to laugh at the graffiti on the St Heliers community police station. As most Aucklanders know, our police stations are more often than not 'unmanned'. If you are lucky enough to find people 'home' they are likely to be civilian volunteers. Hardly much kudos in tagging these buildings then. If you get your tag on a moving police car or helicopter you're doing well."
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An anonymous reader tells us: "Come on, whoever made the brainless decision to publish the image of the graffiti on the St Heliers police station wall in Sideswipe, start thinking. You obviously did not think of the ramifications of stupidly publishing such an image. Expect more of the same from the dumb idiot whom you have projected into the limelight. One measure of trying to control graffiti is not publishing it at all. Sideswipe is prepared to shoulder the blame if there is a run of copycat crimes.
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Simone Eaton and Kim Wight want to give a resounding high-five to driver 207 of South Auckland Taxis. "He picked us up (two females on our own) and drove us home in his taxi for free after we were ripped off and dropped off on a motorway off-ramp by our first taxi driver. Cab driver number 207, you are a legend and our mothers love you."
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An English underwater hockey player slithered into sporting history when she set a record at the World Bog Snorkelling Championship. Schoolteacher Joanne Pitchforth, 35, of Heckmondwike, West Yorkshire, beat an international field of 120 to emerge filthy but triumphant. She also eclipsed last year's winner - husband Haydn Pitchforth - who was sixth. Her fast time nudged her into the record books at 1 minute 35:18 seconds. The previous record, set by a man, was 1 minute 35:46 seconds. The event, held at the small Welsh town of Llanwrtyd Wells and now in its 22nd year, attracts entrants from New Zealand, Australia, Canada, America and Sweden.
Today's Video Webpick: Deluded girl from Cardiff auditions for British reality TVs X Factor (like the Idol franchise) and tells the judges shes a better singer than Madonna. (Shes not!) Watch it here. Scroll down.
These are the very best online videos from Ana's online magazine Spare Room.
