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Damien Nepata on Christmas hijinks: "A very long time ago, and as is the custom every year, a Xmas party was held in Waiouru for the children of soldiers. This party involved a lolly scramble with a twist. An artillery gun was wheeled on to the field, stuffed with Mackintosh's toffees and a small charge placed in the breech. When the gun fired, it spewed lollies all over the field. Unfortunately, one year, the elevation of the gun was set too low and a number of children were hit by flying, low-velocity lollies. No children were harmed."
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Passengers at a Danish train station were left out in the cold when a couple began having sex in the waiting room. "We don't know if it's due to the glacial weather this morning or to unbridled passion, but a couple did not hesitate in having sexual relations in a waiting room at the Koge train station (just south of Copenhagen)," said police spokesman Carsten Andersen. Freezing passengers had called the DSB rail company to complain that they were stuck out in the cold while a 37-year-old man and a 30-year-old woman had steamy sex inside. The amorous couple weren't charged with indecency as they remained dressed.
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A reader who is a young commercial pilot currently seconded to Africa writes to his mum about life there. On Government departments: "The guy in the Government office in Botswana said he couldn't process our visas for at least a week due to an 'internal error'. After many phone calls to everyone in the department, the official finally returned our calls three days later and stated that the visas are finally ready. When asked why it had taken so long to process them, he said the stamp they use to stamp the passports had run out of ink!" On cuisine: "The last pilots that stayed in a particular accommodation had their own chef to prepare meals. It wasn't at all satisfactory, as cockroaches were found in the bread rolls he had made. When they complained about this, the chef's response was, 'So what, they're baked!"'
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A Finnish court has ordered Santa Park in the north of the country to pay compensation to three of the underground amusement park's former elves for replacing them with temporary workers. The park - which is in the town of Rovaniemi on the Arctic Circle and boasts that it employs the world's only "official" Santa Claus - has been ordered to pay the employees ¬5600 ($11,000) each in damages. Santa Park director Wille Rajala said the layoffs were necessary for the struggling business, which fired all its full-time elves.
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