KEY POINTS:
Up against it with educational campaigns spreading the "golf-ball-of-fat-per-pie" message to kids, the pie-pushers at BP have come up with an unappetising billboard, snapped in Te Kuiti. (Source: James and Clara's Flickr photostream.)
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Michelle Newsome wonders what's going on: "A fantail that has visited my son's bedroom window every morning for the past week flaps its wings furiously - leaving some belly feathers on the window - then goes around the other side of the house to the kitchen bay window and starts up again. It doesn't stop when we move around or make a noise; it just keeps a-flapping, wings spread out to the max and belly at the window!" Any bird-fancier have an explanation?
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A Coffee-throwing robber who hurls hot java at cashiers is wanted for at least seven North Texas robberies. Police say the suspect is a 29-year-old man who has given cashiers minor burns since the string of daylight robberies. Surveillance footage from one of the robberies shows the suspect paying for the cup, then quickly tossing the coffee on the clerk before reaching over the counter and taking all the cash from the register. The clerk falls down while the suspect, wearing sunglasses and a hat, runs out of the store. (Source: AP)
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Explanations from British insurance company's accident claim forms.
1. I didn't think the speed limit applied after midnight.
2. The indirect cause of the accident was a little guy in a small car with a big mouth.
3. The accident was caused by me waving to the man I hit last week.
4. I had been learning to drive with power steering. I turned the wheel to what I thought was enough and found myself in a different direction going the opposite way.
5. I had been driving for 40 years when I fell asleep at the wheel and had an accident.
6. I left for work this morning at 7am as usual when I collided straight into a bus. The bus was 5 minutes early.
7. The accident happened because I had one eye on the truck in front, one eye on the pedestrian and the other on the car behind.
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Forest guards in western India are using cell phones with ringtones of cows mooing, goats bleating and roosters crowing to attract leopards that have wandered into human settlements. The wild cats in Gujarat often roam into villages in search of food and then attack people. But rather than use methods such as live bait, including goats tied to trees to lure the leopards, which fall into large pits dug by guards, officials say the moos and bleating from a phone are more effective. (Source: Reuters)
