KEY POINTS:
As if police don't have enough on their hands. The latest copy of the police association's monthly mag Police News is giving officers some interesting questions to ponder when they are not out and about catching crims and solving crime.
1. Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy,
2. There is no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.
3. Why is the alphabet in that order? Is it because of that song?
4. Why are haemorrhoids called "haemorrhoids" instead of "assteriods"?
5. Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.
6. If one synchronised swimmer drowns do the rest drown too?
7. If you try to fail and succeed, which have you done?
8. What do you do when you see an endangered animal eating an endangered plant?
9. If the police arrest a mime, do they tell him he has the right to remain silent?
10. If the "black box" flight recorder is never damaged during a plane crash, why isn't the whole airplane made out of that stuff?
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A reader following the lively debate about the new Auckland stadium has come up with his own suggestion - dubbed a Volcadium. Apparently the Herald's artist impression of the proposed stadium looks like a giant deflated car tyre, while others have described it as a bed pan.
"Let's stir it up a bit ... let's get architects and Aucklanders thinking "outside the oval", writes our reader. "There are other options for Stadium New Zealand, so why can't the concept be imaginative and spectacularly extravagant? There is a unique opportunity to create something 'out of this world' that demonstrates our famous can-do attitude. The new 'visionary' proposal is to integrate an international sports and cultural stadium inside a man-made volcanic cone. Any takers?"
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With reference to the seven lime green Kiwibank cars driving around the city centre while people were trying to draw awareness to climate change on Saturday, it's a good thing the correspondent didn't see all of the cars - there are in fact 25 of them. But we are assured they are environmentally friendly.
