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The wasteful marketing industry is responsible for more emissions than kiwifruit, says one reader. "With all the talk of the carbon emissions from the surface shipping of products such as kiwifruit across the globe, I would like to bring to the public's attention the carbon emissions produced due to a marketing product I received. A 10c party favourite/whistle sent to me came via airmail from a drug company in Australia along with its large box and Customs declaration. Give me a kiwifruit any day."
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The sexy calendars are the new "cake stall" of fundraising. Everyone's done it. Grandmas, firefighters, cancer survivors, Rotarians and even lonely farmers wives' whose husbands don't understand them. Now US funeral director Ken McKenzie wants his industry to benefit from the successful marketing stunt and has searched the nation for muscular morticians for his calendar. Several of his models froze up when it came time to pose and McKenzie admits his graphic designer also added a few abs and got rid of some flab. (Source: Menofmortuaries.com )
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Organised crime alive and well at St Lukes? On Sunday afternoon, a reader from Takapuna went to St Lukes to buy a birthday present for her 7-year-old. "Accompanied by my parents and 3-year-old daughter, we stopped to have a coffee at the food hall. My handbag was stolen from underneath the table during the 20 minutes we were all seated together. The food hall attendant we spoke to said it happens all the time and suggested we look outside in the rubbish bins as the thieves often dump the emptied bags there. My father went out to check the bins and I reported it to a security guard who had difficulty finding space in his notebook to write down my details. While I was talking to the guard he got a call on his walkie talkie to say the shop upstairs had been broken into (it was the end of the day and the shops were closing). My father returned from trawling the rubbish bin, not with my bag, but with someone else's wallet he'd found in the bin."
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A Cambodian charity is filing a lawsuit against Angelina Jolie, claiming breach of contract for failing to honour her agreement to give US$1.5 million ($2.2 million) over five years to a forest conservation programme. This in spite of allegations from Jolie that the charity has already misappropriated some of her previous donations. (Source: WOW Report)
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A British ambulance service is warning movie-goers about the new horror film Saw III, which contains torture scenes so gruesome they have made some people faint with fright. The East Anglian Ambulance Trust said it had received a number of emergency calls to treat people watching the movie, the third instalment in the series created by Australian film-makers James Wan and Leigh Whannell. Five movie-goers required an ambulance and one was taken to hospital after screenings in Stevenage, Peterborough and Cambridge.
