A reader writes: "I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw a man backing his car up a driveway and along the footpath. He left it there for nearly two hours. Unbelievable! It's bad enough that he totally blocked the footpath, but this street only has a footpath on one side, right where he parked. So women with prams, pedestrians, even the postie had to walk on the road in this very narrow residential cul-de-sac in Botany."
Sometimes you can't beat old-school technology
A man became stuck on a 994m Welsh mountain because his electronic mapping device broke and he had only a paper map of Scotland with him. He was on a night reconnaissance on Glyder Fach in Snowdonia in preparation for a challenge walk. "Basically he was depending on an electronic tracking system which he then dropped and the screen broke," said Ogwen Valley mountain rescue team spokesman Chris Lloyd. "People should have a paper map of the correct area. By all means use the electronic equipment to check your co-ordinates, but don't depend on it because if you are out on the mountain for hours at a time batteries go flat."
Beyond the fringe of belly-aching laughter
Groan-worthy gags of the Edinburgh Fringe (Via UK comedy channel Dave)
