Mitre10 received this letter and posted it on its Facebook page on Friday asking, do you think we should we give them a new BBQ? It received 13,000 likes and more than 2000 comments saying "yes".
Bad combination of net searches
A New York woman says her family's interest in the purchase of pressure cookers and backpacks led to a visit by six police. Michele Catalano, who lives in Long Island, said her web searches for pressure cookers, her husband's hunt for backpacks, and her "news junkie" son's craving for information on the Boston bombings had combined in the internet ether to create a "perfect storm of terrorism profiling".
A whiff of true supporters
Independent MP Brendan Horan is circulating a petition calling for recreational fishers' access to snapper to be maintained in the face of a government review which would drastically cut their access while leaving commercial fishery alone. He tweeted: "Just got given an envelope full of signed forms for the snapper petition. Can tell by the very fishy smell that signatures are genuine."
