Anti-pervert hairy leg stockings are designed to repel males ogling young ladies' legs and are growing in popularity in China. They look warm.
Extra teabag? That will be $3.90, thank you
Doug from Orewa writes: "After shopping at Albany Mall we went to a cafe to have lunch. As one who enjoys a nice strong cup of tea I inquired as to how much they would charge me for an extra teabag thinking it would be about 50 cents, but the assistant behind the counter said, $3.90! I said I don't want another cup of tea, I just want an extra teabag! She said, 'yes, a teabag will cost you $3.90'. I replied, 'but I can almost buy a box of 100 teabags for that price', less than 5 cents each. So I asked for the manager and said to him, 'listen, we are having lunch here today which is costing us $21.50 and because I like my tea strong I have asked for an extra teabag and your assistant has told me that it will cost me $3.90. This is an absolute rip-off, daylight robbery ...' He said, 'I am sorry, sir, but it is head office policy'. Ridiculous."
You say academic, I say pervert
A woman in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighbourhood reported to a local news blog that she had seen a man operating a drone from a footpath with the drone hovering just outside a third-floor window of a private home. The pilot said he was "doing research" and said that he was not violating anyone's privacy because he was on a public footpath and the drone was in public airspace. The couple called police, by which time the pilot and his drone had gone. (Source: News of the Weird)
