Judging from this T-shirt on sale, some weighty claims are being asked at the Coatesville Market.
Killer pine cones
A council in eastern Victoria, Australia, has issued a warning about potentially dangerous pine cones falling from a tree in the town of Warragul. The Baw Baw Council says pines from the 120-year-old heritage-listed bunya pine at the Courthouse Hotel weigh up to 10kg each. Mayor Diane Blackwood says the cones are potentially lethal. "They are the size of a watermelon, falling literally out of the sky from potentially 20m high. So you wouldn't want to be under one, I tell you." (Source: ABC News)
Parking injustice
A reader writes: "Walking along Morningside Drive on Saturday afternoon, I saw a parking warden ticketing a car in a side street. 'Oi,' says I, 'on what grounds are you doing that? All the special signs in the side streets are closed.' [ The street has hinged signs which, when open, show you have to display a parking permit.] Apparently parking restrictions - because of the cricket ODI - had been announced on the radio, but the signs remained closed all day. I checked on my way back and the poor bugger now had TWO tickets. ... Maybe this is Mayor Len's way of funding his grandiose schemes."
