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When this hoarding appeared yesterday in Kohimarama, Andrew was left wondering how many decades old it was.
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Rod Harris is wondering if he's the only nincompoop in NZ who didn't know that checking in at Royal Brunei Airlines without the credit card used to book a flight to London, would result in him not being able to fly. "I had left it at home as it was maxed out by buying the flight. Yes, it is in the very fine print, but I had every other form of ID available, including e-ticket and of course passport, but they demanded to see the ACTUAL card used to pay. They obviously had the money and had issued the ticket, so why do they have to see the actual card? I have booked many flights with a credit card, for my children as well, and never struck this problem. I tried to speed home to get it, realised I was not going to make it, returned to the queue, got another check-in lady and was never asked, issued my boarding pass and caught my flight to London."
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Saudi Arabia has banned the sale of cats and dogs as well as the public exercising of them in Riyadh. Authorities say men are using their pets to strike up conversations with women.
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Philip Sharp tried to do the right thing, but was foiled by Hyacinth Bucket. He writes: "A friend and I were walking through Normanton Reserve in Glenfield on Sunday. We saw a dumped mattress and a heavy wooden cabinet. Knowing there was an inorganic collection next week, we dragged the items 100m to the McHardy Place entrance. We were putting them on the pile outside a house when a woman came out and told us to keep walking. "We have visitors arriving from England in two days and our pile is bad enough without adding to it," she said. We were puzzled given a) the two items added little to the pile outside her house and b) the many piles in the street. We explained we had found the items dumped in the park but this was to no avail. We dragged them back to the reserve."
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It conveys the wrong image to the travelling public and does not instil confidence, said a rail union spokesman on a station bronze sculpture showing a person falling to their death in front of a train being driven by the Grim Reaper. (Source: bbc.co.uk)
Today's Webpick: Sadly this question, from a Grey Lynn woman dressed as a polar bear and submerged in her pool, didn't make it to last night's televised One News You Tube Election Debate. Watch it here.
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