"Check this big trucker out," writes Alan from Tokoroa. "I'll just cruise into Countdown Rotorua this afternoon loaded, lock 'em up and go shopping for a wee while.

If it sounds like PR is probably is PR. “Not sure about the validity of some of these consumer comments on the side of this box of baby rusks!” writes Susan Miller.

"Major vehicle breakdown at Pak'n Save, Pukekohe, last week," sniggers Karl.

A mother writes: "After a long gruesome day at work and to arrive home to this note from my 8-year-old daughter Gloria, was pretty amusing."

If you find this Wairarapa ad for Wairere Rams rather unsettling you are probably just a soft townie. Yeah right.

A prankster has caused a stir in London supermarkets after swapping wine label descriptions with his own hilarious versions.

Kids leave the darndest notes. Yvonne writes: "We recently awoke to find this message outside our daughter's bedroom.

Telling it like it is at the Mangere Bridge shops.

Rent-a-rabbit? This from Sweden's The Local.se: Renting an animal over the summer is becoming more popular in Sweden.

Rob and Jackie Gorton were glad to arrive home after a trip to Brisbane, but were dismayed at the lack of transport at Auckland Airport. "Our flight from Brisbane arrived at 2.20am Sunday.

This sign at a strawberry farm was spotted during a recent trip to Cameron Highlands Resort in Malaysia.

A Baptist church agreed to take down a sign about hell after police investigated the message as a "hate incident".

Media reports on the world's first drinkable sunscreen product are spreading misinformation, says the British Association of Dermatologists.

The road works on Carlton Gore Road can be a bit frustrating at times, but the signage is great.

There is an ongoing problem in the Waitakere foothills with the bins for noxious weeds set up for free public use, says John.

This note just adds to the creepiness of porcelain dolls. Spotted at the Vincent De Paul shop in Pt Chevalier.

An elderly driver in Germany damaged 11 cars while trying to leave a multi-storey carpark, it's been reported.

"My daughter's wheelchair was stolen from Sylvia Park shopping centre during the school holidays. It's like the one in the picture, except the frame is deep blue. It was left under the escalator going up to Hoyts cinemas.

Spotted at the Arrowtown Autumn Festival.

A few short weeks ago Media Training NZ, which supplies politicians with ways to get one up on the media, was happy to blow its own trumpet on its website.

Headlines written on gossip sites notoriously overextend themselves.

Attwood Rd in Paremoremo has an official 80km/h recommended speed restriction.

Shy, ugly man, fond of extended periods of self-pity, middle aged, flatulent and overweight, seeks the impossible.

After a French minister's list of strict staff rules was leaked online, Guardian readers shared their own bosses' bizarre rules.

Supervised toilets and Irksome small acts of laziness.