Spotted in SkyCity car park in Auckland. Not only a tacky coloured Rolls-Royce, but the taking of three car park spots.

After seeing a brown snake in the front yard of a neighbour's house, Rodney Williams of Glenroi, picked it up and bit its head off.

Doctors have discovered a baby tooth lodged inside an 8-year-old boy's ear three years after he placed it under his pillow for the tooth fairy.

Graeme spotted a story in the Northern Advocate, about a Nasa astronaut's photo of Everest, that wasn't actually Everest but a summit somewhere in India.

A reader writes: "Is the end of the world coming? Has the polarity of the earth shifted? Yes, it is happening - I have proof.

While at the airport Bevan went to the men's toilets. "I was doing my business at the individual urinals."

Roy Temperton of Hastings couldn't believe what he was seeing ... "All this talk about how dangerous it is on a cellphone when driving."

Russell often wonders about the practice of parents trundling their mucous-filled, unwashed children round in the supermarket trolleys.

"Why does the Auckland Council allow a group of people to use the front of the museum as a gym area?"

A reader writes: "Bleary-eyed, I drove down West Coast Rd toward Glen Eden about 7.30am on Saturday to get milk.

Many people in the West African city of Monrovia can't afford to buy newspapers or electricity to access the internet.

I often get PR people pitching stories on behalf of their clients.

In many cultures certain people are thought to be taboo and are not to be touched. In 19th century Siam, it was absolutely forbidden for a commoner to touch the queen.