A 14 year old girl in New Zealand beat a shark with her boogie board after it bit her. She hit the shark repeatedly on the head until he swam away.
“I couldn’t believe the lack of fuss. I would’ve been hysterically screaming but no, there was no screaming. She was just standing there looking a bit shaky,” her mother was quoted as saying.
A 19-yr-old creeper lured 2 9 yr-old girls into a play house promising htem chocolate cake.
But when they got into the house, there was none.
What was there was an empty wine bottle, sitting in the center of an empty circle on the floor.
The “man,” 17 at the time of the incident, threatened to shoot the girls with a nail gun if they did not proceed to play strip spin the bottle.
He plead not guilty, but was charged anyways. GOOD.
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Air New Zealand keeps even my eyes on their safety briefing…by doing it only in body pain.
The national carrier’s safety video for domestic services on its Boeing Co 737 planes show pilot and cabin crew dressed only in body paint.
Unfortunately, the safety message is kept seemly by carefully chosen camera angles. I’d post the vid, but I’m in Turkey. Fail.
Sydney - Australian sex workers are speaking out against unfair advertisement pricing policies held by newspapers and other media outlets. Prostitutes in New South Whales, Australia, will protest tomorrow outside the house of parliament on International Whores Day.
The Scarlet Alliance is hoping for anti-discrimination laws to protect sex workers, saying the bias is not only at newspapers, but that prostitutes face biases from banks, lenders, local councils and in advertising.
Sex worker Ivy McIntosh says sex workers are being overcharged when they placed ads in local papers.
“I’m paying too much for a measly two inches. Sex work is legal. Why am I charged hundreds of dollars to advertise in local papers when other trade occupations are charged less than $100?”
The sex workers will dress in red and carry red umbrellas in the demonstration for International Whores Day, which started in France in 1975.
SYDNEY (Reuters) -New Zeland police have called an international search for a couple on the lam after recieving an accidental $6 million in their bank account.
The couple, who own and operate a gas station in the north, applied for a WEstpac Bank $10,00 NZ overdrage, but 1,000 times the amount was paid. Westpac caught on to the error fairly quickly, and wants their money back. They have recovered some, but not all of the money.
Banking ombudsman Liz Brown told Rotorua’s The Daily Post newspaper that it is a criminal offense to spend money that was accidentally put into a bank account if they knew it did not belong to them.
Wired Mag - A new Australian study shows that surfing the internet while at work actually increases productivity. The study, done by the University of Melbourne, shows that personal internet use at work drives productivity up by 9%.
Study author Brent Coker, from the department of management and marketing, said “workplace Internet leisure browsing,” or WILB, helped to sharpened workers’ concentration.
“People need to zone out for a bit to get back their concentration,” Coker said on the university’s website (www.unimelb.edu.au/)
“Short and unobtrusive breaks, such as a quick surf of the Internet, enables the mind to rest itself, leading to a higher total net concentration for a days’ work, and as a result, increased productivity,” he said.
According to the study of 300 workers, 70 percent of people who use the Internet at work engage in WILB.
The study focused on people who spent less than 20% of their time at work online.
State manager Chris Simpson said “citrus and kids’ sport had been synonymous for generations”.
“I’d like to see medical research and evidence to prove fruit is unhealthy, particularly fresh citrus,” Mr Simpson said.
Netball Queensland’s consultant dietitian Kerry Leech said acidity was the problem.
“When players come off the court at half-time they’re generally a bit dehydrated and the worst thing for teeth in that environment is acid, because it erodes the enamel,” Ms Leech said. “So we’re encouraging fluids to re-hydrate at half-time rather than eating half an orange.”
BORING. Who wants water? The slices were always the best part!
And what the fuck is netball anyways?
CANBERRA (Reuters) - An Australian wigger was fined $168 and ordered to wear a belt after his pants fell down to show his commandoed bum.
The unfortunate incident occurred just as a female police officer walked past on Feb. 28.
Trent Joseph Wroe, 19, of Mooloolaba, Queensland state, claims that he was wearing his fat buddy’s pants and they fell off, but the officer argues that the mooning was deliberate.
CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia’s Mogo Zoo is coming under fire after killing their 9-yr-old Lioness Jameila. She was killed as visitors sat locked in safe houses becuase the lioness had escaped her cage.
Now, however, they are receiving loads of hate mail from angered PETA monsters. They are upset she was killed rather than disabled with a tranquillizer dart to be re-confined.
“When you’ve got to make a split decision like I had to yesterday, especially with a lion that’s so very dear to me, it’s not easy.” Zoo spokesman John Appleby.
A double amputee who lost both her legs as a child has turned into a mermaid with the help of an Oscar-winning special-effects workshop.
Once, when asked what happened to her legs, Nadya Vessey, from Auckland, told the little boy she was a mermaid.
She never gave up on that idea.
Two years ago, she wrote to special effects company Weta Workshop (Wellington, NZ) to ask them to make her a tail. They did.
It comes complete with a fitted suit, and covered with digitally printed sock with hand-painted mermaid scales.
‘A prosthetic is a prosthetic, and your body has to be comfortable with it and you have to mentally make it part of yourself,’ Nadya, who has been swimming in a pool and Auckland Harbour, told New Zealand media.