Plucked from the headlines, online and in print
If ever there was an incentive to quit smoking, American John Muszynski has found it: he was charged $23 quadrillion for a packet of cigarettes at a service station. Yes, that’s quadrillion, a 17-digit number: $23,148,855,308,184,500. And it’s also United…
GeoNet revised their quake report, saying it WAS 7.8 after all. Oh, and did I mention we had another one (an aftershock) about 20 minutes later. That one measured 6.1. We’ve got at least one crack in the dining room…
Well, that wasn’t fun. We just had quite a large earthquake that seemed to go on and on an on … (and we’ve had a wee few little aftershocks, either that or my house is shivering). As always, GeoNet, the…
What is it with all the anti-news stories about lately? I thought news stories were meant to inform us, to educate and offer us fresh facts and opinions. I can sort of forgive “Words can ease pain, I swear” from…
I see there’s another drama involving our not-always-efficient 111 emergency services phone system. This time, it’s come out that police 111 staff have been reprimanded for their failings: One Wellington staffer swore at and was rude to a caller (on…
I’ve been quietly stewing for the past few hours about the news that convicted rapist and murder Liam Reid has had his sentence reduced on appeal. Reid is the loser who raped and murdered deaf Christchurch teenager Emma Agnew, then…
Long trousers and shorts: they’ve both been in the news today for causing a bit of a stir. First up, it’s the shorts situation. It seems there’s a netball team in Palmerston North that has shorts as part of its…
I don’t know if it’s something in the water or if the media is having a meltdown but for the second time this week there’s been report of a dead celeb that contains one rather problematic inaccuracy: the celeb in…
It was nice to see the Stuff dudes and dudettes put a “graphic photo” warning on the story about the guy who stabbed himself in the neck during his court appearance (especially after the distasteful Michael Jackson photos last week)…
