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The Lizard of Oz
by Rob Steers in Wagga Wagga
Friday, February 1, 2008
Sydney Mum Races To Jail
This week, mother Rebecca Jane Budge, 29, pleaded not guilty to taking
part in a road race and exceeding the speed limit by more than 45km/h.
She was allegedly caught street-racing her V8 Holden Commodore
station wagon against a motorcycle along Victoria Rd in Drummoyne on
January 1 this year. Her two children - a 10-year-old girl and six-year-
old boy - were in the back seat of her car.
Budge was representing herself today as she "didn't have enough time to
get a lawyer because Legal Aid won't represent me".
Oi Cockie!!
Entomologists claim that shiny black cockroaches are the "good" guys
and Australia's increasingly warm, dry weather is forcing them indoors in
search of moist places to nest.
Museum Victoria's senior curator of entomology, Ken Walker, says the
common shining cockroach doesn't carry diseases or wish to share your
meals."It is a native and it's not a pest, just a nuisance, so it's really
just a matter of us learning to live with our native animals," he said.
But the "bad" cockroaches are also flourishing in homes and businesses
around Melbourne courtesy of the warmer weather. Along with American
and Oriental cockroaches, German invaders are the real exotic nasties
who have adapted to living inside and feasting on our food scraps and
other less savoury meals.
"They carry a lot of diseases because they can be in sewers one
moment and then in the pantry on your Vita-Brits," said Dr Walker.'
Tourist Practices Safe Cooking
Staff at the Hermitage Hotel in New Zealand, were called to an American
tourist's room after she complained she couldn't get her pizza out of the
microwave. After some enquiry, they discovered she had placed the
pizza in a personal safe and activated the airtight lock.
The guest, in her mid-40s, had entered random numbers on the safe's
keypad while trying to cook the pizza. It took staff more than two hours
to break the code.
Breaches of "urinal etiquette" just taking the piss
A patron of a Christchurch bar punched another man twice because he
committed "a breach of urinal etiquette”.
Edward Trevor Aldridge, 47, pleaded guilty in Christchurch District Court
to assault and Judge Raoul Neave told him: "This sort of behaviour would
be immature in teenagers or small children. This is exactly the sort of
behaviour that makes people afraid to go to town."
Police prosecutor Sergeant Graham Butcher said the victim went to the
toilet, and used a urinal next to Aldridge who accused him of looking at
him and punched him twice in the face.
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by Rob Steers in Wagga Wagga
Friday, February 1, 2008
Sydney Mum Races To Jail
This week, mother Rebecca Jane Budge, 29, pleaded not guilty to taking
part in a road race and exceeding the speed limit by more than 45km/h.
She was allegedly caught street-racing her V8 Holden Commodore
station wagon against a motorcycle along Victoria Rd in Drummoyne on
January 1 this year. Her two children - a 10-year-old girl and six-year-
old boy - were in the back seat of her car.
Budge was representing herself today as she "didn't have enough time to
get a lawyer because Legal Aid won't represent me".
Oi Cockie!!
Entomologists claim that shiny black cockroaches are the "good" guys
and Australia's increasingly warm, dry weather is forcing them indoors in
search of moist places to nest.
Museum Victoria's senior curator of entomology, Ken Walker, says the
common shining cockroach doesn't carry diseases or wish to share your
meals."It is a native and it's not a pest, just a nuisance, so it's really
just a matter of us learning to live with our native animals," he said.
But the "bad" cockroaches are also flourishing in homes and businesses
around Melbourne courtesy of the warmer weather. Along with American
and Oriental cockroaches, German invaders are the real exotic nasties
who have adapted to living inside and feasting on our food scraps and
other less savoury meals.
"They carry a lot of diseases because they can be in sewers one
moment and then in the pantry on your Vita-Brits," said Dr Walker.'
Tourist Practices Safe Cooking
Staff at the Hermitage Hotel in New Zealand, were called to an American
tourist's room after she complained she couldn't get her pizza out of the
microwave. After some enquiry, they discovered she had placed the
pizza in a personal safe and activated the airtight lock.
The guest, in her mid-40s, had entered random numbers on the safe's
keypad while trying to cook the pizza. It took staff more than two hours
to break the code.
Breaches of "urinal etiquette" just taking the piss
A patron of a Christchurch bar punched another man twice because he
committed "a breach of urinal etiquette”.
Edward Trevor Aldridge, 47, pleaded guilty in Christchurch District Court
to assault and Judge Raoul Neave told him: "This sort of behaviour would
be immature in teenagers or small children. This is exactly the sort of
behaviour that makes people afraid to go to town."
Police prosecutor Sergeant Graham Butcher said the victim went to the
toilet, and used a urinal next to Aldridge who accused him of looking at
him and punched him twice in the face.
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