A new record in Switzerland as an Italian driver clocked up 15 motoring offences within 11 minutes. Normal in Italy, but a record for Switzerland.
When in Rome
Two schools, so far, in London have been ordered to close for the Muslim holiday Eid-Ul-Fitr, the Hundu festival of Diwali and for Guru Nanak’s birthday in addition to the traditional Christian holidays of Christmas and Easter.
Pet defence
Thanks to Ron for spotting this one! A Bolivian man has avoided deportation from the UK after the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal ruled that because he and his girlfriend bought a cat as a family pet, sending him home would constitute a breach of his human rights by interfering with his family life.
How strange…or not
In a strange, but symptomatic survey of 2,000 women in the UK, some 74% were apparently in favour of the equivalent of maternity leave for childless women. The women believe that working, childless women should be entitled to up to six months ‘leave of absence’ in the same way as ‘maternity leave’ is granted to new mothers.
Out to lunch
It is a strange society we are developing if these and other types of incident become more prevalent. In this case, thank goodness for the common sense of individuals. While there is always a question of sensationalism in some areas of the press, such incidents do appear to be on the increase and it all tends to fall all under …
Sand sculptures
There have been some prettu good sand sculptures popping up along the coast at various times, I remember some excellent examples in Torrox and Torre del Mar, but these masterpieces take some beating. This is a collection of sand sculptures by an Indian artist, Sudarsan Pattnaik.
Health and Safety is the excuse again
Brian Bendle was standing in shallow water, about six inches deep, at a leisure lake in Somerset, waiting to take his jet ski out when he was hit by another machine travelling at 50 mph. The impact knocked him down, leaving him face down in the water. Onlookers rushed into the water to help Mr Bendle but, not wanting to …
Misleading headline?
Hotmail security breach spreads as 20,000 Gmail and Yahoo! passwords are posted online. As is quite common with the Daily Wag and Cleavage, a bit of a misleading headline. Yes, thousands of email passwords etc, from not only Hotmail but also Yahoo, Google, AOL, Earthlink and others, have been posted online but the information was not obtained as a result …
All Nippon (down to the loo) Airways
A Japanaese Airline, ANA (All Nippon Airways), is carrying out a one month experiment into the benefits of asking passengers to empty their bladders before boarding. The average human bladder has a capacity of 15 fluid ounces, which means that 150 passengers relieving themselves on board would apparently result in 67.2 kg of residual waters. Empty bladders mean lighter passengers, …
Anne Frank on film
The only known film footage of Anne Frank has just been released and, naturally, it has found its way onto YouTube. The young girl can be seen looking out of the window.