A Bull, Basil Fawlty and a Bra!

It was reported this week of a hotel in New Zealand banning the residents of an entire town. The hotel in question, owned by an Australian and managed by a Scotsman hit the news after the manager was compared to Basil Fawlty, the owner of a hotel in the English resort of Torquay in the hit TV series Fawlty Towers. The step of banning the residents of an entire town could have come straight out of the TV program. The hotel in Palmerston North has taken the step to ban anyone residing in Wainuiomata, a number of sports teams from the apparently unpronounceable town had stayed previously to the ban and the rowdy behaviour has upset the hotels manager and owner once too often.

A pilot of Angola's flag carrier airline TAAG has recently been suspended after he landed at the wrong airport. The central African nations national airline has had a somewhat chequered past including being banned from flying to any European destinations.

A woman in Detroit this week had a very lucky escape, a bullet that was fired at her was deflected away by the bra she was wearing. The under wired bra deflecting the said bullet and after a check-up, she only suffered some bruising.

In the Irish Republic, a small town in the west of the country had an unusual event this week when a bull escaped from the town's cattle market. It made off down the main street of the town and was caught on CCTV cameras as it passed through a set of electronic doors and into a store. It passed right through the store before exiting at the other end. Luckily it caused no damage inside the building and was quickly recaptured once it was outside again. Brings to mind that tale of a bull in a china shop....

For many years school janitors have been ready to pounce on any students caught or spotted chewing gum. The fear or finding discarded gum on the underside of chairs and desks resulted in bans in many schools of this habit. A recent study by US researchers has led to the claim that chewing gum in class or while doing homework can actually improve academic performance. The report suggested that after only 14 weeks of chewing gum over students not chewing improved grades by around 3%. Sorry janitors, it looks like those gum scrapers may have to be put to use again.

Finally for this week, a strange but true story from Thailand. An eccentric millionaire dog owner has had made for his dog a tiara. In these troubled times when many are struggling on a week to week basis this odd but rich person has spent £3 million on his pet pooch, and he says he now needs another piece of similar jewellery to match this. I like dogs, but pampering to this level is a little bizarre, I could think of a few places it would be better spent.

Source:- yahoonews