Silly Season | Saturday, July 14, 2007 |
Two stories from the news today which are odd enough that you couldn't make them up.
First, the Lord Mayor of Darwin has just been convicted of stealing about 2.5k of council money to buy random stuff including, if you can imagine, "a toy that made his voice sound like Darth Vader" and then lying about the purchases.
Secondly a man in Western Sydney went of a "rampage in a re-conditioned army tank" knocking down cell phone masts in several suberbs. Enough apparently that there's noticably degraded cell coverage in the part of the city. It turns out that it was an armoured personnel carrier rather than a tank which rather ruins my Kenny Everret visions of the action, but it's still kind of strange.
First, the Lord Mayor of Darwin has just been convicted of stealing about 2.5k of council money to buy random stuff including, if you can imagine, "a toy that made his voice sound like Darth Vader" and then lying about the purchases.
Secondly a man in Western Sydney went of a "rampage in a re-conditioned army tank" knocking down cell phone masts in several suberbs. Enough apparently that there's noticably degraded cell coverage in the part of the city. It turns out that it was an armoured personnel carrier rather than a tank which rather ruins my Kenny Everret visions of the action, but it's still kind of strange.
