Dispensary Corner 02 Jun 10
June 2, 2010
APPARENTLY even native birds
need to watch their weight!
A Sydneyside kookaburra has
been placed under a strict diet
and exercise regime, after she
was handed in to Taronga Zoo
weighing a massive 545g (40g
over the weight of a typical kooka).
The rotund bird was scooped up
by a Mosman local, who found
her being chased by local dogs -
and being too fat to take flight.
Since her health retreat at
Taronga the bird has lost 64g,
and needs to lose another 20g
before she will be released into
the wild.
DISPOSOPHOBIA comes with a
US$79,000 price tag.
A woman, living in upstate New
York has had to face the
possibility of copping a hefty
$79,000 fine, after her fed-up
neighbours reported her to the
city for her habit of collecting
kerbside rubbish and storing it on
her front yard.
According to reports, most of
the rubbish was donated to the
Salvation Army, or reconditioned
for use in her home, but the
problem was that for every object
donated another one would be
found to replace it.
When faced with the option to
get rid of the rubbish for good, or
to pay the fine, the woman chose
the former, but has said she is in
the process of reporting her
neighbours for “code violations”.
WHO steals a wheelchair ramp!
A wheelchair-bound US woman
has reported the theft of her 10-
foot wheelchair ramp, which ran
from her porch to the sidewalk of
her home.
Police are stumped as to who
would actually steal a wheelchair
ramp, and have so far turned up
no leads.
It was not all bad news however
for the woman, with a local ramp
maker offering to not only replace
the ramp for free - but give her an
even better steel one valued at
US$4000, because workers
couldn’t abide the thought of the
woman trapped in her own home!
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