The Lamborgini vs the Suzuki Swift

Hatchback hate: Lamborghini chased – National – smh.com.au

Size matters … how a Swift compares to a Lamborghini.

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By Dylan Welch
March 13, 2006

The road rage incident started with a glance and quickly became one of the more bizarre pursuits on Sydney’s roads.

As the driver of a yellow Lamborghini sat in peak hour traffic in Homebush at around 8.20am yesterday he flashed an annoyed look at the driver of a Suzuki Swift, who was booming music out of his car stereo, say police.

It was hardly a call to arms, but his frown provoked a 30-minute pursuit along Parramatta Road from Homebush to Glebe as the Lamborghini attempted to get away from the clearly agitated driver of the Suzuki, who tailgated the supercar and at one point even attempted to ram it.

“The Suzuki Swift was changing lanes, getting behind the Lamborghini and tailgating and also coming beside the Lamborghini at lights and revving [his car] and yelling at the driver,” Inspector Sue Trusty of Glebe Police told smh.com.au.

Despite being hopelessly outclassed by the supercar, the driver of the diminutive hatchback managed to pursue the Lamborghini through heavy traffic to Glebe, where the frightened driver flagged down a police car.

Police were unable to catch the Suzuki as it sped down a side street and disappeared.

The shaken Lamborghini driver lodged an incident report with officers at Glebe police station, leaving his car parked in Talfourd Street in a restricted area reserved for police cars.

He was then given a lift home by police, leaving the luxury vehicle to be picked up by his company.

Inspector Trusty suggested the driver of the Suzuki may have been suffering from delusions of grandeur during the pursuit.

“When they were stopping at lights he was the one revving up. He must have been delirious if he thought he was going to drag [the Lamborghini] off.”

The high-end Lamborghini, one of only 60 in Australia, can reach 100kmh in 4.3 seconds and has a top speed of over 300kmh. The Suzuki Swift hits 100/kmh in 10.0 seconds and has a top speed of 190kmh.

Police inquiries are continuing.

Waiter, waiter, there’s a penis in my hotpot

Waiter, waiter, there’s a penis in my hotpot. 10/03/2006. ABC News Online

Someone had fun thinking up the headline.

And what’s a nice beanie like you doing on a head like that?

Alice Springs Beanie Festival
This festival began a couple of years after I left the Alice but has always sounded like fun.
The only thing I have ever knitted is peggy squares and my crocheting is limited to doing afghan rounds.
But maybe I can do a beanie…

Just maybe. I’m sure there are some knitting needles, a crochet hook and some random balls of yarn from some abandoned dream lying around here somewhere…

London beanie pattern

Tychus short row patterned beanie

So what is the biggest threat facing humanity?

Watchdog bans solar ad featuring Flannery. 25/02/2006. ABC News Online

A free-to-air television watchdog has prevented a commercial involving a prominent South Australian scientist from being screened, sparking claims of political interference.

The advertisement for the Solar Shop in Adelaide featured Dr Tim Flannery.

In the ad he described climate change as “the greatest threat facing humanity” – a statement which was rejected by the Commercials Advice regulatory body.

Dr Flannery says the move reflects an ignorance of the issue rather than a wider conspiracy to suppress information.

“I was surprised actually,” he said.

“But then on reflection I thought ‘Well perhaps a lot of people don’t understand the full implications of what we’re facing with climate change’.

“And if they don’t recognise it as the most severe threat, then really that’s a matter for some more education perhaps.”

The Solar Shop’s managing director, Adrian Ferraretto, says he believes an indirect reference in the commercial to Australia’s rejection of the Kyoto Protocol may have triggered the ban.

“At the end of the commercial we have a tag which says we’re doing Kyoto anyway, and I think that may have had something to do with the banning of the ad,” he said.

Now THIS would freak me out…

Huntsman spider Heteropodidae Selenopidae Olios Neosparassus Isopeda

I don’t care if I am so much bigger than the spider. I don’t care that I know a Huntsman is harmless and is my spider friend.

I wouldn’t even enter the toilet.

Yes, I’m a wimp.

Oops…

Teen breaks leg killing spider – National – smh.com.au

Another one for the Strange but True category

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2005/11/29/1133026441298.html

The man himself, thankfully with clothes on…