Quirky News - September 2019

The following are extracts from the radio program Overdrivewhich is syndicated to stations around Australia on the Community Radio Network and is presented by AITPM members David Brown and Brian Smith. Episodes and more stories from the program can be heard at www.drivenmedia.com.au and reflections from the program on FaceBook at OverdriveCity.

Only in America?

Alison Taylor had received more than a dozen $15 tickets for exceeding the two-hour parking limit in Saginaw. The city marks tyres with chalk to keep track of how long a vehicle is parked. Her lawyer argued that a parking patrol officer violated the Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable searches.

A three-judge panel of the appeals court agreed.

Pothole Protests 

Frank Sereno from Waldo in Texas is fed up with the pothole outside his house so to highlight the problem he held a birthday party.

He said “I'm going to have a celebration for Pothole,” “I got some cake, lit a candle and had a little birthday party. He (the pothole) seemed thrilled with the idea.” 

“I didn't sing to him,” he noted. “It was too hot out.”

I think Frank is becoming a little too attached.

At least this is more polite than a protester in Middlesborough in the UK who painted phallic symbols over local potholes so the council had to repair them, quickly, to cover the indecency.