Why does a playground cost a million dollars?

joker97:

 

Why does a playground cost a million dollars?

 

Because a local government is building it. Whatever they don't spend this year is taken off next year's budget, so the idea is to spend the full budget this year to assure the same (or higher) budget the following year.

Of course they also have to pay all those inflated resource consent fees - to themselves....

Here is proof that the news media have shot all the proof readers and replaced them with pocket calculators:

The driver of a truck which caught fire on State Highway 1, 10km north of Turangi this morning saw smoke coming out while driving through the township.

He pulled over after making sure he was clear from the town, but was unable to disconnect his trailer which was carrying steel from the truck because the fire had started at the back of the truck wheels.

The south-bound truck was well engulfed when appliances from Turangi and Taupo were called to Motuoapa at about 10.30am.

Turangi deputy chief fire officer Micky Sherwood said the driver had been safety conscious by waiting until he had driven through the town before pulling over. The truck had been carrying steel.

The fire had started on the back of the truck's wheel, but the exact cause is unknown.

"Beyond that from what was left of them it's hard to say. It could have been the brakes but he didn't think so because of his braking system. But it could have been the brakes, it could have been a suspension failure where the wheel was rubbing or it could have been the bearings," she said.

One lane has been reopened.'

Not Stuff or Herald but this blows my mind. Some chick had her boyfriend steal her money. Cool, I want to know about that...

But a picture of Lewis Hamilton and a girl? Unrelated.

Last week an aircraft had its breaks on fire, this week Sonny Bill couldn't spell, however the article that brought this to our attention had grammatical and spelling mistakes in it!

Really in a rush to publish (mis)information Stuff and the Herald have become pathetic at the basics, the one thing you have to do as a journalist!

dickytim:

 

Last week an aircraft had its breaks on fire ...

 

eracode:

 

dickytim:

 

Last week an aircraft had its breaks on fire ...

 

 

 

Give them a brake, their to lose too loose they're sleep over a few misused words.

1eStar:

eracode:

dickytim:

Last week an aircraft had its breaks on fire ...

 

Give them a brake, their to lose too loose they're sleep over a few misused words.

-- a spelling problem?

Here's one, from today's NZ Herald, not so much a headline  ... no proofreading required ..

"He said diverting power was a dangerous practice, but unfortunately common when cultivating cannabis.

It can cause death by elocution."

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11709693

I think the reporter / proofreader could be eloquently stoned ...

That's a bloody funny typo.

for @sbiddle (and ripping off his photo)

"How to get over Brangelina"

As if we didn't need a reminder that Stuffed is little more than a gossip rag now.

Not a headline, but a hopeless example of proof reading...not even a sentence, much less a sensible one!

"Vlogger Casey Neistat said when Emirates Airlines upgraded this form first class from business class on a 14-hour flight from Dubai to New York."