Behodar:

 

Nope, only when I get out.

 

Lights or something similar left on?

Bung:

Behodar:

 

I'm working from home this afternoon and just witnessed a council worker coming out to look at a drain that blocks every time there's rain. He pulled all the gunk out of it, so will it get blocked again next time? Yes, yes it will. The gunk was left in the gutter next to the drain, so will simply get washed back into it again.

 

In Wellington the council works dept used to have vacuum trucks clearing the stormwater sumps. Then that had to be outsourced. The contractor still has some sucker trucks but they range over a wider area. I remember a storm with widespread road flooding and all the trucks were in Palmerston North. Our street still had regular gutter clearance. With luck the drain was cleared knowing the gutter truck was due.

In Auckland I lived until recently in a house with several drains outside which were always blocked and would always flood the (very busy) road. The most I ever witnessed the council (Watercare?) do is send a truck from which the workman on the passenger side would poke the drain with the stick, without even getting out of the truck. I guess to try and swirl it around and move any blockage.

Then before the cyclone I dug out one of the four drains and filled an entire wheely bin with what was basically compost (disintegrating leaves), it was full of worms and a fully fledged ecosystem. There's no way the stick poking would have done a whit of good, and it had clearly not been cleared for many years.

Behodar:

 

I have yet to figure out any rhyme or reason for why, maybe 1 in 50 times when I get out of my car, it goes "beep beep beep" and "warns" me on the display that the door is open. Of course it is; I'm getting out! What do you expect me to do right after I park and switch off?!

 

Traffic approaching so the car is warning you of "danger"?

Whats the vehicle?

bigreddog: Traffic approaching so the car is warning you of "danger"?

Better not be, given that it's parked in my garage :)

It's a 2021 Toyota Yaris.

My W.T.F is AT not abiding by their own bylaws and just fobbing me off when I've queried them about it.

cddt:

 

In Auckland I lived until recently in a house with several drains outside which were always blocked and would always flood the (very busy) road. The most I ever witnessed the council (Watercare?) do is send a truck from which the workman on the passenger side would poke the drain with the stick, without even getting out of the truck. I guess to try and swirl it around and move any blockage.

 

Then before the cyclone I dug out one of the four drains and filled an entire wheely bin with what was basically compost (disintegrating leaves), it was full of worms and a fully fledged ecosystem. There's no way the stick poking would have done a whit of good, and it had clearly not been cleared for many years.

 

Council is far too busy with more more important things than draining away storm water. Like building bus and cycle lanes and painting rainbows on crossings.

Rikkitic:

 

Out of nowhere I just received an email from The Guardian about ‘managing my preferences’. They seem to think I have an account with them. I do not. I have never had anything to do with them. Never subscribed, never clicked, nothing. I wrote them explaining this and asking to be removed from their mailing list. Their response:

 

“We have received your email but the email address you have used has not been matched to any email addresses we have on file linked to an account. If you are emailing on behalf of a Guardian subscriber please note that due to the General Data Protection Regulations we are only authorised to discuss or disclose information about an account with the account holder themselves.
 
In order to assist you could you please do one of the following: 
·    Re-send your email from the address you have registered with The Guardian
·    Ask the account holder to email us from their email address if you are not the account holder.
Please note that if your subscription is with a third party such as Apple or Google then they will hold your billing and account details.
 
We do this in part to protect your account and ensure that there is no unauthorised access. Many questions you may have can be answered through the help centre on our website.”

 

Oh joy. I am on a bot carousel. I don’t have an address registered with The Guardian. There is no account holder. Here we go round and round. Whee.

 

I wrote them back explaining all this. I don’t have high expectations.

 

 

 

Just to follow up on this, The Guardian was pretty good about resolving my issue after some back and forth and escalation to more helpful help people. I suspect the first one I was dealing with was a bot, or at least someone who could only reply with scripted responses. Eventually I got someone who fixed things for me. Well done, Guardian!

xpd:

My W.T.F is AT not abiding by their own bylaws and just fobbing me off when I've queried them about it.

 

Behodar:

bigreddog: Traffic approaching so the car is warning you of "danger"?

Better not be, given that it's parked in my garage :)

It's a 2021 Toyota Yaris.

Behodar:

 

bigreddog: Traffic approaching so the car is warning you of "danger"?

 

Better not be, given that it's parked in my garage :)

 

It's a 2021 Toyota Yaris.

 

Was flicking channels last night and came across a very adult animated programme called Crossing Swords. 

My initial reaction was a hearty W.T.F??? when I saw (and heard) it. 

The characters are "peg-like" in their construction. They have no arms. 

There was "nudity", gratuitous use of foul language and a lot of "violence" and sexual innuendo. 

Oh...and it's set in a fantasy-style medieval era of some sort. 

Weirdest shizz I have seen in quite some time. 

SomeoneSomewhere:

xpd:

 

My W.T.F is AT not abiding by their own bylaws and just fobbing me off when I've queried them about it.

 

 

 

 

 

File an LGOIMA request. Local government version of OIA. FYI.org.nz

If they refuse without due process, there's probably still fewer consequences than there should be, but someone will eventually get upset

Have contacted AT, NZTA, council, local MPs and all to no avail. Basically AT are a law unto themselves and everyone else is scared to even approach them.

Looking at potentially moving anyway, so will let it be someone elses problem...... 

neb:

 

Holey cow - aliens implicated in Strange Occurrences:

 

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/aliens-only-explanation-for-mutilated-cows-found-on-aussie-farm-farmers-say/2UKN2FVUGVCT7HMQ4NF6ETPZTA/

 

And, of course, world government-alien alliance conspiracy theories:

 

“It really makes you think that there’s something going on that the general public doesn’t know about, maybe there’s something being kept hidden from us,” Judy Cook said.

 

frankv:

 

And, of course, world government-alien alliance conspiracy theories:

 

 

“It really makes you think that there’s something going on that the general public doesn’t know about, maybe there’s something being kept hidden from us,” Judy Cook said.

 

 

Maybe the aliens hid her brain.

xpd:

 

SomeoneSomewhere:

File an LGOIMA request. Local government version of OIA. FYI.org.nz

If they refuse without due process, there's probably still fewer consequences than there should be, but someone will eventually get upset

 

 

 

Have contacted AT, NZTA, council, local MPs and all to no avail. Basically AT are a law unto themselves and everyone else is scared to even approach them.

 

Looking at potentially moving anyway, so will let it be someone elses problem...... 

 

 

 

Those are not the same as an LGOIMA request. 

If you've filed an LGOIMA request and they have failed to answer it, then you complain to the Ombudsman.