Day NintySeven of being Aflickionless...

Maz is kicked back listening to this evenings Criminal Cuts and distroying DISCO BALLS! Yes, she got more and is starting to live by "you can never have too many disco balls".

And if you didn't know...THERE IS A GOD! Orange M&M's...FUCK YEAH! They are orange (funny that) and white.

The streets of the Waikato town of Huntly are piled with rubbish after residents found themselves victims of a hoax.

The householders received a letter telling them to leave any junk kerbside for a mid-winter inorganic rubbish collection from August 15, with collection starting August 25.

The flier, bearing a letterhead which the hoaxers apparently took from the Waikato District Council website, said that the collection presented "a good chance to clean up around the house".

"All inorganic forms of rubbish will be collected, old fridges, stoves, car parts, corrugated iron, timber, carpet etc," it said.

However, the council said this week it was unaware of the lleter and has ordered the residents to take their trash back into their houses. Huntly resident Olivia Jones was not amused by the caper. "Our family spent all day clearing out our junk," she told the Waikato Times. "What a stupid prank." Council general manager for water and facilities Richard Banks told Radio New Zealand two theories for the duplicitous dumping were being "bandied about". "One is that it's being done as a hoax. The other is someone is being entrepreneurial - trying to get people to put out material they could get some value from, before the normal collection service is provided."

Motorists are being warned of snow falling on the Desert Rd. MetService has issued a snowfall warning near the summit of the Desert Rd which will continue through-out this afternoon. Up to 10cm of snow could accumulate on the higher parts of the road.

Children who are not immunised against measles risk being sent home from school, the Ministry of Health warned today. The warning comes amid growing concerns about a potential epidemic, with the number of notified measles cases this year already seven times higher than the total number of cases last year. The ministry said in a statement that infected students and teachers would be excluded from school for seven days from the appearance of the rash. Those who were not immunised and were exposed to infected people would be excluded from school for 14 days from their last contact, the ministry said.

The Bay of Plenty has been rattled by a 5.4 magnitude earthquake. It struck 10 kilometres south-west of Tauranga at a depth of 300 kilometres at 7.16am. GNS Science says it was strong enough to have been felt in parts of Wellington and Levin. (I think I need a new label "Earthquake"...we've had a few)

Police have laid further charges against an Auckland actor who police shot after he allegedly threatened them when he made a false domestic violence complaint.

Rob Mokaraka, 36, was shot in the chest after allegedly lunging at police with what they said appeared to be knives and a meat cleaver outside a house in Pt Chevalier on July 27. He was due to appear at Auckland District Court this morning to face one count of possession of an offensive weapon and another of assault with a weapon. But Judge Nicola Mathers said Mokaraka was still in hospital and a medical certificate excused him from appearing. Two new charges were laid today by police: threatening to kill and using a firearm to resist arrest.

Concerns have been raised that icecream in a cone from the local dairy could contain a nasty surprise. Kim Schultz, 12, a student at Columba College in Dunedin, has found a disturbing statistic in a humble school science project: that five out of 17 vanilla icecreams bought from Dunedin dairies had E. coli bacteria at levels far in excess of the New Zealand Food Safety Authority (NZFSA) guidelines. Some of the samples had an E. coli count in the millions, when it should have been only 100 per gram, Kim said. E. coli infection can result in severe stomach cramps, nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea. One icecream sample also contained staphylococcus aureus bacteria, which can lead to serious illness.

ACT leader Rodney Hide has set himself firmly against having any Maori seats on the new Auckland 'super city' council but denies he is holding the Government to ransom over the controversial issue.

SIDESWIPPING IT...
Looks like MP Paula Bennett and Kath and Kim's Gina Riley may have been separated at birth ... now that would make a "noiyce", different and "unewesual" episode!

At Ngatea Water Gardens, Estelle Seaman of Torbay was mortified to see live fish being fed to the turtles. "Fish are placed in a small pond to be attacked and eaten, from the tail end, while they try desperately to get away. One fish was seen still alive, with its tail and about two centimetres of its body missing! A slow and agonising death, not a sight for the kids. Reason for this needless suffering? Apparently this is what happens in the wild, according to the manager." (OH FUCK ME...what is with these PC people. Surprise, surprise she is from the shore)

Peta's latest campaign to encourage a vegetarian lifestyle targets overweight women. The "Save the Whales" billboard campaign in Jackson, Florida shows the back of a large woman in a bikini, and the slogan: "Lose the Blubber, Go Vegetarian." (If you are as big as a whale and wearing a bikini you should be SHOT! with an elephant gun)

Catherine was stopped in her tracks after seeing this male/female icon painted on the car parks at Albany Mall. Aside from two parks, all the others are marked for parents with babies. "Not sure what these are meant to be for ... people who really need a toilet? People that don't know if they're male or female? Anyone who is either male or female? Maybe it's a hidden portal to Narnia?"

AUCKLAND FORECAST TODAY
Max: 15°C
Min: 9°C (overnight)
Humidity: 86%
Cloudy periods. Southerlies. (Translation: OMG there was no rain or showers...)

CURRENT WEIRDNESS
How many disco balls Maz has distroyed...

DAILY FOF MOMENT
Maz needed a measure of JayJay's back for the Style Pasifika creation, however JayJay couldnt text her the measurement because all she had at home to measure with was a 15cm hard ruler. And then she forgot to grab a tape measure from work. Fail!!!