‘A construction worker who left a flaming blow torch on top of a gas bottle while he had a cigarette is being investigated.
The man is a contractor working on The Crossing at Highbrook Business Park in East Tamaki and a passer-by spotted him in the act, took a photograph and sent it to the Herald…’
The passer-by needs to get an effing life.These people would have loved living in East Germany, where every second person was a Stasi informer. This is the kind of repressive, nannying, ratbastard, feminised society Kiwis have fled in droves.

From a comment in TrueblueNZ:
‘…Another piece falls into place. In a press conference last week Obama was not wearing his wedding ring nor was he wearing his watch. When noticed, his staff said his ring was out for repairs. No reason was given for the missing watch.
So it’s just a coincidence that Muslims are forbidden from wearing jewellery during the month of Ramadan?..’
And there’s much more.

‘Life in the Twilight’
‘…Go to sleep in 2009 and wake up now. The world has changed: golf is the people’s game; racist, sexist, homophobic thought and speech are predicated on the ideology of who says it; the IRS, the NSA, and the Justice Department are watching you; the State Department is run like a campaign organization; the president offers politically correct thoughts on local trials; the attorney general worries about “my people”; the government is producing more oil and gas by trying to stop it; wind and solar are the way of the future; gropes and pornography are either career-ending or cause for needed sabbaticals; and high unemployment, debt, and low growth are proof of a robust recovery.’
It’s a brilliant essay. A keeper.