Saturday 16 August 2008

"Fire sparks safety warning"

One of the best opening sentences ever written:

"A Mount Gambier woman has warned the community of the dangers of cleaning lawnmowers in the bedroom while smoking".

Via Peter Risdon, via Tim Blair.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

People made disobliging references to Mt Gambier: shame. It has a nice crater.

Anonymous said...

You really ought to look at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Gambier,_South_Australia

Hee, hee, hee.

Mark Wadsworth said...

Caused, presumably, by an earlier resident refuelling an ICBM in their garden shed while smoking?

Mark Wadsworth said...

The highlight of that link is "The town's major industries are agriculture, forestry, trucking, tourism and prostitution."