Court out when given the bird
COURT security officers in Toowoomba are used to copping “the bird” from certain less-than-pleasant visitors to the Hume St precinct but this was an entirely different experience.
As legal professionals, police officers, defendants and onlookers made their way into the courthouse one morning this week they were accompanied by a black and white magpie which flew above the crowd and made itself at home in the court foyer.
Avoiding the court’s entrance door metal detector is simply not on, not even for a magpie, and one security guard suddenly set off in pursuit of the feathered offender armed with a woolly jumper.
To the giggles of the crowd walking into court, our man tried desperately to coax the feathered felon out a side door but the maggie was having none of it.
However, after about 15 minutes of being harassed, the black and white fiend thought it best to return to the wild and skipped out the door held open for it by a somewhat relieved security officer.
Hold the phone
FAMILY of Toowoomba woman took her to Newcastle for a 65th birthday treat at the weekend.
Arriving at the airport, the family was ushered off to grab a cab for the ride to the hotel.
Just as she was getting into the cab, her phone rang.
Flustered, she answered the phone while frantically sifting through her handbag.
Suddenly, she turned to her daughter asking if she’d seen her phone which by that stage was adjacent to her ear.
Her children assured her they were joking when they mentioned retirement village.
A bit rich
TOOWOOMBA man attending the Queensland Reds versus Canterbury Crusaders Super Rugby match at Brisbane’s Suncorp Stadium recently had a novel approach to complaining to his friends about the stadium catering.
Arriving back at his seat with a meal of fish and chips, he claimed his trek to the canteen had been a case of “mistaken identity”.
“Going by the price I had to fork out for this, they must have thought I was James Packer,” he complained.
Electric conversation
YOUNG woman about to embark on a trip to Europe with her boyfriend was out shopping for an electricity plug converter.
Looking through a range of converters, she suddenly remarked to boyfriend that they wouldn’t be needing one “as they are the same as the Australian ones”.
Boyfriend, bravely, disagreed, only to be told he “didn’t know anything and should shut up”.
He tried to explain but only received a lecture in return.
Half-way through the lecture, his girlfriend suddenly realised that she had been looking at the end of the converter that the Aussie plug went into.
The young man did receive a converter, but no apology.
Heard a whisper?
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