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Message dans un bouteille
A clergyman is facing a litter fine after he put scripture messages into bottles and tossed them in the sea. Instead of drifting across the North Sea, as Pastor Leslie Potter had hoped, the bottles floated back to beaches in Norfolk. He now faces a fine for littering the sands at Gorlestone, where angry walkers had to pick them up. The pastor said: “They were supposed to end up in Holland, France and Germany.”
London Metro (Imogen Forster)
Class war
A friend who took the Virgin Pendolino from Manchester to London last week was startled to hear the train manager announce: “In the interests of health and hygiene, will standard-class passengers please refrain from walking through first-class carriages to exit the train.”
Independent (Harvey Cole)
Disappearing act
The ticket was for parking on a yellow line. When I pointed out there were no lines, the warden said they’d faded away.
Ham & High (Sigrid Rabiger)
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