If the Geelong show’s not costly enough already, consider the 33 patrons an extra $76,000 out of pocket this year after their rides and fairy floss.
That was the haul from a Sheriff’s Office operation around the showgrounds on Friday after officers used number-plate recognition gear to identify the vehicles of miscreants with outstanding warrants.
And, unlike some of those sideshow games, there was an actual winner, with the sheriff nabbing the owners of a combined 186 warrants.
Thirteen people paid more than $12,000 on the day to clear up 35 warrants, which isn’t surprising given 22 warrant-dodgers left the show only to find their wheels clamped.
Just as well they bought their show bags first!
Anyway, judging by the smile on the uniformed bloke in the accompanying picture, at least someone had fun!
Local Liberal MP Sarah Henderson gave an interesting insight into her etiquette standards this week.
As reported in today’s Indy, she was shocked when Labor counterpart Tim Watts demanded that she “just shut up for two seconds”.
Rude, maybe, but Sarah must have heard worse in the rough-and-tumble of politics.
So why the offence?
Well, the pair was live on national TV, she explained, “not a Sunday picnic”.
Hmm. If that’s the sort of exchange she expects on a “Sunday picnic” then put away the rug and basket!
Charity begins at home, but for Geelong it sometimes ends up in a Cambodian cow paddock.
That’s the aim of Mark Flanders, anyway, in his efforts to put beef between the chopsticks, or maybe that’s milk in the mouths, of impoverished Asian families.
The Bell Park farm supplies business manager is trying to raise $5000 to help Cows for Cambodia after seeing its work during a trip to the country, one of the world’s poorest.
The charity gives beneficiary families the job of caring for a pregnant cow each, with the reward being ownership of its offspring.
Nice idea: give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day, give a Cambodian family a cow and it’s T-bones forever!
Mark’s previously put together $3500 to buy Cows for Cambodia an irrigation system, but now wants to help build a training facility.
So he’s donating $50 from the sale of every Ancare cattle product purchased from the local Hewitt and Whitty CRT store.
Now Double Take’s aware that the Indy’s urban circulation means few readers need an Ancare cattle product but, hey, it would make an interesting talking point in the loungeroom!
