OT - More from the \'alternative\' news

[Highmac]

Some samples from the BBC's ten things you didn't know this time last week
 

quote:4. Coffee shop by coffee shop, the world is getting wireless. But leading the way is the medieval town of Zamora in Spain, points out the Guardian Online supplement. With a population of 68,000, it aims to become the world's first "hot city" with high-speed wireless access available to everyone. This is in spite of stonework and elaborate buildings, which tends to get in the way of people's laptop signal.

3. A bus got stuck under a low bridge near Dudley (West Midlands, UK). The driver, who was new to the route, got lost and so asked two 14-year-old girls who were sitting on the top deck to give him directions from an A-Z. Between the three of them, no-one noticed in time that a 14ft 6in bus will not go under a 13ft bridge.

2. The airline chairman who personally waves off all his flights, and knows many of his customers by name, seems destined to become a folk hero. Peter Bath, 75, who set up Bournemouth-based PalmAir in 1957, once told passengers: "It'll be at least another two hours so if any of you want to, you can go home and mow the lawn."

No 1 features Donald Rumsfeld. I'll let you read that yourselves, so we don't get politics in here...

[Gregg]

No. 3 reminds me of when I was on a tour with my high school French class. Our bus driver decided it would be cool to take us around the circle drive that was the old moat of a castle. (I can't remember the name of the French village.) Well, it turned out that, with the buidings so close together, and cars parked at inconvenient places, the turning radius of the bus was just not tight enough. We could talk to (or try to) people looking out their windows as the other bus driver was trying to direct ours how far to back up, etc. The townsfolk said it was the most exciting thing that had happened there in awhile.    
 
 [ 03-17-2003, 08:44 AM: Message edited by: Gregg ]