Earlier this month we read about an octopus off the South Coast that mugged an innocent diver and took his valuable new camera. The news flashed around the world and everyone had a bit of a chuckle at the diver's expense.
Not so fast, laughing boys (and girls).
It turns out that this is but the latest episode in a long history of criminal behaviour by the city's cephalopod citizenry.
We've all heard the stories about how there was a tank at Wellington Airport with an octopus in it and another tank with fishes in it, and the fish started disappearing and no one knew why until one night security cameras filmed the octopus climbing out of its tank and into the fish tank and eating the fish.
12 October 2024 First Name Last Name Est 10km time Race time Race Position Diff c.f. handicap Handicap position Marianne Elliott 00:51:00 00:48:00 3 -180 1 Terry Kurukaanga 01:26:00 01:23:00 45 -180 1 Karl Kalders 00:40:00 00:38:23 8 -97 3 Pete Frawley 00:53:30 00:52:16 6 -74 4 Peter Ellis 01:08:00 01:06:54 10 -66 5 Jean […]
We met at Wellington Train Station at 5pm and piled into the van for the trip north, stopping in Levin for dinner on the way. We’d neglected to heed the notice on the DOC website that Fletchers Crossing Bridge was closed, so we unexpectedly came across a very-much-not-there bridge and had to backtrack to the ... Read more
The Psalmist this weekend sings, “Teach us to number our days, that we may gain wisdom of heart”. This seems a very counter-cultural concept. In the ‘modern world’ people often […]
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