It happened in Perth during the week when the Australian Federal Police joined forces with Perth airport’s Airport Uniform Police to remove a passenger arriving on a flight from Kuala Lumpur after a series of misbehaviours on the aircraft in flight.
“A 26-year-old Dutch national is set to appear in Perth Magistrates Court….” was the way the police reported the incident.
But it was the swashbuckling headline on their media release that caught PS-sssst’s eye.
Drawing a comparison with the mythical ghost ship that never finds a place to land while at the same time proving that police sometimes do have a sense of humour, the AFP introduced its report thus: “Flying Dutch man charged with assault on plane”.
And if he mysteriously disappears from his cell overnight, never to be seen again, the police can genuinely say they caught the right man!
High expectations
Interesting news story this week reporting on an exciting new twist in the world of renewable energy from the sun.
A very clever innovator has worked out a way to install solar panels on roofs temporarily so they can be removed when the owner moves on and the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has come to the party to help finance a trial.
According to the chief of ARENA, “the scheme would “allow commercial tenants to access rooftop solar.”
According to the chief of the power company involved in the program, “(The) solar installation is ground breaking.”
According to PS-sssst! they can’t both be right.
How, we ask, can something on a roof be ‘ground breaking’?
Tile-breaking perhaps!
Perhaps the gymnastically elastic achievement is the reason ARENA allocated $975,000 of taxpayers’ money to test the scheme.
Award winning giveaway
To Rama’s weekly giveaway now in which this week’s much sought after prize is Miles Franklin Award winner A.S. Patrić’s collection of short stories The Butcherbird Stories.
To become a proud owner of one of two copies of this acclaimed book Rama which is giving away, observant readers needed only to tell her the year in which A.S. took out the Miles Franklin Award, which, as Rama made embarrassingly clear in her review, was 2016.
The first correct entries to name 2016 as the year and emerge from the PS News Barrel of Booty, came from Glen H from the NSW Department of Finance, Services and Innovation and Rosemary F from the Queensland Treasury.
Congratulations to Glen and Rosemary and thanks to everyone who joined in. The prize books will be on their way very shortly.
For another chance to become a winner in Rama’s gratuitous giveaway simply nip across to her latest review at this PS News link and see how easy it can be done.
Good luck to all who do!
Blu Vision thanked
And staying with the redoubtable Rama for a moment, the welcome appearance of hi-tech Blu-Ray prizes among her weekly giveaways has prompted a shower of credit where it’s due with Rama recording her heartfelt thanks to the generous company that makes them available.
“Via Vision Entertainment has been most generous with some amazing films to give away to PS News readers in recent weeks,” Rama declared.
“These have included Acquitted, Seasons One & Two; Perry Mason, Collection One, Seasons 1-3 and the Emma Fielding Mysteries Collection,” she said.
“Blu-ray discs certainly add to a state-of-art, crisp viewing experience,” Rama continued, pointing out that this week’s competition was a prime example: three Blu-ray copies, each with three films, titled Jesse Stone: Triple Film Collection One.
“We certainly appreciate Via Vision Entertainment’s generosity!”
Pedants arise!
And finally, another conundrum from the collection of confusion we call the English language.
In a recent news story reporting that an Ombudsman had followed up an investigation into a Department’s program of some time ago to see whether the Department had implemented the recommendations in his report, the Ombudsman was paraphrased as saying that his latest report had also made further recommendations.
Ever keen to exercise the golden art of pedantry, PS-sssst! questions whether the second of two reports qualifies as the ‘latest’ or whether it should be the ‘later’ report.
Over to fellow pedants to advise.
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Until next week……..
