June 13, 2004

Meteorite crashed into NZ family's house.
posted by pyrrthon1 20 years ago
  • damn..! no kidding it was a good thing no one was sitting on the sofa, wouldn't a rock that size falling from any considerable height just smash your head in permanently...?! i want to see photos of the rock and the family... and i wonder how much money they'll get for their brush with the final frontier...
  • Mmhh... so maybe that crazy aussie's rants weren't a hoax, after all?
  • How dare you speak of me in that manner. I demand retribution. Double-barrelled pimples at dawn, Flagpole. Bring a second.
  • Pimples? Too messy. Poo? Too classy (for simians, that is). How about bananas and cream? Mmh, and with the second, maybe we could stage an, erm, amiable agreement...
  • Typical Aucklander.
  • "I'm sorry maam but you bought into the full coverage of our 'meteor' insurance and by definition once aforementioned 'meteor' enters the atmosphere it becomes a 'meteorite' and therefore is not covered under current policy."
  • Typical Aucklander. And I thought New Zealand as too small for that kind of sub-regional stereotyping... So, Monkeybashi, Auckland is to Texas/Florida/California as whereveryou'refrom is to where?
  • Nowhere is too small, Wendell. It's like Riverside to your Santa Monica. :)
  • Or Chino to the O.C. Or North Hollywood to West Hollywood Or North of Ventura Blvd. to South of the Boulevard (or as we San Fernando Valley Flatlanders used to call it: S.O.B.) Or Bakersfield to Fresno (I think I've insulted enough towns...)
  • I was interviewed on the telly a couple of years ago after the neighbours' roof was penetrated by "space junk". My sole qualification for this interview was my address. In my view, that's crap.
  • So glad you're ok, Monkeybashi. Does meteorite count as "acts of God"? I recall that most insurance policies have a disclaimer with that phrase.
  • wendell: London is LA. Wellington is New York. Christchurch is that part of South East England from which Sir Humprehy Appleby's class emerges.
  • Do you think Wendell will have seen Yes Prime Minister?
  • I hope he has. If he hasn't, he needs to.
  • A jet aircraft with 270 passengers on board was within 35 seconds of crashing into a blazing Russian satellite as it was falling back to earth yesterday. Pilots of the A340-300 Airbus suddenly saw fiery debris streaking through the midnight darkness, directly ahead of their aircraft, which was travelling at about 800kph (500mph). The falling metal, about five miles ahead, broke the speed of sound, causing a sonic boom that drowned out the jet’s four engines on the aircraft. The incident happened over the Pacific Ocean, about four hours southwest of Auckland, about ten minutes after LAN Airlines’ flight LA801 entered the far western reaches of New Zealand’s oceanic flight information region. Damn!
  • yikes!
  • Whoosh! . damn, it left a tiny hole in my post