Friday News Flash

A small town in Victoria called "Speed" has a population of just 45 people.. but over 30,000 FB users got involved in the campaign to change the name to "Speedkills" as a method to bring awareness to a nationwide anti-speeding campaign. Sheep farmer Phil Down thought he would get in on the publicity and legally change his name to Phil "Slowdown." Now I watched this 3 minute news clip this morning, and the name change was treated as a dramatic, selfless change for the town. However, both the news clip and the article I found online this morning mention at the very end, in one short sentence, "Both the town and Phil Down will revert to their original names in a month." All this publicity for a one-month giggle? I smell the works of the MAC "Creeper" Campaign, which is sometimes cutting edge, sometimes evoking imagery of pedophiles with their "Stop Creeping Around My School" ad that is on my jog route.




















An abalone diver fell victim to a shark attack. Methinks this was the handy work of two Great Whites. Although Australia is notorious for shark attacks, in 2010 the United States led the world with 36 incidents, followed by Australia with 14, South Africa with eight, and then Vietnam and Egypt both with six.



Australia to bail New Zealand out of shit... literally. Oz is sending over thousands of locally bred "dung beetles" to NZ to devour their cow poo, which is piling up and contaminating their grazable land. ABC News writes: "After decades of reducing flies, cutting greenhouse gas emissions like nitrous oxide, increasing pasture productivity and improving water quality here in Australia, this humble bug is now preparing for a new battlefield."





Happy Friday!