Lost goods.
The effects of Katrina continue.
Animal rights groups are attempting to help abandoned pets.
Awww wook at da widdle puppy.
Ashley McDonald, the Australian who got arrested for doing something whilst drunken, on Bourbon Street, the infamous party strip, was not suprisingly found arrested and made his way to maximum security. I feel for his family that assumed the worst, and I salute his abilities to continue the Australian way of life, and all of it's TRUE values, even under threat of a hurricane.
And by that I mean getting pissed and making a dick of himself.
But, there's another side to the story, involving his sister Jasmine:
Jasmine, who lives in the US, was desperate for some goodies from Australia - Vegemite and Tim Tams - but the stash was left in McDonald's luggage back in the flood-hit city of New Orleans.So, after donating a hefty sum to the Red Cross, please, think of the Tim-Tams and Vegemite that has been lost.
She will probably never get the goods.
"Yeah, she was looking forward to them," McDonald said.
"Hopefully we'll find them."
I call upon Americans, especially the corporate sector, to aid in this. I'm not sure who could help, but at a guess I would suggest maybe Arnotts owner: the American Campbells Soup Company, and perhaps Kraft owners - the American Altria Group, the multinational formerly known as Philip Morris. *cough*
Alas, only the profits from Tim-Tams and Vegemite sales make it to the US, the products themselves rarely do. So, I'm thinking, tobacco giants and powdered salty water called 'soup' conglomerates, could do a bit of PR here... I'm thinking 'life-time supply', I'm thinking 'tears of joy', it's a great angle, a real 'feel-good' story.
As a side note, I was looking for a picture of Ashley McDonald, struggling, I searched on the Herlad Sun page (top right), the results came from:
The Sydney Morning Herald, The ABC and The Age
... good work Herlad Sun, you might want to put a 'Search Site' on the front page, instead of sending people to competing news sites. (OK, it's probably not their fault, it might be Yahoo's search Overture)
As another side note, wikipedia says: "Tim Tams are an approximately cuboid chocolate biscuit." Is that not funny?
posted by Larry Bonewend @ 12:32 pm
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2 Comments:
Sounds like a job for Dick Smith and his helicopter to come to the rescue with some Dickmite and P-tams. Or was it P-tins?
I don't know. But it sounds like Jasmine needs the help of Dick, and she needs it hard, and she needs it fast.
Indeed, Dick-Aid to the rescue.
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