Local Woman Who Can’t Keep A Pot Plant Alive Now Talking About Getting Chickens

GORDON LIGHTFOOT | Local CALL THE SPCA! Aro Valley 25-year-old Lauren Randall has frightened her friend today by suggesting that she would like to be responsible for looking after “a couple of chickens”.  The claim comes as New Zealanders experience an increase in the supermarket price of eggs, leading many to start thinking outside the […]

Local Woman Expects Instagram DM Blow Up After Bikini Post At The Beach

ROSEMARY ABBOTT | Culture  ULTIMATE FLEX Kelsie McVale, 23, knows what’s coming after flaunting her tanned beach body on social media.  She’s expecting a barrage of Instagram direct messages from male followers who have just seen the revealing photo taken at Christchurch’s Sumner beach – a hotspot for people her age during the summer months. […]

Gabby From Accounts Naturally Acquires “Cyclone Gabrielle” Nickname

lady who does not want her cyclone gabrielle nickname

GORDON LIGHTFOOT | National “JUST CALL ME GABBY” Gabrielle Norman, an accounting assistant with a Hamilton insurance firm, has reportedly succumbed to the inevitable this week. Despite being known as simply “Gabby” in her office, the 24 year old’s colleagues have expertly connected the dots between her actual first name, and the devastating natural disaster […]

Weather Reporter Outrageously Requests Permission To Do Live Cross From Indoors

newshub weather reporters in weather

ROSEMARY ABBOTT | National  NO CHANCE A Newshub reporter has ruffled feathers inside a busy newsroom today. Alyse Bates, an Auckland news reporter covering Cyclone Gabrielle, arrogantly asked her producer if she could simply do her live cross inside, where she would be sheltered from the severe rain and wind. The Whakataki Times reporters were […]

CYCLONE WARNING: Arrogant Wellingtonian Welcomes The Challenge Of More Wind

arrogant man standing in Wellington with metservice warning map behind him.

GORDON LIGHTFOOT | National BRING IT Wellington-centric data analyst Logan Galloway failed to read the room this morning, as he made a joke about the severity of Cyclone Gabrielle.  “Just a bit of wind and rain. Normal for Welliez, probably be a good challenge!” he said, knowing perfectly well that Wellington will not feel the […]

Losing A Company Laptop Definitely Not As Bad As Losing 3.2 Tonnes Of Cocaine

woman looking sheepish next to laptop and cocaine with floating shipment of cocaine in background next to navy ship

ROSEMARY ABBOTT | National  THE BOSS WON’T BE HAPPY  One South American drug lord out there won’t be a happy chappy today. Whoever the unlucky crime boss is, they have just lost 3.2 tonnes of their cocaine, half a billion dollars worth, after it was intercepted by the Royal New Zealand Navy. The Whakaktai Times […]

RAZOR RUMOUR: One-Eyed Cantab Spotted In Hagley Park Winking At People

one eyed cantab thinking about Scott Robertson as ABs coach.

GORDON LIGHTFOOT | Sport LOOKS HAPPY FOR ONCE The Whakataki Times has received multiple reports of the so-callled “one-eyed Cantab”, Craig Chamberlain, winking at people who happen to be out and about in Christchurch’s Hagley Park. The obnoxiously passionate Crusaders supporter would not let on what he was so pleased about, but it could be […]