30,000 pigs swept down the Dawson River in AU!

[TOM4CWB]

Charlie,

Can you believe this?

Headline:
"... during the Queensland floods:

30,000 pigs swept away in flood.


More than 30,000 pigs have been floating down the Dawson River since
last weekend...


- The Morning Bulletin, Rockhampton, 6th January, 2011




You'd think they would have at least sent a photographer to snap a
piccie of the passing porkers..., but no.

[TOM4CWB]

The following day:
They printed a Correction


What Baralaba piggery-owner Sid Everingham actually said was "30
sows and pigs", not "30,000 pigs"


- The Morning Bulletin, Rockhampton, 7th January, 2011


http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/s3132383.htm

[TOM4CWB]

THis one is almost as good!

http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/s3132384.htm

Applying the common sense rule
And no one covering the Ipswich flood for Nine News thought this figure incredible – after all, it came from that revered source, the Australian Associated Press.



Wendy Kingston: I’m just reading on a wire Alison a comment from the mayor. He says we were expecting the forty metre rise in the river which is just incredible but he says now that prediction is of 80-90 metres...


— Channel Nine, Queensland Flood Coverage, 11th January, 2011


80 to 90 metres! Co-anchor Peter Harvey did some quick sums in his head...



Peter Harvey: Alison it’s Peter Harvey. We’re talking about a rise in the river equivalent to a ten storey building. 80 to 90 metres. I mean that is just mind-blowing!


— Channel Nine, Queensland Flood Coverage, 11th January, 2011



Watch the Video... for the 'rest of the story'!

[jjfarmer]

According to our local newspaper we have
a Tom Hortons coming to town

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Why let the truth get in the way of a good story