Mean streets
As innocent as The Note might be, even we are sure the police in this picture aren’t helping a lost driver with directions in this little event snapped earlier in the week.
While we have no idea why the driver involved found his car earning such close scrutiny from the local constabulary, there were a couple of odd little coincidences that we, at least, found amusing.
As fans of the second Underbelly television series, the wits at our office could not help wondering aloud at the possibilities that may arise from police delving through the contents of a vehicle pulled over in a quiet lane.
Not that we’d suggest Perth’s finest have anything in common with Sydney’s cops of the 1970s, before the Wood Royal Commission into the NSW Police Service rooted out the forces of evil.
Anyway, The Note is sure that no corrupt policeman would be stupid enough to conduct that kind of nasty business in Money Street in Northbridge, especially when the next corner is Washing Lane.
Who could think of laundering at a time like that?
Fissile material
Who said nuclear energy isn’t romantic?
Zhang Weiqing, deputy president of China Guangdong Nuclear Power Corp – China’s biggest nuclear power generator – was positively misty eyed as he talked about his company’s courtship of local uranium explorer Energy Metals this week.
“We fell in love at first sight,” Mr Zhang said.
After thanking the state and federal governments for their support of CGNPC’s investment, Mr Zhang also noted: “We will obey all the rules here and turn in the taxes as required”.
The Note wonders if that was “Love and obey….”?
Anyone know the Mandarin word for “pre-nup”?