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New Zealand town in underwear shortage crisis


Tania

Posts: 7070

Posted: 14.10.2007 at 18.45
So odd I just had to post it:
FORGET the pub with no beer: it's the town with no knickers in New Zealand's Inglewood.

A year ago, the only clothing shop in town which sold women's knickers stopped stocking these essential items.

The local priest, Gary Husband (soon dubbed the knicker vicar), organised volunteers to do a weekly run to New Plymouth and now his prayers for a bus service have been answered.

A weekly bus run will start on November 1, run by Taranaki Regional Council operations and Land Transport New Zealand.

Council's operations director Rob Phillips says the Tranzit Coachlines trips will be subsidised for a year "to ensure people were really serious about buying those new knickers - and anything else that might take their fancy".

Mr Husband heard about the knicker crisis from his parishioners, decided to practise what he preached and so organised the volunteer knicker-runs.
You have to wonder how utterly stupid the store was to stop selling something they had a complete monopoly over... way to do business!

ruru

Posts: 2970

Posted: 14.10.2007 at 20.43
hehehehe. thats funny. that and th3e fact that the guys name is Mr Husband :P

Daniel

Posts: 14623

Posted: 14.10.2007 at 21.00
Not a very enterprising lot are they? Surely someone would have had the nous to start selling some. Inglewood is hardly a small town, the population is around the 3,000 mark :S

ruru

Posts: 2970

Posted: 15.10.2007 at 00.48
ok who wants to go into business with me and open a lingerie store there?

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