| 'Idiot' bidder buys speeding ticket at auction
WELLINGTON.- In a strange example of internet madness, a New Zealander has sold a $NZ130 ($A116) speeding ticket on a local online auction website. Nearly 30,000 people viewed Bob Grieve's ticket on the Trade Me site before Allan Hearn, an insurance assessor from Pukekohe, - by chance the V8 motor racing capital of New Zealand - bought it for $NZ51 ($A45.60). Hearn said he had never had a speeding ticket - a gap in his life that is now filled, The Press of Christchurch reported. "For 50 bucks, who cares?" he said. "I told my missus about it, and she called me an idiot." Grieve, a TV cameraman from Christchurch, posted his photograph holding the ticket on the site and said he had fielded a flurry of amorous comments as well as bids.
Tenn. town echoes questions on bids; How could ambulance service ...
For the second straight day, Professional Medical Transport's bid to provide ambulance service in a suburb drew questions on how it could be done for such a low price. The Knoxville-based company, as it had in Collierville on Monday, was the low bidder for the ambulance contract in Germantown, saying they could provide the service for a base price of $613,179 annually. That was almost half the price of the lowest among the other three companies submitting bids for Tuesday's opening in Germantown. And the rest of the vendors and some city officials are interested in the details of ProMed's bid to make sure the company can meet the demands outlined by the suburbs. "I'm surprised at some of the bids; some of them came in a lot lower than I ever thought I would see for a small operation like this," said Glenn Miller of Rural/Metro.
Colombia's Inflation-Linked Peso Debt Yields Rise at Auction
April 18 (Bloomberg) -- Yields on Colombian inflation- linked peso bonds increased in a government auction today. Colombia sold the bonds, known as TES-UVR, due in February 2023 to yield 5.7 percent, up from 5.2 percent in the previous sale on March 21, according to the Finance Ministry. Investor demand totaled 114 billion pesos ($53 million), more than the 75 billion pesos worth of the securities offered in the auction. The yield on inflation-linked bonds maturing in September 2010 rose to 4.99 percent from 4.4 percent in the previous sale. Investors placed bids for 168 billion pesos, more than twice the 75 billion pesos sold. To contact the reporter on this story: Andrea Jaramillo in Bogota at ajaramillo1@bloomberg.net Last Updated: April 18, 2007 12:22 EDT .
Victim of 2nd Ave shooting identified, now in stable condition
Metro police have identified the man who was shot in the back early Sunday morning outside a downtown Second Avenue nightclub as Ricky Lamont Williams, 21, of Fall Court in Antioch, Metro police spokeswoman Kristin Mumford said. Meanwhile, doctors at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have upgraded Williams to stable condition after he was initially listed in critical condition, Mumford said. .
Local producer bids on city's historic theatres
Rising Toronto impresario Aubrey Dan wants to buy what he calls the "beautiful crown jewels" of the Ontario capital's theatrical venues, the 2,200-seat Canon and the 701-seat Panasonic. Dan confirmed yesterday that his company, Dancap Productions, "is participating in the bidding process" for the two heritage theatres, both of which are located on Yonge Street in downtown Toronto and both of which were put up for sale by their current owner, Beverly Hills, Calif.-based Live Nation Inc. "You need theatres to produce and to present, for sure," Dan said. "There's no question about that." Live Nation, spun off in 2005 as the theatrical division of media giant Clear Channel, announced earlier this year that it was selling 13 theatres across North America, 11 of them in the United States, to concentrate on what it calls its "core business" of live music.
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