Sideswipe: 'Don't give a microphone to a shark'

Jason Cordelle was at Auckland Zoo on Saturday to celebrate the first birthday of the tiger cubs with his wife and two young children. "My 4-year-old kept saying, 'Don't give a microphone to a shark' ... This went on for some time and frankly, I was baffled until I saw this sign [above]. Luckily, we'd left our microphone at home and the sharks were conspicuously absent."

Melbourne police are looking for a man whose socks caught fire during a botched arson attempt. The man doused a weatherboard house in Preston with fuel in the wee hours, but moments later his feet were engulfed in the flames. The fleeing man left a fuel can behind and his socks smouldering in the gutter. The house suffered only minor damage.