Weird lovely Territory nuggets from 2011
COCONUT Grove man Brian reported seeing a large, black flying triangle with lights on the side when having a beer and a smoke. "I look up YouTube sometimes, and under Area 51 aeroplanes there is a triangle one ... it was much like that," he said. The NT News asked the US Defence Department if it had sent planes to the Territory and if so, whether such actions should be taken as hostile. But it refused to reveal anything.
JANUARY 10: UFO CONFERENCE FUNDRAISER
THE best man at a wedding was left battered and bloodied after he was hit in the head by a dildo. The flying phallus left Darwin architect Jure Skumavc, 31, nursing a split forehead. The pink sex toy - measuring about 12cm - hit him at a bucks party. He said the projectile flew 7m across the room, looping about 2m high.
FEBRUARY 21: UFO CONFERENCE POSTPONED
GRAVE fears were held for the Territory's talking cat, Mischief amid concern it had been abducted by aliens. It came after Siberian air-traffic controllers claimed a female-sounding alien spoke to them in a cat-like language. Darwin residents expressed concern the air-traffic controllers may have mistaken the voice for that of Mischief, which featured in a story in the NT News in August 2009. It sparked fears the aliens may have snatched the cat from its Palmerston home.
MARCH 16: UFO CONFERENCE
THE gods stepped in to wash out the alternative Territory UFO conference. More than 300 alien-chasers were booked in at the Wycliffe Well Holiday Park, 138km south of Tennant Creek, as the spaceship flies. But the roadhouse grounds were underwater after torrential rain. Holiday park owner Arc Vanderzalm said 24 rooms were taken for the three-day conference and the camping site would have been full.
MARCH 19: PUB WITH NO QUEER
IT WAS labelled the "pub with no queer". American author Armistead Maupin raised the media alarm after his husband suffered a homophobic insult at Bojangles in Alice Springs. A barman told Mr Maupin's partner, Chris Turner, to use the public toilets across the street because the restaurant's dunnies were for "real men".
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The government has blamed may things but not the Larrakeyah "poo shooter", which has pumped 6371 megalitres of poo into the harbour since 2005. The NT News suggested the government was also yet to blame debris from a catastrophic collision between a
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Freelance shooter Lam was working for Getty Images, covering the harsh 4-0 victory of the Boston Bruins over the home team Vancouver Canucks in the seventh game of the Stanley Cup Final. He left Rogers Arena to cover the chaos that erupted following