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Christchurch evacuations: Man in custody after threats made in Sydenham
Police said the man was taken into custody ‘without incident’.
‘Revolting’: Footage appears to show delivery driver’s gross act in Sydney elevator
A delivery driver has been reported to police after allegedly urinating in an elevator inside a Sydney apartment building.
Footage captured from an apartment complex in Artarmon, North Sydney on March 10 shows a driver getting into a lift clutching a food order.
The man then appears to undo his pants and urinate near the elevator door.
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Residents say they were were left "furious" after spotting the stain on the floor and said the lift needed to be deep cleaned following the incident.
Apartment resident and building secretary Geoffrey Grasso told Ben Fordham Live! he was appalled by the footage.
"I'm a little disgusted after seeing this video, it's appalling," he said.
"Unfortunately I was probably the first one to encounter it, not knowing that it was."
Grasso said he accidentally walked over the wet patch with his dog before reporting it to the building manager.
"It's revolting, I don't know what goes through someone's mind to think that is in any way, shape, size or form acceptable," he added.
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Grasso claims the evidence points to the driver being from Uber Eats.
"I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt that it wasn't malicious," he told 9news.com.au.
Grasso said the apartment complex has public toilets on level one and claims if the driver asked to use a bathroom, he likely would have been allowed to use one.
He reported the matter to Uber's head office and was told he would be contacted by a supervisor.
Grasso told 9news.com.au he still hasn't heard back from Uber.
"All we want is recompense," he said.
The incident has also been reported to local police.
"The one thing that literally disgusted me is the fact that he is holding those people's food, while he is urinating," Grasso added.
"The elevator actually still smells, I suspect it soaked through to the underlay."
Grasso said it could cost upwards of $2000 to clean the elevator carpet and even more if it needs to be replaced completely.
In a statement, Uber said: "We strongly condemn this kind of behaviour, which has no place on the Uber platform. We are currently investigating and will be taking necessary action.
Our community guidelines clearly set out the rules that we expect all users including delivery people to follow, and breach of these guidelines can result in loss of access to the Uber app."
NSW Police said an investigation is now under way into the incident.
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Car mounts footpath, injuring five at New Zealand university
Five people have been injured, one critically, after a car mounted the footpath by the University of Auckland.
Witnesses to the crash, which was reported just after midday (10am AEST), said the car was travelling down Symonds Street when the driver hit the curb, hitting two people and forcing students to leap out of the way.
Police said drugs or alcohol might have been a factor in the crash.
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One person was transported to hospital in a critical condition and four others suffered moderate to minor injuries, police said. Another patient, in a minor condition, was treated at the scene.
Students and witnesses to the crash, Luka and Mateen, said the car was travelling down Symonds St, outside the university, when the driver lost control.
"[The driver] then hit the curb, came off the road and hit the tree," Mateen said.
Luka said around 15 students had to jump out of the way to avoid being hit.
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Stephen Dimapilis, another student who witnessed the crash, told RNZ he saw the car "swerving" before it flew onto the pavement.
"I see a car coming out of control, and then he crashed into two people and one person was under the car, and the other person – I saw him literally flying. So I was just speechless, I didn't know what to think of."
Dimapilis said the car appeared to be driving above the road's 40kph speed limit.
Symonds Street was closed from Wellesley St to Grafton Rd while police worked at thescene.
At 2.29pm (12.29pm AEST), Auckland Transport issued an alert to passengers saying services were returning to normal after earlier disruption.
"An earlier emergency services incident, that occurred on Symonds St, Auckland CBD, between Grafton Rd and Wellesley St East has now been resolved and services are returning to normal," AT said.
This article originally appeared on Stuff and is republished here with permission.
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The countries with the best service stations as voted by tourists
More than 4000 drivers have been surveyed to find out which countries have the best service stations.
DiscoverCars.com asked the tourist drivers to review their experience in the countries they travelled to and give a ranking from 1 to 10.
Click through to find out how Australia scored and which country took out the top spot.
Here’s how a blanket work from home ban could ruin your daily commute
The work from home debate has transformed into a hot federal election issue in Australia after the Coalition flagged plans to mirror Trump's tough stance on forcing public workers back into the office.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese yesterday championed the right to work from home and offer worker flexibility after Opposition Leader Peter Dutton suggested all public servants should be in the office full time.
Albanese also backed Labor-led research which found the average worker will be $5000 more out of pocket if they are made to commute to an office five days a week.
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If public sector employees – of which there are 365,400 working in federal government – can no longer work from home, who does this impact?
According to analysis of Australian Bureau of Statistics data from the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU), one in three workers will be negatively affected by a blanket return to office order.
More than 600,000 Australians work from home nationally in order to save money or avoid a commute, the ABS data shows.
If a large chunk of this widespread demographic gets back on the roads every morning and afternoon, traffic congestion will impact everyone, the ACTU said.
Meanwhile, 320,000 of these workers say they need remote work for care responsibilities.
Another one million Australian workers also report working from home in order to "catch up" on work after hours.
The ACTU said these workers will be forced to stay later at the office and will lose their "right to disconnect".
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"Working people in our outer suburbs face some of the longest and most expensive commutes," said ACTU president Michele O'Neil.
"Forcing hundreds of thousands of workers back on the roads will mean less time with kids and more time in traffic."
O'Neil said an order like Dutton's proposal would "kill productivity" and disadvantage women.
"This would be an instant productivity killer, because flexible work has pushed women's workforce participation to record highs, as one million women joined the workforce in the last four years," O'Neil added.
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Albanese yesterday said the $5000 figure was an average estimate which could be much higher for those living in capital cities such as Sydney or Melbourne.
"It makes an enormous difference… in terms of their hip pocket," he said.
Following a mixed reaction from Dutton's pre-election work from home policy, the opposition leader later softened his approach and said he wanted to see remote work return to "pre-COVID levels" when around 20 per cent of the workforce worked from home.
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