The decline of the Dunedin couch fire
"I first started as a reporter in Dunedin with the Otago Daily Times in 2008, and would cover dozens of couch fires, often involving a phrase similar to 'one or two idiots'," writes Hamish McNeilly.
"Coverage included the 2009 Undie 500 riots, where bottles were thrown at firefighters, drunks surfed fire appliances, and there were many failed attempts to jump over burning couches.
But in recent years those stories have gone, ahem, dry."
Find out what's behind the decline of the Dunedin couch fire in this week's The Mish on Substack
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