This story illustrates a couple of things: how connected we all are, and how beaut Bendigo really is. It started at 5.14pm last Sunday when a well-known Bendigo lawyer sent out a Facebook message reporting two British tourists were trapped … in the Bendigo Bank HQ’s Bath Lane car park.

It was likely they’d seen the car park door open as an employee entered or left and mistook it for a public park. The door then shut.

The Facebook plea for their swift release exploded across Bendigo involving all sorts of bank staff, their families and friends.

Up popped oddball stories of people having their cars locked in cemeteries, La Trobe Uni grounds and other odd places.

The chatter included this from David: “British people often struggle exiting things.”

The upshot was that it seemed dozens of bank staff were scooting swiftly into Bath Lane to see if they still needed rescuing.

Could you imagine that happening in Melbourne?

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Appropriate Names: while momentarily bored one day this week DTM found itself watching the Tasmanian finals of the Woodsports Championship.

Most of us know it generically as woodchopping, except in this case they were hacking logs with various implements of mass destruction.

The winner was a Mr Dale Beams. Assisted by his wife Mrs Amanda Beams.

This collection of Beams comes from a family tradition of woodsports. Their two kids are choppers. Chips off the old block you might say, but probably shouldn’t.

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Emergencies come in all sizes. We had to wonder what the story was behind one cameo scene in Marketplace’s Big W this week. A young bloke decked out in the usual tradie garb, but with bare feet, was striding rather briskly towards the checkout with a brand new pair of thongs in hand. We suspect there had been a plugger malfunction.