A short-finned eel, similar to the one found in a man's bottom in New Zealand. Picture: Freshwater and Marine Image Bank
Source: SuppliedLIKE hobbits, New Zealanders are generally conservative types but every now and again have the capacity to surprise, much like the man who walked into an Auckland hospital with an eel up his backside.
This little country at the bottom of the world can always be relied on to produce some of the world's quirkiest, funniest and in some cases, ridiculous, news.
Sheep, possums, hobbits, bras, minds wandering in bed, and even the prime minister led the way for odd news in 2012.
Let's get the eel story out of the way. In September, it was revealed a man turned up to Auckland City Hospital to have an eel removed from his bottom. Hospital staff got into a bit of trouble when the man's X-ray was circulated and the story was leaked to the media.
The eel was described as being "about the size of a decent sprig of asparagus", but there was no explanation of how, or why, the eel was where it was.
Other oddball news included:
Coins bearing images of Bilbo Baggins from the upcoming new Hobbit film trilogy. Picture: AFP
* The emergence in Dunedin of a bizarre new branch of drinking game. Called possum, you sit in a tree and drink until you fall. Like real possums, the students were causing damage to trees in local parks, but also leaving behind food scraps, broken bottles and vomit.
* Taranaki's Uruti School held a best dressed dead possum competition, which saw a skinned possum dressed as a boxer, some in baby clothes and two relaxing on mini beach towels. "When people die, don't we dress them up?" said principal Pauline Sutton. However, the SPCA was less than impressed.
* In January, Federated Farmers suggested sheep shearing could become a demonstration sport at the Olympics. There was no word on whether or not the sheep would be housed at the athletes' village but the idea was quickly crutched.
* In February, Dargaville girl guides set a world record for the longest bra chain - about 170,000 of them stretched around 170km. It took two years to collect the bras.
* A "Mega Kiwi Sex Survey" of 1500 people found New Zealanders, on average, have sex about 130 times a year. Thirteen per cent said they had thought about housework during sex, while 14.5 per cent had thought about unpaid bills and 15 per cent had thought about food or a celebrity.
New Zealand PM John Key got in trouble a couple of times when he opened his mouth. Picture: Ray Strange.
* In August, it was revealed that Gisborne was split over the issue of people wearing their pyjamas in public - to the supermarket or the cash machine. "Pyjamas have become a fashionable thing ... I can remember when mini-skirts came in and there was a huge furore because people could see their legs... They're probably more covered up in pyjamas," said deputy mayor Nola Aston.
* In May, it was revealed West Coast residents were receiving anonymous gift parcels from Paris. A hairdryer or hair clippers, and 100 euros ($125) in cash were in packages delivered to a handful of people in Greymouth and Hokitika. Months later the origin of the packages is still a mystery.
Every year New Zealanders think of items they can flog off in online auctions and the wackier ones generally attract attention. This year it was skin space for tattoos.
* Lower Hutt's Tina Beznec put part of her backside up for sale, and it was snapped up by a strip club chain, which paid more than $NZ12,000 ($9500) to decorate her rump with its logo.
* Kane Kenzie, 28, put his skin up for auction to raise money to bring his brother home following a scooter crash in Thailand, but a Whangarei childcare centre, possibly tired of it all, won the auction and asked that he not get tattooed.
If there was confirmation the country had gone bat crazy over The Hobbit movies, was the fact "hobbit coins" are actually legal tender.
NZ Post released a series of Bilbo and Gandalf coins to cash in on the hobbit frenzy, but it's unlikely they will be found in many wallets and purses. The most expensive, a $10 coin made from 28 grams of pure gold, will set Tolkien enthusiasts back $NZ3695.
Hobbits also infested most parts of the country. An aircraft was draped with them, they're on postage stamps and Wellington was festooned with hobbit banners.
If The Hobbit didn't put the country on the map, it was Prime Minister John Key with another of his malapropisms in calling famed footballer David Beckham "thick as bats**t".
He then displayed his bumbling grasp of where the kids are at by explaining his on-air "gay red shirt" comments that young people take it to mean "weird".
He didn't want to swallow the political dead rat, but not long afterwards ate, live and wriggling, a cricket, huhu grub and maggots on stage with television survival star Bear Grylls.
The cricket was "fine" but, Mr Key said, "Eating the huhu grub, he puts a pinch of maggots in there, little maggots, so you couldn't bite them fast enough to kill them.
"So they're wriggling down the back of your throat, then they're wriggling back up, and I had to pull them out from between my teeth."
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