Posts Tagged ‘Already Run’

FALL FROM GRACE: A Mosman businessman has launched legal action against a prestigious upper North Shore private school. Michael Pollard-Asquith is suing Knox Grammar, claiming “educational negligence” after his son, Oliver, completed year 12 last year and since then has become a regular shopper at Vinnies in Newtown. “The school has obviously failed in its duty of care,” Michael Pollard-Asquith told DBT. “I didn’t pay $50,000 a year in tuition fees for Oliver to end up looking like a hipster. It’s an absolute joke.” Mr Pollard-Asquith claims his son’s refusal to wear puffer vests or R.M Williams boots has led…

FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS: After living in Sydney’s east her entire life, Bella Pennington’s social circle is “pretty locked in.” The 31-year-old has previously said she’s not open to any new friendships, but today she’s admitted to an exception. “If they’re near the front of the queue at Sundays Bondi, they’re a very good chance,” she said in an exclusive interview with DBT. “I’ve always believed that true friendships are built on shared experiences.” The popular micro-bakery has customers queueing around the block for cinnamon scrolls and matcha. “I approach people at the front of the line and act like I…

HERD MENTALITY: A comprehensive survey released this evening has confirmed that virtually every Sydney-sider was today either on a boat or at Club Rose Bay, with the remaining 6% stuck in traffic trying to get to one of the two. “The data also shows that 17% of them were wearing white linen shorts,” says report author Michael Yabsley. The study also found several confronting statistics about Sydney’s weekend traffic patterns. “We found a whopping 92.7% of cars on New South Head Road were being driven by people who wished they’d just caught an Uber,” explained traffic analyst Karen Webb-Jones. “For…

ROAD RAGE: A Paddington woman who pilots a 5 metre-long and 2 metre-wide luxury SUV through narrow residential streets once a week, is expressing serious concerns about cyclists “hogging the road”. Speaking from the driver’s seat of her Range Rover, Caroline Whitfield-Hayes told DBT she’s “Not anti-cycling.” “But it’s just not safe,” she says. “I think they should stick to the bike track in Centennial Park.” Ms Whitfield-Hayes typically drives five minutes from her home to a reformer pilates class “because it’s uphill on the way back.” Last week she says a cyclist forced her to slam on her brakes,…

MANIFESTING: A Paddington mother is taking dramatic steps to create the false impression that her children are being privately educated. Caroline Hartley-West has quietly applied a Scots College sticker to her car, but DBT’s investigative unit has found that all three of her sons attend Darlinghurst Public. “Just because my children currently attend a public school doesn’t mean I don’t identify with the Scots community,” she told DBT. “When I was younger some of my cousins went to Scots.” Ms Hartley-West admits she’s never actually visited the Bellevue Hill campus herself, but insists she drives past it “all the time.”…

DISCONNECT: Rose Bay resident Sarah Tallow is describing her weekend getaway to Glebe as “exactly the escape from city life” she needed, despite the Inner West suburb being located only 2 kilometres from the CBD. Ms Tallow arrived at her friend’s terrace on Saturday morning after what she described as “quite the journey” through the city. “It only took me 40 minutes to drive here!” she said while relaxing at her friends place on Glebe Point Road. The 28 year old PR executive admitted to DBT she’s feeling a bit nervous about her night away. “Some of the phone service…

DARK PAST: A seemingly idyllic eastern suburbs couple has spectacularly imploded after a shocking revelation rocked their relationship; he went to a public school. “I feel so betrayed,” Melinda Evans told DBT. “We’ve been dating for months already and he never told me about his government funded education.” The boyfriend Pat Michaels had reportedly been keeping his dark past a secret, wearing R.M. Williams boots, and regularly going to the Golden Sheaf and Oak. But the charade was up when she found his Vaucluse High yearbook from 2004. “My school was located in a prestigious coastal area!” he said, in…