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field day (These arbitrary development entitlements are a field day for land speculators, who even now will be buying and selling land based on the development potential that has been created. The speculators will be long gone before any housing is built, leaving local government holding the bag for providing previously unplanned services to these areas. (vancouversun.com) • And what about the golf balls which fell from the skies over Punta Gorda, Florida (USA), on 3 September 1969? There were literally hundreds of them rolling around the streets -- a field day for golfers but a mystery for the police who could find no one who had lost the balls or could throw any light on their strange arrival in Punta Gorda. (Janet & Colin Bord, "Unexplained Mysteries of The 20th Century") ART Vancouver) |
