Negro Creek is a no-go

South Dakota has slowly been updating its maps, dropping several outdated-sounding place names in favor of ones that are more, well, inoffensive. Locations like Negro Creek and Squaw Humper Dam will become Howes Creek and Tahc'a Okute Mni Onaktake, respectively (no, I can't pronounce that, either.) Speaking of offensive, Sean Bailey, a worker at a McDonald's in Auckland, had been discriminated against on two separate occasions during work, as well as being told to change his voice because it sounded "too gay". One of his managers said "if you act gay on my shift, I will discipline you" and, "if you turn anyone else in the store gay, I will punish you and make you lose your job". Bailey said the comments made him embarrassed to return to work. "I had to call in sick just because I couldn't work with him, which meant I lost work hours and money." This sort of rubbish is not on, and neither is this: a winery has lost 6000 litres of merlot (enough to fill 8000 750ml bottles) after vandals opened a tank valve and left it to drain. Staff at Moana Park at Puketapu, near Napier, arrived on Saturday morning to find $165,000 of wine spilled onto the ground. Owner and winemaker Dan Barker said the loss was "gutting" and had put a valuable Japanese contract at risk. The wine was heading for a supermarket chain in Japan, and the buyer was at Moana Park the morning the vandalism was discovered. "It's three-quarters of a container of wine not going to Japan now," Mr Barker said. "The long term cost on the business is greater because they'll have to find a replacement because we don't have any more wine, so we may lose the contract." So let this be a lesson: next time you want to steal or destroy property, think about the long-term consequences your decision could have on all involved parties.