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Defendants.
1. Victor Pierce. Struck by a stray duck-shooter’s blast outside Coles in Port Melbourne. The keen sporting shooter was allegedly the late Benji Venjamin. The alleged (but maybe not) getaway driver just got away courtesy Ms Gobbo.
2. Anthony Farrell. Came to quite an unusual end. Died from cancer.
3. Peter McEvoy. Doing time in NSW last I heard.
4. Trevor Pettingill. Still doing low level crim stuff but allegedly still alive.
Others who didn’t make it to court.
Jedd Houghton. Died in a tragic duck-shooting accident in a caravan in Bendigo.
Gary Abdallah. Died in a tragic duck-shooting accident in a flat in West Footscray.
You know, I’m very sorry for the cops who died, but I don’t want to see another pelling by vicpol because they’ve taken a dislike to an obnoxious piece of shit.
‘How the fuck would they know he was on drugs when he was driving seeing he fronted up to the cop station in the morning’
He tested positive for methamphet at the scene. Just another piece of shit whose days, one way or another will be numbered.
I think they swabbed him after pulling him over.
I suspect the analysis would have been in the can.
That is why the car impounding rules triggered.
1. Speed.
2. Drug test.
3. Dodgy Plates.
4. Breach of bail
Happened to a mate of mine – he was a Queensland copper, got the job of showing one of the “new breed” the ropes – she was a school teacher before joining the Force. Got called to a job – “Leave your belts in the car.” Turned pearshaped – she locked herself in the car, leaving him to get seven bells knocked out of him..she was sent for “counseling”…
Sure, KD. But he didn’t kill anyone. That’s the whole point.
Or maybe not. Sigh.
Oh well, I guess it’s back to the “Prince of Persia”, which is so corny it’s entertaining.
Yea I know, long ago I used to take the car up to 160 on the ramps going into the Monash as that’s about the only place there are no speed camera and its relatively safe (when there are no cars ahead obviously). The problem with going 140 plus on our freeways is not that you wouldn’t be able to handle the speed. It’s the fact that the fuckers ahead of you may not realize how fast you’re doing and then careen into your lane. Europe is different because they’re expecting built for speed.
Howard,
I know. Furious agreement.
Look at how long they’re taking to get Chicken Singh signed off by the quacks as fit for interview.
That, according to rumour, is standard practice for the Homicide Squad. Negate any later defence at trial that ‘muh client was woozy and hadn’t properly recovered to know what he was saying. He didn’t mean to mention all that deliberate running-over stuff.’
Obama’s brother on Trump:
Guys, you really believe vicpol?
VicPol problem:
Flashy capitalist arsewipe Porche driver – clearly “guilty”
4 VicPol deceased – one quite high on the totem pole (because diversity)
Truck carrying chicken meat – clearly anti-vegan and should not be allowed
Truck driver ethnic – where does he come on the totem pole?
VicPol let an arsewipe in a car kill 6 people in Bourke Street – why?
Four police on freeway – was not one watching for on-coming? (pretty basic)
140kmh should be the freeway speed in the slow lane.
JC.
He is an off reservation junkie.
Plenty of evidence of that before the prang.
On bail for assault and theft.
“On bail” means something. If these were routine minor matters you get charged “on summons”, where they just issue the paperwork and you show up in court.
When you are given bail, it means that someone hauled you before a bail justice to consider two possible outcomes … remanded in custody, or bail.
So not Mickey Mouse charges already pending.
Having said all that, he isn’t charged with anything directly related to the deaths. As Nick (?) said, a few of the more speculative charges will drop off but he will cop a decent whack for the remainder.
And after he serves a few months he can live off his trailing commissions … oh, wait.
Serious question KD:
As raised earlier by LL, will the roadside test be compromised by no surviving witnesses to the test + total smash up of the scene & contaminated swab, blah blah blah?
https://youtu.be/7lvMNLhJrb0
Faith No More Evidence
Excellent in all aspects
Thanks BoN – Karens well and truly defined if that Governess of Michigan is Exhibit A. However, it’s not clear if the soubriquet applies only to wimminzes.
Okay, meanwhile the truckie who actually bowled the 4 cops… He had a temporary brain hemorrhage causing an instantaneous stroke, which magically has gone away. Has that been found in the brain scan?
I have heard it said that some old school coppers weren’t keen on “charge or release” rules when they were tightened.
Liked to have a bit of “stew in your own juice” time.
Blokes like Bezzina and Iddles would be loving this.
He is effectively in custody but is like the frog in the saucepan.
He will be cooked by Monday.
Take all the time you need Harbajan.
He wasn’t charged for dodgy plates.
Tested positive for amphetamine, but was his driving affected?
Its a sports car, not a beetle.
See the post below yours.
Slowly, slowly, catchee monkey.
.
Ah, when I say that I don’t actually mean he is a monkey.
Just a turn of phrase.
Not to imply … um .. oh shit.
Pushing police to divest their inner totalitarian:
Sal,
Yeah, it probably will be compromised and the charge turfed, if laid at all. The roadside tests for muh drugs are presumptive only, and they would have dragged him back to a station for a hideously expensive proper test that would have been the one they relied on. Same as they do with pissy drivers. Handheld PBT thingy goes bing, you get taken back for a go on the bigger, calibrated to court standard one. No surviving prosecution witnesses wouldn’t have helped, either.
The mong’s post-crash acts would never have been used in the bail application to sustain a charge, but to demonstrate that he’s a loose unit, which when combined with the existing charges over his head, and breaching bail already for those charges would be a reasonable argument that he should be locked up to prevent further bail breaches.
As it turned out he didn’t apply – or, more properly, withdrew his application. Which is a smart move by his mouthpiece, because that way he could potentially make another application later.
Like I said earlier, there’s a lot of emotion hanging around this cock and with good reason – and I might add the media will feast on every tidbit to do with him ‘cos it’ll sell papers, but the people responsible for hoiking up Chicken Singh need to keep their eyes on the prize.
Guys, you really believe vicpol?
The only thing you can guarantee is that it didn’t go down exactly like Vicpol said.
You know,
There’s a lot of people talking court stuff on the OT at present. What we could all use is a considered, rational legal opinion that we can implicitly trust. Someone with a proven record in this field of endeavour.
Danielle, put your My Pretty Pony down and get in here. Your public needs you.
Far out. stones new song is actually very cool! Living In A Ghost Town:
https://youtube/LNNPNweSbp8
Are you fucking serious?
Tested positive but maybe not affected?
Sorry buddy, but that is sooo 1960’s.
How many blokes who “could really hold their piss” ended up wrapped around a gum tree?
It is simple physiological and psychological factors like impaired perception, reduced inhibitions, dulled reaction times.
Anyway, let his brief give that a run in court.
Aside from that, he is a mortgage broker and he eats sushi.
Horrid person.
‘Tested positive for amphetamine, but was his driving affected?’
Duzzenmadda Ed. they won’t be going ahead with it. It’s unsustainable.
Methed-up ice freaks do tend to wig out when stopped by the jacks though, so there’s that.
Plus, he parked his car where it could be run over by a truck. So yes his driving was affected.
Artie, unlike Cronkite, I thought you knew how to code. Your link doesn’t work.
Good one, rickw. This is how they win 😉 Keep it under ya hat!
WA Cats where would you buy a rural compound?
Which is the best country for kids to shoot, ramble, dirt bike and explore?
Well head prefect (said in a Southern drawl) this peckerwood is small tatees, with the outstandings and the pre-prang stuff just bees-wax.
The interesting issues are the phones, the wallopers he contacted and the mysterious finger-licking driver.
No evidence Pusey posted footage to social media, court told today.
?
Seems increasingly like some sort of bizarre spontaneous truck rage by the Indian chook hauler. He was on far right lane and detoured over to the emergency lane to bowl over the cops.
Pusey – in a weird turn of events – was an ‘innocent’ bystander.
I know.
Can’t be arsed fixing. I’m searching for a compound.
I’m going to become a prepper, but a really cool one. Only the finest stuff.
Now hang on LL.
‘Tested positive but maybe not affected?
Sorry buddy, but that is sooo 1960’s.’
If you watch enough episodes of Cops, you will see dozens of ‘field sobriety tests’ where the poor old driver walks up and down in a straight line, touches their nose with their toes and so on. This is usually done by the State Troopers because of complex jurisdiction issues. And it’s in ‘Merica. This might be what Ed is referring to.
Here in ‘Straya, of course, these tests are done by the Sheriff and his deputies after they read the freeman on the land his Miranda rights before they book him for a felony misdemeanour.
I think they might be over-egging the pudding for Mr Dick Pussy-Sushi at the moment, but that will wash away by the time he gets to court.
Remember, this is going to the Magistrates … no jury.
He isn’t going to wear direct charges for the deaths, but the most peaceful time he will have for the next 15 years will be the next 3 to 9 months he gets for all the legit charges he is up on.
You’d hate this neck of the woods. Too many baby boomers.
If I was Victorian I would be searching around Mansfield.
God it’s beautiful around there.
‘Seems increasingly like some sort of bizarre spontaneous truck rage by the Indian chook hauler. He was on far right lane and detoured over to the emergency lane to bowl over the cops.’
Called it. Called it yesterday.
That struck me when it was reported CL.
You would know I don’t have a lot of time for Fatty, but I thought he said in a presser that photos/videos had been “shared”.
This was reported as “uploaded to social media”.
Two different things.
Great song!
‘Which is the best country for kids to shoot, ramble, dirt bike and explore?’
Venezuela.
Sikh women have “Kaur” as part of their name.
Beautiful in the summer.
Freezing, cold, wet, shithole in the winter.
Good deer hunting though.
Not a country but if you can put up with the cold the place to be is the great State of Montana.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montana
I know that freeway reasonably well. I assumed the accident occurred at the extreme right side of the road as there’s an emergency lane there too( sort of). FMD, the left side emergency lane is as wide as Western Australia. If the chooker came from the right driving lane and mangled the cops, he either had a huge brain fizzer or he was really pissed off with vicpol. It could be the latter, because the thing I’ve noticed over the past couple of weeks is cops doing what appear to be spot checks on truckies. I’ve actually noticed that.
Borders are closed.
Sorry.
With respect, stick to your sandy, desolate Kraut cruise ship haven.
An awesome song, CL. Thank you.
Thanks CL.
That’s a cool song.
Notice the band are not socially distancing! And they are still writing songs about wanting to get laid!
I heard part of it on AJ this morning.
I was going to suggest Mansfield.
Gorgeous. Not too far from Melbourne either.
Family have a place there.
Bit of a drive from WA though.
But the guys a Sikh, isn’t he, KD?
I always though those guys were honourable people. Not like ya common variety goat fvcker?
It really is gorgeous around there. Pubs are pretty decent too.
Pusey must have been psychotic from the drugs. Wonder if he was in debt from his lifestyle and was stealing.
A snap decision by the truck driver to kill the police meant he knew he was going to kill pedestrian too. He had no idea who was in Porsche, could have been woman and child. That would be one massive road rage.
No they don’t.
They get indicted by a grand jury.
Ijit!
Not to get all Abo on you, but the Mansfield country spoke to me. I felt a deep spiritual connection with it.
Stunning part of the world. Mind blowing.
No, I think he’s psychotic from birth.
The reason why I’ve noticed it is that the arseholes now have a “Specialist” Commercial vehicle Inspection Team as I’ve seen that shit emblazoned on the side of the VicPol SUVs.
You need lakes and shit like that though, Artie. Switzerland has that. Go there.
I currently looking around Castlemaine and surrounds.
Come together, right now.
Is there no land left around Albany, ITK?
Some nice lakes on the way to Mansfield.
Bonnydoon etc.
All I want is a dam with yabbies. I really want marron, but that’s WA tucker.
The China Flu is sending me native.
There probably is Howard. Beautiful down there too.
I just need to find somewhere I belong. Might go walkabout for a bit until I get the feeling.
The Hun invented Amphetamines to keep their fighter pilots awake and alert. I’m told the stuff was a giveaway at the chemist until the War on Drugs.
He looks in good nick, not covered in sores, so i’m suggesting he’s got to be a good driver or he wouldn’t be 41, and calling him a hopeless ice freak is over the top.
If the Theft and Assault charges were any big deal, the cops would have let us know.
There’s big crays in the rivers there, if you know where to look.
But fvck off we’re full!
They assassinated Gandhi’s daughter.
Someone said the Injun got pulled over by Plod earlier in the day.
Can anyone confirm?
If he was sitting on 9 points and copped 3, that might be interesting.
JC … the accident point is a sweeping right hander so you might drift a bit left, but with cambers on bends and well maintained alignment on commercial trucks, I doubt it was just a drift which took him across the entire freeway.
I still wonder about the phone distraction factor.
Steady on, it’s not as if you’re hankering for some bat
‘I always though those guys were honourable people.’
Harbhajan, Howard. Harbhajan.
If I was Victorian I’d curse the fates.
Castlemaine is also very nice. Spent lots of weekends there too, back in the day.
Friend tree changed a couple of years ago to acreage in Chewton.
If I was South Australian I couldn’t stay away from the country near Robe and Penola. Love it round there.
Where do Queenslanders look for rural digs?
It would be almost funny if it were an Indian call centre.
Mudguts Ashton definitely spoke on TV about Mr. Pusey uploading images to “Facebook” & that police were trying to get Facebook to remove the images.
Someone who is not a Chunk student wants to move to Viktorianistan!
Build a glass case!
Just turned off Once Upon a Time in London on Netflix.
Mindless biffing and knifings amongst the 1930s and 40s London criminal gangs.
None of the characters are interesting, and their schemes consist entirely on moving in on the boys down the road.
Not nearly so interesting as the Mafia: the beer is warm; the menu full of culinary disasters, and they all say “Now don’t be silly lad” about once every five minutes.
When this forced self-isolation ends there is going to be one massive party! It’s going to be bigger than Mardi Gras!
C.L. – good song
No.
Funny you should say that, notafan. I really like the lay of the land at Chewton. Very English feel to it.
Castlemaine is full of gays. You wouldn’t like there at all ITK. and Boomers! and Greenies! and Busybodies! and notabrains on weekends!
Big state, depends which part of it yer from.
Nothing is going to compare to Mansfield for postcard backdrops, but mighty Qld has some very nice non-frozen spots – i.e. lotsa palm trees, beach, rainforest, nordic hottie backpacker chicks wearing not much, stuff like that.
Nehru’s daughter.
Mansfield feels a lot like Oxford New Zealand
There’s going to be at least a two-week lead-up time for pubs to be opened in the manner the public will expect.
I know JC won’t be moving to the country.
He hates nature.
Howie where are these crays in the river?
Albany?
If you’re on foot on a freeway you are responsible for your own safety. No exceptions; no excuses.
‘He looks in good nick, not covered in sores, so i’m suggesting he’s got to be a good driver or he wouldn’t be 41, and calling him a hopeless ice freak is over the top.’
First, it’s methamphetamine, not the barnyard amphet benzos they used to give fighter pilots so they’d stay awake. It’s distilled and crystallised. You’re mistaking it for bog standard goey, and you’ve only seen his face so, with the greatest of kindness, you have no idea whether he’s belting along with speed sores or not.
You never saw fighter pilots pulling their own faces off or slashing their lawns at 4.00 a.m.
Anyone can go through the gears in straight lines. Anyone. If he’d been able to consistently go down Elliott Avenue or Beach Road at 149 in a three-on-the-tree Kingswood then maybe. Not inbound on the Eastern at reverse peak hour during a lockdown. Shit driver. Hopeless ice freak.
‘If the Theft and Assault charges were any big deal, the cops would have let us know.’
Why?
JC thinks the Botanical Gardens are the wilderness.
Nehru’s daughter, and her husband, Feroze Gandhi, was no relation to Mahatmah Gandhi.
”I know JC won’t be moving to the country.
He hates nature.”
Only because it’s outdoors. And he’s allergic to everything outside the big smoke.
The one time I went to Mansfield about ten years ago I thought this would be a good place to settle down and raise a family – if one were in the market for that. I saw evidence that others were doing so: well-behaved children in abundance.
Now ya talkin, Arky. Cheap and beautiful, particularly down south. Great fishing, hunting and isolation. Just need to get rid of the horse face running the joint.
Feroze Gandhi was a Parsi. Indira is a Kashmiri Pandit.
Pains me to say it, but NZ is the most eye pleasing place on earth.
Far out. It is scrumptious. The land, not the people. I want to be clear here. The geography and topography are stunning. The people are hideous.
‘Where do Queenslanders look for rural digs?’
Toowoomba.
No, Mansfield. All of north eastern victoria, really. But only on private property, the public places are fished out!
I wouldn’t be surprised if they were in Albany Also.
The Melbourne gardens are really beautiful and fantastically maintained. Man-made nature is what I like. The rest is just fly over crap unless it’s near a beach.
‘Pains me to say it, but NZ is the most eye pleasing place on earth.
Far out. It is scrumptious. The land, not the people. I want to be clear here. The geography and topography are stunning. The people are hideous.’
Yes, ITK. A million times yes.
Queensland.
We used to drive the Lewis pass every Christmas holidays.
In those days most of the way the trees on either side touched over the road.
Like this.
Like driving through a green tunnel.
I tend to agree.
The drugs bring it closer to the surface and strip away some behavioural constraints but he is hard-wired psychopath.
Anyway she’s dead; and the Sikhs were up to their beards in it
Toowoomba.
How did it fare in Shit Town of Australia? Podium?
When I was about 8 I fell in the pond at the Fitzroy Gardens.
Copped an arse spanking for it too.
That was parenting back then. Cold, embarrassed, upset child? Whack his arse in front of all his cousins.
Don’t worry. I have suffered no long term effects.
You’re just jealous you can’t grow one.
I’d rather live in Mansfield, Texas.
Ummm, because the cops and the media have been shitcanning Dick Pussy for 2 days straight?
They haven’t found a connection to Hitler yet, but it’s early days.
Isn’t there someone on this blog who lives in Toowoombah?
Agreed. The upside from Kung Flu is that we might avoid cruise ships and go to NZ.
Yes. I thought it was just Russell Crowe and Raelene Castle.
Turns out it is all of them.
Keep the windows up and look at the glaciers and you will be fine.
Why do you say that? I’ve always found them to be sanctimonious.
I’d be happy with a shiny arse. What’s your secret.
Most of Australia looks like shit except at sunrise and sunset.
This is an extremely harsh on the eyes country.
But it smells great. Australia smells so good. To my dying days I’ll remember the smell of this place.
Haha!
Well played vr!
Wifey always said that, but then she hails from the godforsaken desert. WTF people went to live where she was born boggles the mind.
Check your email Ellie.
Will be heading tomorrow morning to the local cenotaph.
Very fond of castlemaine DB.
Not too big, not too small.
Married to one. The ones from down south below Christchurch are great, very friendly and welcoming. People on the Westcoast of the south island, even better. Westport around the Buller River is just Gods home I reckon. and further south around Greymouth is gorgeous country.
so given the traditional service is quite a bit before dawn .. is dawn more appropriate ?
Saudi tribes don’t appear to like unrestricted zoning laws too.
Castlemaine.
Dry.
Sticks and lizards.
Awful spot.
What’s it for anyway?
Nothing there.
ITK
The place you want is Hay, NSW
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hay%2C_New_South_Wales
Ah, they already have, kind of.
As I said upthread, he was bailed.
If the charges were for pinching a Mars Bar from Coles or a threatening shouting match (technical assault) he would have been charged “on summons”.
Being bailed means the charges were serious enough for someone to consider whether:-
(A) he gets bail; or
(B) he goes in the remand slot.
Perversely, he is probably wishing now they had gone with (B).
Oh, and coppers don’t sit around for three hours waiting for a bail hearing over a Mars Bar charge.
So, yeah, serious.
‘If the Theft and Assault charges were any big deal, the cops would have let us know.’
Well, theft carries a max of ten years in the bin (says the intawebs) and assault, depending on what it is and with what can get you 20.
So, a big deal compared to what? 9/11?
CS Lewis:
IT — I do agree NZ is a stunning place. I went to Queenstown for the first time two years ago. I could live there if I didn’t have to interact with people.
93.1% lesbian.
Not that there is anything wrong with that.
Once again, I am being bullied on a libertarian blog.
Ditto.
Agree. One of the most beautiful places on the planet and every time I go there I want to move. But it has become so damn expensive and the people are infected with raging leftism. Shame really.
Heheh!
Spooky story. Was taken to the Shepparton swamp when I was about 3. Old man use to duck shoot on it. Covered in duckweed. Thought it was grass and went straight in. Pulled out buy the scruff of my neck. 25 odd years later did exactly the same with my own kid 🙂
My thoughts exactly.
I just can’t get on the same wave length as Kiwis.
I have issues, but they have bigger ones.
Word of advice Ed Case.
If you are looking to go out on a limb, I would give the Pussy limb a wide berth.
Well, seeing it’s almost Anzac Day …
..
You’re confusing it with Daylesford.
Castlemaine isn’t dry. Serpentine is dry.
They haven’t even got Castlemaine Rock any more.
They’ve still got Castlemaine Ham.
Hay NSW is a most welcoming place. Except for visiting footballers where they belted the fuck out of you then had bulk piss with you.
Fun fact, David Saker, former Victoria fast bowler coached Hay football club to flag success in 1992
Time to forget about the pond thing, bro.
Long time ago, eh?
Same here. Taking my ipad for a DIY dawn service.
Serpentine. Good Lord
This dude blew the whistle on Bernie Madoff.
“In essence, the FINMA position is that … the models were right, but reality was wrong,” diBartolomeo says.
Look, I know the Spanish flu killed 50 million plus people, but was it really a world destabilizing event because I have always tended to think of it as something rolled up with WW1. It only took on focus because of the current china bug.
No, no.
Daylesford is male gay.
Castlemaine is female gay.
Get busy living, or get busy dying
‘the man who helped finger Bernie Madoff.
Ewwww. Phrasing.
Lets rule out mars bars then. The point I made still stands, if it was a big deal it would be front page news.
I’m thinking if he stole something it would be described as stealing. Theft is something different so i’m guessing there’s some dispute about his guilt?
US Bank charge off* for credit card debt was ever so slightly elevated in March but nothing out of the ordinary that stares back at you.
https://seekingalpha.com/news/3564143-march-credit-card-delinquency-charge-off-rates?utm_medium=email&utm_source=seeking_alpha&mail_subject=bac-march-credit-card-delinquency-charge-off-rates&utm_campaign=rta-stock-news&utm_content=link-3
*Charge off = bad debt written off.
I know Magda Szubanski has gone the full Castlemaine, but she used to do the two frumpy NZ girl characters …
Hither and Thither.
‘Daylesford is male gay.
Castlemaine is female gay.’
Yup. Castlemaine has piggery pork stuff.
Daylesford has antique stores and is impeccably coiffed.
Sounds like we are all going bush.
That’s the smart move. I reckon China Flu is the biggest fork in the road in the last 80 years.
Is there a difference, Leigh? I never noticed.
Castlemaine was good in the old days if you were into cars.
Rod Hadfield land 🙂
Fuckin’ spare me.
A slightly little bit theftish?
Daylesford is lovely country but it’s not the gays that ruin it, it’s the people from Armadale.
If “we’re” all going bush that means the cities will be a underpopulated rural areas. Count me out on the move. I’m staying put.
Oh dear, please tell me Magda isn’t living in Castlemaine.
Bernie Madoff.
Was that stealing?
Or theft?
Or nicking?
Or purloining sans permission?
It’s the Greens rural retreat. I’d rather be one of those cops than end up there.
Wouldn’t want to crease ya pleated jeans, JC? 🙂
Correct.
The LGBQTIs are fine.
It is the LSBIs* which are the problem.
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* LSBIs = Latte Sipping Blow Ins.
Oh dear, please tell me Magda isn’t living in Castlemaine.
I don’t believe she would be capable of it. It requires character to live in the country, even in a large country town.
‘if it was a big deal it would be front page news.’
Ed.
People steal stuff worth millions all the time. Nobody blinks, and the paper’s front page is generally concerned with things other than people stealing things, but that sadly is not news.
The media, or the cops or the courts are not obliged to tell you anything about anyone. If they do, they do. If they don’t, it’s not an immediate marker of the Illuminati covering it with its dead hand of velvet.
So no, they wouldn’t necessarily ‘have let us know’.
The bloke is a cashed-up, methed-up mortgage-broking piece of shit who used to own a flash car before he fucked up once too often. A garden variety, 8 to 4 Monday to Friday scrote.
Last time JC went rural, the tassels on his pink Gucci loafers got lamb poo on them.
He was devastated. Luckily his dry cleaner saved the day and JC only had to spend 4 nights in the mindfulness retreat.
‘Which is the best country for kids to shoot, ramble, dirt bike and explore?’
My bolt hole’s north of Wangaratta. Did one blokes trip up with the little fellow before this crap started. He had a ball. Shot his BB gun. Picked up his first dead rabbit. Drove the tractor standing on the floor in front of Aunty. Went horse riding. Went melloning with grandpa, took a bite out of one because if it’s a mellon it should be tasty! Gardened with Grandma. Gave the farm dog so many kisses and cuddles that each time I’ve been up since she needs to inspect the Ute to make sure he’s not on board.
If the charge was stealing that’s the word used.
If Theft is used it means something a little different in Court Speak, doesn’t it?
I now and then have to drive up to the area along the Murray north east of Kerang to visit relatives of my wife. That drive north of Bendigo through Serpentine is, well, as you say, Good Lord. At least the River Red Gum forest saves the day.
It’s early days yet as it’s too soon to figure out what sort of hit they’re going to take. The mega US banks reported in their 1st quarter two weeks ago and they all took hits by provisioning for losses. This should go on, however the markets are valuing these behemoths as though we’re about to enter the worst of the financial crisis. The interesting thing about the China Bug in terms of the financial markets is that these whales actually saw their deposits rise massively as a flight to quality. As I said, it’s early days and there’s time to asses. The risk is that things don’t turn out badly in the US in which case these whales will reprice massively upwards.
Worth keeping an eye on this sector.
‘Big Short’ Steve Eisman likes the big US banks after coronavirus sell-off
Yes.
Compared with the Botanical Gardens or Central Park it must seem like deepest darkest Africa.
Just about time for all
Dawn Service participantsprotesters to hit the sack.IT.
The broader the acres the better.
WA is full of potential.
LOL! I’m stealing that one 🙂
That’s what life should be like.
Makes me miserable what we have created.
‘I’m thinking if he stole something it would be described as stealing.’
Seriously, this is Liability Bob-standard take yer hand and walk you through the meadow stuff.
Edward, I just looked it up. Here. Read this, and take the next 17 hours to digest the contents, and also that Pusey is an ordinary fuckwit. An iced-up meth freak of a fuckwit who can’t drive.
‘CRIMES ACT 1958 – SECT 72. (1) A person steals if he dishonestly appropriates property belonging to another with the intention of permanently depriving the other of it. (2) A person who steals is guilty of theft.’
Read the last sentence, then write it on your bedroom mirror in lipstick using a spidery yet eerily neat style.
God.
Jeez, Ed.
Theft, fraud, stealing, purloining, robbery, etc.
All mean the same.
Taking possession of something you have no right or title to.
Different jurisdictions might use different words.
They occasionally add adjectives which invariably mean an increased time in the slot.
Adjectives like “armed” or “aggravated”.
I know.
Rural WA is cheap as chips, but the broad acre is such boring country. Flat, treeless plains.
I want real country. Hard to defend broadacre too.
Beautiful story, rickw. The bush is the go for kids, none of this flowery garden shit. Turns them into real men.
Why all the talk about stealing? Has Pusey been charged with that?!
Ha! I just googled and he has been charged with “theft charges”.
Stealing a car, btw, is different from other forms of theft. No need to establish intention to permanently deprive.
Ha, ha.
Not long ago we bought stuff to cook pasties.
Young nephew wanders past table, picks up a crimson coloured swede and took a chomp.
“Uuurghh. Mummy, apple bad!”
ITK we didn’t create anything. X1 did. It’s his virus.
Don’t start, vlad. Please.
BlackBall
If you know, but what’s Deniliquin like these day’s?
It would be nearly 20 years the last time I was there.
Why not go the full whack. Move to Africa, nugget oneself black and join a tribe.
Did Xi make young men wax their balls?
Didn’t think so.
Yep.
Before, at a date prior to, and preceding the Big Prang he was on bail for assault and theft charges.
Nah, stackja. The rot had set in long before that fat xunt sent out his plague.
Where you from. Some states worse than others.
Cousin of mine had a minor prang in his car once. He was at fault.
But although what he did was cause an accident, he was actually charged with ‘Make Crashy Bangy Stuff Happen.’
Very serious stuff, it was.
Don’t start, vlad. Please.
Okay.
Just watching end of Shawshank Redemption & it is a very very pale imitation of Cool Hand Look, with derivative story line and not half the cast. Also borrows from Escape from Alcatraz, which is far better movie.
Morgan Freeman, Tim Robbins do well & it is a watcheable movie, but nothing compared to it’s predecessors.
Deniliquin as far as I know is stable. Bloke posted a link showing that area had no COVID-19 cases. My uncle lives there, looks good from an outsider’s point of view.
‘Theft, fraud, stealing, purloining, robbery, etc.’
For Ed’s benefit:
‘CRIMES ACT 1958 – SECT 75 – ROBBERY – S. 75(1) amended by No. 9323 s. 2(a).
(1) A person is guilty of robbery if he steals, and immediately before or at the time of doing so, and in order to do so, he uses force on any person or puts or seeks to put any person in fear that he or another person will be then and there subjected to force.’
So robbery is theft (stealing, half-inching) except that you use violence to do it. Against the person, not the stolen property.
Armed robbery takes too many pixels so I won’t.
Everything from Stephen King is crude and overdone.
I did wonder if that was the source of the “Destruction of Evidence” charge.
But I think the test was in the can.
That can be determined by seismic activity.
Near end of film, after Morgan Freeman spent 40yrs inside as only black dude in a 1940’s white gaol with seemingly no problems, he has to hitch ride in the back of two good ole boys pick up truck (real old one too with wood panels) to find the stashed loot buried under a rock. Not many cliches there.
That can be determined by seismic activity.
And whether Castlemaine Hams have had to put on a night shift.
Knuckles.
The Eighth Commandment says “Thou Shalt Not Steal”.
Does this include theft, or shoplifting?
How many sub-sections of Commandment 8 are there?
The old photo of “Morgan Freeman” on his prison record is of his real-life son.
Went to South Africa Shot a Warthog with my bow, tried for an Eland but missed out.
Too hot, dry and too many dark things that want to kill you. Was a beautiful place before that Mandela xunt fucked it up.
I must get out my old Rumpole of the Bailey books.
Excellent reference.
Beautiful story, rickw. The bush is the go for kids, none of this flowery garden shit. Turns them into real men.
Grandpa and I finished putting some extra crushed rock on the shed pad today, sent him photos and videos of the activity. When I spoke to him later he was wishing he was with us to help and asking 101 questions about what we were doing and why.
Well it says ‘Thou Shalt Not Steal’, not ‘Thou Shalt Not Theft’ so I think Mr Pusey should be A-Okay in the eyes of the big guy.
Naturally, shoplifting is quite rare as it involves the lifting of shops.
Samson had a couple of priors for it, I believe.
If anyone from WA is wondering, the Victorian South West coast is an absolute shithole.
Leeches, tiger snakes, mosquitoes, sink-holes, howling winds and mortgage brokers.
Horrid.
Another criticism will make of Shawshank Redemption. Morgan Freeman banging on about hope etc as he waits to cross the Texas border into Mexico. At this point the film should stop. Instead they go for the Hollywood money shot & show him Tim Robbins building a boat by hand on a beach, living the dream as Morgan rocks up. Let the film down in so many ways.
Think in pre industrial society 3,000 years ago, in pretty much a barter economy, statements like ‘Though shalt not steal’ are pretty water tight. 19th Century England had people prosecuted for stealing handkerchiefs.
At this point the film should stop. Instead they go for the Hollywood money shot & show him Tim Robbins building a boat by hand on a beach, living the dream as Morgan rocks up. Let the film down in so many ways.
I think the studio forced that on the director who wanted to end with Morgan still on the search, still hoping.
WTF!
Where did that come from?
Is that the Commandments?
Is it the Thefts, Nicking and Otherwise Misappropriating Act (1958) as amended?
HH – NSW was OK till Nifty discovered the “hollow logs”, the ex-ABC boss and his MAU. My device doesn’t do links. Google words and something might show up. Daily Telegraph hinting at Abe misdeeds might open up other stories.
Catholics and Protestants can’t even agree on the numbering of ten commandments.
Victoria built a Pyramid once.
Watching Heat 1995 now on ch95 (coincidence?). Robert de Niro has been a big star for a long time at this point. Why can’t he get that mole on his face removed?
Opposite for me rick. Grandpa getting old and can’t keep up with my son and I. Is really missing the bush. I took down him to a mates place just before the cold weather hit., Put him along a tree line by a creek and pushed some Woodies towards him. Pulled of two doubles and wouldn’t shut up for the whole trip home. Almost made me cry. I’ll miss him to death when he goes 🙁
vlad Cecil produced Ten.
Mark Dice, for me this came with a Lorbek Luxury Cars add expressing their condolences to Vicpol:
Night all. got an appointment with the boss 🙂
Getting back to commandment of ‘Though shalt not steal’. Read in it’s proper context, would include everything like robbery, larceny, shoplifting, detinue, trover, charging interest etc.
QI episode said there were some number a lot more, maybe 30 or so. I do not recall the number but much bigger than ten.
Movies of the past.
White Heat – Ma!
The Big Heat – hot coffee pot!
We really need to put the squeeze on purchasing products made in China. We need to wreck the CCP’s business model. We need to fuck the people of China’s businesses so that in turn they go and fuck the CCP.
This bug sounds like a freaking nightmare of an illness. She made it obviously, than God.
Right now in Heat, you have Al Pacino with pump action shot gun (he’s now discarded that for an automatic) on foot chasing Robert de Niro with handgun across a major US airport at night. Planes taking off all around them. Very much a pre 11Sep movie.
Almost made me cry. I’ll miss him to death when he goes 🙁
Grandpa’s going ok but the clock is ticking, for about 5 generation’s the men in the family have clocked off at 79. Not a year earlier, not a year later.
Al Pacino looks older than De Niro, but hasn’t got this huge mole in the middle of his head, as De Niro dies by the way. Still no cops, or security after this mad shoot up across the middle of the airport. Not one takeoff aborted either. Couple of drones brought Stansted to standstill recently.
JC.
I could see her problem right at the start. Non smoker. High risk group right there.
Need John Le Carre code phrases to co-ordinate the Great Uprising.
Something simple, easy to remember and which would go unnoticed in everyday conversation.
I am thinking:-
Q. Is that a lady’s cardigan?
A. No, it has buttons on the left.
Rex,
I have never coveted my neighbours ox. Nor made any graven images.
Yeah, Rikw – nice post
For me, it is some dirt in central NSW. 4 kids, now all left and doing well some still in agriculture, from Vic to Nthn NSW. They learned to drive tractors, utes, even headers before they were 14, so aside from the stupid amount of hours they have to ‘log’ in the book, passed the test easily enough.
Can draft a mob of sheep for shearing or to take a mob of lambs off, mend a fence, weld stuff, drive a sprayer or seeder just the same.
And that is how it was when I was also brought up. I can remember learning about how to manage horses from my own Gnradfather while having a sandwich under the shade of an old Ford v8 (petrol) wheat truck in the 60’s, and lumping wheat in bags for seed. Great days.
While we say that too much of this stuff has been lost, I feel even my kids (some now also with children of their own) are curious, even perhaps keen to learn some of this old stuff to try and keep some connection with their antecedents – they certainly seem interested, which I am pleased about.
As to the rest of the rubbish both running this country and ‘advising’, they can go to hell.
And she was “a little on the heavy side too”. Look, don’t get me wrong, it’s actually a great ending story and so happy she made it through. Fmd, she was on the phone all day rolling over debt. If she passed away it sounded like the US banking system would collapse. As I said, I’m really glad she made it.
One last little point that has be curious like George Costanza about all this. Why did dad shave his head?
me
Aces High now on ch95. They just had the 1916 public school assembly with John Gielgud delivering an address after prayers. The point he stressed was that the English had invented this concept of ‘playing the game for the game’s sake’. Malcolm McDowell is guest speaker who will talk next having jut returned from shooting down the Hun on the Western Front.
I would like to take this opportunity to invite everyone over to the new thread.
Knuckle Dragger:
Nicely put.
Plod is using him – Mr 911 – as a distraction squirrel quite successfully.
Which says to me the Chicken Truck Driver is far more important than he appears.
Lots of ‘gunfire breakfasts’ around my patch this morning. Some of them quite complicated with the barbie and coffee machine. Lots of hailing and overall community spirit.
Majority of the population are Two Stick’s obsession.
Suburb next door, being a millenial beachside area – nada. “If the Government ain’t paying, we ain’t gonna do it”. Keep hating those Boomers Twos.
Howard Hill, spot on. Most community sports clubs suffer from these bureaucratic bullies. Tough on the average Mum and Dad volunteer when some moron thinks he/she is managing Man U and acts as a tyrant.
My daughter’s U-14 soccer team packed up and moved to the club next door due to the bullshit poured down on them by the club officials.
We almost had to go to the High Court. The morons attempted to have them banned at district level. Seems mere players wishes are of no account.
The reality was narcissism. The girls were good, so the Club bullies didn’t want to lose bragging rights at the endless district organising meetings.
Behind every petty bureaucrat is the lingering resentment of not having been selected for the St Ursula’s under ten second eleven footy team.