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In Sydney this week, a gang rape at Darling Harbour in June has been prominent in the news, after police released details, and some of the alleged rapists turned themselves in to police, and have been charged over the rape.

Adam Jade Pinner ( aka Duncan) claimed that the woman he was alleged to have raped, along with 4 of his mates, was a prostitute who had solicited them.

He was alleged to have told police yesterday that the woman agreed to have sex with the group for $15 after she had exposed her breasts to them. Yeah, sure! The magistrate didn’t swallow this one - he found it incredible that even a prostitute - whom police said the victim was not - would agree to engage in sex with five men for $15.

The 5 men (most are actually teenagers) are all apprentice painters - clearly they’ve been sniffing the fumes too much and its destroyed their (what was probably pretty miniscule to begin with) brainpower - as if anyone would believe their story. Clearly a bunch of bogans of the lowest order, too. Take Pinner/Duncan for example - defacto wife expecting 3rd child (he’s 25, she’s probably 16 or something), he was on a good behaviour bond for violence, plus from what I saw on the TV news tonight, he’s from a bogan family judging from his mother or wife carrying on that he’s innocent. Then of course, we have the boganesque seduction methods him and his mates used to entrap the victim, for example:

“you’re beautiful, you’re a prostitute, I know you’re a prostitute, I will pay you $20 for a root”

“You have got a beautiful mouth and I know where to put something in your mouth.

“If I fuck you I hope I don’t come soon ’cause I can go for hours”.

“You have to give me a blow job I waited for one hour”

Lovely! Wonder if that even works at the Leumeah pub or Wests Leagues Club or wherever else it is Pinner/Duncan and his mates usually work their magic?

Update (11/08/2006): The bogan woman on the news was his mother. Little wonder he thinks rape is ok when she comes out with:

“She should have just walked away.”

Maybe Adam’s mum should be telling her son, “don’t be an arsehole, don’t go around harassing women, and don’t go around raping them” …but then I suspect she’s not bright enough to know any better.

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Dean Jones, former test cricketer for Australia and now commentator on the sport, referred to South African player, Hashim Amla, who is a Muslim, as “the terrorist has got another wicket“.

This offensive and stupid comment went to air on South African TV, and was made by Jones working for a production company based in Dubai and whose chairman, Abdul Rahman Bukhatir, is a Muslim.

I’ve always had my doubts about Dean Jones’ brightness, and this only confirms my impressions. Must be something about Victorian cricketers …Warney and now Jones having shown themselves to be major league tools.

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Remember Samuel Marc Barnes Siddall? He was the guy who put his girlfriend’s young daughter in a clothes dryer, leaving her with burns and bruising.

He had his day in court today, pleading guilty to causing grievious bodily harm to the child. His lawyer claimed that Siddall did it to the girl thinking it would be fun for her. He said Siddall would often give her “wizzies”, holding her by the hands and spinning her around. When she spilt some medicine on her clothes, he took her to the laundry to dry it. His lawyer then told the court:

“All of a sudden he had a thought: she likes wizzies, she would probably like a wizzy in the dryer,” “His only thought at that stage was to give the child a fun time.” “He did not think of the ramifications, all he was going to do was give the child a wizzy,”

Hopefully, Samuel will think before acting in future. An interesting aside in this story is that he was training at uni to be a teacher, but has dropped out, “deeply embarassed and traumatised” over the incident. I can hear the sigh of relief from parents - thank God this tool is not going to be let loose on our kids.

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Did my census on line tonight, took about 15 minutes I guess.  Much better than filling out paper forms.  About the only thing I had to think about was whether to put a joke religion down or something - I didn’t, just plain boring “No religion”.

Next task for getting on line, voting …eliminate the need to have to go to the local voting place.  Australian Electoral Commission, get to work on it.  And please, make sure it doesn’t involve the cyberspace equivalent of those how to vote cards, ie remorseless spamming by candidates and parties.

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Thats what 2 men in Phoenix, Arizona, in the US, thought was a great hoot. Dale Hausner and Samuel Dieteman were arrested after a year long series of shootings in which they went on late night joyrides, shooting people in acts of “random recreational violence”. The police charged them on suspicion of two counts of first-degree murder and 14 counts of attempted first-degree murder. The two are suspects in shootings that killed six and wounded 18.

Police said Dieteman and Hausner admitted that they hadtaken turns driving a Toyota Camry and shooting at people in Phoenix and suburban Mesa and Scottsdale. The two used a shotgun and aimed at victims from the back or from angles, according to court documents. At least one shotgun, rifles and other guns were among the materials found in an apartment the suspects shared, as well as shotgun ammunition, two maps, a video of the television program America’s Most Wanted, newspaper clippings of the shooting cases and maps identifying routes and possible locations of shootings. Court documents reveal a resident told the police that Dieteman would hit random targets that he referred to as “RV”, for recreational violence.

Hausner, the one on the left, has denied involvement in the shootings, and tried to dump Dieteman right in it, claiming he might have taken Hausner’s car and guns to go on a killing spree. Said Hausman:

“I am not a monster,” “I feel very sorry for the families of the people who were hurt, but I didn’t do it.”

Of course, it comes back to the loony American love affair with their guns. If nutjobs like these couldn’t get easy access to whatever firepower they needed to indulge in their firearm fantasies, killing sprees like these would be so much harder for them to achieve. However, the gun nuts’ distorted bastardisation of the Second Amendment and their “right to bear arms” ensures the Americans remain out of step with the rest of the civilised world when it comes to guns and gun crimes.

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A new 10 percent “health tax” on alcohol products is a recommendation in the latest National Alcohol Strategy. The aim is to try to reduce binge drinking. Guess what folks, it will not work! From personal experience I can guarantee that. I’m normally very price conscious (cheap is another description, tightarse another), but when I’m pissed, guess what, I don’t care, just give me another beer, wine, spirit, liquer. In fact, the more pissed, the less I care about price signals. (At least till I’m home and sober again, and “oh god, how did I go through $xxx last night?”).

One of the experts, Paul Dillon from the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, acknowledges this:

“I don’t think you really think about the money when you start binge drinking,” he said.

I wonder how much research it took to establish that.

And, a “National Alcohol Strategy”, how did they come up with that? I suspect a bunch of public servants all went off for a live in conference somewhere, got pissed every night and dreamed up the policy during a bullshit session one morning between 3 and 4 am on the last night of the conference.

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Readers of an American parenting magazine thought so.  Several readers said they were “embarrassed” or “offended” by the Babytalk photo and one woman from Nevada said she “immediately turned the magazine face down” when she saw the photo.  Another reader said she was “horrified” when she received the magazine and hoped that her husband hadn’t laid eyes on it.

Errrr …. what do you expect in a magazine about babies and parenting???   Did you not get naked when you made your babies?  (Maybe, but they always have the lights off.)  Did you not realise boobs are for babies (in the first place, other uses such as fun and decoration are ancillary benefits)?

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Further to the reports of sexual misconduct at the NSW Police Academy, comes admissions by Commissioner Ken Moroney that instructors who had sex with students should have been sacked, rather than merely transferred to other police duties. This follows a report by the NSW Ombudsman, Bruce Barbour which indicated complaints had been investigated properly but that the management/disciplinary action taken as a result was woefully inadequate. It said some officers had been treated leniently because there was no clear ban on sex with students. (My view here ….duh, remembering this was happening in the last few years, where had the police force been, and its academics and instructors, when universities and other institutions had been dealing with these issues for years?). The strongest action taken was a warning notice and “conduct management plan” (ie slap over the wrist).

Despite police assertions that the problems happened in the early 2000’s and things had been fixed since then, the report said more than 100 complaints, including sexual misconduct and criminal activity, had been made about instructors at the Goulburn-based college since 2003. Also, that the changes to the Academy’s code of conduct were ambiguous and did not address the core issues of professional distance.

The Ombudsman said recommendations to sack officers displaying “inappropriate predatory behaviour” were ignored. The big question I’d put to Mr Moroney is what the hell his commanders making the disciplinary decisions were thinking when they treated their officers so leniently? He also believes that NSW industrial laws don’t allow him to revisit the penalties imposed in the past, ie he can’t discipline someone who was already disciplined for an offence. (Maybe not, but surely they can find themselves posted to the shittiest jobs in the force for the rest of their careers? And presumably their cards are marked “NTBP”?).

The weak disciplinary action and inability to revisit those past actions smells to me like the police union’s got the command by the balls.

The case that really leaps out at me, so to speak, is that of one senior constable who exposed himself and sent inappropriate emails and pictures of his genitals to female recruits mobile phones. Police ignored requests to have him sacked and merely transferred him. I challenge anyone to find any other workplace where someone doing this wouldn’t be summarily dismissed. At my work, you’d get “walked” on the spot.

Reminds me of an experience with a past employer. A union delegate attempted to defend an employee caught stealing from us that “he had never been told not to take money from the department”. My response to that was “hasn’t he heard of the Ten Commandments?”.

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The bogans at Macquarie Fields in southwest Sydney have been getting restless again today.

First, the local high school, James Meehan High, was put into lockdown this afternoon after students from another school in the area, Eaglevale High (?) turned up for a pre-arranged inter-school fight.  After a bit of rock and bottle throwing, police arrested some boys, one of whom was later charged with assault and affray.  Students at James Meehan High were kept in classrooms until the end of school.  Police maintained high visibility in the vicinity during the afternoon and into the evening, including the riot and dog squads.

Secondly, a nine year old boy went joyriding in his parents’ car (a Ford XR8).  He drove around some streets in the suburb before crashing the car through a fence.  He then ran away from the car but was caught by police soon after.  Junior car thief in training, I’d say.

No doubt there was plenty of other fun on just another day in the life of the bogans.  The odd assault, car thefts, burglaries, drug deals, etc, etc.

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Researchers in Queensland have discovered that there is no link between head size and intelligence. Nor are people with the biggest brains the most intelligent.

I wonder if anyone has researched the correlation between other body parts and personal characteristics. For example, everyone knows that foot size is directly correlated to a number of other highly desirable attributes.

That reminds me, whenever I pack a suitcase, my damn shoes take up half the space before I even start on other stuff.

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