Guns and snakes don’t mix

It is often said that most people who fall victim to snakes get bitten while attempting to kill them.  Here’s another case where the snake beat someone trying to hunt it.
A woman was shot dead by her husband in Queensland this week while trying to flush out a brown snake that was hiding in […]

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I am just so organised …..???

I was supposed to be flying to Sydney in the morning, nothing unusual, do it regularly.
Got a phone call Thursday.  Change of plans.  Can I change it to Thursday instead of Monday?  Sure, no problems.  Suits me better in fact.
So Friday morning, I go looking for the booking number so I can get onto the […]

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Handyman tip #1: A gun is not a power tool

Ronald Long, of  Deepwater in the US decided that using his gun was a good way of making a hole through the wall, which he needed to do in order to instal a satellite TV system at his home.  He fired his gun from the inside of his home after several unsuccessful efforts to […]

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A caring employer - Queensland Health

I read about this the other day and just could not believe it. 
A nurse, working alone on the Torres Strait island of Mabuiag, was raped late one night in February.   She rang emergency, got diverted to Cairns police, 1000 km away, and told them she had just been raped and that the alleged perpetrator […]

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Corey, Meet Gemma

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Corey Worthington/Delaney has a rival in the partying stakes.  Fifteen-year-old Gemma Anscomb told her parents she was having a few friends around for a video night. But instead she had advertised a party on social networking site Bebo and invited everyone she knew.
When her parents got home the next day, they found:

their dog […]

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Bed made, now to lie in it

The fallout from the dodgy and sleazy dealings in Wollongong, involving developers and council staff seems to be as follows.
Wollongong City Council
The ICAC today recommended that the Wollongong City Council be sacked. 
 “I am of the opinion that systemic corruption exists,”

ICAC Commissioner Jerrold Cripps, QC, said.  The inquiry has revealed a web of sexual […]

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Pointless exercises

Many government and judicial inquiries are a complete waste of time and money …motivated by a desire to either fob off decision time until the inquiry runs its course, to be able to fall back on it to justify hard decisions, or to be seen to be doing something.
The inquiry in Britain in the UK […]

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WTF? This has got to be a joke

Shakeel Mirza, a medical student at the University of Queensland, tried to give an 11-year-old boy a penis massage.  The Pakistani-born medical student had been appointed as a mentor to the 11-year-old boy under the Lions Club’s “Aunties and Uncles” program when he tried to force his hands down the youngster’s pants at the family’s […]

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Dumb optimism

I saw yesterday a story about a guy in Melbourne who’d been seen carrying a barbeque on his motorbike.   He has apparently seen the error of his ways and accepted that what he did is pretty dumb.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The same guy recently ferried a couch on his bike from Keilor Downs to his Sydenham flat.
“People say […]

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OH&S - for suicide bombers

Let this be a lesson to all suicide bombers.  Be careful where you tread - slips and trips are a hazard in the suicide bomber business, and workplace accidents can have deadly consequences.
A would-be suicide bomber fell down a flight of stairs and blew himself up as he headed out for an attack in Afghanistan, […]

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