People who should not be allowed to breed, part 8,436

Two parents who had split up about a year ago, recently went to the Family Court to ask for a ruling on where their 7 year old daughter’s birthday party should be held and who should be invited.   Her dad wanted to celebrate at McDonald’s with gifts, balloons, his relatives, his new partner - and […]

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How low can a person go?

Try this for the champion of low acts that I’ve heard of in recent times.
Raouf Philopos was staying overnight at Westmead Childrens’ Hospital in Sydney, having been given permission by hospital staff to sit in a chair for the night to be with his 6 year old son, who was recovering from a severe asthma […]

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Punishment to fit crime

Good work, Port Stephens council!  I love their style in this case.
Some people cut down some trees on a nature reserve.  Funnily enough these trees seemed to be getting in the way of some residents’ water views.  But this council decided not to take this lying down.  What did they do?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Stuck 2 big shipping […]

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Lesbian vampire killers

The murder of Stacey Mitchell in Perth in 2006 was a shocking crime.  Her 2 killers this week got what they deserved …  life in jail, with a minimum 24-year non-parole period. 
What was particularly interesting was the angle taken in reporting this case.  The main feature was of course, that Jessica Ellen Stasinowsky, 21, […]

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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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Time to bring back the stocks

Two teenagers, 16-year-old and 14-year-old have been remanded in custody after being charged with numerous offences including break and enter, for looting houses that had been evacuated in the Queensland town of Emerald during the recent floods.  
The police say the teenagers will be flown out of Emerald tonight because of widespread anger in the […]

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Beach cricket murder

William Rowe was participating in a most Australian activity on Christmas Day - playing cricket on the beach with his extended family.  However, a pack of thugs intervened and beat him over the head with his cricket bat, killing him.
Within a day, reports were that the thugs had been helping themselves to drinks from […]

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Phone freaks

An American judge has been removed from the bench after jailing an entire courtroom full of people when no-one would admit to owning a mobile phone that was ringing. A commission on judicial conduct said Judge Robert Restaino had acted “without any semblance of a lawful basis” and behaved like a “petty tyrant”.  In its […]

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Religion = enlightenment

What a wonderful thing religion is?  People are just inspired to act in enlightened, humane and just ways.  Such as this example - Islam is the religion of enlightenment here.
A 19 year old woman was gang raped by 6 men in Saudi Arabia.  She has been punished with 200 lashes and 6 months in jail.  […]

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