I think this is very much a case of that. 3 families are preparing to sue the Victorian government and its roads department for allegedly failing to prevent the deaths of loved ones who jumped from a bridge, in these cases Melbourne’s Westgate bridge. On February 5 2009, 17-year-old Allem Halkic took his own life by jumping from the bridge after being bullied on a social networking website. His family and two others are preparing joint lawsuits against [...] Continue Reading…
This is the sort of thing you think has got to be a joke, surely it couldn’t happen in real life? Doctors in Peru amputated the healthy leg of an 86-year-old man, then amputated the other leg when they realised their mistake. He went in to have his right leg removed as it had an ulcer, but the doctors cut off his left leg, then upon realising it was the wrong one, cut off the right one too. [...] Continue Reading…
I’m in Kuala Lumpur for work at the moment, till the end of the week, having arrived last Tuesday night. So that means we had the weekend to do some sightseeing. On Sunday, we spent the day at the Kuala Gandah elephant sanctuary, and fed, rode on, and swam with, the elephants.
Here’s some of what I did at the sanctuary.
First of all the keepers washed the elephants in the river.
Then we got to feed them, and ride on them, [...] Continue Reading…
I used to think Lindsay Lohan was pretty good in some of her earlier movies, like “Mean Girls” - the ones she did before she decided her mission in life was to outskank the likes of Britney Spears and Paris Hilton. Seems she’s gone through a rough patch, and according to someone associated with her, looking to clean up her act in 2010.
However her efforts look to be about to be undone by the release onto the internet of [...] Continue Reading…
Apparently some people are so taken by the planet Pandora in the movie “Avatar” that they are getting depressed and having suicidal feelings about not being able to go there. All I can say to them is “get a life”!
I’ve just been watching Battlestar Galactica, with all its Cylons, the machines that evolved into human form. It seems that we are closer to that fictional universe than you might think. Meet Roxxxy the rootable robot – a sex robot which was introduced at the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas this week, a life-size robotic girlfriend complete with artificial intelligence and flesh-like synthetic skin.
According to her inventor:
“She can’t vacuum, she can’t cook but she can do almost [...] Continue Reading…
Fascinating to read what some of our school teachers get up to in their spare time. Nepean High School teacher’s assistant Sharron Anne Lee, 40, was involved in a threesome at a drunken New Year’s Eve sex party which later descended into a brawl. Her bail hearing was told Lee, had fought with her girlfriend of three years, Carlie-Anne Bell, from Glenmore Park, in her bedroom while the man they had picked up at the Penrith Panthers [...] Continue Reading…
There was a terrible road smash near Batemans Bay a few days ago. A petrol tanker ran out of control and crashed into some cars, then burst into flames. 2 young girls in one of the cars, and the truck driver were killed. Others were injured, including the parents of the dead girls who are now in a critical condition in hospital. Terrible tragedy, no doubt about it. However, what takes the cake for me is the Daily [...] Continue Reading…
There is some sort of debate going on among the locals around The Gap in Sydney’s eastern suburbs. The Gap is a scenic ocean cliff, and a well known suicide spot – some 50 people kill themselves each year by jumping off the cliff onto the rocks below.
The local council is lobbying the Federal Government to support its $3.5 million suicide prevention plan, which includes security cameras, lighting, a safety phone and a new fence stretching for more than [...] Continue Reading…
The turkey growing season this year in Tasmania was apparently excellent, with the nice weather meaning the turkeys have grown about 2kg heavier than usual. Great, you might think, more turkey for the customers to eat at Christmas, more money for the farmers. Wrong! People who ordered a 3kg turkey for Christmas Day are likely to find themselves battling to get a bird that will fit in the oven. "It’s a nightmare," [...] Continue Reading…
Worried your 14 year old son might be a bit gay? Simple solution according to a father from Rockhampton – take him to a (female) prostitute and get him to prove he’s not. During a family barbecue around Christmas time in 2007, the dad allegedly phoned a prostitute and arranged to meet her at a motel on Yaamba Road, North Rockhampton. Dad paid her in cash, and she took the boy into the room while dad waited outside on [...] Continue Reading…
Some stupidity here in Canberra – and not of the usual political kind, for a change. Two men were taken to hospital on Thursday afternoon after an altercation in the carpark at Westfield Woden shopping centre. It is believed they argued over a carparking space. The men are believed to have used objects to hit each other and both received head injuries which required treatment by ambulance officers at the scene and then needed to be taken to [...] Continue Reading…
