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lol   "to serve, protect and punish"

link to vid or stfu

apparently the video wont be released to the public

Oh really? Bit like all those other controversial videos we can't find online. hehe

I bet it was one of those ruffians with tattoos everywhere.

The cop or the guy getting hammered?
The cop looks about 19 

Both. People with tattoos are the cause of all social problems.

A mate of mine got kicked out of a club for his tattoo. Its a japanese symbol for love or some shit.

What a thug.

Yep hes fully gangster. Probably the asshole who attacked that poor cop at the SCG

What the hell?

I'm addicted to eating plastic: Meet the teenage girl who snacks on water bottles, CD cases and even TV remotes

TLC show My Strange Addiction has shown us people addicted to everything from corn starch to sleeping with hairdryers. But the new series, which starts this weekend, promises its most bizarre subjects yet.

Season three features teenager Kailyn, who admits to being hooked on eating plastic.

The 18-year-old, from Sacramento, California, believes she has eaten over 60,000 plastic goods over the past 11 years, and will even choose it over food.

She is seen crunching on a variety of items in a trailer for the show, from water bottles to CD cases.

Listing some of the things she has eaten, Kailyn tells the camera: 'I have eaten 12 remotes, over 5,000 beads, over 1,000 cocktail swords, 100 forks, about ten water bottles, two pacifiers, three CD cases, about 50 hangers, about 25 plastic lids on to-go cups...'

She admits: 'Plastic is something I want and I feel like I need.'

When asked why she loves plastic so much, she explains that it is not the taste as much as the texture.

'It's the way it crunches and feels and it has a rough but at the same time smooth texture to it,' she says.

The texture of a television remote control is probably one of her favourites, Kailyn reveals.

Describing how she goes about eating one, she says: 'I'll take a button off, and I'll put it on each side of my mouth, then I swallow it.'

The plastic items she snacks on most frequently, though, are cocktail swords, which she finds in the restaurant where she works.

'I'm a hostess at a restaurant and I get a lot of my plastic from there,' she explains. 'My favourite kind of plastics are the little cocktail swords that you get in your drink.

'On a normal, non-stressful day, it'll be a whole sword, 15 times a day.'

Kailyn admits her habit could be harmful to her health, adding: 'The fact that I am eating this much in a week is huge.'

Kailyn is by no means the weirdest subject of My Strange Addiction this season. The series opens with Nathaniel, a man from Arkansas, who admits to being sexually attracted to his car.

Also featured on the show is a woman addicted to drinking nail polish, and another who will eat 900 cat treats every day.

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nuff said!

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nuff said!

Haha. There's actually a TV show about this stuff though...go to the link and you can watch some of the videos mentioned in that article. Bizarre!

There is another woman eating the ashes of her dead husband!

Also it could be telling that all these people are Americans...

Following local politics is bad enough for my mental well being at the moment, I don't need to read or watch videos via the daily mail site as well...

I'm a great looking guy, to which my mother would happily attest! 

Jam Cruise mainly attracts jam band fans, hippies and artsy/creative folk, while Holy Ship! is more for the modern raver kids. If you can afford the ticket, you are accepted as part of a special community. It doesn't matter what you look like -- if you're up for a good time and you treat those around you well, then you're a part of it all.

These are some of the pics I took last year on JC: here and here.

dude that is epic!!

Punters and tech world give their reaction to the new iPad

It took 10 hours in the air and four hours lining up for Luke Soules to become one of the first people in the world to hold the next gen iPad.

 The US engineer bought a flight to Melbourne from California when he heard Australia would be the first country in the world to release Apple’s third generation tablet.

 “It’s 26 hours sooner than it’s coming out in the US,” Mr Soules, 27, said.

 

I could understand if it was something exclusive but when it's getting released in your own region only a day later what is the point? Bragging rights? By the time he gets back to gloat to his mates it will only be a few hours until the US release!

 Sounds like an Onion headline.

 

Sounds like an Onion headline.

Sadly not.

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/national/man-shot-with-taser-stun-gun-dies-in-sydney/story-e6frea8c-1226303607138

POLICE THUGS KILL POOR DUDE WITH TASER. DUDE MAY HAVE BEEN TRYING TO ESCAPE ASSAULT AND MAY HAVE GRABBED A PACKET OF BISCUITS

Police believed victim was suspect in robbery
They used capsicum spray first then Taser
Unclear how many times man was shot
Call for halt on use of Tasers
THE man who died after being Tasered by police on one of Sydney's busiest streets may have lost his life over a packet of biscuits.

The victim was the suspect in a convenience store robbery in which a packet of biscuits was taken.

However, police have conceded he may not have been involved in any crime.

Officers stopped the man at 5.30am yesterday in Sydney's CBD because he fitted the description of the suspect. After trying to subdue him with capsicum spray, a Taser gun was fired.

The man, whom investigators believe the man may be from South America, stopped breathing and, despite officers giving CPR, he could not be revived and died at the scene.

Acting Assistant Commissioner Mark Walton said it was unclear what happened and what exactly caused the man's death.

The State Crime Command Homicide Squad has launched a critical incident investigation.

Sharif Al Ghazo, the manager of the robbed City Convenience, told The Daily Telegrpah that a man had entered the shop seeking protection from an individual or group of men.

When an employee in the shop refused to help him he fled, grabbing some biscuits on the way out.

"He said that the guy went inside the shop asking for help," Mr Al Ghazo said.

"He wanted to get away from someone who wanted to kill him. He did not want any money, he wanted protection. He took a packet of biscuits."

Acting Assistant Commissioner Walton would not say whether the dead man was armed or if he was under the influence of drugs or alcohol.

He said it was "unclear" as to how many times a Taser was deployed.

"The report of the robbery is the subject of further investigation and it's unclear as to the involvement of this man or the extent of that actual incident," he said.

"Whether it is a robbery or not is unclear at this time. The man who had contact with police and subsequently died has been identified through the description and the tracking using council's CCTV in an effort to identify and find that man."

The victim is yet to be formally identified by police.

Police have called for the public's help to identify him.

He was of medium build, 178cm tall, aged in his mid 20s to mid 30s, with brown eyes and brown shoulder-length curly hair, wearing blue Diesel Industrie jeans and a white Gap short-sleeve shirt.

There's got to be CCTV of what went down in the shop, and probably outside as well if it's in a busy area...

http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/03/r18-legislation-passes-the-house-of-representatives/

 

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/8437536/dashcam-captures-brutal-highway-crash

Check the video of a truck flying through the windscreen. Well worth wasting 15 seconds watching some sh*tty ad and then 30 secs for the vid... 

way to go croatia! now for going topless...

Croatian Festival Bans Flip Flops

Flip flop wearing revellers attending next weekend’s Dimension Festival in Fort Punta Christo will be refused admission to the abandoned fortress, the event warns in a stern warning on their site. 

“Flip-flops/sandals are strictly not allowed around the festival site (fine for campsite). You must be wearing trainers or some other form of sturdy shoe in order to be allowed entrance,” the information page stresses.

“This is for your own safety as the ground is not suitable for unprotected feet and we do not want hundreds of stubbed toes, bruised heels and sprained ankles.”

The four night underground electronic music event features performers including Berghain residents Marcell Dettman and Ben Klock alongside Nicolas Jaar, Nathan Fake and over 100 more DJs, spinning at beach parties and boat trips during the day and at sound systems around the fortress at night.

“STICK TO PATHS”, the organisers also stress.

“Please do not wander off into the undergrowth and try to keep to paths as this region of Croatia has a number of scorpions, spiders and snakes that do bite,” they explain.

“Areas signed off limits or out of bounds are not safe for public access, if they were we’d have a soundsystem there.”

“Please do not wander off into the undergrowth and try to keep to paths as this region of Croatia has a number of scorpions, spiders and snakes that do bite,” they explain.

Would have been easier if this was Australia:

"Australia has a number of scorpions, spiders and snakes as well as murderers who like to target foreigners"

 

Would have been easier if this was Australia:

"Australia has a number of scorpions, spiders and snakes as well as murderers who like to target foreigners"

I love the reputation Australia has on Reddit. If anyone mentions a place where the wildlife is super deadly, Australia will always crop up the benchmark lol.

The NT makes me laugh.

Shock cabinet: from DUI to Health Minister

A SMOKER who was once done for drinking driving will today become the Territory's Minister for Health and Alcohol Policy.

Dave Tollner's appointment to the key posts was just one of a number of shocks when Chief Minister Terry Mills announced his new cabinet yesterday.

In other surprise moves, two blokes will oversee women's affairs and the recently rolled deputy has been left out in the cold.

http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2012/09/04/313309_ntnews.html.

Our Road Safety minister from a few years ago had something like 30 traffic offences to his name.

Good to see the UK keeping it raw too.

New Transport Minister convicted in 2009 of careless driving in incident that left cyclist with broken neck

Simon Burns, appointed Minister of State for Transport in the wake of this week’s Cabinet reshuffle, was convicted in 2009 of careless driving following an incident that left a cyclist with his neck broken in two places, it has emerged.

The Conservative MP for Chelmsford West, who was serving as Opposition Whip at the time, initially intended to plead not guilty to the charge at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in February 2009, according to a report at the time in the Daily Mail.

http://road.cc/content/news/65839-new-transport-minister-convicted-2009-careless-driving-incident-left-cyclist.

Bodybuilder pleads guilty to 47 charges in blackmail sex scam

A BODYBUILDER posed as a woman to fund a $300-a-week protein powder habit in a global blackmail sex scam, then threatened to post explicit footage of his victims on gay websites if his demands for cash weren't met, a court has heard.

Shawn Rye, 23, posed as a "sexually available" young woman on internet video chat sites to lure his 43 victims into stripping and performing lewd sexual acts, which he recorded and then threatened to post to gay websites.

He also told his victims - from Australia, Canada the US and Britain- if they didn’t send him payments between $100 and $500 he would post the videos and pictures to their friends and family via Facebook.

At a County Court hearing in Melbourne this morning, Rye, from Croydon, pleaded guilty to 47 counts of blackmail over the six-month operation.

Prosecutor Julian Ayers told the court the planned and premeditated attacks saw Rye demand more than $12,000 from his victims.

Bank records revealed more than $7800 had been transferred to Rye from some of his victims.

Mr Ayers said the "unsuspecting" men thought they were talking to "a young and sexually available woman by the name of Sam or Melissa" at they time they were recorded.

"Whilst the unsuspecting men sent their own live images via the webcam, the accused played a pre-recorded video of a young woman via his webcam," he said.

"He would then suggest to the men to strip naked and masturbate …on a promise that 'she' would also strip naked."

Mr Ayers said after performing the sexual acts as requested , Rye would then reveal the scam and demand cash payments.

"If you don’t co-operate I will upload it and show one person a day until you see I’m serious, and then you can contact me via email when you want to pay and I’ll stop showing people," Rye told his victims.

"If you go offline, or don’t co-operate, I will upload the video of you …to a gay website," he told them.

Mr Ayers said Rye would then arrange for payment to be made, using his real name, through a Western Union money transfer.

He said Rye, who was not working at the time, had been trying to clear about $20,000 of debt and support his bodybuilding activities.

David Barrese, for Rye, said part of the money went to paying for protein powders that was costing him $300 a week.

He said while Rye had "overstepped the mark" he was "only asking for relatively conservative amounts" and "could have asked for more.

"He was just trying to get enough to get by," he said.

Mr Barrese said Rye had no prior convictions, and had not reoffended since his arrest in August last year.

"He knew it was wrong. It wasn’t intended to hurt anyone," he said.

Prosecutors have called for a maximum prison sentence of between four and five years over the scam.

Rye will be sentenced at a later date.

http://www.news.com.au/national/bodybuilder-pleads-guilty-to-47-charges-in-blackmail-sex-scam/story-fndo4cq1-1226473488800

I'd turn gay for that.

LOL really?

Don't think there's anything that'd turn me gay - but if there was it would be something less 'well done' than this dude!

it would be something less 'well done' than this dude!

 

"$300-a-week protein powder habit."  Was it made of gold dust or something?

Imagine the guy's shits!

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/tropeano-acquires-crown-sceptre/story-e6frea83-1226475196331

City pub Crown & Sceptre to reopen after sale to Tropeano Hospitality Group

Tropeano Hospitality Group, owner of Hindley St venues The Palace and Red Square, has bought the business from the liquidator, Macks Advisory, for an undisclosed sum.

The King William St venue called last drinks in July with estimated debts of more than $1 million. Peter Macks, from Macks Advisory, said at the time that a downturn in trade plus higher labour, electricity, liquor and input costs had created mounting debts for the 11-year-old business, which was owned by Andrew McDowell.

The Crown & Sceptre had been a popular watering hole for lawyers and judges and a proud poker machine-free music venue, and was winning accolades leading up to its closure.

The business had been on the market after trading declined by 10 per cent on the previous year, following three lean years, Mr Macks said previously.

But the purchase price for the hotel was unlikely to return much of the debt owed to secured creditors, suppliers and the Tax Office.

Tropeano Hospitality Group director Antony Tropeano confirmed the deal last week but would not give any more information because of contract conditions.

The Group's most recent activity includes the development of fine-dining restaurant d'Artagnan on O'Connell Street, which has been operating for about 16 months, and the February purchase of nearby restaurant Sparrow Kitchen and Bar from Matthew and Olivia Trim.

It is undergoing a $1 million makeover and is expected to reopen before Christmas under the name The Curious Squire.

So it's going to be a James Squires sponsored pub now? I hope they keep it pokie free and music based.

So it's going to be a James Squires sponsored pub now? I hope they keep it pokie free and music based.

Might be some more exotic stage performers from now on

expected to reopen before Christmas under the name The Curious Squire.

 

Terrible name!

So it's going to be a James Squires sponsored pub now? I hope they keep it pokie free and music based.

I was a bit confused by this comment yesterday but I now see it's to do with the new name LOL

So it's going to be a James Squires sponsored pub now? I hope they keep it pokie free and music based.

From memory, the James Squire's pub I was at in Salamanca in Hobart recently didn't have pokies. Quite good pub food too.

From memory, the James Squire's pub I was at in Salamanca in Hobart recently didn't have pokies. Quite good pub food too.

The one in Melbourne is the same. Nice vibe, too.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-09-27/british-policeman-27baffled-by-moon27/4282756

Light on the hill baffles policeman

A British policeman put his colleagues on alert as he investigated a "suspicious bright light", only to find it was the Moon.

A local police magazine reported the hapless officer only realised his blunder after warning his fellow constables in Worcestershire, central England, that he might require back-up.

The magazine's Dogberry column revealed the constable called his sergeant to tell him he was going to investigate a suspicious light that he could see shining from the other side of a hill.

"The call was for safety reasons as he might need back-up once he found the source," the magazine said.

"Twenty minutes later, the PC called his sergeant back to reassure him that everything was OK and that he had found the source of the light.

"This diligent PC had in fact discovered the Moon."

"$300-a-week protein powder habit."  Was it made of gold dust or something?

$300 a week roids habit?

In the News today, Melbourne lady found
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/abc-employee-jill-meaghers-family-devastated-by-her-death/story-e6frg6nf-1226483095816

He deserves to Death by Hanging like Ned Kelly

The Jill Meagher disappearance case has been heavily in the news the last few days.

Scary stuff as she went missing walking home from a club - only had to travel a few hundred metres.

They've arrested a man late last night, he lead them to the body, and now being charged with her rape and murder.

Multiple 'hate pages' for him on Facebook already by the way.

Man charged over Jill Meagher case


http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/man-charged-over-jill-meagher-case-20120928-26olv.html


The body of ABC employee Jill Meagher has been discovered buried in a shallow grave north-west of Melbourne this morning, as homicide squad detectives charged a man over her rape and murder.
Adrian Ernest Bayley faced an out-of-sessions court hearing just before 2.30am today, where he was charged with the rape and murder of Ms Meagher in Brunswick on Saturday morning.

A 41-year-old man is pictured after his arrest in conjunction with the murder of Brunswick woman Jill Meagher. Photo: Lui Enrique
The 41-year-old Coburg man was remanded without bail and is expected to appear in the Melbourne Magistrates Court today.
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Police discovered Ms Meagher's body buried in a shallow grave beside a dirt road in Gisborne South about 1.45am today.
The grave is just metres from the road under a tall tree.

The shallow grave in Gisborne South where the body of missing woman Jill Meagher was found. Photo: Paul Rovere
The remote area is surrounded by paddocks and is about 45 kilometres - or a 40-minute drive - from where Ms Meagher, an Irish national, was last captured on CCTV footage walking north along Sydney Road in Brunswick.
While the area is remote, there are farm houses within about one kilometre of the grave.
The coroner removed Ms Meagher's body from the scene about 4am today, and an autopsy will be carried out to determine her exact cause of death.

Jill Meagher.
Bayley accompanied police to the grave last night and remained there for about 1.5 hours, before he was taken back to the St Kilda Road police complex where he faced an out-of-sessions court hearing.
Bayley declined to have the charges read out to him at the hearing, which took no more than two minutes.
A tattooed Bayley appeared at the session wearing a navy blue shirt and jeans, and had his left hand clasped over his face throughout.

A woman leaves a floral tribute outside the bridal shop, where Jill Meagher was last seen alive. Photo: Michael Clayton-Jones
When asked if he understood the charges he replied "yes" in a faint voice.
Bayley was arrested in Coburg yesterday afternoon in connection with Ms Meagher's disappearance and questioned at Victoria Police's St Kilda Road headquarters.

Amid the outpouring of grief, floral tributes have today been left outside the bridal shop and in Sydney Road, where Ms Meagher was last seen on Saturday morning.
Ms Meagher’s uncle, Michael McKeon, said the family was trying to cope with an unimaginable loss.

‘‘We are devastated, we are  heartbroken,’’ Mr McKeon said in a statement.

‘‘She was the first grandchild my mother had, and her aunties, uncles and cousins are powerless to describe their loss. There are no words to describe how we feel at what has happened.

‘‘We had hoped yesterday when there was no evidence of foul play, but when the man in the CCTV footage was arrested we feared the worst.’’

He acknowledged the role social media had played in the search for his niece.

‘‘We believe that it has helped us in the search, but it’s not the outcome that we had hoped and prayed for. We thank the people around the world who have helped support us.

‘‘Both the McKeon and the Meagher family will have to plan now to grieve for Gillian and this is going to be one of the greatest, hardest things given that only three years ago we came together for the marriage of this lovely couple [Gillian and her husband, Thomas].’’

ABC presenter Jon Faine paid tribute to Ms Meagher, who he described as a colleague and friend, at the start of his show today, and said her legacy was important.

‘‘Jill’s death must not come to define us. That is not what it is like to live in the Melbourne we know,’’ he told his listeners.

‘‘This is an exceptionally rare event. Its randomness is part of what is so incomprehensible about it.’’

ABC Local Radio Victoria also released a statement today saying her colleagues were deeply saddened by the ‘‘tragic news of the death of our friend and colleague, Jill Meagher’’.

‘‘Our thoughts go out to Jill’s family and friends, so devastated by the passing of this wonderful young woman,’’ it said.

‘‘Jill was a much-loved member of the Local Radio family. She was witty, intelligent and great company. Her friends and workmates at the ABC will miss her greatly.

‘‘This tragic outcome will undoubtedly weigh heavily on them, and they will be supported through this dark time.

‘‘We thank the police for their dedication to the investigation and our colleagues in the media for their support.

‘‘We would also thank our listeners and the general public for their overwhelming kindness and encouragement over the past week.

‘‘Jill was an innocent victim, a young, vibrant woman with her whole life in front of her.’’

What happened to Jill?
A man in a blue hoodie is seen walking towards Jill Meagher, just before she went missing early Saturday morning.

ABC managing director Mark Scott said that Ms Meagher was an important member of the Victorian radio team and a vibrant presence at 774 Melbourne.

‘‘She was widely known, universally respected and much loved, with a great career ahead of her,’’ Mr Scott said on the broadcaster’s website.

‘‘Our thoughts are with Jill’s husband, Tom, her family and her friends.

‘‘I know that ABC staff everywhere will want to send their love and support to Jill’s colleagues, who have endured such a terrible week only to face the reality of her loss.’’

What an utter cunt.

What an utter cunt.

Men are pigs!

Seriously though, there are so many depraved, sicko fucks out there. It is so sad. A friend posted this article up on Facebook, and the events reported in the last bit certainly illustrate that fact...

https://www.facebook.com/AdrianErnestBayley

Publicly hang Adrian Ernest Bayley 32,686 likes

Not really into vigilante justice but was good to have a quick look and send some mental hate vibes his way