Thursday, April 22, 2010

Weird Week

This week isn't even over yet but it has been an extraordinary one in local news.

Magpie lists his five biggest items for the 'How-The-Fuck-Does-That-Happen?' award...

1/ Carl Williams, the baby-faced kingpin of a vicious gang war in the Melbourne underworld in jail for 2 years of a 35 year sentence... beaten to death by another prisoner - on CCTV in a maximum security prison at Barwon Heads.

2/ National Rugby League club Melbourne Storm stripped of two major and three minor premierships and fined $1,600,000 for salary cap breaches in one of the biggest scandals ever in Australian sport.

3/ Nearly 300 allegations of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church in this state since 1996, perpetrated by approximately 100 priests.... and in all that just 1 priest has been defrocked as a result.

4/ On the day of the worst bushfires in Australian history the state police commissioner got her hair done and went out for dinner. She now heads the reconstruction authority.

5/ Crown Casino in Melbourne has confirmed that gamblers leave about $4000 a week at tables and poker machines. After 2 years it goes to the State Revenue Office.

4 comments:

  1. "On the day of the worst bushfires in Australian history the state police commissioner got her hair done and went out for dinner. She now heads the reconstruction authority."

    Uh - hers or the states?

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  2. I think the media have deconstructed her enough...
    It was a Saturday and she had the reoccuring appointment. With hindsight... people would make different decisions.

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  3. "Nearly 300 allegations of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church in this state since 1996, perpetrated by approximately 100 priests.... and in all that just 1 priest has been defrocked as a result"

    To hell with defrocking these scum. It's time to de-ball them instead.

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  4. People who resolve their needs at cost to others. They do it sexually, others do it in other ways.
    I don't think mutilation is ever an answer.

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