Hot weather and alcohol are being attributed as the causes of a wild brawl out in Sydney’s southwest, to be exact the suburb of Rosemeadow, near Campbelltown.
One man was shot in the back, another in the buttocks, four were stabbed and one had head wounds. Those involved last night were aged between 16 and 52. Knives, baseball bats, axes and a gun were used. A police riot squad attended the scene with a helicopter and dog squad members, but no arrests were made (does this mean street brawls are business as usual in Rosemeadow?)
One resident said last night’s violence followed a feud between two groups of youths - one from Dickens Road and the other from the streets around Macbeth Way. Another resident of Macbeth Way said the larger brawl started after a one-on-one fight at the top of the street. One of those involved was a teen from Macbeth Way and another, an older man, was from a nearby street, he said. The younger boy knocked the older man to the ground, which the older man resented, so came back with others and took it out on the young boys.
Another resident said there were regularly fights in the street involved bats and sticks, but the use of guns last night was an "escalation". What next, Uzis at 30 paces?
Apart from the drunken violence approach to inter-family disputes, some other things about this struck me as pure bogan:
- 37 year old grandmothers
- backyards with bull terriers in them (this was on the TV news tonight)
I’m sure if we get a closer look at this neighbourhood there will be additional treats like old car bodies lying around in front yards, and when it goes to court I’m absolutely certain we will be treated with some good bogan names.
Rajini Narayan of Adelaide found her husband was having an affair. This set her off in a big way. She allegedly poured petrol over his genitals and set them on fire as he slept. However, things got out of hand. Mr Narayan, his wife and their three children fled the fire, which spread to the rest of the home, damaged a neighbouring property and caused about $1 million damage.
Mr Narayan suffered burns to 85 per cent of his body and died in the Royal Adelaide Hospital 20 days after being set alight.
it was alleged by the prosecutor that Mrs Narayan was heard outside the house saying that her husband loved another woman and was having an affair, and that she said:
"His penis should belong to me. I wanted to burn his penis so it didn’t belong to anyone else.”
and
"it was just his penis I wanted to burn”
and that she did not mean for "anything like this” to happen.
Mrs Narayan has been charged with her husband’s murder. Unsurprisingly, her bail application has been adjourned so that a psychiatrist can prepare a report on her mental state.
Here’s a couple of weird things I’ve noticed in the news in the last day or two of 2008.
First, a carjacking in Melbourne. The unusual thing about it was that the thieves jumped out of a Porsche Boxter, beat the victim up, and then stole his 1997 Jeep Wrangler.
Second, campers down at Pambula on the NSW South Coast saw some animal in their camping ground. At first they thought it was a large goanna, but on closer inspection they found it was an alligator and 1.5 metres long. Alligators are not native to Australia so one being here in the bush was a surprise to say the least. Authorities believe it was probably a pet being illegally held somewhere close to Pambula. Some of the campers captured the alligator using a volleyball net, wrestled it and taped its mouth shut before calling wildlife authorities. The animal has been taken to a zoo while authorities look for a permanent home for it.
I know it shits me when people talk, or munch food loudly during movies, but this is really taking things to extremes.
James Joseph Cialella Jr, 29, was charged with attempted murder, aggravated assault and weapons violations for shooting another film goer in the left arm. Cialella was furious for being disturbed while watching The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. He had asked the family to quieten down, then threw popcorn at the boy, which escalated into a physical argument with the father, during which Cialella pulled out a handgun (this being America where it is the done thing to carry a gun to the movies) and shot the father in the arm.
He then sat down and continued to watch the movie.
Time for another roundup of my statistics as the 210k mark rolls over. Its been 47 days for this last 10k, which is a bit slower than usual. I am finding it harder to motivate myself to post to my blog, so I suppose my lack of activity and effort is reflecting in my readership. I must aim to do better in 2009.
Now for the highlights of my search logs in that last 10k visits:
- the demand for Hermione Granger porn continues unabated – variations on this, ie nude, porn, tits, pussy, sex, feature heavily in the top 50
- there is also plenty of demand for tits (generically, not specifically Hermione’s)
- as well as women crapping …. can’t imagine why that draws people here?
- Sarah Palin has a few fans – Wasilla hillbillies came up a number of times …. can’t see any interest in Sarah Palin nude, though?
- how to tell if your drunk is also popular – my advice, get drunk, you’ll find out for yourself
- “gunshot wounds” – interesting fetish?
- the usual pedos were out and about – pedo sex, 10 year old pussy, etc
- stupid baby names gets a good run too.
Thats it for now. Lets see what the next 10,000 brings.
Oh, and if I don’t post anything tomorrow, have a happy Christmas.
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Well, lots of us try to blame the dog to cover up a fart, but a guy in the Northern Territory went much further, and tried to blame the ecstasy tablets police caught him with on his dog.
Steven James Dwyer, 48, contested the charge of possessing an amount of ecstasy tablets, saying he thought the pills would stop his pet shar-peis from breeding. Dwyer claimed the tablets had come into his hands when he was outside a Katherine laundromat, after he met a man with a female shar-pei dog. He told the Court the man had told him he used birth control tablets on the dogs, but he had since had his own dog desexed and had no use for the tablets he had in his car.
"I knew she was due to come on heat, I thought, ‘That’ll be very handy for her’,"
he said, claiming no money had changed hands.
Not surprisingly, the court didn’t believe his excuses. The magistrate didn’t swallow his bullshit story, plus I’m sure the fact he also pleaded guilty to possession of methamphetamine tablets at the same hearing didn’t help establish his credibility. (He claimed he bought that to help keep up with his workload as a painter).
He scored himself a 2 month suspended sentence for his troubles. That’ll teach him to try to blame his dog for his sins.
I posted a while back about stupid baby names some parents anointed their kids with in New Zealand. Well it would come as no surprise at all that idiotic parents giving their kids appallingly stupid names is not exclusively a Kiwi thing. I am often greatly amused/appalled by bogan naming conventions, so am regularly on the lookout for fine examples of parental stupidity.
Here’s one from America. Heath and Deborah Campbell from New Jersey decided it would be a good idea to call their son Adolf Hitler Campbell.
Mr Campbell said he named his son after Adolf Hitler because he liked the name and because “no one else in the world would have that name”. He also claimed:
“Yeah, they (Nazis) were bad people back then. But my kids are little. They’re not going to grow up like that.”
The name of the boy presented a problem when a local store refused to inscribe “Happy Birthday Adolf Hitler” on a cake. Said Mr Campbell:
“They need to accept a name. A name’s a name. The kid isn’t going to grow up and do what (Hitler) did,”
Hmmm, I can smell a stupid lawsuit coming on in the land of litigation.
But this family just gives and gives when it comes to childrens’ names. They have other children named:
- JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell
- Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell – supposedly named in honour of Heinrich Himmler.
Mr Campbell said he didn’t expect the names to cause problems when the children start school. Oh, yeah, sure thing! Poor kids – if ever there was a lawsuit in this they should sue their parents for cruelty and stupidity.
And wait, there’s still more (this is like the free set of steak knives thrown in to sweeten the deal), Mr Campbell has decorated his home with swastikas and says he is related to a member of the SS.
Fuckwit – another pair who should never have been allowed to breed.
Iraqi journalist, Muntadar al-Zaidi, showed excellent aim when he threw his shoes at US President George Bush in Baghdad yesterday. I’d need hawkeye, like on the cricket on TV, to confirm it, but I’d say George would have copped at least one shoe fair in the face if he hadn’t have ducked out of the way.
al-Zaidi, an Iraqi television journalist, stood up and shouted "this is a goodbye kiss from the Iraqi people, dog," before hurling a shoe at Mr Bush which narrowly missed him. With his second shoe, he said: "This is for the widows and orphans and all those killed in Iraq." He was then wrestled to the ground and taken away by security personnel. Subsequent reports say he suffered some injuries, including a broken arm and ribs, but it is not clear if these happened during the struggle to restrain him, or later when in police custody.
Showing the soles of shoes to someone is a sign of contempt in Arab culture. The sensitivity is related to the fact shoes are considered ritually unclean in the Muslim faith.
Of course, in the Arab world, al-Zaidi has become something of a hero for for expressing his anger at the Bush administration. In cafes and online chat rooms, people joked about the incident with glee, releasing years of frustration with U.S. policies. Thousands of Iraqis demonstrated in the streets demanding his release from Iraqi custody.
