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MAN OF NO APPEARANCE IN PAPER OF NO READERS

Flashman discovers another No Appearance Guy in the Sydney Morning Herald:

Police said the driver was described as about 22 to 25 years old, 175 centimetres tall with a muscular build.

According to police:

The male driver of the blue Commodore police believe can assist with inquiries has been described as Middle Eastern/Mediterranean in appearance, about 22 to 25 years old and 175cm in height with a muscular build.

Posted by Tim B. on 12/21/2006 at 02:39 AM
  1. Someone or something did some… aah stuff it. Nobodies reading anyway.

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 12 21 at 02:53 AM • permalink

  2. Kind of pointless, isn’t it?

    The entire SMH, I mean.

    Posted by Dminor on 2006 12 21 at 02:55 AM • permalink

  3. You’d think by now the SMH would have tweeked that every time they do one of their agenda driven, re-written police reports, Tim would spring them and expose them.

    A decent journal with an ounce of integity would die of embarrassment at the inevitablity of it all.

    Posted by Bonmot on 2006 12 21 at 02:55 AM • permalink

  4. Probably a rugby league player.

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 12 21 at 02:59 AM • permalink

  5. This is kind of an old practice, no?

    If a dangerous suspect, on the loose and in your neighborhood, is white with red hair and an ‘I heart PHIL COLLINS” tatoo on his left forearm, you will learn that and other important details about the individual from the news reports, allowing one to exercise reasonable precautions.

    If the dangerous and on the loose suspect is other than the evil white-man.

    Well…you’re on your own.

    Not so sure this one reporter deserves singling out though.

    It seems more of a policy thing, handed down from PC-Olympus-HQ.

    Posted by Thomas on 2006 12 21 at 03:17 AM • permalink

  6. So have they ever attempted to explain or justify this policy?

    Posted by Ian Deans on 2006 12 21 at 03:19 AM • permalink

  7. Here’s the Comfit of the wanted man.

    .__O__
    ...  |
    ...  A
    ... A A

    —Nora

    Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2006 12 21 at 03:25 AM • permalink

  8. Police said the driver was described as about 22 to 25 years old, 175 centimetres tall with a muscular build-

    they usually list the clothing in these descriptions as well, so maybe the smh left that out too because he was wearing something that might lead bigots to make unfortunate racial assumptions

    possibly a yarmulke

    Posted by eeniemeenie on 2006 12 21 at 03:26 AM • permalink

  9. #6 Ian Deans

    So have they ever attempted to explain or justify this policy?

    A good question. If the Community Sensitivity Board frowns, it doesn’t run?

    Posted by Spiny Norman on 2006 12 21 at 03:34 AM • permalink

  10. Racial vilification, fostering racist attitudes and all that, Ian. But in reality because it goes against their general creedo.

    Farcial.

    Posted by Dminor on 2006 12 21 at 04:02 AM • permalink

  11. #8 eeniemeenie: You have just reminded me of the most unfortunate joke that my little constable told me once: ‘Why don’t Lebs wear condoms?’ ‘Because no-one makes them with Nike trademarks yet.’

    Posted by 185600 on 2006 12 21 at 04:16 AM • permalink

  12. I’m glad that the bulk of everyday Aussies are not fooled by the polite fictions of political correctness.

    They smell bullshit a mile away. Sydneysiders know what’s happening despite the SMH’s dissembling.

    You can’t live in this city without, sooner or later, being threatened either directly or implicitly by gangs of no appearance scum.

    Everybody knows why the Cronulla unpleasantness happened, despite their thoughts about what occurred.

    The SMH is ignoring the elephant in the room.

    Posted by Penguin on 2006 12 21 at 04:32 AM • permalink

  13. arrgh, who’s got a broom, so I can sweep this mess up before Andrea gets here!

    Posted by Penguin on 2006 12 21 at 04:35 AM • permalink

  14. No spilling the italics. You know how the Blogmistress gets…

    Posted by Spiny Norman on 2006 12 21 at 04:45 AM • permalink

  15. Everybody knows why the Cronulla unpleasantness happened

    yes racist aussie thugs- their minds addled by exposure to the fascist australian flag and little johnnies magic whistle invaded cronallah- disrupting the peaceful lebanese sandcastles for harmony day charity fundraising event

    thats right isnt it?

    good one 185600- were making our own crackers this year and that will definitely make the grade- been following your comments and will be raising a xxxx in your honour like many others here

    Posted by eeniemeenie on 2006 12 21 at 04:51 AM • permalink

  16. #15 eeniemeenie: Ta mate, Dirty Harriet and I will be back up there tomorrow, just for Chrissy, and I will be having a few myself (can’t have any for the next few months, so I had better get them in:)
    Oh, and you are quite right, the Australian flag always makes you want to bash a furinner, (as Grimmy would put it). Been happening in my family since we’ve had a flag. We really have to stop turning up with a rifle every time there’s a war. People are starting to talk:)

    Posted by 185600 on 2006 12 21 at 05:01 AM • permalink

  17. Talk leads to rumor, and rumor leads to reputation. We can’t have that.

    ;^)

    Posted by Spiny Norman on 2006 12 21 at 05:08 AM • permalink

  18. I hope these men of indeterminate appearance strike the editorial staff of the SMH one day. Then and only then might their appearance suddenly acquire a certain definition…

    Posted by carpefraise on 2006 12 21 at 05:23 AM • permalink

  19. #17 Spiny: Granddaddy always said, “if you can’t say something nice about someone - he’s probably a jap out to get you so shoot the bugger first.” Or something like that:) But seriously, my family is always ready for some ‘imperialistic’ aggression, to whit: WW1: Three vets, WW2: 4 vets: Korea: 1 vet: Malaya: 2 vets: Vietnam: 4 vets (dad and his brothers, one with two tours). That’s just immediate family, of course :) And then there is lil’ old me. And someone once asked why the hell I joined up?

    Posted by 185600 on 2006 12 21 at 05:28 AM • permalink

  20. #19 - Wow, that’s mighty impressive! Talk about a patriotic family!

    My grandfather was the closest we have to an army vet - he volunteered for WW2 and got to Sydney when the war ended, so he came home!

    Posted by Ian Deans on 2006 12 21 at 05:34 AM • permalink

  21. (More exclamation marks! Than I had intended!)

    Posted by Ian Deans on 2006 12 21 at 05:34 AM • permalink

  22. #20, Ian Deans:

    Dont think slightly about your gradaddy. He joined up when it was looking very much like we were going to have to invade the home islands of Japan.

    It was common knowledge, to both military and civilian, that few would be comming home from that.

    Took a special kind of iron to sign up with that looming on the horison.

    Posted by Grimmy on 2006 12 21 at 05:42 AM • permalink

  23. abu bakir bashir’s been cleared of involvement in the bali bombings :(

    Posted by eeniemeenie on 2006 12 21 at 05:42 AM • permalink

  24. #20 Ian: Us QLDers are like that:) Na, we just wanted to go somewhere else, see different things I guess. Hell, my mum hasn’t ever been south of Townsville, and nor had I before I joined up. Now I’ve seen, well, maybe not the world, but some good and bad parts of it, and to be honest, Australia is home, and the best part of the world. Second goes to the USA, they can keep the UK though, miserable rainy place, like Melbourne on steroids:)
    Oh, please be careful with those exclamation marks, you’ll have someone’s eye out!!!!!!

    Posted by 185600 on 2006 12 21 at 05:43 AM • permalink

  25. Ian: Like Grimmy says, he was signing up for an invasion that would have been a bloodbath, but did it anyway. It takes guts to do that.

    Posted by 185600 on 2006 12 21 at 05:47 AM • permalink

  26. #19 that is impressive

    my dad was in raeme and i grew up in puckapunyal and bandiana and have a lot of respect (and fond memories) for the army

    Posted by eeniemeenie on 2006 12 21 at 05:48 AM • permalink

  27. #19 Eeniemeenie: Not really, they pretty much wanted to do their bit, and also, it’s much easier to pull a girl when you’re wearing a uniform:) Pretty much it was economics, one granddaddy was a horsebreaker, the other worked for the railways. Soldiers earned more, and with young families (mum’s had 11, dad’s had 7) it made sense. But we have always been pretty conservative people. I guess Far North Queensland is pretty similar to the USA’s Deep South, since a lot of American troops I’ve met have been from there?

    Posted by 185600 on 2006 12 21 at 05:59 AM • permalink

  28. Well I certainly didn’t respect him any less for it - in fact, I can’t think of a single person who I admire or respect more.

    #185600: My brother moved up to Townsville about a year ago, said he got a tour of the base and was massively impressed. He always mentioned that whenever he sees a group of jets flying overhead he realises that he picked the wrong career!

    Posted by Ian Deans on 2006 12 21 at 06:06 AM • permalink

  29. PS - A truly beautiful town, I might add. I spent a fortnight there last winter and can’t wait to get back there (hopefully around Easter).

    Posted by Ian Deans on 2006 12 21 at 06:07 AM • permalink

  30. Police said the driver was described as about 22 to 25 years old, 175 centimetres tall with a muscular build.

    The MSM explain that as a general rule they leave out the alleged perpetrator’s race because it’s not relevant and might be considered racist.  But why are they listing his age?  Can this not be considered ageist?

    AGEISM!  AGEISM!

    If you leave out one description of the perpetrator, you must leave out all descriptions.  Just say someone did it and leave it at that.  Instead of providing a photo of the perpetrator or an artist’s rendering, just place a piece of mylar on the newspaper page.  I mean we’re all to blame for society’s failings, right?

    Posted by wronwright on 2006 12 21 at 06:09 AM • permalink

  31. got a good age bracket on the perp?

    Where’s Commissioner Harrod when you need him eh?

    Posted by Grimmy on 2006 12 21 at 06:16 AM • permalink

  32. god the abc sucks- not only the global warmmongering shite but note the link between the second and third paragraph ‘


    2006 Year in review

    The earth moved, winds blew, fires burned and rains failed as climate change fears, worsening drought and raging bushfires scorched Australia during 2006.

    It was also a year scarred with increasing conflict as more Australian defence forces were deployed to troubled regions across the world.

    But there were great stories of courage and compassion as Australians rose to the call to help as natural disasters ravaged neighbouring countries.

    Posted by eeniemeenie on 2006 12 21 at 06:18 AM • permalink

  33. #28 Ian: Yes it is, after dad had a heart attack I brought he and mum a house there, after he had a heart attack (35 years in the mines - we’re from Karumba up on the Cape). It truly is. I will not go into the debauchery that goes on in Flinders street, but as a soldier it is a pretty good spot. That and the fact that nearly everyone knows or has met someone in the military. My nephew, who is 5, likes to go up to anyone he sees in a uniform and tell them to take it off because it’s mine, and whenever a Herc lands (lives near the RAAF base) always looks out to see if I am jumping. I probably shouldn’t have taken him to the base the day I was, apparently he now wants to jump out of planes for a living:) Still, it’s one way to get to work, among many. Let me know when you are up there next winter, and I’ll show you around the fleshpots of Flinders street:)

    Posted by 185600 on 2006 12 21 at 06:18 AM • permalink

  34. Aw, come on… the Sydney Morning Herald is just being a responsible citizen in the business of mainstream media reportage. They just wanna keep the streets of this glistening harbour city safe…

    Safe for the SMH editors and reporters allied to the fifth column, that is.

    And a whole lot safer for the poor, misunderstood, welfare-dependent, criminally-sophisticated, Muslim wild colonial boys that’s gallopin’ around this town.

    Posted by splice on 2006 12 21 at 06:30 AM • permalink

  35. #11 185600

    ‘Why don’t Lebs wear condoms?’ ‘Because no-one makes them with Nike trademarks yet.’

    ‘Because saying “if it’s not on, it’s not on” will get the girl a rape and a beating’?

    Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2006 12 21 at 06:35 AM • permalink

  36. After a year of hard scrubbing, the Maid will be having a nap on the psychiatrist’s couch for a week or two. A couple of our finest commenters are approaching the 1000 club and hope this won’t go un-noticed.

    Merry Christmas to all - especially all servicemen and women. Thanks to all round goddess and bringer of the trolls, Andrea and capitalist lap-dog so-called “Tim Blair”.

    Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 12 21 at 06:37 AM • permalink

  37. BTW, Muslim Village lurkers will know that the SMH is the preferred paper of our muzzie friends.

    Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2006 12 21 at 06:37 AM • permalink

  38. #33 lol Sure thing! Love the QLD winters - I leave Williamtown and its wet and about 13 degrees but when I land, it’s a balmy 26!

    Posted by Ian Deans on 2006 12 21 at 06:38 AM • permalink

  39. #35 Muzzie: I think that they get both, the bonus plan of multiculturalism, if you like.

    Posted by 185600 on 2006 12 21 at 06:43 AM • permalink

  40. #Ian: I pity you young grasshopper, for putting up with such conditions! Have I told you yet that the uni up there has a large number of students from Scandinavia? Email me in 4 or 5 months, in case I can’t comment (we don’t normally get email, unlike the rest of the ADF), and if I have leave I will beg the constable to give me day (night) release.

    Posted by 185600 on 2006 12 21 at 06:51 AM • permalink

  41. Scandinavia? Well, shit, why didn’t you say so?

    I’ll see if any flights are leaving this evening…

    Posted by Ian Deans on 2006 12 21 at 06:57 AM • permalink

  42. #41 Ian: LMAO. Off to bed now, I have an early flight, will try to comment again before I leave proper. Am currently being dragged to bed, and if I don’t go, capsicum spray will likely be deployed next:) Take care mate.

    Posted by 185600 on 2006 12 21 at 07:11 AM • permalink

  43. You too, 185. All the best!

    Posted by Ian Deans on 2006 12 21 at 07:18 AM • permalink

  44. 185600 - when you get over there, just remember that our gallant allies can be mad souvenier hunters.

    My late uncle served in New Guinea in RAEME.  He had a great sideline going with his blacksmith shopping turning busted jeep springs into samurai swords and selling them to the yanks.  I reckon he thought serving in a theatre with the yanks was the best thing since sliced bread.  He always drove a Jag - I reckon they were mainly paid for by those busted jeep springs.

    If in a few months time, you are starting to think that you have been away a while, ponder this.  Dad served in the Navy with a bloke who went overseas in 1939.  I think he did a transfer to the RN or something, which was common as mud.  Dad was RAN and half the crew on his corvette were RN.  Due to some beauracratic messing around, this bloke in particular was overseas until 1946. 

    I think that bloke holds the record for the longest overseas tour.  Just beware the paper pushing wallah’s!

    Posted by mr creosote on 2006 12 21 at 07:30 AM • permalink

  45. Police said the driver was described as about 22 to 25 years old, 175 centimetres tall with a muscular build.

    Because crime amongst one group is so common, this is just an example of journalists saving time.  When the description is ommited, it is becuase it’s a “dog-bites-man” event i.e. leaving out “lebanese muslim” saves 16 chars.

    Posted by Rob Read on 2006 12 21 at 08:46 AM • permalink

  46. The SMH left in two subtle hints that could help one deduce the perpetrator’s background.
    1) Sydney’s south-west and Fairfield Police station.
    2) Gun

    As always, for those that haven’t read this must-read article:
    The Rise of Middle Eastern Crime in Australia by Tim Priest.

    I’m surprised the petrol station has no CCTV images of the number plate. There must be no limit of fail-to-pay drive offs in that area.

    Posted by Dan Lewis on 2006 12 21 at 08:47 AM • permalink

  47. #46 - you don’t need CCTV to remember the number plates. 

    After all, most of them will be in the form of:

    IM2SEXY
    SEXYLEB
    WOGSTYLE
    I8WRX (seen on a V8 ute recently)
    PUSSY4ME
    HOTMAN
    DEADSXY
    etc etc

    The hard part is to recount the number plate to the cops without pissing yourself laughing.

    Posted by mr creosote on 2006 12 21 at 08:57 AM • permalink

  48. “Man of No Appearance in Paper of No Readers”

    Ah, Tim Blair, “the humorless right-wing blogger” (Mike Hudson, Niagara Falls Reporter) strikes again!

    Posted by paco on 2006 12 21 at 09:38 AM • permalink

  49. mr creosote,

    no P43D0CU1T ?

    Posted by Rob Read on 2006 12 21 at 10:19 AM • permalink

  50. What have we here? A foreign attack by Australians of no appearance?

    Posted by SoberHT on 2006 12 21 at 10:22 AM • permalink

  51. “Police said the driver was described as about 22 to 25 years old, 175 centimetres tall with a muscular build.”
    Also apparently a person of no sex.
    For all we know it could be a weight-lifting dyke with attitude.

    Posted by Observer on 2006 12 21 at 10:50 AM • permalink

  52. Heart rate:

    110 beats per minute, when sleep doesn’t come. Again.

    120 beats per minute, pouring the Cornflakes.

    180 beats per minute, waiting for the green light.

    Ride:

    Stolen Subaru WRX, 4cyl sports sedan, 230 horsepower.

    Driver:

    Progeny of the Perpetually Maligned™.

    Drug of choice:

    Oh, I dunno… surely someone can do the math.

    Posted by splice on 2006 12 21 at 10:51 AM • permalink

  53. A couple of days ago the SMH reported on a group of youths that disrupted Christmas carols in western Sydney. Their appearance was not given.

    Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2006 12 21 at 11:36 AM • permalink

  54. Oops, it seems I got my facts wrong. It was a blue Commodore in entirely different circumstances. What was I thinking?

    Posted by splice on 2006 12 21 at 11:41 AM • permalink

  55. Post #5, if anyone had an “I heart Phil Collins” tattoo, they would have been arrested before now.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2006 12 21 at 12:31 PM • permalink

  56. For all we know it could be a weight-lifting dyke with attitude.

    Now that’s scary.

    Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 12 21 at 01:57 PM • permalink

  57. #46 Dan Lewis

    From your link:

    As was the case in those days, we arrested every adult and teenager who had hampered our search. When it came to court, they were represented by Legal Aid, of course, who claimed that these people were innocent of the minor charges of public disorder and hindering police, because they were recent arrivals from a country where people have an historical hatred towards police, and that they also had poor communications skills and that the police had not executed the warrant in a manner that was acceptable to the Muslim occupants.

    The magistrate, well known to police as one who convicted fewer than one in ten offenders brought before him during his term at Burwood local court, threw the matter out, siding with the occupants and condemning the police. I remember thinking, thank heavens we don’t run into many Lebanese drug dealers.

    Ohfercryinoutloud. Did the magistrate demand that the police return the seized heroin?

    Posted by Spiny Norman on 2006 12 21 at 02:52 PM • permalink

  58. ABC-TV is as bad as the SMH. They place a smearing disc over the faces of ethnic suspects. But often a well-tanned arm or something will escape the smearing disc and confirm our suspicions. It could be argued that ABC is worse than SMH because they modify an image rather than just omitting some words.

    #38 Ian Deanes.
    I have been off-line for a day or so and may have missed it. Have you made your vocational decision yet?
    I know the Army needs people like you but I would like to put in a plug for the RAAF. At about your age I decided I would rather fly jets than teach kids, junked my Teachers’ College scholarship and signed up.
    The next 8 years, mostly at Williamtown, were the best in my life. The RAAF gives you great boys’ toys to play with. The added bonus was that it lead to a long and happy career in aviation when I got too old to play with the toys.
    You would be welcome to stop off here in SEQ on your way north to FNQ.

    Posted by Skeeter on 2006 12 21 at 03:33 PM • permalink

  59. Oops, sorry. Make that Ian Deans. PIMF

    Posted by Skeeter on 2006 12 21 at 03:35 PM • permalink

  60. From Dan Lewis’ horror story of a link:

    But the humiliation did not end there. The group of Middle Eastern males then drove to the police station, where they intimidated the station staff, damaged property and virtually held a suburban police station hostage. The police were powerless. The duty officer ordered police not to confront the offenders but to call for back-up from nearby stations. Eventually the offenders left of their own volition. No action was taken against them.

    Huh?? The police have the power to detain and arrest and they’re armed. How can they be powerless? So, have you guys lynched Peter Ryan yet?

    William Bratton is the foremost proponent of the “broken windows” approach to law enforcement. He has his work cut out for him in LA.

    (Note to self: When you finally visit Australia, stay the hell out of southwest Sydney.)

    Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 12 21 at 03:50 PM • permalink

  61. ‘A KORAN has been torn up and smeared with faeces and the floors of a Melbourne prayer hall urinated on, in an apparent retaliation to Muslim schoolboys desecrating the Bible.
    The Islamic community was last night furious as the police continued their investigation into the “criminal damage” done to the Melbourne airport facility on Wednesday morning.
    Muslim spiritual leader Fehmi Naji El-Imam condemned the desecration as “ignorant and immature”, fearing that it was in retaliation to an incident earlier this month where young boys at a Melbourne Islamic school burned and urinated on the Bible. ‘
    From today’s AUS.
    Let’s try an enjoy our Christmas before the riots start.

    Posted by davo on 2006 12 21 at 04:16 PM • permalink

  62. #60 Kyda Sylvester

    William Bratton is the foremost proponent of the “broken windows” approach to law enforcement. He has his work cut out for him in LA.

    So far, sadly to say, he’s been the Prince of Political Correctness. Calling him disappointing is an understatement: he’s been nothing but a mouthpiece for the craven Police Commission that is the real source of the problem in LA. Ever since the embarrassment of the Rampart Scandal, the LAPD has been in full retreat.

    Posted by Spiny Norman on 2006 12 21 at 04:37 PM • permalink

  63. And here’s another heartwarming story for Australians at christmas.

    Seasons greetings from Indonesia

    JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesia overturned a terror conviction Thursday against the militant Islamic cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, who served 2 1/2 years for conspiracy in the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings that killed more than 200 people.

    Posted by davo on 2006 12 21 at 04:41 PM • permalink

  64. Los Angeles does not have any Lebanese or Arab Muslim gangs of note, it is however the home of the equally brutal and ruthless Mara Salvatrucha or MS-13 gang. The LAPD’s failure to crush these thugs when they had the ability and the oportunity to do so has led to this organization going nationwide. Were they afraid of “ethic backlash” and civil rights lawsuits? You betcha.

    Posted by Spiny Norman on 2006 12 21 at 04:47 PM • permalink

  65. #63 davo,

    Indonesia overturned a terror conviction Thursday against the militant Islamic cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, who served 2 1/2 years for conspiracy in the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings that killed more than 200 people.

    Didn’t they pardon and release the actual bombers “for Ramadan” earlier this year?

    Posted by Spiny Norman on 2006 12 21 at 04:50 PM • permalink

  66. Spiny Norman: So, I take it you live in LA? Do you ever read the articles by “Jack Dunphy”, the pseudonym of an LA police officer who writes occasional articles for NRO? they’re pretty interesting.

    Posted by paco on 2006 12 21 at 04:57 PM • permalink

  67. You’re right, Norm, he has been a big disappointment. But then, he doesn’t have a Rudy Giuliani backing him up in LA. One man can do a lot, but he can’t do it alone and he can’t do it without support. Los Angeles County is riding the backs of its “undocumented” population to third world status. It will take decades to undo the damage wrought by our multi-culti, morally relativist, PC post-modernists. If, in fact, we can undo it at all.

    Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 12 21 at 05:20 PM • permalink

  68. Paco, I was once told who “Jack Dunphy” really is but I can’t for the life of me remember.

    Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 12 21 at 05:23 PM • permalink

  69. #68: Well, if you remember, better keep it to yourself. You don’t want him dogging you for jaywalking the rest of your life in revenge for your spilling the beans. :)

    Posted by paco on 2006 12 21 at 05:35 PM • permalink

  70. #66 paco,

    Not in LA itself, but I’ve lived nearly my whole life in Southern California. Yeah, I’ve read a couple of Jack Dunphy articles. I wonder how many rank and file cops are righteously pissed off at the politicization of law enforcement.

    #67 Kyda Sylvester

    One man can do a lot, but he can’t do it alone and he can’t do it without support.

    Quite right. He serves at the pleasure of the Police Commission, and I doubt he was ever meant to be anything other than window dressing.

    Posted by Spiny Norman on 2006 12 21 at 05:55 PM • permalink

  71. #61 Davo, I noted that here yesterday.
    I’d like to see photos of this desecration before I start getting upset about it.

    It also made it to the Aged:

    Vandals strike airport prayer room
    Jordan Chong
    December 20, 2006


    A prayer room used mainly by taxi drivers working at Melbourne Airport was vandalised today, according to police.

    Police were unable to confirm the exact nature of the incident, but said in a statement a damaged Koran was found at the scene at about 5.30am.

    “Forensic procedures are being used in attempt to identify the offender or offenders,” the statement said.

    The “non-denominational facility” on Melrose Drive near the airport is used by taxi drivers waiting for available cab ranks at the airport.

    Anyone with information should call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or visit http://www.crimestoppers.com.au.

    Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 12 21 at 06:07 PM • permalink

  72. Another Jack Dunphy article that illustrates the obsequeous cringing so popular in the LA city government.

    Key quote:

    There is a seldom-discussed fear that animates just about everyone in city government here in Los Angeles: the fear of a riot like that which followed the acquittal of four LAPD officers in the beating of Rodney King in 1992. It is this fear that causes them to embrace charlatans like Tony Muhammad and others, who use the threat of such a riot as a means to increase their own influence and to lay claim to a share of the millions of dollars in “gang-intervention” money that the city spreads around each year. And it is this fear that also requires the periodic sacrifice of police officers involved in controversial incidents…

    So pathetic. Since the City is not going to support the police chief in cracking down on real crime, I doubt very much that William Bratton will leave this job with his reputation unsullied.

    Posted by Spiny Norman on 2006 12 21 at 06:30 PM • permalink

  73. Nearly 24 hours without a post from Tim. That must be some Christmas party at the Telegraph.

    Posted by cuckoo on 2006 12 21 at 07:27 PM • permalink

  74. God bless all those who served Australia and the US in past wars and in this one.  You wont be forgotten!

    Posted by Sharon Ferguson on 2006 12 21 at 07:43 PM • permalink

  75. LGF has the vid This is DNN. It satirizes today’s treasonous war coverage by applying it to WW2 situation and imagry.

    Posted by Grimmy on 2006 12 21 at 07:54 PM • permalink

  76. Since the boss and his enforcer seem to be distracted, how about we exercise a bit of initiative and convert this into an “open” style thread?

    Posted by Grimmy on 2006 12 21 at 08:15 PM • permalink

  77. #47

    WANKR

    would be more appropriate!

    Posted by kae on 2006 12 21 at 08:36 PM • permalink

  78. Haven’t we already? It’s not like they woouldn’t expect it…

    Posted by Spiny Norman on 2006 12 21 at 08:37 PM • permalink

  79. #76 Grimmy

    (missing from the above comment)

    Posted by Spiny Norman on 2006 12 21 at 08:37 PM • permalink

  80. # 76 - if you want to make it an open thread get the niagara troll back here.

    Posted by surfmaster on 2006 12 21 at 08:43 PM • permalink

  81. #60
    Peter Ryan left before his contract expired. I think he took a shitload of money with him.

    Posted by kae on 2006 12 21 at 08:46 PM • permalink

  82. Oh, and it’s raining where I am.

    Posted by kae on 2006 12 21 at 08:50 PM • permalink

  83. LOL oops, sorry. Coming in late and didn’t realize it’d already gone to “open”.

    Oh well, now at least Andrea has someone to pin it on if things go sideways :)

    Posted by Grimmy on 2006 12 21 at 08:57 PM • permalink

  84. #29- Can’t say I’ve ever seen the term beautiful used in the context of Townsville before. I suppose the Strand looking over to magnetic Island is quite pleasant, but the rest of the place is a dump, built in the world’s biggest rain shadow. Possibly only the worse place in Qld is Rockhampton, my home town, and absolute shithole. And Brisbane isn’t much beter than either, and has a lot more retards.

    Posted by Habib on 2006 12 21 at 09:01 PM • permalink

  85. Grimmy - is that anythng like ‘going loud’?  Or is that a moot point with my friends here?

    Posted by Sharon Ferguson on 2006 12 21 at 09:10 PM • permalink

  86. #84 Habib, old chap, I think you are about due for an opthalanalectomy.
    Right now I am looking through my study window at paradise on earth in SEQ. I don’t mean the high-rise disaster area called Surfers Paradise down at the beach, but at verdant hills glistening from last night’s 32 mm of rain.
    Bliss!

    Posted by Skeeter on 2006 12 21 at 09:20 PM • permalink

  87. if by ‘going loud’ you mean making the cops (Andrea) respond to a disturbance call issueing from the neighbors trying to get some sleep, then yeah, probably.

    Posted by Grimmy on 2006 12 21 at 09:21 PM • permalink

  88. #84

    Townsville - Good place for a blue. Army and Uni students don’t mix too well. Agreed shittiest place on the coast. No decent beach to speak of, but by crikey is there some drinking done there.

    Rockhampton - Stop for a steak, then keep on driving.

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 12 21 at 09:28 PM • permalink

  89. The view from my 6 acres atop Kiels Mountain, in the hinterland behind Maroochydore is quite pleasant, and we’ve never been short of rain. Same can’t be said of the growing conurbation to the south where I have to carry out my trade.

    Brisbane’s always had a fair quota of mouth breathers, but the exodus from southern climes has just about put the population at critical mass. Same for a lot of the North and South Coasts, they’re rapidly being built out to accomodate southern brigands.

    Time to man the borders, I say.

    Posted by Habib on 2006 12 21 at 09:30 PM • permalink

  90. What the hell is that noise—

    Since the boss and his enforcer seem to be distracted, how about we exercise a bit of initiative and convert this into an “open” style thread?

    Where did I put that blunderbuss...

    Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 12 21 at 09:30 PM • permalink

  91. Umm..Andrea, ma’am… Not sayin you’re a devil or anything but ... you know that thing about speaking a name and then an appearance?


    Oh! Look at the grouse!!

    <em/ runs off to hide>

    Posted by Grimmy on 2006 12 21 at 09:45 PM • permalink

  92. For our friends in the UK:

    News of potential holiday terror attacks

    This may be a maybe but thoughts and prayers are with you anyway.

    Posted by Grimmy on 2006 12 21 at 09:49 PM • permalink

  93. #88- Agree, particularly in the Flinders Mall. The Natives tend toward beligerence as well, especially when the canteen’s shut on Palm Island and it’s pension day.

    Used to pale in comparison to the Barbary Coast in Cairns, especially when all the fisheads were in town, but that’s all been tarted up for tourists. I was in a pub (the Oceanic I think) there one night when a bloke was hurled through a plate glass window, then the hurler walked out through the hole in the glass, picked up the hurlee and dragged him back through the broken glass, then hurled him back out.

    We decided it was time to leave, to seek more salubrious surrounds, like the Barrier Reef, where they tended to fight out on the footpath where it was cooler.

    Posted by Habib on 2006 12 21 at 09:50 PM • permalink

  94. #90 Andrea Harris -

    Where did I put that blunderbuss…

    (spits Diet Fanta root beer on keyboard)

    If I didn’t know better, I’d say that’s not your blunderbuss.  Not in the least. 

    (goes to check lock on basement vault, posts Yippy the Loud Dachsund as sentry)

    Posted by wronwright on 2006 12 21 at 10:25 PM • permalink

  95. FOr the record, I would also like to second Townsville as a fantastic place to get shitfaced. I’ve been there a couple of times, and done some magnificent drinking.

    Last time I went up there I got so drunk I was still drunk the next day on the flight home.

    Nearly missed boarding, and got myself accidentally upgraded to bus class, and passed out for the trip.

    Crap weather, though. No wonder everyone drinks.

    Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 12 21 at 10:29 PM • permalink

  96. Diet Fanta root beer

    What an age we live in.

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 12 21 at 10:30 PM • permalink

  97. Dachsunds don’t make much noise when they’re busy eating delicious bacon-wrapped bit of steak. Just an observation. Of recent vintage.

    Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 12 21 at 10:43 PM • permalink

  98. In Defence of Townsville

    It’s nice, it’s very easygoing and seems pretty quiet. Agreed that there’s very little to do apart from drinking and climbing that big ole hill, but it’s a wonderful respite from the winter.

    That said, I didn’t really go far away from the Strand and North Ward.

    Posted by Ian Deans on 2006 12 21 at 11:06 PM • permalink

  99. Andrea,
    My condolences on the loss of the delicious piece of bacon-wrapped steak. 

    Or was it… freely given?

    Posted by ChrisPer on 2006 12 21 at 11:13 PM • permalink

  100. ‘cause thats not as much fun as letting them steal it.

    Posted by ChrisPer on 2006 12 21 at 11:19 PM • permalink

  101. Wilson goes quiet

    -snip-
    “WASHINGTON - Former ambassador Joseph Wilson asked a federal judge Wednesday not to force him to testify in the
    CIA leak case and accused former White House aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby of trying to harass him on the witness stand.”

    More at link above.

    Posted by Grimmy on 2006 12 21 at 11:29 PM • permalink

  102. My condolences on the loss of the delicious piece of bacon-wrapped steak.

    It was sacrificed to a worthy cause. (Returns to polishing antique blunderbuss.)

    Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 12 21 at 11:32 PM • permalink

  103. #84 Habib: Mate, I was also born in Rocky (southside), so to me Townsville is paradise:) Actually have you been up here in the last couple of years? I just got back up this morning, and it’s changed a lot, I guess the mining money has a bit to do with it. Still, our house is on Maggie Island, so we don’t have much to do with you mainlanders.
    Yours, one of the hillbilly retards.

    Posted by 185600 on 2006 12 21 at 11:36 PM • permalink

  104. In fear of, and out of respect for, the blunderbuss wielding etiquette enforcer, Grimmy sets up his parimeter defenses

    Posted by Grimmy on 2006 12 21 at 11:37 PM • permalink

  105. Ooh, I’ve got a nice big spot in my gallery for a piece like that…

    Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 12 21 at 11:52 PM • permalink

  106. There’s a pretty dang comprehensive “how to” in them pages on how to build one for yourself too.

    Posted by Grimmy on 2006 12 21 at 11:55 PM • permalink

  107. While all y’all furriners (thanks for the shorthand on that 185600) fuss and frothe over whether or not citizens should own handguns, we here in the lands of civilized folk got Personally Owned Artillery

    Posted by Grimmy on 2006 12 21 at 11:59 PM • permalink

  108. #107 Grimmy: You’re very welcome, from one furrin devil to ‘nother:)

    Posted by 185600 on 2006 12 22 at 12:06 AM • permalink

  109. Some guys have more toys than they deserve ...
    Castle Argghhh! Or scroll down to the button marked “To Visit the Imperial Arsenal of Doom” for the collection.
    Hit the “Start Slideshow” button for a tour.

    Cheers

    Posted by J.M. Heinrichs on 2006 12 22 at 12:37 AM • permalink

  110. Here’s civilians getting some practice “trigger time” on theirflame throwers

    Posted by Grimmy on 2006 12 22 at 12:55 AM • permalink

  111. #105, Andrea:

    Ooh, I’ve got a nice big spot in my gallery for a piece like that…

    Actually I think this might be more to your style BOOM!
    Of course, you cant make those yourself. You’d have to get one from the manufacturer.

    Posted by Grimmy on 2006 12 22 at 01:10 AM • permalink

  112. Here’s another one from the SMH: THE family of a Sudanese man who was fatally bashed outside a Parramatta pub has made an emotional plea to the public yesterday to help solve his murder .

    The SMH describes the attackers as “another group of men”, and “Superintendent Stirton said there would have been many witnesses to the “vicious and unprovoked attack”.

    So any clues about the attackers.  Well the police web site says,”They are only described as being of Pacific Islander and Middle Eastern/Mediterranean appearance.”

    I suppose that’s an interesting description and one shouldn’t jump to any conclusions, but does anyone see a pattern here?  Err….no, I guess not.

    Posted by Wand on 2006 12 22 at 01:52 AM • permalink

  113. Oh Andrea, incase storage room is an issue, here’s a new spin on an old design.

    Mini Machinegun

    I wonder if that could qualify as a “hand gun”? It fits easily in one hand, afterall.

    Posted by Grimmy on 2006 12 22 at 02:40 AM • permalink

  114. Here’s one that might possibly even be legal in eurabia for a civilian to own!

    Posted by Grimmy on 2006 12 22 at 03:40 AM • permalink

  115. If folk don’t start talking, I’m gonna have to dig up more crazy Americans shooting outlandish stuff, videos!

    Think you’ve seen all the vids from the machine gun shoots already? Nope, lots more.

    Maybe machine guns are getting boring. Anyone can own and shoot one of them, after all.

    Maybe I’ll dig around for some crazy Americans racing around the woods in their fully loaded and operational main battle tanks in a “shoot and scoot” demolition derby?

    Or, maybe I’ll see if there’s any vids of crazy Americans that own and operate fully operational jet fighter/bombers?

    After all, we can own and operate artillery.

    I wonder if anyone’s thought to buy a battleship or aircraft carrier yet? that’d be cool.

    come to think on it some… one of these babies would make a real cool party boat. I doubt pirates would be much of an issue, either.

    I wonder what one of those cost, surplus and refurbished? Who would I see to get a license for one?

    Posted by Grimmy on 2006 12 22 at 11:05 AM • permalink

  116. possibly a yarmulke

    No, I’m pretty sure Presbyterians don’t wear yarmulkes.

    Posted by Achillea on 2006 12 22 at 01:33 PM • permalink

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