Something must be surely wrong with the UK if this is acceptable. George Orwell must be turning in his grave.
Category: Bizarre
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Wait, What???
When did the War in the Pacific become the “lesser known theater” of WW2?
Seriously, are these people retarded?
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Something Is Not Right Here
The story of the 3 year old kid found dead in outer Melbourne is a tragedy. But there’s something not right in the coverage/ story:
The Herald Sun
When Harpreet Kaur Channa stepped out of the shower and realised her little boy, Gurshan Singh, was no longer in the house, she panicked. But when she discovered that the front door was ajar, her heart raced…
It was around 12.30pm when they lost sight of him.
News.com.au
disappeared from a house in the northern Melbourne suburb of Lalor about 1.10pm. His body was found about 20km away near Melbourne Airport after 7pm.
The boy was inside a house with his mother late yesterday morning at around midday she noticed he was missing, and after searching for him with family for about three quarters of an hour police were called.
His mother, Harpreet Kaur Channa, called police after he had been missing for 45 minutes, prompting a massive search.
Notice the time line problems.
It could just be confusion in the media.
But that’s not all
The Age
She told police she thought her son had walked out the front door while she was showering.
The Herald Sun
When Harpreet Kaur Channa stepped out of the shower and realised her little boy, Gurshan Singh, was no longer in the house, she panicked. But when she discovered that the front door was ajar, her heart raced.
She knew the three-year-old was able to open the security door.
and yet
ABC
and after searching for him with family for about three quarters of an hour police were called.
Why would you wait 45 minutes to call police if your 3 year old has gone missing? If you knew the 3 year old could get out of the house, why wouldn’t you key lock the door?
But here’s the oddest thing of all
The Age (different article)
Marisa Talarica, 37, whose parents have lived a few doors along the street for 40 years, said the street was busy with cars and people attending a funeral at St Luke’s Catholic Church across the road at lunchtime yesterday.
“At the time he went missing there was a funeral on at the church,” she said.
“The street was full of cars. I don’t know how it’s possible for a kid to go missing when you have so many people around.”
As of this morning, the police are saying no witnesses have come forward, although this will change…because it’s beyond the realms of possibility that a large group of people in the street wouldn’t have noticed a lone 3 year old child walking past. That’s presuming that is what has occurred.
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Google News censoring pics?
We ran a story earlier today on the name and public details of the alleged Churchill fire arsonist. We didn’t run his picture due to the gag order in place on his picture and address in Victoria (the gag order was lifted on his name), despite The Inquisitr being hosted in the US. No idea whether we were free to do so given where the site is hosted (I’ve heard arguments on both sides), but I didn’t think it was worth getting into a possible legal argument over. On the shot of his MySpace page we took, we purposely blanked out his image.
So this is seriously WTF. We’re in Google News as being based in Victoria, so maybe Google put in place something to be on the safe side? I just don’t know.
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Now would be a good time to invade Australia
It could be worse…like New Zealand
Navy closes for Christmas
NAVY chiefs battling a staffing crisis have taken the unprecedented step of ordering a two-month shutdown over Christmas, and have told personnel with child-care problems that they can work from home.
The navy has also ordered all ships not deployed on operations home for Christmas to try to combat a 2020 shortfall in trained personnel.
In addition, the number of sailors forced to stay on board ships docked in their home port on “duty watch” as sentries will be reduced from previous levels of 15 to 20 people to a skeleton staff.
On the bright side, docked ships still look scary, even if there’s no one to drive them 🙂
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The McCain-Palin Mob
I know what some critics have said: you can probably find a loony bunch of Obama supporters as well, but no one can watch this video and not be staggered by its contents. These aren’t your typical red-neck hicks, these look like middle class, average white folk, clean cut, some well dressed. Just…just….
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Grand Theft Hypocrisy
News.com.au reports on the ABC being forced to apologize over Tony Jones suggesting in an episode of Q&A that computer games aren’t rated in Australia.
Pretty much a non-story, even if it is on the front page of news.com.au, but given I’ve never watched the show, there was one part that flawed me:
During the episode aired on 24 July, chief executive of the Australian Industry Group Heather Ridout said she found it hard to support violent games.
Ms Ridout said she supported controversial photographer Bill Henson and that it was necessary to view art through “a different prism”, but violent games were “appalling”.
“Grand Theft Auto was one of the more famous games and seemed to turn everyone into a car thief,” she said.
“Violent games… violence, it breeds violence.”
The reference to Bill Henson for those not familiar with it was a case where Henson the artist published nude pics of kiddies, all in the name of art. There was an outcry at the time, and calls for censorship of the mag the pic was published, but it all came to little in the end.
So apparently looking a naked pictures of little kids doesn’t make you a pedophile, but playing GTA makes you a car thief. Hmmmm, I’ve played GTA before, and I don’t seem to have broken into a car yet.
Grand Hypocrisy of the first order.
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Melbourne commuters take note, this is how they do it in South America
I wonder what colour a Connex train would burn?via Reuters:
Furious rail commuters in Argentina set fire to a train on Thursday in anger over delays during the morning rush hour.
Television images showed black smoke and flames engulfing the train at the station of Merlo, in the western suburbs of the capital, Buenos Aires. At nearby Castelar, passengers hurled stones at the ticket office and blocked the rails….
Many passengers said the delays, caused by a broken down train, had cost them a day’s work.
Argentina’s dilapidated rail services are plagued by delays and travelers’ anger sometimes erupts into violence.
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Email Fail + Apologies
A short note of apology to anyone who sent me an email in the last 24 hours and had a bounced response. I’m still here, unfortunately my MediaTemple set up suffered some email fail. I still don’t know what it is, and after spending hours doing everything from trace routes, deleting and recreating the inbox, and reading up on every possible reason, I rebooted the dedicated virtual server…and it started to work again… I think.
At this stage I’m not sure if I’ve lost all email to duncan @ nichenet.com.au, or only some of it, as I’m now seeing 12 hour old emails in my inbox, so at least some are slowly coming through, and new emails are getting straight through, creating this very odd picture (right).Contacts made via the form on The Inquisitr go to the entire team, so if you submitted something that way, one of us would have read it.
Hopefully now returning to normal programming.
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Mysterious Apple Pirate Posters
I went down the street today (Burke Road, Camberwell, VIC) for some lunch with the family and some time in Borders, and I kept seeing the above poster. Someone had come along and plastered it at the various places posters are frequently posted (construction site boarding mostly). But that’s it: An Apple and Pirates cross bones, the Apple Pirate poster with nothing more than the picture above. Does anyone know what it is suppose to mean? a statement about the iPhone perhaps (I’m presuming the timing isn’t a coincidence, and they weren’t posted last week).