Ipswich: When police pulled
over an unlicensed driver for a minor traffic infringement, the man panicked
and gave them a friend's name instead of his own. But when officers checked
the name he'd given them against their records they discovered the man's
friend was also wanted on more than a dozen traffic offences himself and
promptly arrested him. "I've really got to get some new friends," the driver
said as the officers hauled him off to the station house.
(Source: The Queensland Times, Ipswich, Australia)
Greymouth: "We hold the view
that George Cook is not a fit and proper person to hold firearms," Det.Sgt.
Rob Nicholl told the Greymouth District Court. "But it's not his claim that
he comes from outer space that really concerns us - it's more his boast that
he'll "shoot it out" with the police if we ever come near his house." Earlier
Cook, a 79-year-old Hokitika farmer, had explained to Judge Stephen Erber
why he wanted a firearms licence: "My grandmother was part-aboriginal and
she was impregnated by aliens who arrived in the Australian outback from
outer space in the last century. It happened to a lot of aboriginal women
in those days. When I was 22 a doctor examined me and said "Where are you
from - you're not one of us" so it must be true. And recently another doctor
said I was only 12, so there's got to be something in it. And yes, I did
tell the police that we should have guns on our hips and shoot it out like
they did in the old west, but I only said it because I'd run out of swear
words. I'm a kind man. I have raped in the past but that's all behind me
now. I need the guns to shoot rabbits." Amazingly, Cook was granted a firearms
licence
(Source: Sunday Star-Times, New Zealand)
Gold Coast: Police are still
searching for a woman who stabbed another driver after he honked her and
then gave her "the finger" when she failed to turn on a green arrow at a
set of Robina traffic lights last month. According to reports, the 18-year-old
sounded his horn when the BMW driver failed to turn, then gave her "the finger"
when he passed her. The woman responded by screeching her tyres and chasing
him through back streets until he pulled over. She then drew a small knife
from her glove compartment, walked over to his window, said "Don't @$%!#
with me" and stabbed him in the chest. The man was admitted to hospital with
a small puncture wound. "It could've been PMT," the man told reporters at
his bedside. "Then again, this is the Gold Coast. Perhaps it was just a bad
hair day."
(Source: The Gold Coast Bulletin, Gold Coast, Australia)
Brisbane: Two men who allegedly
stole a taxi after being ejected from Brisbane's Treasury Casino for drunk
and disorderly behaviour will face court soon after the entire incident was
recorded on casino security cameras. According to police, the men stole the
taxi after the driver took a 5-minute break on the cab rank to talk with
security staff, leaving the keys in the ignition. The pair jumped in and
took the vehicle on a wild ride through several suburbs before finally abandoning
it in bushland, unaware that the incident had been filmed and that the cab
was being tracked the entire time by the vehicle's inbuilt satellite tracking
monitor. When police first approached the pair, they claimed that they were
looking for a dog. Both will be charged with a number of offences, including
drunk driving.
(Source: The Courier-Mail, Brisbane, Australia)
Colombo: A robbery suspect who
hurled human excrement inside a courtroom and hit a ceiling fan has been
jailed for 8 months. Subasinghe Premasiri was charged with contempt after
the excrement hit the fan, splattering the court at a hearing in April. Premasiri
told the court he had smuggled the excreta into the building in a plastic
bag which he intended to throw at a police officer, but had missed.
(Source: AAP-Reuters)
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