Things that make you go.......WTF?

[Morrigu]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-02-18/m ... ection=vic

[Morrigu]

Oops DP

[stui magpie]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-02-18/man-injured-in-melbourne-hospital-stabbing/5266524?section=vic

Whoa. Nasty.

[Jezza]

That's shocking news. Some people are genuinely psychotic!

[think positive]

rung up to change the policy for no1 daughters car, as it has gone up $100 and the cars not worth much, so I was going to change it to 3rd party fire & theft. AAMI said hang on we have changed the system, ill get another quote, so same company, same car, new quote $449 compared to $864!! seriously?? that's ridiculous!!

next week ill be checking all our policies and updating if necessary! that's just crazy!!

[HAL]

I am always serious.

[stui magpie]

Wow. Inside view of a passenger airplane circa 1929. Imperial Airways, handly Page type W biplane.

[Tannin]

Aeroplane you bleedin yank-lover!

[3.14159]

It's looks like a perfectly good aircraft ( sorry, aero-craft).

Did you jump out of it?

[stui magpie]

It's looks like a perfectly good aircraft ( sorry, aero-craft).

Did you jump out of it?

Not out of that, the one I did jump out of was a canoe with wings.

I just look at the wicker chairs and curtains in that photo and go Wow.

[Tannin]

"Aircraft" is correct, 3. Note the difference: an aircraft is any craft which takes the air - fixed-wing aeroplane, helicopter, balloon, gyrocopter, and so on. An aeroplane uses fixed wings for its lift, like (for example) a 747 or a Sturmovik or a Piper Cub or indeed a Handley-Page Type W. I'm not sure whether an ornithopter (if anyone ever builds a successful one) would qualify as an aeroplane or not; probably it would.

Wicker furniture was used for a great any aircraft, Stui. It had the great advantages of being quite strong, cheap, and above all light, and was used not just in heavier-than-air conventional aeroplanes but also airships. In both cases, of course, every kilogram saved is an extra kilogram of fuel or payload, and designers went to no end of trouble to save weight. They still do, though these days with exotic metals and carbon fibre and (alas) savage penalties for excess baggage.

[3.14159]

"Aircraft" is correct, 3. Note the difference: an aircraft is any craft which takes the air - fixed-wing aeroplane, helicopter, balloon, gyrocopter, and so on. An aeroplane uses fixed wings for its lift, like (for example) a 747 or a Sturmovik or a Piper Cub or indeed a Handley-Page Type W. I'm not sure whether an ornithopter (if anyone ever builds a successful one) would qualify as an aeroplane or not; probably it would.

I've all ways loved aircraft, this bloke was my great great grand father's nephew.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macpherson_Robertson

[1061]

Grant Hackett ....... and the Australian Media who seem to be protecting him.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ction.html

Olympic swimming champion Grant Hackett is on his way to the United States to enter rehab over his addiction to the prescription drug Stilnox, Mail Online can exclusively reveal.

Hackett left Australia on Tuesday afternoon for America to undergo a treatment program for his addiction, following a bizarre incident in which he was filmed half-naked in an Australian hotel foyer.

The 33-year-old triple gold medal winning Olympian boarded the flight after a crisis meeting with his family on the Gold Coast.

[David]

What has he actually done again? And how does being hounded by tabloid journalists over personal affairs constitute 'protection'?

(I do, however, appreciate the irony of a man whose entire career has consisted of wearing speedos in public being referred to as 'half-naked' for being indoors in boxer shorts.)

[1061]

This is a real WTF moment although he did muck up filling out the correct forms ect. If he had the disposal form and insurance letters I'd think that would be enough proof he was no longer the owner of the car

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/201 ... stolen-car

A Melbourne man has lost his license after a thief who stole his car three years ago started racking up speeding fines.

Tom Kimball filed a police report back in December 2010 when his car was stolen from a train station in Melbourne's west.

When his insurance company paid him out and he was issued a disposal form, Mr Kimball thought he would have nothing else to do with the car.

But he was issued with three speeding fines last year, which were all connected to the stolen vehicle.

"My licence has been suspended," he told A Current Affair.

"I don't think he cared how fast he was going but I ended up with the tickets."

Mr Kimball, who worked in law enforcement for nine years in the United States, has been fighting the fines but has not been able to prevent his license from being revoked.

"When I got the first speeding fine I had wrote on the back that I didn't own the car, it had been stolen and that was sent to civic compliance. Their response was that I must provide the name of the driver of the vehicle," he said.

"I told them on several occasions 'how can I provide the name of the driver when the car was stolen?'. If I knew the name I would give it to the police so they could go and arrest the guy."

The Victorian Department of Justice said Mr Kimball filled out the correct paper work for one of the fines but it was not done correctly in the other two instances.

"In each instance that someone receives a fine, they must nominate that a car has been stolen or they were not the driver," the department said in a statement.

"This was not done in all instances in this case."

The department will revoke Mr Kimball's suspension when he files the paperwork correctly.

Source: A Current Affair