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think positive wrote:Show on Foxtel doco about William Hayes, the guy the movie midnight express is about, gees, amazing story. Scary shit
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Banged.Up.Abroad.The.Real.Midnight.Express

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x195fu ... OG_HTML5=1

Aon the spoken-word tour too in 2015 it seems:

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/mov ... m6ole.html
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piedys wrote:
think positive wrote:Show on Foxtel doco about William Hayes, the guy the movie midnight express is about, gees, amazing story. Scary shit
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http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/mov ... m6ole.html
Yeah that's the one, very interesting :wink:
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^ we should close our borders
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I'm really conflicted about how to feel about that story.

I feel really sorry for the woman and her family, and agree the sentence is utterly inadequate.

On the other hand, teenagers can do some really dumb shit, especially when that cnut of a drug Ice is involved.

No win situation. :(
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^ yes I understand that but was given a chance - probation and fcked up again and cost a woman her life and her kids a mother

He doesn't get to skip out of juvi at 19 years of age to enjoy his life or more likely wreak more havoc

It's interesting that in many circumstances we know have to accept that " minors" at age 16 can give informed consent for medical procedures - I don't disagree at 16 most know right from wrong - IMO he should have been tried as an adult ( probably would have got 4 years then cause the legal system is fkd!!)
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There must have been significant mitigating factors that I'm unaware of for this young offender to receive such a sentence, otherwise it's an inadequate sentence.
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I'm not conflicted at all. Throw away the key. Yes teenagers can do dumb things, dumb things are not holding a gun to someone's head and stealing their car. Or even being associated with such **** that do. Taking ice and then driving is not just a dumb thing, it's an illegal thing, and someone is dead. Someone's children will never see their mother again. Three years is utter bullshit. No wonder kids keep doing "dumb" things, when they have very little to lose. Throw away the key. And if he wasn't born here, throw him back to where he came from.
He's had chances, how many do you want to give him? he blew it.
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think positive wrote:
piedys wrote:
think positive wrote:Show on Foxtel doco about William Hayes, the guy the movie midnight express is about, gees, amazing story. Scary shit
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Banged.Up.Abroad.The.Real.Midnight.Express

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Yeah that's the one, very interesting :wink:
Ah good, watched it the other night.
So he had a few goes at muleing the gear into the States it seems...
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Not quite a WTF but more of a commentary on modern society.

Apparently there's an underground campaign to find allegedly homophobic comments on social media, do some digging and identify the employer of the person who made them, and lodge a complaint with the employer.
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^ Wouldn't surprise me. Stuff like this is already pretty common both here and overseas, and there are a great many people who think doing that is totally justified.

http://www.smh.com.au/national/hotel-wo ... lc1y4.html

I don't suppose you need to guess what I think of it...
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^

Actually I'd be interested to see how you place this.

I know your feelings on an individuals actions in their personal life being separate from their work, but I'm a tad intrigued where this sits with you.
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