Stupid or Guilty

[think positive]

Maybe they could give the profits from their book to the victims of their crime? Use it to cleanse their soul? Make amends? And then write another book to make money for themselves, or ya know, get a job like everyone else has too.

[Culprit]

[ronrat]

Maybe they could give the profits from their book to the victims of their crime? Use it to cleanse their soul? Make amends? And then write another book to make money for themselves, or ya know, get a job like everyone else has too.

Thats what I said. Pay back the only victims who at this stage are the Asutralian Taxpayer. If found guilty she will pay a huge price. She will be excluded from a myriad of emplyment options for example a PT instructor in the POlice force. She will in all likelihood have her passport revoked and in anycase she won't be allowed into a number of countries.

[luvdids]

Schapelle says hi.

What happened to her book deal? Her sister's book deal/TV interviews?

FROZEN!

No Australian can profit from crime here, no matter where it was committed. It's against the law.

Although I agree with not being able to profit from crime, wasn't Schapelle's & her sister's 'deals' put on hold as the Indonesians weren't happy about it & it could have affected her parole/conditions/release? My memory might be failing but I thought that was why they stopped it, to not p!ss of the Indonesian authorities?

[think positive]

lets assume for a second she's guilty. If so, you could easily argue she's dead set stupid, I already said as much earlier.

However, in hindsight, not everyone has the same concept of risk vs reward, nor do they have the same concept of facing the consequences of their actions. It's like there's no such thing as 'common sense".

To someone like me, who i think is reflective of the majority of people, some people just appear to be slow learners.

People who try to avoid speeding, drink driving, taking illicit drugs etc generally do so because to them the risk (aka consequences) outweighs the reward. If, however, you discount the consequences because you either don't fear them, don't think it will happen to you, or for whatever reason the reward is highly valued, your risk vs reward behaviour is different to normal / average.

i've known a few people like that over the journey, shit I've been one in some instances, but it seems to be more common in the current generation than it has in past ones.

So let's assume she's guilty and she's not, by definition, either an imbecile or a moron or has a learning disability, she either has an aberrant risk v reward behaviour profile or she was promised some reward that for her sealed the deal.

this cop agrees with you,
its actually a good read, and all the young things heading overseas should have a read. its so easy to forget how gullible we all were when we were younger!! hopefully her story is a lesson for at least other kid.

http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-up ... 64f785f92a

[think positive]

My guess is she may be both.

As for Corby she would have got out if her greedy mother didn't keep selling stories to the tabloids. It was not the Corbys first rodeo either.

Amazing if a bloke does it no sympathy. Pretty girl and all hell breaks loose.

another mother selling out her kid.
i don't get it, surely you would be doing everything possible, guilty or not, to keep your child safe and give them every opportunity for the best outcome? if the money is needed for a defense, at least let Cassie know about it and agree to it.

http://www.whimn.com.au/talk/news/cassi ... 245c75e5f5

[ronrat]

By the look of her mother and sister the local Maccas will be doing well while the cash lasts. Neither look they used the services of Sainsbury private trainer. None of this media circus will make an iota of difference to the Columbian justice system. DFAT should be calling the head of news of Channel 9 and saying after your last balls up in the middle east we will take a dim view of you prats get caught again. We will be asking full cost recovery from your organisation and will not be inrtervening if you are charged with interfring with a criminal investigation.

[Culprit]

This is Corby MKII.

[think positive]

And Schapelle comes home in a couple of weeks. Be an interesting 60 minutes episode. Guilty or not, I bet she has a tale to tell. Can't even begin to imagine how you recover from the last 13 years like that, and I still can't decide if she was guilty or not!

[Culprit]

She has been convicted of a crime so if 60 minutes is paying money for her interview it comes back to proceeds of crime. I am pretty sure they cannot pay her Sister money to interview her. There is no way she is doing it for free, as the Corby mantra is "we don't do anyfin for nuffin".

[Morrigu]

Hmmm so "personal trainer" has a wide definition!

[stui magpie]

I like that wider definition.

[ronrat]

Hmmm so "personal trainer" has a wide definition!

As someone who has been to Africa Morrigu didn't you see all those personal trainers inplaces like Ghana where older western women from UK, Germany and the like by lots of designer clothes etc for their personal personal trainers. Same in West Indies. Tony Santics of Makybe Diva fame ditched his wife and she came back from West Indies with one. Put him in a Zegna suit and he somehow got invited to all these melbourne Cup tents with Lillian Frank and Susan 5 husbands etc . He is a sex tourist she is a happiness seeker.

[ronrat]

It appaers the family (less her Dad) ignored all DFAT advice about media etc. Julie Bishop has more important things to worry about. Cut her loose like they did with Assange.