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

[Pies4shaw]

And people thought de Goey was hard done by.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-02-21/g ... ng/9471470

So if the MD of the company robbed drives in to a service station he probably expects to serve his own petrol. What about a hospital? Here is a bandage and a bit of Savlon. Supermarkets want to go this way then they have to factor this in.

I was once in a Safeways Malvern and 14 very large porterhouse steaks were labelled "soup bones" 14 cents. So I took them and the checkout scanned it as labelled. My housemate said it was stealing. No it wasn't. They labelled it, not me. Apparently it is quite common for workers to mis abel things so Mum/Dad/housemate grabs it and walks out the door. I just got there at the right time.

To pass judgement on a persons ability to pay etc is as bad as giving a person a harsher sentence because of colour.

And yes JDG is paying well overs. So is this bloke. The punishment should fit the crime. The directors of these massive companies commit more corruption and fraud than some poor bugger eating a few grapes. And probably pay less tax.

A guy earning over $450,000 per year has a track record of dishonesty offences and tax evasion and has done this very same thing three times before - a message has to be sent. The fine was the equivalent of a bit under 9 months of his income. If he were on "Newstart" allowance, the proportionate fine would be $12,600 - except, of course, that that wouldn't be proportionate because the person on "Newstart" wouldn't be able to eat on the $3,502 they were left with for the rest of the year, whereas he'll probably survive well enough on his other $125,000, even if he accidentally pays tax on it.

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[Pies4shaw]

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cool, thanks for the explanation

[ronrat]

The bastard in ACT who forcrd young girls into posting nude photos of themselves with blackmail gets a few years but most is suspended and will be out in under a year. The friggin community deserves better than this slap on the wrist . I don't care if he is remorseful, Those poor girls may never get their lives back. Every now and then a non judicial smacking is required to teach these creeps it aint on.

The only computer this mongrel should get near in the future is the one at Centrelink. Sitting next to the bozo who sentenced him.

[stui magpie]

Seriously?

This Muslim tool beats an old jewish woman to death, throws her off a balcony and it takes 12 months to admit it was an Anti Semitic act?

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/elderly-jewis ... ly-1664456

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^ I actually do not care whether it was "aggravated". The term itself shows the rot that we are in. The crime alone, regardless of motive, was enough to send him to the guillotine in any state that really cared about the vulnerable and wanted to prevent future beating and murder of innocents by violent thugs.

[stui magpie]

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it then carried it out of the garden" said local police chief Hamka who like many Indonesians has one name was killed?

[ronrat]

Watching a show on Nat Geo. About having to kill wild animals who had harmed humans. Cafe Buffalo about to get shot by some USA woman on safari gets gored in Africa as she takes aim at her baby. . Someone interferes with a big cats cubs and gets attacked. Some other idiot teases an Elephant and gets charged. You can hear her. I will take the baby and you take the mother.

Disappointed in Nat Geo.

Should have been. This is what happens when you want to play with nature.

I know 2 posters on here who would have been cheering the animals. 3 if you include me.

[David]

[stui magpie]

^

I interpret the intent as being preventative rather than punishment. The theory is that once an animal has killed a human, it's likely to do it again. Particularly a carnivore. So you kill it to prevent it taking more lives.

There's some merit in the theory in some situations, but also flaws.

[David]

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What else is in practise?

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