Aussie straps in beer, not child

Alice Springs, Northern Territory

(Source)

The car was pulled over on the Ross Highway, south of Alice Springs

A car driver in Australia has been fined for strapping down his beer rather than his young child.

Police said they were "shocked and appalled" when they pulled over the car south of Alice Springs in Australia's Northern Territory.

They said the 30-can pack of beer was strapped down between two adults in the back, with the five-year-old child unrestrained on the floor.

The driver was handed a fine of A$750 (US$709; £362).

The fine was for failing to ensure a child was wearing a seatbelt as well as driving an unregistered and uninsured vehicle.

'Blank' look

Constable Wayne Burnett said: "I haven't ever seen something like this before.

"This is the first time that the beer has taken priority over a child... The child was sitting in the lump in the centre floor, unrestrained."

When Constable Burnett handed over the fine he said the driver "just looked at me blankly".

"He didn't get it," Constable Burnett said.

"I asked him about the fact the child was unrestrained and the beer was, and he said he didn't know anything about it."

Superintendent Sean Parnell of Alice Springs police said the incident was a "timely reminder" to ensure "all passengers are secured".

I know it shouldn't be funny, but can I just be the first to say:

:D

I can't really comment without knowing what brand of beer it was .

Not surprising from news from the Territory.

30 can block; probably VB, what ever was on special that week.

A story like this coming from the NT, I am not surprised about this either.

I don't understand the question.

It is funny in a 'I feel guilty for finding it funny' sort of way!

I dont see a problem here. I would do the same.

Culture........It's just a different culture.

Whilst we are talking about Australians here is an article about the then Leader of the Opposition in the West Australian State Parliament may be of interest to fellow inmates,

(Old Croc has been very quiet about this one !! ) :-

Buswell 'groaned' while sniffing chair

6th May 2008, 11:41 WST

The woman at the centre of the seat-sniffing scandal involving West Australian Opposition Leader Troy Buswell says he writhed in mock sexual pleasure during the incident.

The woman, who remains unnamed, told The West Australian newspaper that Mr Buswell sniffed her chair twice within 10 minutes, while groaning and making "sexually satisfying noises".

Mr Buswell has admitted sniffing the seat of the Liberal female staffer in an office at Perth's Parliament House in October 2005.

On Tuesday he survived a Liberal party room move to dump him in the wake of the scandal.

The woman was reported by The West Australian as saying that Mr Buswell placed a chair on his head twice within 10 minutes, sniffing it before writhing in mock sexual ecstasy.

"We finished the meeting (with a constituent), I walked the bloke downstairs and out of parliament, and when I got back I walked into the room to pick up my notepad from the desk and Buswell started grabbing the chairs going 'aahww, which one did you sit in? I'll be able to tell'," she said.

"And then he picked them up and started sniffing them and groaning and making sexually satisfying noises. I went, 'you're sick, knock it off', and grabbed my staff and walked out, but he didn't pay attention to a word I said."

The woman said she was standing with colleagues about 10 minutes later when one of them knocked on Mr Buswell's door to ask one of his staff to lunch.

"Buswell opened the door really wide, grabbed a chair and started sniffing it, lifted it above his head sniffing it and breathing in, going 'aaww yeah'," the woman said.

"It was awful. My colleagues, the four men I worked with, were just stunned into silence."

Mr Buswell, who is set to lead the Liberal Party to the next election after surviving Tuesday's party room meeting, says he considered resigning over the incident and its aftermath.

"I have given that consideration," he told Fairfax Network radio.

"It's been a difficult week for me personally, but as I say that would shade into insignificance compared to the impact on the lady concerned.

"It would've been extremely difficult for her. It's been a difficult week for my family and my colleagues, and of course I gave that consideration."

Quoted from "The West Australian"

Now the man is fending off attacks for doing things with Quokkas..

See :-

http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?Men...ContentID=73164

Aussies push for new olympic sport !!!

"Yes It's a grand life her down under" said the sports minister, at the big push in Sydney for China to recognize Aussie Cultural Sports at the coming games.

Aussies push for new olympic sport !!!

I understand from a learned Kiwi I know that sheep push back when facing a steep drop over a cliff.

On the subject of chair sniffing - at a company I worked at once had a very large open plan office, enough to seat some 300 staff working 9-5 (80% women) with a few male staff that carried out overnight work on the main frame etc. One young lady complained of regular 'marks' on her office chair and desk. After a series of complaints from this one lady - the security CCTV video tapes were reveiwed. One of the overnight staff it appears had a crush on the young lady but was too shy (geek) to do anything about approaching her - but he did expressed his affection for her by self-relief on her seat and desk - lucky it had dried by morning !

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Another Quokka Shocker

From Perth's Sunday Times 30th Nov 2007

FORMER Wallabies backrower Scott Fava is on his last chance with Western Force after his booze-fuelled mistreatment of a quokka cost him a $11,000 fine.

Fava admitted throwing one of the protected marsupials by the tail, up to 5m, and handling others during a team-bonding session gone wrong on Rottnest Island on November 23.

For more see link :-

http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21...5005401,00.html

..and quokkas (a small Marsupial ) look like this :-

Sometimes we Aussies do come up with some good ideas -

This Stewart Rees's new invention.

Shame about the name though - the double chuck drill !

Sounds a bit like a family in the neighbourhood where I grew up, who let their dog run free on the lawn but had their 2-year-old in a leash secured around a tree.

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Another Quokka Shocker

From Perth's Sunday Times 30th Nov 2007

FORMER Wallabies backrower Scott Fava is on his last chance with Western Force after his booze-fuelled mistreatment of a quokka cost him a $11,000 fine.

Fava admitted throwing one of the protected marsupials by the tail, up to 5m, and handling others during a team-bonding session gone wrong on Rottnest Island on November 23.

For more see link :-

http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21...5005401,00.html

..and quokkas (a small Marsupial ) look like this :-

We're a bit short on dwarfs Down Under.

what/who are Australians mean?

Hmmmm ... whiskey and yoda to much I think.

Hmmmm ... whiskey and yoda to much I think.

you are one of the smart lads here.

Ulaa

I'm lost now!

Well, it is a big place.

In my circle of friends, IRL and online, chatrooms etc.

Australians are known as Ockors......(not Ockers)

Simple anagram for real meaning of ockors..............

Figga it out, so true too, just know ya history..... hehe

Answer later today if not figgured out by the more intelligent ppls in TV.

Crooks

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"It also found that the equivalent of nearly 10 per cent of New Zealand's population was now living in Australia."

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Quote from the NZHerald.com

19th Dec 2007

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story....jectid=10483282

When this goes from funny to just insulting, I'll start on the poms! Pete is too easy a target.

See if you can come up with some jokes that havn't already been said on this famous thread:

Australians

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"It also found that the equivalent of nearly 10 per cent of New Zealand's population was now living in Australia."

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Quote from the NZHerald.com

19th Dec 2007

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story....jectid=10483282

And only 20% of them have jobs in a nation with full employment.

I'm lost now!

Well, it is a big place.

I think I'll go walkabout...

Everyone wished they were an Aussie

Everyone wished they were an Aussie

When ??

in their next life.

Only if they know they're coming back as a mollusk