Things That Shit Me the Eighteenth

[Shell]

They made a really poor choice and they've paid the ultimate price. They were young and stupid but that's exactly what it is - they were young and stupid.

For the record, I've lost a member of my family to crime in Victoria. I don't need to be told what opinion I'd have.

Jfc. Wanna read my post again properly

 

[Shell]

Kids stealing cars isn't something new, it's just something we see reported more now than a decade or two ago

My mum used to work at Centrelink until retirement about a decade ago (maybe longer) and she spent her later years focusing on processing Health Care Cards.

Did they steal them in violent home invasions though?

 

[cats_09]

Did they steal them in violent home invasions though?

You'd have to ask them and/or the police

But not all modern car thefts are from violent home invasions - the one from the other night in which the two teenagers died wasn't a violent home invasion. The owner of the crashed car wasn't even aware their car had been stolen until police knocked on their door in the morning

 

[Jatz]

Jfc. Wanna read my post again properly

I did. I just think what you've said and your mindset is absolutely abhorrent.

 

[Shell]

You'd have to ask them and/or the police

But not all modern car thefts are from violent home invasions - the one from the other night in which the two teenagers died wasn't a violent home invasion. The owner of the crashed car wasn't even aware their car had been stolen until police knocked on their door in the morning

Geeze... Violent or non violent...

Semantics

 

[Jatz]

You'd have to ask them and/or the police

But not all modern car thefts are from violent home invasions - the one from the other night in which the two teenagers died wasn't a violent home invasion. The owner of the crashed car wasn't even aware their car had been stolen until police knocked on their door in the morning

That doesn't suit the narrative though...

 

[Shell]

I did. I just think what you've said and your mindset is absolutely abhorrent.

Cool. And we're done here

 

[nobbyiscool]

Does the fact you're now arguing about it prove the original point, that it was a shitty piece of reporting from 9 to seek out and report on comments from a distraught, grieving mother, that are at best misguided? (And I won't say the "at worst" about a grieving mother.)

 

[The Golden Glenferrie]

The ****ing ads on the phone on Bigfooty.

Just got slammed

 

[peternorth]

Does the fact you're now arguing about it prove the original point, that it was a shitty piece of reporting from 9 to seek out and report on comments from a distraught, grieving mother, that are at best misguided? (And I won't say the "at worst" about a grieving mother.)

Its all about content these days.

The rise of influencers and the like. Content.

 

[Frank Bunn]

The stupidest vehicle experience at uni was pretty early in my first year, where I was living on campus up in Canberra and there had been a group activity out somewhere - options to get back were wait for the bus or cram about 6 of us into a hatchback with the smallest going into the boot. It was the only time we did anything like that at uni - it's not like we were necessarily goodie two shoes, most of us didn't have licences or cars

One time at Uni we had been on an all day bender. At the end of the night there was a conversation. "I'll drive. You've had 14 pints, I've only had 11". On the way home they crashed into a roundabout and ditched the car. No harm done in the end but it could have ended very badly. And we're talking about guys who are now teachers with their own teenagers.

 

[The Golden Glenferrie]

I was an angel. None of these shenanigans

 

[peternorth]

I was an angel. None of these shenanigans

me2

 

[Gough]

One time at Uni we had been on an all day bender. At the end of the night there was a conversation. "I'll drive. You've had 14 pints, I've only had 11". On the way home they crashed into a roundabout and ditched the car. No harm done in the end but it could have ended very badly. And we're talking about guys who are now teachers with their own teenagers.

That's the nature of long term friendship, it's basically mutually assured destruction if it breaks down because you know where each other's bodies are buried.

 

[Cruyff14]

Good riddance is pretty harsh.

Nah bugger them.

They could have killed someone else.

 

[Gralin]

Nah bugger them.

They could have killed someone else.

Do you think everyone that could have killed someone else doing something stupid should be killed as punishment?

It's a weird thing to take pleasure in the deaths of a couple of kids

 

[Cruyff14]

Do you think everyone that could have killed someone else doing something stupid should be killed as punishment?

It's a weird thing to take pleasure in the deaths of a couple of kids

They were speeding in a car they stole and endangered other people with their actions.

You don't need to agree with my opinion.

 

[Off The Couch]

Nah bugger them.

They could have killed someone else.

Maybe sit and reflect on that and ask yourself whether you would be feeling the same way should one of your own daughters makes a poor decision in the future that irrevocably changes many lives


Nobody DESERVES to die
I also get angry at the injustices that happen and the perception that not a lot is being done to prevent it, and it saddens me greatly when innocent people pay the price, but unfortunately what’s happening is nothing new, we just hear about more of them now

 

[Cruyff14]

Not going to agree so I will respectfully tap out.

 

[Gralin]

They were speeding in a car they stole and endangered other people with their actions.

You don't need to agree with my opinion.

So they deserved to die?

Funny how if they hadn't died, that wouldn't have been the punishment people were calling for

interesting that you think its appropriate

where do you draw the line though?

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

The stupidest vehicle experience at uni was pretty early in my first year, where I was living on campus up in Canberra and there had been a group activity out somewhere - options to get back were wait for the bus or cram about 6 of us into a hatchback with the smallest going into the boot. It was the only time we did anything like that at uni - it's not like we were necessarily goodie two shoes, most of us didn't have licences or cars


But the ones I look back upon and go "what was I thinking" is getting into a car as a passenger with my brother driving after he'd been drinking and/or using drugs - this wasn't just one or two beers but really stupid levels. Back then I looked up to my big brother a fair bit, but now days I'd say nope and find my own way

“Back in the day”, hitchhiking was very common. I knew people who would do it routinely.

I guess Ivan Milat was responsible for a big drop in its popularity.

 

[Gough]

I was hitching to Nyanga in the Eastern Highlands of Zim which is single lane twisty mountain road and I got picked up by three dudes in a ute. I was sitting in the tray watching them pass a bottle of cane spirit between them as they drove legit thinking this might be it, and when we got to Nyanga the first place they stopped was the police station because one of them was handing themselves in.

 

[Simon_Nesbit]

The ****ing ads on the phone on Bigfooty.

Just got slammed

Never had ads before - now it's almost unreadable. Not sure what changed yesterday...

 

[nobbyiscool]

I was hitching to Nyanga in the Eastern Highlands of Zim which is single lane twisty mountain road and I got picked up by three dudes in a ute. I was sitting in the tray watching them pass a bottle of cane spirit between them as they drove legit thinking this might be it, and when we got to Nyanga the first place they stopped was the police station because one of them was handing themselves in.

I'll go back one day. I loved Victoria Falls and the Zimbabweans enough that I changed my plans around and went back to South Africa via Bulawayo, which I also loved. I missed the whole east of a really beautiful country though.

 

[Gough]

I'll go back one day. I loved Victoria Falls and the Zimbabweans enough that I changed my plans around and went back to South Africa via Bulawayo, which I also loved. I missed the whole east of a really beautiful country though.

Beitbridge is a pain in the arse.