Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
You’ve heard of post office robberies, and bank jobs, and cocaine imports, and illegal tobacco hauls, but I bet you’ve never heard of the Great Rock N Roll Blueberry Heist have you? It was pulled just over a week ago in Hawkes Bay in New Zealand. Over the course of three nights a bunch of […]
Matthew Charles Purvis, of Woodend Beach, pleaded guilty in the Greymouth Court last week to one count of common assault relating to the incident in the club room toilets at a West Coast trot meeting that left the victim, a fellow licensee, suffering serious injuries. Purvis sentence is presently unknown, but we are told is […]
Jesus didn’t have any kids, or none that we know about anyway, so he never had to face this question. But if he did, what would he do? This isn’t a legal question, it’s a mans one, as un-PC and outrageous as that may these days seem. Here is the conundrum. A drunken bloke mouths […]
A 33-year-old Woodend Beach man – who we are unable to name for legal reasons – has been arrested and charged over the alleged assault on junior driver Scott Iremonger during post-Westport Cup celebrations. The man will will appear for mention on the charge/s in the Greymouth District Court on Wednesday morning. The other man […]
The jury in the Brittany Higgins case cannot come to an agreed decision of whether her colleague Bruce Lehrmann raped her or not. I am not surprised. The only thing that is surprising is that some of the jurors still want to convict him. How the hell could you? There is no way in the […]
What you see above is the lawyers for the New Zealand Racing Integrity Board’s response to trot owner Tim Vince and his non- harness racing participant neighbour’s complaint about officials of the RIB trespassing upon their properties to conduct surveillance operations for reason unknown. The RIB declare that integrity chief and former copper Neil Grimstone […]
Hedley Thomas is a good bloke, even if he does keep normal hours and gets annoyed by 2.00am texts and calls, claiming that he’s sleeping even though it’s only lunchtime. He is worse punter than me too, the thought of which always brightens me up at the end of a bad day. At least he’s […]
“Violent and Glorious Revolution! Then again our boy Chomsky debunks the whole radical behaviourism deal that was booming post-WW2 (in short: it’s like me pointing at the sun, saying ‘what’s that?’, and you describing my finger). Even if my audience were pigeons I doubt the show could change their behaviour. But if anyone is keen […]
The hot rumour sweeping Melbourne is that the infamous Moran crime family of Underbelly fame had a significant share of their ill begotten gains invested in the Ponzi scammer John Adams collapsed first mortgage scheme. Rivers flow deep don’t they? Especially the turgid brown Yarra. A leading trainer whose brother and nephew may or may […]
29 – Being found on property, etc, without reasonable excuse (1) Every person is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 months or a fine not exceeding $2,000 who is found without reasonable excuse — (a) in or on any building; or (b) in any enclosed yard or other such area; or (c) in […]
