Gorilla Salad posted:

I'm pretty sure this exact poo poo happened in Europe a few years ago where a bunch of newspapers sued Google because they said its search results were causing the papers to lose money.

And then Google stopped showing those papers at all in search results and they all nearly went under.

Inescapable Duck posted:

About the only political rule we can count on anymore is that things will happen in the most ironic possible fashion, so I think this is practically a guarantee.

JBP posted:

They just... forgot?

JBP posted:

They just... forgot?

Doctor Spaceman posted:

They thought she was the tea lady.

Wikipedia posted:

After the ballots, Bishop declared that she had voted for Turnbull, although Turnbull doubted her loyalty and Bishop resorted to proving it by retrieving her ballot paper

adamantium|wang posted:

lmao

Anidav posted:

Hmmmm mail drops from JWs about Satan and Homosexuality. I wonder why this is happening

I wonder why this is happening



Hmmmmmmm

Anidav posted:

Hmmmm mail drops from JWs about Satan and Homosexuality. I wonder why this is happening

I wonder why this is happening



Hmmmmmmm

Anidav posted:

Anidav posted:

Hmmmm mail drops from JWs about Satan and Homosexuality. I wonder why this is happening

I wonder why this is happening



Hmmmmmmm

quote:

A SELF-confessed cyclist hater who killed a bike rider after running him off the road has been found guilty of manslaughter after a court heard he thought the victim “deserved it”.

Minutes after Ben Smith, 27, caused a father of three to fall off his bike and left him for dead he was heard bragging about the incident at a nearby café.

“The f---ing bike rider shouldn’t have been in the middle of the road,” a witness overheard him saying.

Another man told police he heard an angry Smith say, “I hit him, I’ve got it on my Go-Pro.”

As Smith ranted and raved at the Mount White Café, 61-year-old Steve Jarvie lay dying just a few kilometres away on Old Pacific Highway at Cowan.

Mr Jarvie, a businessman from Sydney’s northern beaches, was just months away from marrying his long-term partner and preparing to retire, when he died on February 17, 2013.

During a 10-day NSW District Court trial a jury was told of a Facebook post in which Smith attacked a person who had a bumper sticker warning road users to stay 1.5 metres away from cyclists.

“Get f---ed c---t. Start paying for using the roads or keep coping abuse and 2inch flybys,” said the post which Crown prosecutor Mark Hobart showed Smith’s hostility towards cyclists.

It took a jury just one day to find Smith guilty.

Whether Smith pushed Mr Jarvie or did a “2-inch flyby” is not clear and will never be known as Smith declined to give evidence and pleaded not guilty.

The GoPro Smith claimed contained footage of the incident was removed from his bike and has never been found by police.

When Mr Jarvie’s fiancée Linda Ellis heard the foreperson read out the words “guilty” she said the shock caused her to momentarily lose her hearing,

“But there was an overwhelming sadness as well for Steve not being here, for the life we were just starting to make for ourselves and strangely enough, as a mother of two children myself, I felt quite sad for [Smith] as well,” Ms Ellis told the Saturday Telegraph.

“His callous and reckless behaviour has caused so many lives to be affected – one life lost and so many people affected.”

Mr Jarvie, an engineer, had been living at Collaroy with Ms Ellis. He had been excited about retiring and moving into their new, dream home at Church Point.

“Steve was a very loving, kind and generous partner - always considerate, helpful and agreeable. He had a brilliant intellect and a curious, enquiring mind and his zest for life made him a fun-loving and entertaining companion,” Ms Ellis said.

During the trial the jury heard from a witness who saw Smith yelling and swearing at another cyclist at the Berowra 7-11 petrol station not long before Mr Jarvie’s death.

“The accused was acting aggressively towards that particular fellow, who he obviously didn’t know, mouthing off that cyclists were a bunch of ‘f---ing’ idiots who should not be on the road,” Mr Hobart said.

The witness who saw Smith acting aggressively towards the cyclist earlier in the morning, later confronted him at the Mount White Café and asked him why he had failed to stop after he had sped past Mr Jarvie on his Suzuki motorbike and caused him to fall.

To which he said Smith replied: “The c--- deserved it.”

The Crown case was Smith and his father Mark Smith were speeding on their motorbikes in a racing like manner up the Old Pacific Highway at Cowan early that morning.

“The accused’s acts were negligent in that he breached a duty of care which he owed to the deceased as a fellow road user by driving too close and at a speed not suitable to the road conditions,” he said.

Smith, from Sydney’s Northern Beaches, is on bail but faces the prospect of serving jail time for manslaughter which attracts up to 25 years in jail.

A coronial inquest looking at Mr Jarvie’s death was paused in June 2014 after certain evidence came to light and the Coroner referred the matter to the Director of Public Prosecutions.

Smith was later charged in April , 2015.

He will face a sentencing hearing before Judge Mark Buscombe in June.

Mad Katter posted:

To which he said Smith replied: “The c--- deserved it.”

Stoca Zola posted:

From the AEC website:

It is compulsory by law for all eligible Australian citizens to enrol and vote in federal elections, by-elections and referendums.

You are eligible to enrol if you:

are an Australian citizen, or eligible British subject,
aged 18 years and over, and
have lived at your address for at least one month.

If you are 16 or 17 you can enrol now so when you turn 18 you'll be able to vote.

It's the last bit which is optional.

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

Why is the seppo posting in the thread?

Teddybear posted:

Worth remembering that public votes and debates on the rights of same-sex couples has actual documentable negative psychological effects in the LGBT community, as shown by studies during and after the US 2004 marriage amendments showing marked increases in what the authors termed minority stress.

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

Why is the seppo posting in the thread?

Teddybear posted:

I got Australian friends and an interest in politics and it's four in the morning here.

I didn't realize the sentiment of "gently caress off we're full" extended to the auspol thread too, should I go to the PNG thread instead?

Teddybear posted:

I got Australian friends and an interest in politics and it's four in the morning here.

I didn't realize the sentiment of "gently caress off we're full" extended to the auspol thread too, should I go to the PNG thread instead?