Full Glass of Beer thrown at bus.
A WOMAN was taken to hospital after a glass bottle was thrown through the window of a bus, injuring her and another passenger. The government bus was heading west along Queens Park Road, Queens Park, in Sydney's east, just before 7.15pm (AEST) yesterday when unknown youths threw at least one glass bottle at a side window, causing it to shatter.
A 57-year-old woman and a 26-year-old Queens Park man sustained head lacerations in the incident.The man was treated at the scene by paramedics, while the woman was taken to hospital for treatment.The incident has prompted police to again warn of the dangers of throwing objects at vehicles."Throwing any object at a moving vehicle is extremely dangerous.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,25687434-29277,00.html?from=public_rss
(further news stated it was a full beer bottle)
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Alcohol's a factor in many homicides.
Alcohol was involved in almost half of all homicides between 2000 and 2006, new figures show.
In 60 per cent of the 746 alcohol-related cases, the offender and the victim had been drinking (abusing the drug ethanol) , an Australian Institute of Criminology paper shows.
Homicides that occurred on the weekends or evenings were most likely to have involved alcohol while eight in 10 homicides which occurred at recreational venues involved alcohol.
Factors such as gender, employment status, age, the relationship between victim and offender, and whether those involved were from an indigenous background affected the likelihood of alcohol being involved.
Killings involving male victims, unemployed victims and young offenders were also identified as most likely to have been alcohol related, the institute's general manager of research Judy Putt said.
Almost half of all homicides involving intimate couples - 44 per cent- also showed that alcohol was a factor.In cases where a male victim was killed by a female partner, alcohol was highly likely to be involved.
"Eighty-seven per cent of intimate partner homicides among the indigenous population were alcohol related, making it the highest proportion of alcohol-related homicide of all factors studied," Dr Putt said. http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/latest/5721203/alcohol-a-factor-in-many-homicides/
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- A BRAWL at Emerald Beach on Friday night involving an estimated 50 people saw residents arm themselves with baseball bats as police were called to quell the trouble.
Sgt Lee Thomas of Coffs Harbour Police said both Woolgoolga and Coffs Harbour officers went to Ocean View Crescent after residents reported the brawl about 10.15pm on Friday. Sgt Thomas said residents said they were carrying the bats to defend their properties from the youths involved. The original fight is believed to have broken out after police shut down a party at a house in the same area earlier in the night.
- FURTHER south, Dorrigo and Ulong residents were involved in several different fights outside the Ulong Ex-Services club on Friday night.
In the most serious incident, a Ulong man allegedly struck a Dorrigo man on the back of the head with an iron bar, leaving him bleeding and unconscious, about 11.30pm.
- A SAWTELL man was arrested and placed in the cells to dry out after he was allegedly found in a Hogbin Drive bus shelter on Friday night.
It is believed the man was drunk on three-quarters of the bottle of whisky he was reported to have stolen from a house in Barcoo Court. Police said the 30-year-old man had been asked to leave the Barcoo Court house after he became abusive while drinking there, but had grabbed a bottle of whisky before leaving, then returned to make threats before departing with the whisky.
- Coffs Coast Advocate 9th sept 2009-
- A NIGHT out with the girls has left Billy Petersen scarred for life after a woman hurled a beer glass at her face which shattered across her forehead.
Miss Petersen said the offender was verbally abusing a friend of hers when she stepped in to mediate. “I didn't touch her or abuse her and she deliberately pegged a 10 ounce beer glass at my head.”
The glass shards sliced open Miss Petersen's forehead.
Sgt Patterson said the glassing happened while police and security officers were attempting to break up a fight involving two males aged 22 and 23.
Police issued six males with notices to appear in court for disorderly behaviour and obstructing police.
- Coffs Coast Advocate 9th sept.09-
- A 28-year-old man was stabbed in the neck with a shard of glass after he was attacked by a group of up to 10 males near a Melbourne city train station overnight.
Police are reviewing CCTV footage in a bid to identify the offender who stabbed the man outside the City Hatters shop near Flinders Street station about 1.15am (AEST) on Sunday.
The 28-year-old was making his way home alone when he was set upon by a group of up to 10 males, police say.
A man standing to the left of the group picked up a shard of glass and stabbed the victim in the neck, CCTV footage shows.
The victim, from Boronia in Melbourne's east, was taken to the Royal Melbourne Hospital with a sharp puncture wound to his neck and cuts to his arm.
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/latest/5923454/man-stabbed-in-neck-with-piece-of-glass/
(This glass would have been from one of the myriads of broken bottles lying in our streets, parks, and on our beaches etc).
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- The family of a young man who was viciously bashed during a night out has appealed to the Victorian government to crack down on alcohol-fuelled street violence.
Apprentice carpenter David Mitchell was hit, kicked and had his head stomped on outside One Bar in Puckle Street, Moonee Ponds, in northern Melbourne on February 10 last year after he tried to act as a "peacemaker" between two groups of men.
In sentencing, Judge John Nixon described the actions of an "alcohol-fuelled" Keon, also an apprentice carpenter, as "vicious, brutal and after David Mitchell had been knocked to the ground, particularly cowardly".
He hoped the punishment would serve as a warning that mindless alcohol-driven violence wouldn't be tolerated.
Outside the court, a tearful Mitchell family - father Gavin, mother Denise and David - urged the Brumby government to act on street violence.
"We can say that the government now needs to make some strong stands on this issue," Gavin Mitchell told reporters.
Stop playing party politics and start addressing the main issues of street violence and alcohol. We the people are now demanding that these tough measures be made."
The Mitchells' plea comes as Melbourne's reputation is taking a battering over violence in the city.
Alcohol is blamed for the recent spate of assaults, leading to calls for authorities to crack down on the venues involved.
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/latest/5860596/six-years-jail-for-vicious-assault/
So, let's get this straight. Judge John Nixon stated that the 'actions of an alcohol (ethanol drug) fuelled bloke were vicious, brutal and cowardly', he hopes that the punishment would serve as a warning that mindless alcohol driven violence wouldn't be tolerated, but yet he does not call for the recreational, psychoactive drug ethanol to be called a DRUG instead of its political and media name, 'Drink'.
This is cowardice and it will be just as cowardly when this generation of children grows up under the mindless mentality that a drug is a drink, and that drug abuse is excessive drinking, and that drinking responsibly is knowing what a standard drink is but not having a damn clue about what a standard ethanol drug dose is. But, this is what happens when druggies hunt druggies (ie 'say no to drugs - drink or pop medication instead), play party politics and don't give a damn about the main issues of street violence and ethanol drug abuse and instead become drug/'drink' pushers who are addicted to drug money and believe that putting drug prices up, through drug and drug cartel taxation, will make a dent in 60 medical conditions, numerous social conditions etc. totalling $16 BILLION in death, damage, destruction, loss of productivity and side effects.
By the way, just because 'you' call your 'your' drug dealer a 'venue', 'pub', 'club', 'liquor outlet etc. does not make it any less of a toxic, recreational, psychoactive DRUG dealing and consumption establishment. Just because 'you' get 'your' drug money from drug cartels legally doesn't make it any less Drug Money. Just because 'you' call 'your' drug a drink doesn't make it any less of a drug. And, just because 'you' call 'your' drug abuse 'DRINKING' and Excessive drinking/ drinking to excess/ irresponsible drinking/ whatever delusion you want to call it today, makes no difference to the simple fact that 'you' are choosing to abuse a recreational, psychoactive, central nervous system depressant drug known as ethanol with a 4:1 LD50 toxicity death risk ratio.
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- Ambulance officers in Queensland are in hot water after they prioritised alcohol for an office party over a man having a seizure.
The Courier Mail reports a young ambulance officer was pressured into ignoring a top priority Code 1 callout while she was driving a senior colleague to get more alcohol.
Documents obtained under Right to Information laws reveal paramedics involved in the booze run knew of the callout to assist a man having an epileptic fit.
Two senior officers drinking at the party were reportedly involved in a fight over a taxi with "indigenous males" outside the station.
Four police cars arrived but documents show no one was taken into custody.
One officer admitted he "just went out and got hammered" and the night was a "blur".
News Limited reports a clinical assessment of the man who suffered the seizure suffered "no detrimental outcome whatsoever" from the 30 minute delay of the ambulance officers.
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/latest/5856289/ambos-chose-grog-over-patient/
Simple understandings: 1) Young ambulance officer pressured into ignoring a top priority Code 1 callout for assistance, while she was driving a Senior Colleague to score some more of the recreational, psychoactive drug ethanol classed as a 'Booze Run'. 2) Two Senior Officers consuming the drug ethanol, at a drug consumption party, were involved in a fight over a taxi outside the ambulance station. 3) Four Police cars arrived and no-one was taken into custody, thanks to the simple fact that they were all on the official drug of the Police, ethanol.If they had been on illicits, they would have all been taken into custody. 4) One Officer admitted that he "just went out and got hammered" on the psychoactive, recreational drug ethanol and as such the night was a blur. Proving that 'getting hammered on drugs' and making your night 'a drug addled blur' is perfectly legal in this country as long as you take the OFFICIAL drug of the Ambo's, the official drug of the Police, the official drug of Politicans and political parties,the official drug of Sport and Media, the official drug of Celebrities, Personalities, Parents and pretty mucheveryone else - including children/ under 18's.
"Hey kids, don't do drugs - drink instead. Your Ambo's do, your Police do, your Politicians do, your Sporting and other personalities and celebrities do, your media do, your parents do...so why don't you? And, yes, if we have to put drugs before the well-being of others, we'll do that too".
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- ANOTHER drunken glassing attack left a 19-year-old man in hospital yesterday after a brawl broke out in the centre of Sydney.
The attack happened as an argument erupted between two groups near the corner of William and Forbes streets in Darlinghurst about 4.15am.
The situation quickly escalated into violence, with one of the brawlers producing a weapon, believed to be a broken bottle, and slashing the forearm of the Wollongong teenager, who staggered off down William St before being helped by friends.
7/9/09 Daily tel
- Ejected from hotel - bit off another man's ear
A MAN accused of biting off another man's ear after a brawl told a bouncer that he had "taken the kid's ear off and fed it to a seagull", a court heard.
Mr McAlpine was attacked after being ejected from the hotel for what he described in a police statement as instinctively jumping in to help another man being bashed.
Daily Tel. 7/9/09
- AN army private found dead in mysterious circumstances had been bullied by others in his unit for keeping to himself and refusing to get drunk, a court heard.
Former private Benton Davidson told the court he recalled an incident when Mr McBride had been king hit to the head for declining to skol a cocktail of drinks from a helmet.
"There was a fair bit of peer pressure to drink (and) I knew that McBride didn't drink," Mr Davidson said.
"They took offence to it and punched him."
Daily Tel 7/9/09
So, let's get this straight....a Private declines sculling an ethanol drug cocktail and was 'king-hit'for his heresy? His choice not to consume the official recreational, psychoactive drug of the Army? The same Army that has a 'No Tolerance to drugs' Policy, that also has a 'Say yes to ethanol, no matter what" Policy. * Heresy means choice, and the Army mandate is simple - "Your country needs you to take our drugs only".
Talking about the 'Take our drugs only" Policy that doesn't give a damn about ethanol drug abuse......
- Members of the United States and Australian defence forces were involved in a large brawl in the Darwin CBD on Saturday morning.
Duty Superintendent Rob Farmer says more than a dozen people were involved in the brawl, which was watched by up to 300 people. 7/9/09 Daily Tel.
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- NSW man, 23, has died after being punched twice in the head in a brawl outside a hamburger bar after two groups of young men exchanged insults.
Andrew Houlihan, 23, of Murwillumbah, in far northern NSW, died after the violent brawl.
"Like any fight, it was fluid and involved a large number of drunken youths fighting outside a hamburger bar,'' he told the court.
"It is one of the greatest frustrations for us as a society that young men, typically, don't seem to learn the lesson that alcohol and violence quite often can end up in this kind of tragedy," he said.
7/9/09 Daily tel.
NOTE: Drunken youths? No - Ethanol Dtug Abusing Youths fighting and getting involved in a violent brawl that resulted in a young man's death. Our Politicians and drug dealers etc. can't even learn the lesson that you don't call a drug a drink! So, how do we expect the youth to learn any other ethanol drug lessons? This is a tragedy.
- THE promising rugby league career of Roosters star Setaimata Sa is all but over after a drunken incident at Sydney's Coogee Bay Hotel.
In the latest chapter in the NRL's season of shame, the 21-year-old was arrested after he allegedly smashed a hotel window, abused staff and assaulted a police officer.
Daily Telegraph
From hero to zero - just add ethanol drug abuse!
But what should we expect? Rugby League, just like pretty much all Sports, are sponsored by Ethanol Drug cartels, they push the drug regularly, they wear drug cartel logos proudly, they are constantly putting on and being invited to ethanol drug consumption and abuse functions, then when they're interviewed there are drug cartel logos behind their head/s and we're supposed to give a damn when a Footballer (targeted with the drug ethanol from birth) abuses the drug ethanol then smashes a drug dealer's window, abusers drug dealers and assaults an ethanol drug taking police officer?
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- POLICE have broken up more than 250 alcohol-fuelled fights and brawls each weekend in NSW over the past six months, latest figures reveal.
Crime statistics released to The Sunday Telegraph by NSW police demonstrate the alarming rise in drunken violence that has forced police to launch Operation Unite to clean up the streets.
During the past six months, 6695 cases of booze-fuelled assaults were recorded across the State on Fridays and Saturdays, the busiest drinking nights of the week.
The vast majority involved street-level violence, which accounted for 5082 cases, with the rest recorded as domestic assaults.
Police refused to say how many officers were on duty on a typical weekend night to combat the problem, but said they were well equipped, with resources boosted by Public Order and Riot Squad patrols during the summer months.
Daily Tel. 26th Nov. 2009
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