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#3142586 4-Oct-2023 10:14

elpenguino:

From talking to a friend whose son got in a spot of bother as a youth some years ago, Police bail checks quickly crossed the line to harassment.

'Checks' were performed in the middle of the night, multiple times in the same night, again and again, creating massive disruption to the household.

The problem for the Police is that for every 95 bailees that play the game , there's another couple who are out at it again.

If only someone invented an electronic device so you could be sure of someone's whereabouts.

Today they were talking that a few years ago there were ~200 EM Bails and Now there are ~2000 and it's to increase by 35%.

Police only check on 0.4% of 'dangerous' ones, but the manually calculated number of actual checks on those people is closer to 16% of people om EM are dangerous and should be regularly checked, but it's only the 'easy' ones that the police check.

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#3148680 18-Oct-2023 09:27

The trouble in the Middle East hit home with me last night. We are so far geographically removed from it that it's easy to not fully appreciate the gravity of it.

I arrived in Sydney airport last night to be slightly inconvenienced by half the airport being shutdown for a "security incident". It wasn't until I finally passed through customs to exit the airport did I see the masses of family and media anxiously waiting to greet their loved ones. The Australian government chartered a repatriation flight bringing home 222 AU citizens from Doha that landed just before my flight. The shutdown in immigration was necessary to process them as many weren't carrying documentation.

The experience turned something I followed in the news into something real for me.

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#3148683 18-Oct-2023 09:40

Senecio:

The trouble in the Middle East hit home with me last night. We are so far geographically removed from it that it's easy to not fully appreciate the gravity of it.

I arrived in Sydney airport last night to be slightly inconvenienced by half the airport being shutdown for a "security incident". It wasn't until I finally passed through customs to exit the airport did I see the masses of family and media anxiously waiting to greet their loved ones. The Australian government chartered a repatriation flight bringing home 222 AU citizens from Doha that landed just before my flight. The shutdown in immigration was necessary to process them as many weren't carrying documentation.

The experience turned something I followed in the news into something real for me.

Yeah, some of these situations overseas are of a magnitude it's nigh impossible to get a feel for if you don't get personally exposed in some way.

I recall a few years ago, there was an event overseas and embarrassingly I can't recall what it was now, where they talked about over a million people evacuated due to civil unrest, and if I am honest, it didn't really register with me, until my mother in law mentioned it was the approx. equivalent of everyone in Hamilton having to move to Auckland, overnight.

We really are a very small country with a small spread out population and it can be hard to appreciate how big the world is from here.

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#3152633 27-Oct-2023 12:06

My lovely grand daughter going back to Australia after 6 weeks staying with us. Very sad saying poroporoaki ki te hoa aroha he aroha e noho ana at the airport

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#3160470 17-Nov-2023 10:57

The utter lack of political will in the US to do anything about gun violence.

This link is probably NSFW, and pretty upsetting.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2023/ar-15-force-mass-shootings/

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#3160471 17-Nov-2023 11:03

networkn:

elpenguino:

From talking to a friend whose son got in a spot of bother as a youth some years ago, Police bail checks quickly crossed the line to harassment.

'Checks' were performed in the middle of the night, multiple times in the same night, again and again, creating massive disruption to the household.

The problem for the Police is that for every 95 bailees that play the game , there's another couple who are out at it again.

If only someone invented an electronic device so you could be sure of someone's whereabouts.

Today they were talking that a few years ago there were ~200 EM Bails and Now there are ~2000 and it's to increase by 35%.

Police only check on 0.4% of 'dangerous' ones, but the manually calculated number of actual checks on those people is closer to 16% of people om EM are dangerous and should be regularly checked, but it's only the 'easy' ones that the police check.

I think you'd have to be a hard nut to go do a bail check at a gang house.

Not sure the police recruiting and training system these days produces or encourages hard nuts.

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#3160484 17-Nov-2023 11:37

The lack of political will to ensure that Ukraine doesn't just survive, but wins. Drives me up the wall on the daily.

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#3160486 17-Nov-2023 11:50

Gurezaemon:

The utter lack of political will in the US to do anything about gun violence.

This link is probably NSFW, and pretty upsetting.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2023/ar-15-force-mass-shootings/

Something fundamental has happened to America. It may or may not have started with gun rights but it has spread to the political corruption of right-wing (in particular) politicians who care only about acquiring and maintaining power for its own sake, with no regard for or even understanding of due process, the rule of law, history, electoral fairness, or any democratic principle. The inmates really have taken over the asylum. Just look at Congress. It lacks not only the political will to do anything about anything at all, but even the competence. The few remaining 'traditional' Republicans are headed for the doors. It is quickly degenerating into a banana republic zoo populated by screeching simians hurtling insults and faeces at each other. The American experiment is well and truly over.

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#3160492 17-Nov-2023 11:55

That a man having an altercation with his partner escalated to being shot dead by Police in Wainuiomata. That the person is someone’s brother, son, maybe father and that maybe, if police hadn’t been called it might have ended up with both parties still alive with maybe an injury that isn’t permanent. Who knows.

It made me very sad.

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#3160639 17-Nov-2023 16:03

Eva888: That a man having an altercation with his partner escalated to being shot dead by Police in Wainuiomata. That the person is someone’s brother, son, maybe father and that maybe, if police hadn’t been called it might have ended up with both parties still alive with maybe an injury that isn’t permanent. Who knows.

It made me very sad.

You are totally free to feel as you see fit, but my understanding is he held a knife to her neck, which got him shot. The other possible ending to that situation was the police weren't called and he killed her, either today or some other time. That would make me sadder.

He really left the police with no choice, sad as that outcome was.

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#3160641 17-Nov-2023 16:08

I believe it was a screwdriver.

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#3160643 17-Nov-2023 16:10

Eva888: I believe it was a screwdriver.

I don't believe that is a material difference

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#3172310 16-Dec-2023 11:12

Life is so fleeting. I have a friend who operates a homestay. I visited her yesterday and she made a passing comment about a guest who was just going out. I caught a brief glimpse of him and a girl he was with as they left.

Today my friend messaged me. The young man is dead. He drowned in the ocean. Yesterday the weather was beautiful here, especially compared to how it has been. A perfect sunny day for the beach. The young couple went out for a day of fun. Now it is a day of tragedy.

Be careful out there people. Life can be so fleeting.

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#3172437 16-Dec-2023 17:04

Very sad for his poor family right on xmas.

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#3173983 21-Dec-2023 10:10

As a Melburnian this really took the jam out of my dohnut today. Just one of those fixtures of growing up and always seeing his face no TV.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-20/melbourne-icon-franco-cozzo-dies/103252566

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