Showing posts with label weird news. Show all posts
Showing posts with label weird news. Show all posts

Tuesday, 6 May 2008

Friday, 31 August 2007

Priests of Wrongtown; pastoral care

Also From SMH this week...

A fundamentalist church pastor had sex with two of his teenage daughters to educate them on how to be good wives, a South Australian court has heard. The 54-year-old man, who cannot be named, was today sentenced in the SA District Court to eight and a half years jail after pleading guilty to seven counts each of incest and unlawful sexual intercourse. The court heard that the man had sex with his daughters for nearly a decade from 1991 when they were aged 13 and 15 at the family property.

The sex took place at various locations including in a shearer's shed, a paddock, on the back of a ute and, on one occasion, at the girls' grandparents house. The man told the court the sex was not about fulfilling his desires but about teaching his daughters how to behave for their husbands when they eventually married, as dictated in scripture.

In sentencing, Judge David Lovell said the misrepresentation of scripture used to justify the abuse of the girls "defied belief", and that he had "hypocritically betrayed" his religion and principles.

Read more. You know you want to.


Tuesday, 6 March 2007

Campbelltown Flood: Urgent Appeal for Help

A major flood hit the Campbelltown area on Sunday with its main disaster point being Queen Street, Campbelltown.

Victims were seen wandering around aimlessly, muttering "Faaackinell".

The flood decimated the area causing approximately $30 worth of damage.

Several priceless collections of mementos from the Macquarie Fields Riots were damaged beyond repair.

Three areas of historic burnt out cars were disturbed. Many locals were woken well before their Centrelink cheques arrived.

The Macarthur Advertiser reported that hundreds of residents were confused and bewildered and were still trying to come to terms with the fact that something interesting had happened in Campbelltown.

One resident - Tracy Sharon Smith, a 17 year-old mother of 5 said "It was such a shock, my little Chardonnay-Mercedes came running into my bedroom crying. My youngest two, Kevin and Jason,slept through it all."

Apparently looting, muggings and car crime were unaffected and carried on as normal.

The Australian Red Cross has so far managed to ship 4,000 crates of Bacardi-Breezers to the area to help the stricken locals.

Rescue workers are still searching through the rubble and have found large quantities of personal belongings, including Health Care Cards,Jewellery from Kmart and Bone China from Big W.


HOW CAN THE CITIZENS OF WRONGTOWN HELP?

This appeal is to raise money for food and clothing parcels for those unfortunate enough to be caught up in this disaster.

Clothing is most sought after - items most needed include:
baseball caps, tracksuits, singlets (blue & white) white sport socks, reebok boots Any other items usually sold in Go-Lo or The Reject Shop.

Food parcels may be harder to come by, but are needed all the same.

Required foodstuffs urgently needed include:
Microwave meals, Baked beans, Ice cream, Chips, Fizzy drinks.

Donations:
$15.00 will be taken to buy a packet of winny blue 25s and a lighter to calm the nerves of those affected.

Sunday, 11 February 2007

Battle of the titans


Who do you think won when William Roderick, armed with a rifle went up against John Cheeseman armed with a snorkel.


Tuesday, 6 February 2007

Ms Wrongtown says WTF

And so do we.

From the other wrongtown blogspot comes this news item about the incompetence and stupidity of primary school teachers in Phoenix, Arizona.

Excerpt:


Using the name Casey Price, [alleged 29 yo sexual predator] Rodreick attended the Imagine School from August to November before the seventh-grader was thrown out for poor attendance. Investigators said he was caught when he attended school for a day last week in Chino Valley, about 90 miles from Phoenix.

Rodreick also attended a charter school as a seventh-grader for a few weeks in 2005 in the community of Payson, about 65 miles from Phoenix, and had brought classmates home with him, investigators said.

An additional weird fact; he conned a couple of older men (61 and 43) into thinking he was a 12yo and having sex with him. They have gotten into trouble for fooling with a minor.

The weirdness abides.

Friday, 2 February 2007

Is it a CRIME to take the piss?

An Omaha man is accused of a strange crime of taking urine samples of women when they thought they were applying for a job. Kevin Oliver on Thursday was found guilty of two counts of criminal impersonation.

According to prosecutors, the 31-year-old man told victims that he worked for cell phone company T-Mobile and was interviewing them for a job. However, there were no jobs and his only motive was to collect their urine samples.

AP quotes Omaha city prosecutor Marty Conboy as saying, "To this day, we don't know what his ultimate goal was but whatever it was it was deceptive, it was damaging and it was protracted. This went on for 18 months that we know of."

Investigators carried out three searches of Oliver's home but failed to come up with any other signs of criminal activity. Oliver is scheduled to spend eight days in jail and 18 months on probation.